New Superconductor Research makes a breakthrough

If you, the readers of my blog will remember, several months back I discussed what a Superconductor was. Well today, I would like to bring you a story of what Swiss research has produced. If you will remember one of the largest problems with superconductors is their necessity for absurdly low temperatures to act as a superconductor.

A team from EPFL’s Laboratory for Quantum Magnetism have made a discovery that should benefit researchers everywhere. See, they are working on an atomic level, being as they made their superconductor only one atom thick. And this discovery that working on an atomic level may help to bring High Temperature Superconductors to market more quickly, believe it or not.

You see this marks the first approach to the high temperature superconductors at the atomic level. I know this must be hard for you all to understand, because it is actually mind blowing for me. Why haven't the nuclear physicists thought of this until now? Well, now they have successfully done so, and I can only imagine what this potential discovery will bring in the near future.

You see, the thing is if they make a 'conductor' which was only one atom thick, if it was truly a superconductor it would be able to handle the largest load imaginable. Remember we are talking about superconductors here after all. You know the kind of conductor that has an equivalent resistance of zero ohms. I believe that this superconductor research could bring us promising things in the future-- more efficient grid only to name one thing!