Fascinating stuff. Though it puzzles me that some of these exotic superconductors have been known to us for years yet there’s not been much progress (esp the one with graphene sheets, with a 1 degree tilt). Is that because they are just so hard to synthesize? What would it take to get to the next stage?
I came across another technique discovered many years ago, where they used scotch tape to alter the physical configuration of the material to make it superconduct. At room temperature, I believe.
This all sounds very ground breaking to me, yet we don’t hear about any big co doing any work on them.
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Fascinating stuff. Though it puzzles me that some of these exotic superconductors have been known to us for years yet there’s not been much progress (esp the one with graphene sheets, with a 1 degree tilt). Is that because they are just so hard to synthesize? What would it take to get to the next stage?
I came across another technique discovered many years ago, where they used scotch tape to alter the physical configuration of the material to make it superconduct. At room temperature, I believe.
This all sounds very ground breaking to me, yet we don’t hear about any big co doing any work on them.