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• Researchers in this work couldn’t exactly pinpoint a value for it, but it was around room temperature, which is 300 Kelvin (27 °C or 80 °F)“Since these HOPGs are very inhomogeneous, the critical superconducting temperature varies along the sample..
• However, she also stressed the importance of measuring the heat capacity of the material, which should also see a dramatic transition once the critical temperature is crossed..
• Having a material that is superconductive at room pressure and temperature would be a civilization-changing breakthrough, bringing forth technologies that are currently only possible in our imagination..
• In superconductive materials, this happens below a specific temperature, called the critical temperature..
• The importance of having a specific value for the critical temperature is that the changes in the material should happen consistently and sharply after that threshold is crossed..
• A paper discussing this work is published in the journal Advanced Quantum Technologies.DOWNLOAD PDF VERSIONelectrons,graphene,physics,superconductors,graphite,room temperature superconductorAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement.