{"id":96868,"date":"2019-10-01T09:24:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T16:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/researchers-synthesize-impossible-superconductor"},"modified":"2019-10-01T09:24:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T16:24:25","slug":"researchers-synthesize-impossible-superconductor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/researchers-synthesize-impossible-superconductor","title":{"rendered":"Researchers synthesize \u2018impossible\u2019 superconductor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-synthesize-impossible-superconductor2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the U.S., Russia, and China have bent the rules of classical chemistry and synthesized a \u201cforbidden\u201d compound of cerium and hydrogen\u2014CeH<sub>9<\/sub>\u2014which exhibits superconductivity at a relatively low pressure of 1 million atmospheres. The paper came out in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Superconductors are materials capable of conducting an electric current with no resistance whatsoever. They are behind the powerful electromagnets in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/particle+accelerators\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">particle accelerators<\/a>, maglev trains, MRI scanners, and could theoretically enable power lines that deliver electricity from A to B without losing the precious kilowatts to thermal dissipation.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the superconductors known today can only work at very low temperatures (below &minus;138 degrees Celsius), and latest record (&minus;13 degrees Celsius) requires extremely high pressures of nearly 2 million atmospheres. This limits the scope of their possible applications and makes the available superconducting technologies expensive, since maintaining their fairly extreme operating conditions is challenging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the U.S., Russia, and China have bent the rules of classical chemistry and synthesized a \u201cforbidden\u201d compound of cerium and hydrogen\u2014CeH9\u2014which exhibits superconductivity at a relatively low pressure of 1 million atmospheres. The paper came out in Nature Communications. Superconductors are materials capable of conducting an electric current with no resistance whatsoever. They [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96868","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}