Mulholland: Room-temperature superconductors will require new physics
Greg Mulholland · How AI is rapidly advancing new materials for clean energy · Jan 23, 2024 · at 28:56
Citrine Informatics CEO Greg Mulholland discusses the fundamental physics requirements for developing room-temperature superconductors following false alarms like LK-99.
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“My prediction is that it will require at least a variant on known physics, if not entirely new physics, to make happen, just because that's sort of the nature of those massive breakthroughs, especially, I mean, room temperature superconductor is, A guaranteed Nobel Prize nine months later.”
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