A question for physics/materials mavens on the tech bleeding edge.
I haven’t seen or heard any higher temperature superconductor news of late since the flurry of items a few years ago when they discovered superconducting properties in materials you could cool with liquid nitrogen (vs liquid hydrogen/helium).
Are we still marching towards room temperature superconductors or did the process of discovering high temperate superconductors stall? Just curious.
Check out the most recent Scientific American – the one with the “membrane universe” and “combustion synthesis” articles in it. There’s an article on room temperature superconductors. They’re still fuzzy on the theory of why they work, but they can certainly churn’em out now. There’s a cute graphic of a narrow little rtsc ribbon spiralling around a great big copper cable, and a caption to the effect of how the ribbon has the same or greater capacity as the cable…