Physicists have long wondered whether hydrogen could be transformed into a metal or a superconductor and they have speculated that certain pressure and temperature conditions could achieve these goals. Now high-pressure researchers, including Carnegie’s Ho-kwang (Dave) Mao, have modeled three hydrogen-dense metal alloys and found pressure and temperature trends associated with the superconducting state—a huge boost in understanding how this abundant material could be harnessed.
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