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Breakthrough in Superconductivity Research

posted by mattie_p on Monday February 17 2014, @11:37PM   
from the how-super-is-it dept.

romanr writes:

"Copper oxides, also known as cuprates, are the most promising materials for superconductivity. Today, cuprates can be superconductive at temperatures as high as -150 °C. But for many years scientists wondered why they lose superconductivity when concentration of electrons drops below certain level. Most scientist thought that the cuprates gradually became insulators.

Scientists from Université de Sherbrooke discovered that the loss of superconductivity is because of a sudden appearance of a distinct electronic phase in the material that enters into competition with the superconductivity and weakens it. It means, that higher temperature superconductors will be possible if we can get rid of the competing phase. This new approach opens a way to get an ambient temperature superconductivity."

• Re:Non battery power storage for solar, wind etc (Score: 3, Informative) by edIII on Tuesday February 18 2014, @03:24AM

  by edIII (791) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @03:24AM (#1352)

  According to a Wikipedia article linked in another post this technology exists right now. It's just very expensive and only used in very specific use cases that can justify the cost.

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  Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.

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