{"id":30523,"date":"2016-09-26T12:47:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T19:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/closing-in-on-high-temperature-superconductivity"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:25:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:25:42","slug":"closing-in-on-high-temperature-superconductivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/closing-in-on-high-temperature-superconductivity","title":{"rendered":"Closing in on high-temperature superconductivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/closing-in-on-high-temperature-superconductivity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Realistic hover cars coming to future near you.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The quest to know the mysterious recipe for high-temperature superconductivity, which could enable revolutionary advances in technologies that make or use electricity, just took a big leap forward thanks to new research by an international team of experimental and theoretical physicists.<\/p>\n<p>The research paper appears in the journal <em>Science<\/em> on Sept. 16, 2016. The research is focused on revealing the mysterious ingredients required for high-temperature superconductivity \u2014 the ability of a material\u2019s electrons to pair up and travel without friction at relatively high temperatures, enabling them to lose no energy \u2014 to be super efficient \u2014 while conducting electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The research team\u2019s achievements are an important step in recent efforts to improve today\u2019s superconducting materials, which have superconducting powers only if they are cooled below a critical temperature, hundreds of degrees below the freezing point of water \u2014 temperatures at which helium is a liquid \u2014 making them impractical for use in most electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/09\/160919132603.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/09\/160919132603.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Realistic hover cars coming to future near you. The quest to know the mysterious recipe for high-temperature superconductivity, which could enable revolutionary advances in technologies that make or use electricity, just took a big leap forward thanks to new research by an international team of experimental and theoretical physicists. The research paper appears in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30523","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60273,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30523\/revisions\/60273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}