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Room temperature superconductivity has been achieved under high pressure in an organically derived carbonaceous sulfur hydride with a critical superconducting transition temperature (Tc) of 288 kelvin. This development is part of a new…

In the search for high-temperature superconductivity in hydrides, a plethora of multi-hydrogen superconductors have been theoretically predicted, and some have been synthesized experimentally under ultrahigh pressures of several hundred…

Polyhydrides offer intriguing perspectives as high-temperature superconductors. Here we report the high-pressure synthesis of a series of lanthanum-yttrium ternary hydrides: cubic hexahydride $(La,Y)H_{6}$ with a critical temperature…

In the last five years a large number of new high-temperature superconductors have been predicted and experimentally discovered among hydrogen-rich crystals, at pressures which are way too high to meet any practical application. In this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-04 Simone Di Cataldo , Christoph Heil , Wolfgang von der Linden , Lilia Boeri

Hydrogen and hydrides materials have long been considered promising materials for high-temperature superconductivity. But the extreme pressures required for the metallization of hydrogen-based superconductors limit their applications. Here,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-08 Mingyang Du , Hongyu Huang , Zihan Zhang , Min Wang , Hao Song , Defang Duan , Tian Cui

Multi-hydrogen lanthanum hydrides have shown the highest critical temperature $T_c$ at 250-260 K under 170-200 GPa. However, such high pressure is a great challenge for sample preparation and practical application. To address this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-22 Yong He , Jing Lu , Xinqiang Wang , Jun-jie Shi

High-pressure structural search was performed on the hydrogen-rich compound LuBeH$_8$ at pressures up to 200 GPa. We found a $Fm\overline{3}m$ structure that exhibits stability and superconductivity above 100 GPa. Our phonon dispersion,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-26 Bin Li , Yeqian Yang , Yuxiang Fan , Cong Zhu , Shengli Liu , Zhixiang Shi

Superconductivity in thin films and powders, and in single crystals of Pr-123 has been found by Blackstead et al. and Zou et al., respectively. Nevertheless, up to now it has never been reported in sintered-policrystalline samples. We have…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 F. M. Araujo-Moreira , P. N. Lisboa Filho , S. M. Zanetti , E. R. Leite , W. A. Ortiz

Organic superconductors are unique materials with a crystal structure made primarily of a complex carbon based network, an element associated directly with life, which were postulated to have a high critical temperature, $T_{C}$, even above…

Rare-earth hydrides can exhibit high-temperature superconductivity under high pressure. Here, we apply a crystal structure prediction method to the current record-holding $T_c$ material, LaH$_{10}$, and a candidate for even higher $T_c$,…

The compressed hydrogen-rich compounds have received extensive attention as promising candidates for room temperature superconductivity, however, the high pressure required to stabilize such materials hinders their wide practical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-14 Wendi Zhao , Defang Duan , Decheng An , Qiwen Jiang , Zhengtao Liu , Tiancheng Ma , Zihao Huo , Jianhui Du , Tian Cui

Hydrides have long been considered promising candidates for achieving room-temperature superconductivity; however, the extremely high pressures typically required for high critical temperatures remain a major challenge in experiment. Here,…

We synthesized lanthanum hydride (LaHx) by laser heating of lanthanum in hydrogen atmosphere at pressure P = 170 GPa. The sample shows a superconducting step at 209 K and 170 GPa and temperature dependence of resistance. By releasing the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-22 A. P. Drozdov , V. S. Minkov , S. P. Besedin , P. P. Kong , M. A. Kuzovnikov , D. A. Knyazev , M. I. Eremets

Room-temperature superconductivity has been one of the most challenging subjects in modern physics. Recent experiments reported that lanthanum hydride LaH$_{10{\pm}x}$ ($x$$<$1) raises a superconducting transition temperature $T_{\rm c}$ up…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-10 Liangliang Liu , Chongze Wang , Seho Yi , Kun Woo Kim , Jaeyong Kim , Jun-Hyung Cho

Room temperature superconductivity is a dream that mankind has been chasing for a century. In recent years, the synthesis of H3S, LaH10 and C-S-H system has gradually made this dream a reality. But the extreme pressures required for the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-26 Mingyang Du , Hao Song , Zihan Zhang , Defang Duan , Tian Cui

Niobium polyhydride was synthesized at high pressure and high temperature conditions by using diamond anvil cell combined with in situ high pressure laser heating techniques. High pressure electric transport experiments demonstrate that…

Compressed hydrides are promising candidates for high-temperature superconductivity, yet achieving simultaneous structural stability and high-Tc at low pressures remains challenging. Here, we introduce a new mechanism for accomplishing this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-17 Wendi Zhao , Shumin Guo , Chengda Li , Abhiyan Pandit , Tian Cui , Defang Duan , Maosheng Miao

Room-temperature superconductor has been a century-long dream of humankind. Recent research on hydrogen-based superconductors (e.g., CaH6, LaH10, etc.) at high-pressure conditions lifts the record of superconducting critical temperature…

In the last six years (2015-2021), many superconducting hydrides with critical temperatures $\textit{T}$$_C$ of up to 253 K, a record for today, have been discovered. Now, a special field of hydride superconductivity at ultrahigh pressures…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-26 Dmitrii Semenok

Experimental discovery of near-room-temperature superconductivity in highly compressed hydrogen sulfate started a new era in superconductivity. To date, researchers have made the discovery of dozens of superconducting hydride phases with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-04 E. F. Talantsev