Researchers have discovereda material that can transmit electricity without resistanceand pass magnetic fields around the material.
Chip manufacturing, for example, uses materials held together by internal chemical forces that are even higher.
The recent discovery is the culmination of a more than a century-long search for superconductors.
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Dias’s team created the new material using a gas mixture of 99 percent hydrogen and one percent nitrogen.
But Mathur said that it is likely that the most critical applications are ones that we cannot foresee.
when asked what use his discoveries might have in the future," Mathur said.
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Despite the excitement around the recent discovery, observers cautioned that the experiments must be confirmed.
He pointed out that the materials that superconduct at high temperatures do so at high pressure.
“So that is the bad news.
