This discovery is expected to bring a huge revolution in the world of energy and electronics.
According to the latest report, a professor named Ranga Dias and his colleagues at the University of Rochester in New York have discovered a new material from nitrogen, hydrogen, and lutetium that becomes superconductive at a temperature of just 69°F and a pressure of 1 gigapascal.
That is about 10,000 times the atmospheric pressure on Earth's surface, but still a far lower pressure than any previous superconducting material.
This discovery is expected to bring a huge revolution in the world of energy and electronics. It may pave the way for hovering trains and ultra-efficient electrical grids. It could be used in airborne high-speed trains, MRI, memories, electronic circuits, and more.
The team made the material by taking a rare earth metal named lutetium and mixing it with hydrogen and a small part of nitrogen. They were then left to react for two or three days, at high temperatures.
"With this material, the dawn of ambient superconductivity and applied technologies has arrived.
A pathway to superconducting consumer electronics, energy transfer lines, transportation, and significant improvements of magnetic confinement for fusion are now a reality," he added.
According to Dias, "we are now at the modern superconducting era".