A team of researchers has identified atomic distortions that may be linked with high-temperature superconductivity in a promising class of nickel-based materials, offering new insight into how next-generation superconductors might be designed.
Understanding how and why superconductivity emerges at higher temperatures in some materials remains a major challenge in physics and materials science. The new study published in Nature shows how tiny changes in atomic structure can strongly influence whether a material becomes superconducting.
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