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“Magic-Angle” Graphene Superconductor Research May Herald “The Holy Grail of the Entire Field” (thedebrief.org)
submitted 2 weeks ago by artifex@piefed.social to c/science@lemmy.world
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A new arrangement of graphene sheets exhibits exotic properties arising from the stacking of the sheets at a specific angle. MIT researchers claim that they've discovered a new path to possible room temperature superconductivity by tweaking the sheets to join along a "magic angle.". The source journal article is paywalled here .

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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Here we go again.

Someday, there probably will be a breakthrough. Would be nice if this is it, but there's a long history here.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 18 points 2 weeks ago

True. I really enjoyed the insane social media energy surrounding LK-99 though.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

If it is heralded as the Holy Grail and you as a tech person have never heard of it before, it likely isn't.

[–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean, it's graphene. It has to get out of the lab first to be applied in bazillion applications, anyway.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Isolinear chips?

Isolinear chips.

[–] m3t00@piefed.world 1 points 1 week ago

https://news.mit.edu/2025/physicists-observe-evidence-unconventional-superconductivity-graphene-1106