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Hydrogen-rich ternary hydrides are promising candidates for high-Tc superconductivity at megabar pressures, yet their chemical space is vast and largely unexplored. Combining evolutionary structure searches with first-principles…

The computational and experimental exploration of the phase diagrams of binary hydrides under high pressure has uncovered phases with novel stoichiometries and structures, some which are superconducting at quite high temperatures. Herein we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-03-08 Tiange Bi , Niloofar Zarifi , Tyson Terpstra , Eva Zurek

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

The discovery of high-temperature conventional superconductivity in H3S with a critical temperature of Tc=203 K was followed by the recent record of Tc ~250 K in the face-centered cubic (fcc) lanthanum hydride LaH10 compound. It was…

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

The uniquely characteristic macrostructures of binary hydrogen-clathrate compounds $M$H$_\textrm{n}$ formed at high pressure, a cage of hydrogens surrounding a central-atom host, is theoretically predicted in various studies to include…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-06-22 Dale R. Harshman , Anthony T. Fiory

Over the past decade, a combination of crystal structure prediction techniques and experimental synthetic work has thoroughly explored the phase diagrams of binary hydrides under pressure. The fruitfulness of this dual approach is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-21 Katerina P. Hilleke , Eva Zurek

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…

Metallic hydrogen and hydride materials stand as promising avenues to achieve room-temperature superconductivity. Characterized by their high phonon frequencies and moderate coupling strengths, several high-pressure hydrides were…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-16 Chendi Xie , Adam D. Smith , Haoran Yan , Wei-Chih Chen , Yao Wang

The abundant chemical compositions in ternary hydrides bring much more possibility to explore high temperature superconductors under lower pressure. Here we constructed 115 ternary hydrides on the basis of the elements substitution using 16…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-19 Bangshuai Zhu , Dexi Shao , Cuiying Pei , Qi Wang , Juefei Wu , Yanpeng Qi

Noble metals adopt close-packed structures at ambient pressure and rarely undergo structural transformation at high pressures. Platinum (Pt), in particular, is normally considered to be unreactive and is therefore not expected to form…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-19 Duck Young Kim , Ralph H. Scheicher , Chris J. Pickard , R. J. Needs , R. Ahuja

Lanthanum hydrides, containing hydrogen framework structures under compression, display a superconducting state with a high observed critical temperature. However, this phenomenon has so far only been observed at very high pressures. Here,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-16 Hao Song , Zihan Zhang , Tian Cui2 , Chris J. Pickard , Vladimir Z. Kresin , Defang Duan

Hydrogen-rich compounds have been extensively studied both theoretically and experimentally in the quest for novel high-temperature superconductors. Reports on sulfur-hydride attaining metallicity under pressure and exhibiting…

Barium hydrides are of interest for their potential in both ionic conductivity and superconductivity. Recently, a superconducting hydride BaH$_{12}$ containing H$_2$ and H${_3}^{-1}$ molecular units was experimentally reported with a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-07 Yue-Wen Fang , Ion Errea

In this work, global search for crystal structures of ternary Mg-Sc-H hydrides (Mg$_x$Sc$_y$H$_z$) under high pressure ($100 \le P \le 200$ GPa) were performed using the evolutionary algorithm and first-principles calculations. Based on…

We review five years of experimental and theoretical attempts (2020-2025) to enhance the superconducting critical temperature ($\textit{T$_c$}$) of hydrogen-rich compounds by alloying binary superhydrides with additional elements. Despite…

Metallic hydrogen, existing in remarkably extreme environments, was predicted to exhibit long-sought room-temperature superconductivity. Although the superconductivity of metallic hydrogen has not been confirmed experimentally,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-12 Zihan Zhang , Wendi Zhao , Defang Duan , Tian Cui

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

Two hydrogen-rich materials, H$_3$S and LaH$_{10}$, synthesized at megabar pressures, have revolutionized the field of condensed matter physics providing the first glimpse to the solution of the hundred-year-old problem of room temperature…

We have determined the crystal structures and superconducting transition temperatures of La1.48Nd0.4Sr0.12CuO4 under nearly hydrostatic pressures in diamond anvil cells to 5.0 GPa and 19.0 GPa, respectively. Synchrotron x-ray powder…