superconduct
verb
su·per·con·duct
ˌsü-pər-kən-ˈdəkt 
superconducted; superconducting; superconducts
: to exhibit superconductivity
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At last, Vishwanath and his colleagues were able to explain why the zoo of twisted lattices had failed to superconduct.
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Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
For this reason, researchers are eager to explore borophene’s ability to superconduct.
—John Wenz, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2019
Several papers have gotten hydrogen-rich chemicals to superconduct at temperatures that could be reached using dry ice.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2022
For decades, a family of crystals has stumped physicists with its baffling ability to superconduct — that is, carry an electric current without any resistance — at far warmer temperatures than other materials.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
Even when cooling with liquid helium, causing the electromagnets to superconduct, there’s a physical limit to the field strengths that can be reached and maintained for long periods of time.
—Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
In fact, Boeri and colleagues published a paper in Physical Review B on 15 July predicting that lanthanum borohydride (LaBH8) could superconduct at 126 K under just 50 GPa of pressure.
—Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 26 Aug. 2021
In 1968, Neil Ashcroft, a theoretical physicist at Cornell University, suggested putting hydrogen under intense pressure would turn the gas into a solid lattice able to superconduct.
—Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 26 Aug. 2021
Other theorists have predicted that hydrides such as calcium hydride or actinium hydride should superconduct at close to room temperature—and at a pressure considerably less than that needed for CSH.
—Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 26 Aug. 2021
Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
For this reason, researchers are eager to explore borophene’s ability to superconduct.
—John Wenz, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2019
Several papers have gotten hydrogen-rich chemicals to superconduct at temperatures that could be reached using dry ice.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2022
For decades, a family of crystals has stumped physicists with its baffling ability to superconduct — that is, carry an electric current without any resistance — at far warmer temperatures than other materials.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
Even when cooling with liquid helium, causing the electromagnets to superconduct, there’s a physical limit to the field strengths that can be reached and maintained for long periods of time.
—Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
In fact, Boeri and colleagues published a paper in Physical Review B on 15 July predicting that lanthanum borohydride (LaBH8) could superconduct at 126 K under just 50 GPa of pressure.
—Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 26 Aug. 2021
In 1968, Neil Ashcroft, a theoretical physicist at Cornell University, suggested putting hydrogen under intense pressure would turn the gas into a solid lattice able to superconduct.
—Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 26 Aug. 2021
Other theorists have predicted that hydrides such as calcium hydride or actinium hydride should superconduct at close to room temperature—and at a pressure considerably less than that needed for CSH.
—Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 26 Aug. 2021
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