Right, I've been a little behind with these, but better late than never I suppose!!!
So one thing that I found quite interesting was the synthesis of organic conductors, and especially how they relate to superconductivity. I found this paper http://iopscience.iop.org/1468-6996/10/2/020301/, which unfortunately only lets me view the abstract at this stage (anyone else have any better luck with it?). But it briefly describes the history and new physics that arise due to them.
In terms of temperature at which these compounds superconduct, the keeper of all knowledge wikipedia says that these guys have a critical temperature of up to 33K http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_superconductor, which is much less than the ceramic ones that can be created. However, I found this article which suggests theoretically you could get organic superconductors that operate at hundreds of Kelvin http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v134/i6A/pA1416_1. Interesting to see where things go with these guys
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Yay! Dale's here!
ReplyDeleteSeems like a collection reviews. You should be able to access the whole issuethrough the library with your library login. Warning: it's quite long...I'm happy with just the foreword☺
There's a readable news article reporting organic superconductivity at 18K a couple years ago. Little way to go...
It'd definitely be interesting to see how hot superconductivity becomes!
Sidenote: David, Onnes is mentioned in the second link of this comment...one of the JPhO groups from last year!
I once asked Ben Powell what so exciting about organic superconductors when there is high temperature superconductors? One of the reasons was the phase diagram of organic superconductors are similar to high temperature superconductors so understanding how they work would shed some light behind high temperature superconductors. What is better about them is that we have more expertise and control over parameters in the synthesis of organic superconductors so it easier to test our theories on them.
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