{"id":202070,"date":"2024-12-21T06:10:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T12:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/superconductivity-experts-speak-up-for-hydride-research"},"modified":"2024-12-21T06:10:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T12:10:29","slug":"superconductivity-experts-speak-up-for-hydride-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/superconductivity-experts-speak-up-for-hydride-research","title":{"rendered":"Superconductivity Experts Speak Up for Hydride Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The search for superconductivity in hydrogen-rich compounds known as hydrides has been an emotional rollercoaster ride for the scientific community. Excitement mounted a few years ago, as hydride experiments had physicists imagining that a Holy Grail, room-temperature superconductivity, might be within reach. But the field was shocked in 2023 by allegations of malpractice and fraud<\/a>. Now a group of physicists\u2014leading superconductivity experts who aren\u2019t involved in hydride research\u2014has offered an independent assessment of the available body of work on these materials [1<\/a>]. They conclude that there is overwhelming evidence for superconductivity in hydrides.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more I read the foundational literature, and the more I learned about the way that results were being repeated, the more it became clear to me that hydride superconductivity is completely genuine,\u201d says Andrew Mackenzie of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics<\/i> of Solids in Germany and the University of St Andrews in the UK.<\/p>\n

Mackenzie was one of the initiators of the group\u2019s work. \u201cAt conferences last spring, guys my age were having lots of young people coming up to ask: What\u2019s going on in hydrides?\u201d he says. After a communal discussion at a superconductivity meeting in Berlin<\/a> in August, he and other researchers thought that something needed to be done to address young researchers\u2019 concerns. They organized a group that would review available data with the goal of delivering an objective evaluation of hydride superconductivity claims, says J\u00f6rg Schmalian of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, who is one of the article\u2019s cosigners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The search for superconductivity in hydrogen-rich compounds known as hydrides has been an emotional rollercoaster ride for the scientific community. Excitement mounted a few years ago, as hydride experiments had physicists imagining that a Holy Grail, room-temperature superconductivity, might be within reach. But the field was shocked in 2023 by allegations of malpractice and fraud. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202070","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}