{"id":161278,"date":"2023-03-29T22:23:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T03:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/room-temperature-superconductors-could-revolutionize-electronics-an-electrical-engineer-explains-the-materials-potential"},"modified":"2023-03-29T22:23:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T03:23:43","slug":"room-temperature-superconductors-could-revolutionize-electronics-an-electrical-engineer-explains-the-materials-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/room-temperature-superconductors-could-revolutionize-electronics-an-electrical-engineer-explains-the-materials-potential","title":{"rendered":"Room-temperature superconductors could revolutionize electronics \u2014 an electrical engineer explains the materials\u2019 potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bD2M7P6dTVA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Superconductors make highly efficient electronics, but the ultralow temperatures and ultrahigh pressures required to make them work are costly and difficult to implement. Room-temperature superconductors promise to change that.<\/p>\n<p>The recent announcement by researchers at the University of Rochester of a new material that is <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41586-023-05742-0\">a superconductor at room temperature<\/a>, albeit at high pressure, is an exciting development \u2013 if proved. If the material or one like it works reliably and can be economically mass-produced, it could revolutionize electronics.<\/p>\n<p>Room-temperature superconducting materials would lead to many new possibilities for practical applications, including ultraefficient electricity grids, ultrafast and energy-efficient computer chips, and ultrapowerful magnets that can be used to levitate trains and control fusion reactors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superconductors make highly efficient electronics, but the ultralow temperatures and ultrahigh pressures required to make them work are costly and difficult to implement. Room-temperature superconductors promise to change that. The recent announcement by researchers at the University of Rochester of a new material that is a superconductor at room temperature, albeit at high pressure, is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161278","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=161278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}