{"id":146152,"date":"2022-09-12T01:23:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T06:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/key-advance-in-physics-research-could-help-enable-super-efficient-electrical-power"},"modified":"2022-09-12T01:23:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T06:23:12","slug":"key-advance-in-physics-research-could-help-enable-super-efficient-electrical-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/key-advance-in-physics-research-could-help-enable-super-efficient-electrical-power","title":{"rendered":"Key advance in physics research could help enable super-efficient electrical power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/key-advance-in-physics-research-could-help-enable-super-efficient-electrical-power.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, an international team of researchers led by S\u00e9amus Davis, Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and University College Cork, has announced results that reveal the atomic mechanism behind high-temperature superconductors. The findings are published in <i>PNAS<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Superconductors are materials that can conduct electricity with zero resistance, so that an electric current can persist indefinitely. These are already used in various applications, including MRI scanners and high-speed maglev trains, however superconductivity typically requires extremely low temperatures, limiting their widespread use. A major goal within physics research is to develop super conductors that work at <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/ambient+temperatures\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ambient temperatures<\/a>, which could revolutionize energy transport and storage.<\/p>\n<p>Certain copper oxide materials demonstrate superconductivity at higher temperatures than conventional superconductors, however the mechanism behind this has remained unknown since their discovery in 1987.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, an international team of researchers led by S\u00e9amus Davis, Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and University College Cork, has announced results that reveal the atomic mechanism behind high-temperature superconductors. The findings are published in PNAS. Superconductors are materials that can conduct electricity with zero resistance, so that an electric current can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}