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Room-temperature superconductors could revolutionize electronics – an electrical engineer explains the materials' potential

  • Written by Massoud Pedram, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California
Room-temperature superconductors could revolutionize electronics – an electrical engineer explains the materials' potentialRoom-temperature superconductors could make high-speed maglev trains more practical.Visual China Group via Getty Images

Superconductors make highly efficient electronics, but the ultralow temperatures and ultrahigh pressures required to make them work are costly and difficult to implement. Room-temperature superconductors promise to change that.

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