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Roadmap to Room Temperature Superconductivity

  • by Staff

Superconductors play a critical role in the modern-day scientific enterprise, from the magnets used in the CERN Large Hadron Collider to those in medical MRI machines. But these superconductors require very low temperatures to work. The discovery of room-temperature superconductors would open a huge range of applications and new technologies.

There are no physical laws that rule out such materials, according to a recent perspectives article by a group of scientists including Warren Pickett, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of physics and astronomy at UC Davis. Their article, published March 13 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, or PNAS, sets out a roadmap to achieve this breakthrough.

Greg Watry wrote about this perspective article, and associated research, recently here.