Key Points :
- Superconductors and materials that easily conduct electricity.
- Until now, they’ve only worked at temperatures fixed at minus 100 degree Fahrenheit.
- But not to worry now, because recently researchers found a super conductor that works at ambient temperatures when put under immense pressure.
Superconductor is a material that transports electricity with no energy lost, have until now worked at extreme cold temperatures from about 100 degree F. to near absolute zero of space. But this time, this month, it has changed.
On October 14 , a study was published and it had a team of researchers described a superconductor they engineered , which works at 59 degree F. The material is made of carbon, sulfur and hydrogen which is appropriately called carbonaceous sulfur hydride . Physicist had earlier found that a combination of hydrogen and sulfur worked as a superconductor at intense pressure , mainly at – 94 degrees Fahrenheit.
It has also been told to Business Insider about how this project was successful and what all efforts the professors and physicists went through.
Rochester University’s mechanical engineering professor , Mr. Ranga Dias told Business Insider that they did this project by : chemically compressing instead of mechanically compressing the material .
As Dias said,
So far he and his team has only been able to create tiny specs of the superconductor material about the size of ink jet particles.
Dias has also added,
“somebody can argue that, ‘so you went from one extreme to another extreme”.
He also added that by now it’s clearly known that superconductors can work at room temperature too all that it needs is researchers improving the material to make it work at ordinary pressure levels too.
After concluding about how a superconducting society can look like, Dias exclaimed,
“Hopefully the next two, three years are going to be exciting”.
