{"id":159954,"date":"2023-03-09T21:25:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T03:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/revolutionary-blue-crystal-resurrects-hope-of-room-temperature-superconductivity"},"modified":"2023-03-09T21:25:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T03:25:21","slug":"revolutionary-blue-crystal-resurrects-hope-of-room-temperature-superconductivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/revolutionary-blue-crystal-resurrects-hope-of-room-temperature-superconductivity","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Revolutionary\u2019 blue crystal resurrects hope of room temperature superconductivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/revolutionary-blue-crystal-resurrects-hope-of-room-temperature-superconductivity3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Has the quest for room temperature superconductivity finally succeeded? Researchers at the University of Rochester (U of R), who previously were forced to retract a controversial claim of room temperature superconductivity at high pressures, are back with an even more spectacular claim. This week in they report a new material that superconducts at room temperature\u2014and not much more than ambient pressures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this is correct, it\u2019s completely revolutionary,\u201d says James Hamlin, a physicist at the University of Florida who was not involved with the work. A room temperature superconductor would usher in a century-long dream. Existing superconductors require expensive and bulky chilling systems to conduct electricity frictionlessly, but room temperature materials could lead to hyperefficient electricity grids and computer chips, as well as the ultrapowerful magnets needed for levitating trains and fusion power.<\/p>\n<p>But given the U of R group\u2019s recent retraction, many physicists won\u2019t be easily convinced. \u201cI think they will have to do some real work and be really open for people to believe it,\u201d Hamlin says. Jorge Hirsch, a physicist at the University of California, San Diego, and a vociferous critic of the earlier work, is even more blunt. \u201cI doubt [the new result], because I don\u2019t trust these authors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has the quest for room temperature superconductivity finally succeeded? Researchers at the University of Rochester (U of R), who previously were forced to retract a controversial claim of room temperature superconductivity at high pressures, are back with an even more spectacular claim. This week in they report a new material that superconducts at room temperature\u2014and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159954","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=159954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}