Room-Temperature Superconductor Finally Found?
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π Support me on Patreon β https://www.patreon.com/Sabine πT-shirts, mugs, posters and more: β https://sabines-store.dashery.com/ π Support me on Donorbox β https://donorbox.org/swtg There's a new candidate for a room temperature superconductor, and it isn't some exotic compound, it's graphite, just ground up and baked. A team in Russia says they have found one of the key signatures of superconductivity that survives well above room temperature. The good news is that anyone can try to reproduce this. Let's take a look. Paper: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.15712 #superconductor #physics #sciencenews #materialsscience #science π Transcripts and written news on Substack β https://sciencewtg.substack.com/ π© Free weekly science newsletter β https://sabinehossenfelder.com/newsletter/ π Audio only podcast β https://open.spotify.com/show/0MkNfXlKnMPEUMEeKQYmYC π Join this channel to get access to perks β https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1yNl2E66ZzKApQdRuTQ4tw/join π Buy m
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