After years of controversy and retracted claims, the dream of room-temperature superconductivity appears to have finally been realised. Five independent laboratories have reproduced zero-resistance measurements in a ternary hydrogen-lutetium-nitrogen compound at 22 °C and just 1.2 gigapascals of pressure.
"This is the kind of replication we needed," said condensed-matter physicist Dr. Eva Zurek at the University at Buffalo. "The consistency across five groups using different synthesis routes leaves very little room for doubt." If the material can be manufactured at scale, it could transform power grids and quantum computing hardware within a decade.
“Five independent laboratories have reproduced zero-resistance measurements in a ternary hydrogen-lutetium-nitrogen compound at 22 °C and just 1.”
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