A superconductor at room temperature, between suspicion and hope

2023-09-02 09:30:00

The publication should have had the effect of a bomb. On March 8, researchers from the University of Rochester (United States) stated in the journal Nature that they had formulated a superconducting material at room temperature. After more than a hundred years of research on these materials which offer no electrical resistance, the discovery might become the most important of the decade, if not the century. It is however coolly welcomed by the scientific community, which doubts the data of a team “whose results are received with some caution”euphemizes David Vignolles, a CNRS researcher specializing in the matter.

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