{"id":205715,"date":"2025-02-06T08:22:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/promising-new-class-of-high-temperature-superconductors-achieves-stability-at-room-pressure"},"modified":"2025-02-06T08:22:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:22:37","slug":"promising-new-class-of-high-temperature-superconductors-achieves-stability-at-room-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/promising-new-class-of-high-temperature-superconductors-achieves-stability-at-room-pressure","title":{"rendered":"Promising new class of high-temperature superconductors achieves stability at room pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/promising-new-class-of-high-temperature-superconductors-achieves-stability-at-room-pressure2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have made a significant step in the study of a new class of high-temperature superconductors: creating superconductors that work at room pressure. That advance lays the groundwork for deeper exploration of these materials, bringing us closer to real-world applications such as lossless power grids and advanced quantum technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Superconductivity, the ability of certain materials to conduct electricity with zero resistance, typically occurs at extremely low temperatures, or in some cases, under high pressures. For decades, researchers have focused on a class of materials called cuprates, known for their ability to achieve superconductivity at relatively high temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>About five years ago, a team of researchers at the Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-08-superconductivity-nickel-oxide-material.html\">discovered superconductivity in nickelates<\/a>, materials chemically similar to cuprates\u2014and last summer, another group of researchers reported superconductivity in a new class of nickel oxides at temperatures comparable to cuprates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have made a significant step in the study of a new class of high-temperature superconductors: creating superconductors that work at room pressure. That advance lays the groundwork for deeper exploration of these materials, bringing us closer to real-world applications such as lossless power grids and advanced quantum technologies. Superconductivity, the ability of certain materials [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205715","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=205715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}