Can Doping Graphite Trigger Room Temperature Superconductivity? Evidence for Granular High-Temperature Superconductivity in Water-Treated Graphite Powder

Autor: José Barzola-Quiquia, Pablo Esquinazi, Thomas Scheike, Annette Setzer, Winfried Böhlmann, A. Ballestar
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Advanced Materials. 24:5826-5831
ISSN: 0935-9648
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201202219
Popis: Trying to dope graphite flakes we found that the magnetization of pure, several tens of micrometers grain size graphite powder and after a simple treatment with pure water shows clear and reproducible granular superconducting behavior with a critical temperature above 300K. The observed magnetic characteristics as a function of temperature, magnetic field and time, provide evidence for weakly coupled grains through Josephson interaction, revealing the existence of superconducting vortices.
Comment: 19 pages, 5 figures; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201202219/abstract (2012)
Databáze: OpenAIRE