{"id":230491,"date":"2026-02-04T05:22:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/cryogenic-cooling-material-composed-solely-of-abundant-elements-reaches-4k"},"modified":"2026-02-04T05:22:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:22:51","slug":"cryogenic-cooling-material-composed-solely-of-abundant-elements-reaches-4k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/cryogenic-cooling-material-composed-solely-of-abundant-elements-reaches-4k","title":{"rendered":"Cryogenic cooling material composed solely of abundant elements reaches 4K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cryogenic-cooling-material-composed-solely-of-abundant-elements-reaches-4k.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In collaboration with the National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Oshima College, the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) succeeded in developing a new regenerator material composed solely of abundant elements, such as copper, iron, and aluminum, that can achieve cryogenic temperatures (approx. 4K = \u2212269\u00b0C or below) without using any rare-earth metals or liquid helium.<\/p>\n<p>By utilizing a special property called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-magnetic-frustration-probe-quantum-possibilities.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">frustration<\/a>\u201d found in some magnetic materials, where the spins cannot simultaneously satisfy each other\u2019s orientations in a triangular lattice, the team demonstrated a novel method that replaces the conventional rare-earth-dependent cryogenic cooling technology.<\/p>\n<p>The developed material holds promise for responding to the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-06-cooling-technology-quantum-circuits.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">lack of liquid helium<\/a> as well as for stable cooling in medical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and quantum computers, which are expected to see further growth in demand. The results are <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41598-025-29709-5\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In collaboration with the National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Oshima College, the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) succeeded in developing a new regenerator material composed solely of abundant elements, such as copper, iron, and aluminum, that can achieve cryogenic temperatures (approx. 4K = \u2212269\u00b0C or below) without using any rare-earth metals or liquid helium. [\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-230491","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\/230491","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=230491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}