{"id":244185,"date":"2026-09-18T02:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/chemists-overturn-40-year-assumption-about-a-key-class-of-superconductors"},"modified":"2026-09-18T02:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:25:09","slug":"chemists-overturn-40-year-assumption-about-a-key-class-of-superconductors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/chemists-overturn-40-year-assumption-about-a-key-class-of-superconductors","title":{"rendered":"Chemists overturn 40-year assumption about a key class of superconductors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chemists-overturn-40-year-assumption-about-a-key-class-of-superconductors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Warwick have shown that a material treated for 40 years as a uniform, textbook superconductor is in fact a patchwork of different crystal structures throughout its bulk, using an advanced 3D imaging technique to see deep inside the crystal for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>High-temperature superconductivity is widely regarded as one of the most significant scientific discoveries of the past 40 years. It promises technologies built on <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2023-03-room-temperature-superconductors-revolutionize-electronicsan-electrical.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\" target=\"_blank\">electricity that flows with zero resistance<\/a> and magnets far more powerful than anything possible today, and it underpins research into future power grids, medical scanners and quantum computers.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/r62x-kt5j\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Physical Review Letters<\/i><\/a> and led by researchers in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick working with the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in France, looked inside a type of superconductor called a cuprate, a copper-based material that can carry electricity with no resistance at unusually high, though still very cold, temperatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Warwick have shown that a material treated for 40 years as a uniform, textbook superconductor is in fact a patchwork of different crystal structures throughout its bulk, using an advanced 3D imaging technique to see deep inside the crystal for the first time. High-temperature superconductivity is widely regarded as one of the most [\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-244185","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\/244185","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=244185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}