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  • Room-temperature superconductor works at lower pressures

    19 days ago - By Ars Technica

    Enlarge / **FOCUS STACK OF 33 IMAGES, COLOR ENHANCED** An approximately 1 mm diameter sample of lutetium hydride is pictured though a microscope in the lab of University of Rochester assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering and Physics and Astronomy Ranga Dias in Hopeman Hall December 15, 2022. Dias uses the material in a high pressure diamond anvil cell in his goal to create novel quantum materials such as superconductors with a critical temperature at or near room temperature. Photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester
    On Wednesday, a paper was released by Nature that...
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