{"id":224668,"date":"2025-11-07T01:17:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/physicists-observe-key-evidence-of-unconventional-superconductivity-in-magic-angle-graphene"},"modified":"2025-11-07T01:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:17:58","slug":"physicists-observe-key-evidence-of-unconventional-superconductivity-in-magic-angle-graphene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/physicists-observe-key-evidence-of-unconventional-superconductivity-in-magic-angle-graphene","title":{"rendered":"Physicists observe key evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-observe-key-evidence-of-unconventional-superconductivity-in-magic-angle-graphene3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Superconductors are like the express trains in a metro system. Any electricity that \u201cboards\u201d a superconducting material can zip through it without stopping and losing energy along the way. As such, superconductors are extremely energy efficient, and are used today to power a variety of applications, from MRI machines to particle accelerators.<\/p>\n<p>But these \u201cconventional\u201d superconductors are somewhat limited in terms of uses because they must be brought down to ultra-low temperatures using elaborate cooling systems to keep them in their superconducting state.<\/p>\n<p>If superconductors could work at higher, room-like temperatures, however, they would enable a new world of technologies, from zero-energy-loss power cables and electricity grids, to practical quantum computing systems. And so, scientists at MIT and elsewhere are studying \u201cunconventional\u201d superconductors\u2014materials that exhibit <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/superconductivity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">superconductivity<\/a> in ways that are different from and potentially more promising than today\u2019s superconductors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superconductors are like the express trains in a metro system. Any electricity that \u201cboards\u201d a superconducting material can zip through it without stopping and losing energy along the way. As such, superconductors are extremely energy efficient, and are used today to power a variety of applications, from MRI machines to particle accelerators. But these \u201cconventional\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224668","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=224668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}