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The materia wat Imaicand studied by Ranga Dusand (llengoctalthe Uneriy of Roche terintheUS, who dm that tbe iad Ingres pes that mater that supercondst a ambient candions ‘ay soon be ound (Natur 615 249, Bema ts carry decrcalcar eat with ao lca resistance, sapercondactors have a wide ange ‘ot applcations bt they need to be ooled down to lowe temperatures forthe efleet to occur For many years the matrals with he highest opercondacting transit temper "res were the copper-oxide based “aprete which superconduc at around “130°C at ambient prev fue. But then in 2013 Mikhail Eremets and colleges a the Max Planck Institut for Chemisty ad the Johannes Gutenberg University Mats, both in Germany, observe supeconductivityat-70*Cinasa ple hydrogen ralph abet st DresuesofsboutS0GPs Pour year Inter, Eremet’ team and group le by Russel Hemsley {George Washington Uierty i the US reported spereonductety temperatures upto aboat 20°C at Simiarhigh presturesTheninOcto ter2000 Datandcaleuescltimed nthe urna Note a have don fred spercondactvity at's baly 15°Cinshydrognsulphide mate Dias paper hit the hele and veaneetlae by Pie Words Breakthrough ofthe Year fo 2020 The spereondactor was made by sudingcarbonobyarogen suphide tnd then eqaceing the sample to 220GPe, Dissent founda mas ‘mum superconducting tenperture ‘of 15*C ocuringatabout 260s. Bat concerns were ase ove the finding. andthe paper was be qe retracted a Sptrer 2022 Byediors at Nature, However, Dat tnd oleagues malntaln that they and ty thee rete Indeed, Die Says tn the 2020 paper has since been resubmitted fo Nature ith ee dl tha, they lam, aidate thecarler wore ih pos Now, Lis and collegues are back Sith anemia done that ‘percent oom temperature tinder ks presse than previo ‘fos, Dia tenn eented from 2 gascos mixture of 99% byrogen {sk trogen that yes ploced ia texctlon chamber wthe presume ff att. The components were Tero weact fora couple of day at out 20°C The sesling latta-iteogen hydrogen compound was intially a Woe clr Bt the spe armed pink ast was put under presure, ‘nth change of ea canelding Wh the onset of upecondactvity statemperatre of 102°C and prev Survoft5GPs When the researchers compres the sample to stl higher fren they observed a maxima Spercasiucting tans enpers fare of 30 ta presse of 1GPa Uhehigestvalueererrecordedatach low resure. ventaly, when the material was competed beyond 1GPa the ton gn Desand sample became non supercondset ngogin ands colour wet ight red as tured Into metal. Given the contioveril ature of their previo wor he eam made ar Sas esucemcat to show that he pase was indeed superconducting ts parle they recorded the cle rea resstance showing doped tozroatthetrnastionempertre The rettchere als estore ie magnetic suscepti, observing {hat the materi expelled magnetic ‘eins which another charac teristic of superconductor. aly, they metaured the specie hens ‘ehich alto showed a characteristic ‘sponse athe Henin fempere ture While the resatcher casted fut Xray seatering to determine Uhecrystllographicstractare of the sample, they could not determine the preci lation ofthe hyrogen tnd niuogen stom, which could be revolved via neatron scattering In Fite ties, Eremet, who was not avoled in ‘henew works ld Pye Worlhat the mpeteonductivty seme to be “proven comprehensive yee

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