{"id":192889,"date":"2024-07-13T09:23:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T14:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/bridge-superconductor-magnetizes-room-temp-quest"},"modified":"2024-07-13T09:23:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T14:23:40","slug":"bridge-superconductor-magnetizes-room-temp-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/bridge-superconductor-magnetizes-room-temp-quest","title":{"rendered":"Bridge Superconductor Magnetizes Room-Temp Quest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bridge-superconductor-magnetizes-room-temp-quest.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new superconducting compound offers a bridge to more practicals with a potentially attractive range of applications, according to new research. And the new material\u2019s strange magnetic behavior recalls classics of decades ago\u2014but this time in a material that\u2019s already demonstrated its near-room-temperature bona fides.<\/p>\n<p>Lanthanum hydrides\u2014which combine atoms of the rare earth metal lanthanum with atoms of hydrogen\u2014contain a range of superconducting materials of varying properties. One noteworthy material is lanthanum decahydride (LaH<sub>10<\/sub>), which boasts the world\u2019s highest accepted superconducting transition temperature, at &minus;23 \u00b0C. (The catch is that to achieve this feat, lanthanum decahydride must be subjected to 200 billion pascals of pressure.) <\/p>\n<p>Now a different lanthanum hydride (La<sub>4<\/sub>H<sub>23<\/sub>) has revealed similar if not quite equally impressive <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/tag\/superconductors\" class=\"\">superconductivity<\/a> stats. (Its transition temperature is &minus;168 \u00b0C at 122 billion Pa.) However, the new lanthanum hydride also has revealingly peculiar magnetic properties that suggest an unexpected family resemblance to the superstar of the superconductivity world, cuprates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new superconducting compound offers a bridge to more practicals with a potentially attractive range of applications, according to new research. And the new material\u2019s strange magnetic behavior recalls classics of decades ago\u2014but this time in a material that\u2019s already demonstrated its near-room-temperature bona fides. Lanthanum hydrides\u2014which combine atoms of the rare earth metal lanthanum [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192889","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}