{"id":31577,"date":"2016-10-31T23:47:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T06:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/physicists-have-achieved-superconductivity-in-a-non-superconductive-material"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:06:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:06:01","slug":"physicists-have-achieved-superconductivity-in-a-non-superconductive-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/physicists-have-achieved-superconductivity-in-a-non-superconductive-material","title":{"rendered":"Physicists have achieved superconductivity in a non-superconductive material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-have-achieved-superconductivity-in-a-non-superconductive-material.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, researchers have achieved <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Superconductivity\">superconductivity<\/a> \u2014 the phenomenon of electrical conductivity with zero resistance \u2014 in a material that\u2019s not a superconductor.<\/p>\n<p>The new technique demonstrates a concept that was first proposed back in the 1970s, but until now had never been proven, and it could lead to ways to make existing superconductors, like the ones used in MRI machines or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/watch-japan-s-built-a-maglev-passenger-train-that-travels-500-km-hour\">maglev trains<\/a>, cheaper and more efficient at higher temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuperconductivity is used in many things, of which MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) is perhaps the best known,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uh.edu\/news-events\/stories\/2016\/October\/10312016Paul-Chu-New-Discovery-Superconductivity.php\">said lead researcher Paul C. W. Chu from the University of Houston.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-have-achieved-superconductivity-in-a-non-superconductive-material\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-have-achieved-superco...e-material<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, researchers have achieved superconductivity \u2014 the phenomenon of electrical conductivity with zero resistance \u2014 in a material that\u2019s not a superconductor. The new technique demonstrates a concept that was first proposed back in the 1970s, but until now had never been proven, and it could lead to ways to make existing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31577","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=31577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65872,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31577\/revisions\/65872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}