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Nanoclusters as a New Family of Superconductors: Potential for Room Temperature Superconductivity

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Under special but perfectly realistic conditions, superconducting pairing in metallic nanoclusters can become very strong, and they form a new family of high temperature superconductors. The presence of electronic energy shells, similar to those in atoms and nuclei, is the key ingredient of this scenario. In principle, T c can be raised up to room temperature. Charge transfer between clusters via Josephson coupling can give rise to strong macroscopic high temperature superconducting currents.

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Kresin, V. Nanoclusters as a New Family of Superconductors: Potential for Room Temperature Superconductivity. J Supercond Nov Magn 25, 711–717 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-012-1439-y

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