{"id":97431,"date":"2019-10-14T18:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T01:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/new-design-strategy-can-help-improve-layered-superconducting-materials"},"modified":"2019-10-14T18:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T01:22:31","slug":"new-design-strategy-can-help-improve-layered-superconducting-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/new-design-strategy-can-help-improve-layered-superconducting-materials","title":{"rendered":"New design strategy can help improve layered superconducting materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-design-strategy-can-help-improve-layered-superconducting-materials3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created a new layered superconducting material with a conducting layer made of bismuth, silver, tin, sulfur and selenium. The conducting layer features four distinct sublayers; by introducing more elements, they were able to achieve unparalleled customizability and a higher \u201ccritical temperature\u201d below which superconductivity is observed, a key objective of superconductor research. Their design strategy may be applied to engineer new and improved superconducting materials.<\/p>\n<p>Once an academic curiosity, superconductors are now at the cutting edge of real technological innovations. Superconducting magnets are seen in everyday MRI machines, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/particle+accelerators\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">particle accelerators<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/medical+treatments\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">medical treatments<\/a>, not to mention the new Chuo Shinkansen maglev train connecting Tokyo to Nagoya currently being built. Recently, a whole new class of \u201clayered\u201d superconducting structures have been studied, consisting of alternate layers of superconducting and insulating two-dimensional crystalline layers. In particular, the customizability of the system has garnered particular interest in light of its potential to create ultra-efficient thermoelectric devices and a whole new class of \u201chigh temperature\u201d superconducting materials.<\/p>\n<p>A team led by Associate Professor Yoshikazu Mizuguchi from Tokyo Metropolitan University recently created a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/bismuth\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bismuth<\/a> sulfide based layered superconductor; their work has already revealed novel thermoelectric properties and an elevated \u201ccritical temperature\u201d below which superconductivity is observed. Now, working with a team from the University of Yamanashi, they have taken a multi-layered version of the system, where the conducting layer consists of four <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/atomic+layers\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">atomic layers<\/a>, and begun swapping out small proportions of different atomic species to probe how the material changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created a new layered superconducting material with a conducting layer made of bismuth, silver, tin, sulfur and selenium. The conducting layer features four distinct sublayers; by introducing more elements, they were able to achieve unparalleled customizability and a higher \u201ccritical temperature\u201d below which superconductivity is observed, a key objective [\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-97431","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\/97431","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=97431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}