Scientists find way to make water freeze at boiling temperatures

Re:Scientists find way to make water freeze at boiling tempe... by james_a_craig on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @02:08AM (#13061406)

I wonder if the forced phase-change the confinement causes applies to other contexts? Could we use a similar trick to force superconductive materials into their low-temperature superconductive phase at higher temperatures?

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Re:Scientists find way to make water freeze at boiling tempe... by bskdjx on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @07:41AM (#13062663)

Yes, somehow.

What they technically did is raise the chemical potential, mu, of the gas phase (the phase with the lowest mu wins). TL/DR, but I'm not too impressed from a theoretical POV.

The problem to replicate this is "what do you do to raise the mu of the non super-conducting phase?". That's not trivial as many things raise the mu of the super conducting phase instead, like applied magnetic fields.

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