{"id":225904,"date":"2025-11-26T01:26:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/we-have-never-seen-this-before-new-crystal-superconductor-is-the-strangest-of-its-kind"},"modified":"2025-11-26T01:26:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:26:31","slug":"we-have-never-seen-this-before-new-crystal-superconductor-is-the-strangest-of-its-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/we-have-never-seen-this-before-new-crystal-superconductor-is-the-strangest-of-its-kind","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe Have Never Seen This Before\u201d \u2014 New Crystal Superconductor Is the Strangest of Its Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-have-never-seen-this-before-new-crystal-superconductor-is-the-strangest-of-its-kind.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study reveals that PtBi2, an otherwise ordinary-looking crystal, hosts an entirely new form of superconductivity confined to its top and bottom surfaces. Something unusual is happening inside the compound platinum-bismuth-two (PtBi2). A new investigation by scientists at IFW Dresden and the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study reveals that PtBi2, an otherwise ordinary-looking crystal, hosts an entirely new form of superconductivity confined to its top and bottom surfaces. Something unusual is happening inside the compound platinum-bismuth-two (PtBi2). A new investigation by scientists at IFW Dresden and the<\/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-225904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225904","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=225904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}