{"id":203993,"date":"2025-01-18T02:25:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T08:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/peeling-back-the-layers-exploring-capping-effects-on-nickelate-superconductivity"},"modified":"2025-01-18T02:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T08:25:18","slug":"peeling-back-the-layers-exploring-capping-effects-on-nickelate-superconductivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/peeling-back-the-layers-exploring-capping-effects-on-nickelate-superconductivity","title":{"rendered":"Peeling back the layers: Exploring capping effects on nickelate superconductivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/peeling-back-the-layers-exploring-capping-effects-on-nickelate-superconductivity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So-called \u201cinfinite-layer\u201d nickelate materials, characterized by their unique crystal and electronic structures, exhibit significant potential as high-temperature superconductors. Studying these materials remains challenging for researchers; they have only been synthesized as thin films and then \u201ccapped\u201d with a protective layer that could alter properties of the nickelate layered system.<\/p>\n<p>To address this challenge, a team led by researchers at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)\u2014a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility at DOE\u2019s Brookhaven National Laboratory\u2014used complementary X-ray techniques at two different beamlines to gain new insights into these materials. Their results were <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.133.206501\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So-called \u201cinfinite-layer\u201d nickelate materials, characterized by their unique crystal and electronic structures, exhibit significant potential as high-temperature superconductors. Studying these materials remains challenging for researchers; they have only been synthesized as thin films and then \u201ccapped\u201d with a protective layer that could alter properties of the nickelate layered system. To address this challenge, a team [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203993","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=203993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}