{"id":210301,"date":"2025-04-01T13:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/magnesium-becomes-a-possible-superconductor-near-the-2d-limit"},"modified":"2025-04-01T13:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:09:19","slug":"magnesium-becomes-a-possible-superconductor-near-the-2d-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/magnesium-becomes-a-possible-superconductor-near-the-2d-limit","title":{"rendered":"Magnesium becomes a possible superconductor near the 2D limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/magnesium-becomes-a-possible-superconductor-near-the-2d-limit.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Magnesium is a common chemical element, an alkaline earth metal, which is highly chemically reactive and is very light (even lighter than aluminum). Magnesium is abundant in plants and minerals and plays a role in human physiology and metabolism. In the cosmos, it is produced by large aging stars.<\/p>\n<p>Among its physical properties, while it is a good conductor of electricity, magnesium is not known to be a superconductor. Superconductors are particularly promising materials with the potential to revolutionize <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/energy+transmission\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy transmission<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/medical+imaging\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">medical imaging<\/a>, and quantum computing, and are defined by their ability to conduct electricity without resistance below a certain critical temperature.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, with my colleague Giovanni Ummarino from Turin Polytechnic, I have started challenging the textbook paradigm that states only certain elements in the periodic table can be superconductors. In particular, my colleague and I have shown that the phenomenon of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+confinement\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum confinement<\/a> can turn non-superconducting elements into superconductors. Our research is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2410-3896\/10\/1\/17\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Condensed Matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magnesium is a common chemical element, an alkaline earth metal, which is highly chemically reactive and is very light (even lighter than aluminum). Magnesium is abundant in plants and minerals and plays a role in human physiology and metabolism. In the cosmos, it is produced by large aging stars. Among its physical properties, while it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210301","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}