An international team of scientists, including physicists from HSE MIEM, has demonstrated that when defects within a material ...

For decades, scientists have hunted for materials that defy conventional ideas of magnetism. Most magnetic materials, like ...

Superconductivity is a unique state of matter in which electric current flows without any energy loss. In materials with ...

Superconductivity is an advantageous property observed in some materials, which entails the ability to conduct electricity ...

A new method for combining magnetic elements with semiconductors—which are vital materials for computers and other electronic ...

Room-temperature superconductors—materials that conduct electricity with zero resistance without needing special cooling—are the sort of technological miracle that would upend daily life. They ...

This trend produced a variety of high-temperature superconductors in previous research, though characterizing them was difficult because of the pressures involved.

Room-temperature superconductors would be especially relevant to the tech industry right now, which is busy burning billions of dollars on new computer chips and the energy costs to run them to ...

Superconductors’ Viral ‘LK-99’ Moment Takes Investors for a Wild Ride Share prices skyrocket, then sink, for companies that don’t even have a direct link to room-temperature superconductors By ...

Superconductors unexpectedly became a viral topic on social networks over the summer when a different group of scientists, in South Korea, also claimed to have discovered a room-temperature ...