Materials · around 2055

Room-temperature superconductor

Projection

A material that carries current with zero resistance at everyday temperature and pressure.

Today's superconductors need deep cooling or crushing pressure. An ambient one would transform power lines, motors, magnets for fusion and MRI, and computing. This node is low confidence.

Why it’s plausible: Critical temperatures have risen in steps over a century, but there is no accepted theory that guarantees an ambient-pressure material exists, and several claimed discoveries have failed replication.

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