Super Conductivity achieved at 130° C/400 Kelvin

[Peter_5]

Looks like superconductivity at room temperature has been achieved by the scientists running the website Superconductivity.org . The researchers claim to have made what is considered by some the ultimate achievement in the physics of electricity by creating two alloys, Sn₉SbTe₃Ba₂MnCu₁₄O₂₈₊ and Sn₈SbTe₄Ba₂MnCu₁₄O₂₈₊ , which showed superconducting properties at temperatures of up to 400 Kelvin or 130 degrees Celsius! This is going to have a big impact on every device or machine, which runs on electricity. All we need now is to implement it into everyday electronics and machines and we will be able to do amazing stuff with them.

Link to the original article http://www.superconductors.org/400K_SC.htm

 

 

 

 As recently as 2010 it wasn't known if room temperature superconductivity was even possible. Today Superconductors.ORG announces the discovery of two new superconductors with transition temperatures (Tc) more than 100 degrees above room-temperature. Sn₉SbTe₃Ba₂MnCu₁₄O₂₈₊ and Sn₈SbTe₄Ba₂MnCu₁₄O₂₈₊ are the 23rd and 24th compounds found to superconduct above room temperature, with the latter being the first to go above 400 Kelvin.

        Confirmation of superconductivity in these two materials was made through numerous resistance and magnetization tests. The average Tc of eight resistance tests of Sn₈SbTe₄ was 128.8 Celsius. Eight magnetization tests of the same material then produced an average Tc of 129.4 Celsius. The two plots at page top show both heating and cooling magnetization tests with a diamagnetic (Meissner) transition where the straight lines skew apart. Those lines approximate the average of the data points. The plot jitter results from a high thermal noise level and low volume fraction of the superconductive phase.

 

 

 

P.S. Now I know some of you are going to be skeptical about the truthfulness of these claims, and to some  degree rightfully so, the website does not look professionally made in any way, but don't forget that these guys probably can't afford to have a nice website built (unless they use Squarespace, lol) and are throwing all their time and financial resources at doing the research and achieving these amazing results. Also, look at the link with the whole web page full of information on how the experiment was conducted, the graphs of the results and how to reproduce everything. It does not look like some random guy claims to have done this in his back yard and put it on the Internet.

[Enderman]

wow thats amazing

soon we will have super efficient computers that dont need cooling!

[DildorTheDecent]

P.S. Now I know some of you are going to be skeptical about the truthfulness of these claims, and to some  degree rightfully so, the website does not look professionally made in any way, but don't forget that these guys probably can't afford to have a nice website built 

I don't think they've time to mess about with CSS/HTML.

 

Science must be done. 

[Blackie Sheen]

Interesting

[A.D.A.M]

But how expensive will it be to create them for manufacturing.

[TooManyErrors]

This will be amazing if its true and can be mass produced.

[Tonylu1595]

You what? How is that possible.

[Nup]

What?? At 130 degrees?

No way, but if "way" () then my god we have a revolution on our hands!

Keep us posted if this is proved or disproved!!

[Mystic Mistro]

if this is reproducable when reviewed This could be genuinly huge!

Must read more....

Did they publish it yet ? Or is it just a poat on there website?

[The_Strict_Nein]

But how expensive will it be to create them for manufacturing.

 

Today? Super expensive.

 

10 years time, 20? Super conductive home electronics

[Imakuni]

Today? Super expensive.

 

10 years time, 20? Super conductive home electronics

Imagine all the Folding I could do with it...

 

Ohhhh, time to buy those PCIe hubs (yes, one PCIe 16x to 4 4x) and R295x2s.....

[swifty7]

I have a bad feeling it's all bull.

 

I believe it when I see it.  

[werto165]

A question regarding the superconductivity of these materials: Does it have to be in a specified range so like 400K +-1K for example? 

[patrickjp93]

I have some bad news guys. This material makes graphene production look like a cakewalk. This is both carbon and oxygen-volatile. You have to keep it in a vacuum to preserve that superconductivity.

[ICantThinkOfAnyGoodName]

A question regarding the superconductivity of these materials: Does it have to be in a specified range so like 400K +-1K for example?

Superconductivity is always below a certain temperature. Once the material exceeds that temperature, it gains resistance. So the materials will be superconductive at any temperature at or below 400K.

[Shakaza]

I have some bad news guys. This material makes graphene production look like a cakewalk. This is both carbon and oxygen-volatile. You have to keep it in a vacuum to preserve that superconductivity.

 

Well, darn.

[Yeater]

R.I.P Custom Watercooling

[Nineshadow]

Sn₉SbTe₃Ba₂MnCu₁₄O₂₈₊

 

_{That's a really nice alloy.}

_{How do you pronounce it?}

[mr moose]

I have a bad feeling it's all bull.

 

I believe it when I see it.  

 

I'll believe it when a respected university (Nottingham or similar) confirm it and publish the results.

[werto165]

Sn₉SbTe₃Ba₂MnCu₁₄O₂₈₊

 

_{That's a really nice alloy.}

_{How do you pronounce it?}

TinLeadTelluriumBariumManganeseCopperOxideium(not really) or TLTBMCO rearrange and you get BOLT CTO a really fast chief technology officer. 

[Peter_5]

if this is reproducable when reviewed This could be genuinly huge!

Must read more....

Did they publish it yet ? Or is it just a poat on there website?

I read about a news in a website in my country, so I tried to look up the original article in English and the only place where this is published is in their website, but I suppose they only announced it yesterday so there is little chance that people saw it.

 

I'll believe it when a respected university (Nottingham or similar) confirm it and publish the results.

 

There will be some time before anyone can recreate this, since the sheer forming of the alloy is probably extremely difficult judging by the instructions in the website of how the material was made. Either way, do not forget that there are some amazing scientists like Nicola Tesla who were declared liars and madmen by their contemporaries out of jealousy, so I wouldn't be surprised if someone comes up with a fake reproduction of the experiment just to prove them wrong without actually trying to make it work.

 

I have some bad news guys. This material makes graphene production look like a cakewalk. This is both carbon and oxygen-volatile. You have to keep it in a vacuum to preserve that superconductivity.

 

Unfortunately, right now they aren't able to do it in a natural environment (i.e. with moisture and different gases), just at a natural ambient temperature, as we can see in the instructions for the reproduction:

 

 

RESEARCH NOTE: The copper-oxides are strongly hygroscopic. All tests should be performed immediately after annealing

 

Still, this is MAJOR progress in the superconductor sphere and I am sure that a few years down the road we will have managed to come up with a solution to that problem as well.

[Dabombinable]

Hmmm.... So I now have a new material to make batteries explode faster.

[RedSpade]

Hmmm.... So I now have a new material to make batteries explode faster.

 

I don't believe a superconductive battery can explode as there is no heat building up, due to no resistance... This could mean very small batteries that have huge supplies of stored energy (not chemical, just the electrons).

[Dabombinable]

I don't believe a superconductive battery can explode as there is no heat building up, due to no resistance... This could mean very small batteries that have huge supplies of stored energy (not chemical, just the electrons).

2x 1.5V AA batteries-putting 2 pieces of metal across the terminals (positive to negative) and sticky taping it causes the batteries to quickly heat up. With in a few seconds the tape starts melting, and if left long enough they explode. I've done a few tests and the lower the resistance the shorter the time until the batteries explode.

Edit:To everyone-do not try this at all unless you know everything that can go wrong, have the safety gear and insurance that overs idiocy.

[euniqe]

 

2x 1.5V AA batteries-putting 2 pieces of metal across the terminals (positive to negative) and sticky taping it causes the batteries to quickly heat up. With in a few seconds the tape starts melting, and if left long enough they explode. I've done a few tests and the lower the resistance the shorter the time until the batteries explode.

 

My mum had a wooden draw full of about a hundred AAA batteries rolling around horizontally. I freaked OUT when I saw this and thought it was funny when she said she had no idea she could have caused a huge fire. 

 

But yeah this superconductor business - this is one step closer to consumer-grade superconductivity when that happens, alongside fusion power plants, say hello to a completely new technological era unlike anything seen before.