Re:Twisting Stacked Graphene Reveals Potentially Powerful Su...
by mjevans on Monday August 13, 2018 @01:21AM
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I find the newly observed properties to be interesting and hope that they lead to a deeper understanding of superconductivity in general.
Re:Twisting Stacked Graphene Reveals Potentially Powerful Su...
by azhenley on Sunday August 12, 2018 @11:27PM
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Does anyone know how difficult/expensive it is to get something that cold?
It seems like it would be virtually infeasible, but I really have no idea.
Re:Twisting Stacked Graphene Reveals Potentially Powerful Su...
by Iv on Sunday August 12, 2018 @11:50PM
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In terms of costs your thresholds are the boiling points of nitrogen (77K, surprisingly cheap and easy to deal with, even for a hobbyist) and helium (33K, more expensive,scarce, requires more energy to condense). To get lower than that, you need your own cryogenic cascade as I doubt you can easily buy something as ridiculously dangerous as liquid hydrogen (boiling point of 4K, explosive in contact with oxygen).
At less than 2K I think that the only merits of this discovery are theoretical.
I don't think that anyone believes that superconductors below nitrogen temperature have any viability outside the lab.
Re:Twisting Stacked Graphene Reveals Potentially Powerful Su...
by Dylan16807 on Monday August 13, 2018 @02:26AM
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You mixed up the temperatures for hydrogen and helium.
Re:Twisting Stacked Graphene Reveals Potentially Powerful Su...
by Iv on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @03:06AM
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Thanks!
Re:Twisting Stacked Graphene Reveals Potentially Powerful Su...
by lgats on Monday August 13, 2018 @01:59PM
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liquid hydrogen safety https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bFJK5kU_UQ
[it doesn't explode on contact with air]
Re:Twisting Stacked Graphene Reveals Potentially Powerful Su...
by acjohnson55 on Sunday August 12, 2018 @11:34PM
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It doesn't directly answer your question, but you might find this interesting: http://omegataupodcast.net/285-superconductivity/
Re:Twisting Stacked Graphene Reveals Potentially Powerful Su...
by hyeonwho4 on Sunday August 12, 2018 @11:42PM
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It's below the condensation temperature of helium, so they probably cool it by evaporating liquid helium. Sample volume, existing kit, helium recycling loops are going to vastly change the price structure of that experiment.
[0] "The graphene sheets still required temperatures around 1.7 degrees above absolute zero, -456.6 F, to demonstrate superconductivity."