{"id":84682,"date":"2018-11-12T21:22:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T05:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/we-just-got-closer-than-ever-to-unlocking-graphenes-superconducting-powers"},"modified":"2018-11-12T21:22:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T05:22:33","slug":"we-just-got-closer-than-ever-to-unlocking-graphenes-superconducting-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/we-just-got-closer-than-ever-to-unlocking-graphenes-superconducting-powers","title":{"rendered":"We Just Got Closer Than Ever to Unlocking Graphene\u2019s Superconducting Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-just-got-closer-than-ever-to-unlocking-graphenes-superconducting-powers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are now closer than ever to being able to use graphene as a superconductor \u2013 to conduct electricity with zero resistance \u2013 making it useful for developing energy efficient gadgets, improving medical research, upgrading power grids, and much more besides.<\/p>\n<p>The key to the new approach is heating a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silicon_carbide\">silicon carbide<\/a> (SiC) crystal, itself a superconductor, until the silicon atoms have all evaporated. This leaves two graphene layers on top of each other in a way that, in certain conditions, offers no resistance to electrical current.<\/p>\n<p>A similar dual-layer approach was also successfully used to turn graphene into a superconductor <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2018\/graphene-insulator-superconductor-0305\">earlier this year<\/a>. The difference here is the layers don\u2019t have to be carefully angled on top of each other, which should make it easier to reproduce at scale.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/we-re-another-step-closer-to-unlocking-graphene-s-superconducting-power\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/we-re-another-step-closer-to-un...ting-power<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are now closer than ever to being able to use graphene as a superconductor \u2013 to conduct electricity with zero resistance \u2013 making it useful for developing energy efficient gadgets, improving medical research, upgrading power grids, and much more besides. The key to the new approach is heating a silicon carbide (SiC) crystal, itself [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84682","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}