Possible Room Temperature Superconductor Achieved 264
TechkNighT_1337 sends news that surfaced on the Next Big Future blog, concerning research out of the University of Bengal, in India. The report is of a possible superconducting effect at ambient room temperatures. Here is the paper on the ArXiv. (Note that this research has not been peer-reviewed or published yet.) "We report the observation of an exceptionally large room-temperature electrical conductivity in silver and aluminum layers deposited on a lead zirconate titanate (PZT) substrate. The surface resistance of the silver-coated samples also shows a sharp change near 313 K. The results are strongly suggestive of a superconductive interfacial layer, and have been interpreted in the framework of Bose-Einstein condensation of bipolarons as the suggested mechanism for high-temperature superconductivity in cuprates. ... The fact that the results described above have been obtained from very simply-fabricated systems, without the use of any sophisticated set-up and any special attention being given to crystal purity, atomic perfection, lattice matching, etc. suggests that the physical process is a universal one, involving only an interface between a metal and an insulator with a large low-frequency dielectric constant. We note in passing that PZT and the cuprates have similar (perovskite or perovskite-based) crystal structures. This resemblance may provide an added insight into the basic mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity."
Of course! (Score:5, Funny)
After reading the summary, everything is plainly obvious...
(walks away slowly before anyone can notice I didn't understand anything)
I had this sneaky suspicion... (Score:4, Funny)
it was Bose-Einstein condensation of bipolarons that would allow for room tempurature super conduction.
This will later be known as... (Score:1, Funny)
Room Temperature in UK, maybe not in India? (Score:5, Funny)
313K is 40C. So this stuff ought to behave just fine in the UK, but only part of the year in India :-) Even in temperate climates, you'd have to be careful not to leave it out in the sun, so again it should be fine in the UK...
Re:Wait until it has been repeated. (Score:2, Funny)
I'll second that!
Re:Wait until it has been repeated. (Score:4, Funny)
Reminds me of Futurama... (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, I see. Something involving that many big words could easily destabilize time itself!
Re:Room Temperature in UK, maybe not in India? (Score:5, Funny)
Reminds me of that joke about scientists in Anchorage discovering a room-temperature superconductor :P
Re:Someone didn't get the memo (Score:5, Funny)
Well, apparently you don't have to deal with electricity stealing Werewolves. I for one, am glad someone is finally addressing this problem.
Re:...really? (Score:4, Funny)
Didn't you just answer your own question?
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Re:Someone didn't get the memo (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Meissner effect? (Score:5, Funny)
Fucking room temperature superconductors, how do they work?
Re:Wait until it has been repeated. (Score:2, Funny)
The Bipolorons!!! (Score:5, Funny)
It's The Manic Maurauder! (POW!)
The Hyperthymic Huntress! (ZAP!)
And The Depressed Defender! (Mwah-mwahhh!)
Using their insanity in a never-ending battle against crime and the forces of evil!
They're off their meds and on the case! It's The Bipolorons!!
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Re:Two weeks old, no citations or trackbacks (Score:2, Funny)
The way you use "like" in that sentence is suspicious.
Hey dglr6328, are you, like, Lisi dude?!?!
Re:Wait until it has been repeated. (Score:4, Funny)
FAPP (For all practical purpose)
No offense, but I sincerely hope that acronym does not catch on =)
Re:Yeah, right (Score:1, Funny)
I assume North Korea claimed to invent a drink that reverses the drinkers aging process, not the people of the appropriate gender around them.
Re:Wait until it has been repeated. (Score:4, Funny)
Too late. FAPP FAPP FAPP ... it's all over the internet FAPP FAPP FAPP.
Re:Cold Fusion (Score:5, Funny)
"It's real", hAckzor concludes.
Film at eleven. Take that, scientific establishment.
You obviously didn't read the article: (Score:3, Funny)
It was thousands of micro black holes simultaneously created in a vortex. They annihilate each other in seconds, and collapse a quantum vacuum around the radius of the muon. This lowers the temperature automatically in that region of the molecular assembler, and then it warps space time for a second to super conduct from one part of the crystal matrix to another.
It's not like a traditional superconductor at all, and that's why it works at room temperature, but only in the tropics.
Re:Wait until it has been repeated. (Score:3, Funny)
IANALFAPP
Re:I had this sneaky suspicion... (Score:3, Funny)
it was Bose-Einstein condensation of bipolarons that would allow for room tempurature super conduction.
To be honest, I figured that at a minimum, one would have to reroute all secondary power to the deflector shields.