When superconductors were discovered in 1911, they astounded researchers with their ability to conduct electricity with no ...

Unconventional superconductors—such as the copper oxide material, or cuprate, in the current study—work at significantly higher temperatures, sometimes up to 130 Kelvin. In cuprates ...

In the mid-1980s, however, researchers found that copper-based oxide materials, or "cuprates," can display these properties at -297.7°F. This spearheaded research in "high-temperature ...