Room temperature superconductors on the way?

[downwardsfromzero]

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Room-temperature superconductivity in a carbonaceous sulfur hydride - Nature

Room-temperature superconductivity is observed in a photochemically synthesized ternary carbonaceous sulfur hydride system at 15 °C and 267 GPa.

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Superconductivity was achieved in a C-H-S system at around 15°C, albeit a pressure in the region of 270GPa, in a tiny sample between two diamond anvils. Sulfur forms a 'superhydride' in this pressure range and apparently, when doped with methane, this approximates some of the properties that might be displayed by metallic hydrogen.

 

[ijahdan]

Just got to figure out how to pressure my speaker leads up to 270 GPa and Ill be dropping some serious basslines

 

[downwardsfromzero]

Read the article - you just need to build a suitably sized diamond anvil, then fill it with what is effectively fart gas.