Re:Hydrides come within a whisker of room temperature superc...
by lachlan-sneff on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @09:03AM
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I wonder if the path to room-temperature superconductors involves finding ways of containing hydrides at very high pressures, rather than finding materials that superconduct and ambiant temperatures and pressures.
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Re:Hydrides come within a whisker of room temperature superc...
by qcj on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @01:12PM
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I have the feeling it will be more economical to just use a low-temperature superconductor and cool it down with a closed-cycle cryocooler, rather than try to get a large enough pressure vessel that can maintain such high pressures.
Re:Hydrides come within a whisker of room temperature superc...
by velosol on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @07:05PM
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A few years ago, that was the thinking when a 'high temperature' (much colder than room temperature) superconducting cable was trialed in Germany [1].
[1]: https://www.tdworld.com/overhead-distribution/ampacity-proje...
[2 with follow-up presentation]: https://snf.ieeecsc.org/abstracts/stp475-ampacity-project-%E...
Re:Hydrides come within a whisker of room temperature superc...
by lachlan-sneff on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @01:22PM
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With current technology, definitely.
Re:Hydrides come within a whisker of room temperature superc...
by marcosdumay on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @07:25PM
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You want high temperature superconductors because they can stand larger magnetic fields. So, it is certainly easier to keep them cool than pressurized, but the cold ones are much less useful.
Re:Hydrides come within a whisker of room temperature superc...
by sp332 on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @11:38AM
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Wrap them in carbon nanotubes :)
Re:Hydrides come within a whisker of room temperature superc...
by lachlan-sneff on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @11:47AM
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My immediate thought was to wrap them in some sort of diamondoid shell through some sort of mechanosynthesis process, but maybe a carbon nanotube would be stronger?
Re:Hydrides come within a whisker of room temperature superc...
by the_seraphim on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:12PM
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couple it with some double walled carbon nanotubes and you can get upto 700 GPa
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/01/fabrication-of-ultrast...
Re:Hydrides come within a whisker of room temperature superc...
by DiseasedBadger on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @02:38PM
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I wonder if one could just stuff the tubes with hydrogen, then lanthanum powder, then just let them expand? They might auto-heat from the pressure, and assemble themselves, if you just unfroze them.