superconductor

1. A material that can develop superconductivity (see also superconductivity).

Superconductors are used to make large electromagnets, and they are starting to play a major role in industry.

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"Understanding one unconventional superconductor very well may trigger our understanding of the rest," says Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at MIT and senior author of the study.

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Although the exact process is still unknown, it's now clear that this material behaves unlike any conventional superconductor discovered before.

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"The goal has always been to raise the temperature at which superconductivity persists," said Liu, the lead author of a new study published in Superconductor Science and Technology.

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The team built the materials on the superconductor YBCO, made of yttrium, barium, carbon and oxygen.

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While water transitioning to ice might be among the most obvious examples of a phase change, more exotic phase changes, like when a material transitions from being a normal conductor to a superconductor, are of keen interest to scientists.

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