http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/ Engadget Comments for Scientists concoct material that superconducts at room temperature http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/Mar 20th 2008 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/
(I move away from the mike to breathe)]]>Mar 20th 2008 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/Mar 20th 2008 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/Apr 12th 2008 12:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/
Matt. (Trolling for fun and profit since '72)]]>Mar 20th 2008 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/
Finally, no voltage needed, no resistance! Bet it costs a lot though... lol]]>Mar 20th 2008 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/Mar 20th 2008 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/Mar 20th 2008 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/Mar 20th 2008 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/Mar 20th 2008 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/Mar 20th 2008 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/
I guess the silicon lattice creates some kind of synthetic Metallic Hydrogen structure?]]>Mar 20th 2008 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/Mar 20th 2008 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/Mar 20th 2008 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/Mar 20th 2008 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/Mar 20th 2008 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/Mar 20th 2008 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/
I bow to your pun skills.]]>Mar 20th 2008 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/Mar 20th 2008 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/Mar 20th 2008 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/Superconduction = no electrical *resistance* in material at all. You get it now?]]>Mar 20th 2008 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=HTTOTGYXPCPWSQSNDLSCKHA?articleID=206904213
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Nasty stuff! Burns when in contact with air.]]>Mar 20th 2008 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/Mar 20th 2008 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/
The main ingredient, silane, is a gas at room temperature so it still takes a whole lot of pressure to make it a solid...more than you're going to be able to sustain in your house or in a wire, circuit board, etc.

Also, silane is pretty scary stuff itself. It spontaneously ignites on contact with air. I've worked with it quite a bit and you have to be very careful around it. I'm sure peeps who work in semiconductor manufacturing can back me up on this.

Personally, if I need semiconducting materials I would much rather keep my GeForce 99999Ultra immersed in liquid helium than make it out of ultra-compressed silane.

So yeah, it's awesome news and there's a lot of potential here. But don't sell your gaming rig just yet.]]>Mar 20th 2008 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/
I'm sure the researchers know this, of course; the question is whether they'll be able to produce a variant that won't spontaneously ignite.]]>Mar 20th 2008 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/
Although manufacturing might still be expensive (depending on the pressures required), the new material (if it, um, materializes), will allow superconducting applications where bulky, power hogging and unreliable cooling systems can't be used.]]>Mar 20th 2008 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/Mar 20th 2008 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/Mar 20th 2008 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/
Hopefully cables produced with this material will allow long wires without repeaters. Looks like BT's broadband claims are finally going to become realistic.]]>Mar 20th 2008 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/Mar 20th 2008 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/
It's exciting, but it's not room temperature superconductor yet.

I did work several months as a lab grunt for Dr Sheng, the guy who discovered the thallium superconductor that held the world record for high temperature superconductivity for some years, so I have at least a vague clue of what I'm talking about... (I also have a BS in physics, but it's been long enough that I'm not sure if that's of any value now)]]>Mar 20th 2008 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/Mar 20th 2008 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://reducedmass.com/2008/03/22/superconductors-at-room-temp-not-reached-comments-from-researcher-inside/]]>Mar 23rd 2008 8:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/scientists-concoct-material-that-superconducts-at-room-temperatu/Mar 26th 2008 11:56AM