• Equipment used to create a room-temperature superconductor, including a diamond anvil cell (blue box) and laser arrays, is pictured in the University of Rochester lab of Ranga Dias. (technologyreview.com)
  • Newly published research builds on team's landmark 2020 discovery of a room-temperature superconductor by replicating results with even greater efficiency. (newswise.com)
  • The 2020 discovery by Salamat and colleagues of a room-temperature superconductor excited the science world in part because the technology supports electrical flow with zero resistance, meaning that energy passing through a circuit could be conducted infinitely and with no loss of power. (newswise.com)
  • Room-Temperature Superconductor: Finally a Thing? (ponoko.com)
  • What is LK-99, the claimed room-temperature superconductor, what evidence supports the researchers' claims, and if proven to be real, what are the potential implications and applications of room-temperature superconductors across various industries? (ponoko.com)
  • Room Temperature Superconductor: Holy Grail or Red Herring? (insidescience.org)
  • But these magnets can only retain their superconductivity -- and their superstrong magnetic field -- below a certain temperature, around 10 K (roughly -440 F) for the most common material used in superconductor applications, a niobium-titanium alloy. (insidescience.org)
  • The researchers also tested the material's response to a magnetic field at a range of temperatures because superconductors are known to expel them as part of a phenomenon called the Meissner effect. (newscientist.com)
  • Room-temperature superconductors-materials that conduct electricity with zero resistance without needing special cooling-are the sort of technological miracle that would upend daily life. (technologyreview.com)
  • But until now, superconductors have had to be cooled to extremely low temperatures, which has restricted them to use as a niche technology (albeit an important one). (technologyreview.com)
  • Then, in late 1986 and early 1987, a group of researchers at IBM's Zurich laboratory found that certain ceramic oxides can be superconductors at temperatures as high as 92 K-crucially, over the boiling temperature of liquid nitrogen, which is 77 K. This transformed the study of superconductivity, and its applications in things like hospital MRIs, because liquid nitrogen is cheap and easy to handle. (technologyreview.com)
  • Scientists have crushed the quest for room temperature superconductors, but only at ridiculously high pressures. (insidescience.org)
  • Before we get into the century-long hunt for room temperature superconductors, let's first get a few things straight. (insidescience.org)
  • So, obviously, the goal is to come up with superconductors that can operate at room temperature, because then we won't need cryogenic systems to use them. (insidescience.org)
  • Since 1986, numerous copper-containing compounds known as cuprates have been discovered to superconduct above 77 K. In 2006, scientists found another group of so-called high-temperature superconductors known as iron pnictides. (insidescience.org)
  • The problem is that currently known above-liquid-nitrogen-temperature superconductors are brittle and extremely difficult and costly to make into useful shapes, such as the coils of a superconducting magnet, said Di Cataldo. (insidescience.org)
  • Some of the known high temperature superconductors are also highly toxic. (insidescience.org)
  • Scientists have raised the critical temperature of known superconductors, but the newly discovered materials have strayed away from room pressure. (insidescience.org)
  • In a paper published today in Nature , researchers report achieving room-temperature superconductivity in a compound containing hydrogen, sulfur, and carbon at temperatures as high as 58 °F (13.3 °C, or 287.7 K). The previous highest temperature had been 260 K, or 8 °F, achieved by a rival group at George Washington University and the Carnegie Institution in Washington, DC, in 2018. (technologyreview.com)
  • Currently, about 95% of all macromolecular X-ray structures available in the PDB (Protein Data Bank) were obtained from diffraction experiments at low, cryogenic temperatures. (rcsb.org)
  • Similar to superconductivity and superfluidity, superfluorescence normally requires cryogenic temperatures to be observed, because the dipoles move out of phase too quickly to form a collectively coherent state. (solarpowerconference.com)
  • A new optical sensor was successfully tested in the "magnetically best shielded room on Earth. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The room temperature operation of the sensor and its small size will allow a much simpler system design compared to other sensor types suitable for this measurement range. (sciencedaily.com)
  • An open air temperature sensor is for stopping a ventilation fan, when the temperature of the open air is higher than an indoor temperature. (electronics-diy.com)
  • For the first time, this enables a gas sensor operating at room temperature. (nanowerk.com)
  • What's great for HomePod mini owners is this 16.3 software update enables a hidden temperature and humidity sensor that has been built into every HomePod mini since Apple unveiled the device a few years ago. (knowyourmobile.com)
  • What Good Is A Temperature And Humidity Sensor In The HomePod? (knowyourmobile.com)
  • However, ALL HomePod minis and the new 2023 HomePod have a temp and humidity sensor, so they can read the temp and humidity of a room provided they are running the 16.3 software or later. (knowyourmobile.com)
  • Researchers from Delft University of Technology managed to design a quantum sensor that doesn't need to operate at temperatures near absolute zero. (bits-chips.nl)
  • The baby box monitoring system has a dht11 temperature and humidity sensor, and a noise sensor to detect the baby crying. (who.int)
  • If we can reliably and efficiently achieve Superconductivity at room temperature, it could revolutionize the modern electronics that are made and used. (blogarama.com)
  • Therefore, it's no surprise that researchers would want to achieve superconductivity at room temperature as soon as possible. (blogarama.com)
  • To test whether they could provide superconductivity at room temperature, researchers at the University of Rochester tried combining hydrogen with different metals. (blogarama.com)
  • Inside Science) -- In 2020, scientists achieved the once unthinkable -- the discovery of a material that can maintain its superconductivity at room temperature . (insidescience.org)
  • But for over a century, researchers have been unable to make them work except under extreme conditions like very low temperatures and remarkably high pressures. (newscientist.com)
  • Scientists have for decades sought to understand just what those circumstances are, and to figure out what other elements might be mixed in with hydrogen to achieve superconductivity at progressively higher temperatures and lower pressures. (technologyreview.com)
  • These are pressures at a level difficult to comprehend and evaluate outside of the lab, but our current trajectory shows that it's possible achieve relatively high superconducting temperatures at consistently lower pressures - which is our ultimate goal," said study lead author Gregory Alexander Smith, a graduate student researcher with UNLV's Nevada Extreme Conditions Laboratory (NEXCL). (newswise.com)
  • Using computer simulations, the team studied the interaction of mercury atoms at various pressures and temperatures. (uni-heidelberg.de)
  • For many decades afterwards, superconductivity was created only at extremely low temperatures. (technologyreview.com)
  • In the recent past, room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) are being explored for possible applications in nuclear fuel cycle. (hindawi.com)
  • For instance, the melting temperature of NaCl is 1074 K and that of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride (bmimCl) is 343 K. Such organic salts are known as room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs). (hindawi.com)
  • Some of the cations and anions used to form room-temperature ionic liquids. (hindawi.com)
  • In the recent past, room-temperature ionic liquids are receiving increased attention for possible electrochemical applications in the area of nuclear fuel reprocessing and waste management. (hindawi.com)
  • The great challenge is to create multiferroic materials that operate at room temperature and have a large ferroelectric polarization P . Cupric oxide, CuO, is promising because it exhibits a significant polarization, that is, P ~0.1 μC cm −2 , for a spin-spiral multiferroic. (nature.com)
  • The detectors that we have developed differ from the conventional semiconductor sensors in that they operate at room temperature. (nanowerk.com)
  • However, understanding how this mechanism works could lead to quantum devices that could operate at room temperature. (solarpowerconference.com)
  • PhysOrg.com) -- A group in The Netherlands has achieved a first: injection of spin-polarized electrons in silicon at room temperature. (phys.org)
  • The combination of highly advanced equipment such as the magnetically shielded room (BMSR-2) with the experience in testing new sensors on human subjects made PTB the ideal partner for NIST. (sciencedaily.com)
  • This equipment uses two temperature sensors, drives external equipment, and keeps the temperature of the room at preset temperature. (electronics-diy.com)
  • Two temperature sensors are used. (electronics-diy.com)
  • Until recently, gas sensors based on nanocrystalline metal oxides had operating temperatures between 300 and 500 degrees Celsius. (nanowerk.com)
  • Moreover, to maintain these high temperatures, a lot of power is required, making it impossible to embed such gas sensors into the circuit boards of portable devices. (nanowerk.com)
  • and their colleagues from Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics proposed sensors capable of operating at room temperature. (nanowerk.com)
  • Do All HomePods Have Temperature And Humidity Sensors? (knowyourmobile.com)
  • Interface Engineering-Driven Room-Temperature Ultralow Gas Sensors with Elucidating Sensing Performance of Heterostructure Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Thin Films. (bvsalud.org)
  • The sensing response of the aforementioned sensors to a low concentration range of NO2, NH3, H2, CO, and H2S gases in air has been assessed at room temperature . (bvsalud.org)
  • Favorably, by developing a heterojunction of diselenide and disulfide nanomaterials , one may find a simple way of improving the sensing capabilities of gas sensors at room temperature . (bvsalud.org)
  • The World Health Organization in 1987 found that comfortable indoor temperatures of between 18 and 24 °C (64 and 75 °F) were not associated with health risks for healthy adults with appropriate clothing, humidity, and other factors. (wikipedia.org)
  • Temperatures lower than 16 °C (61 °F) with humidity above 65% were associated with respiratory hazards including allergies. (wikipedia.org)
  • The technology uses inert silica to encapsulate the active ingredients with a protective 'cage', which keeps the biological material protected from any variations in outside temperature or humidity. (springwise.com)
  • Along with the new HomePod, Apple has enabled temperature and humidity sensing in the HomePod mini. (knowyourmobile.com)
  • Many people may be wondering why Apple has added temperature and humidity sensing to a smart speaker that most people mainly use for music. (knowyourmobile.com)
  • Now that the HomePod and HomePod mini can sense temperature and humidity in the room it is in, users can create automations that control their other connected smart home devices. (knowyourmobile.com)
  • OK, so can any HomePod now read the temp and humidity of the room it's in? (knowyourmobile.com)
  • Owners of the original HomePod (the big one that Apple sold before introducing the HomePod mini) will not be able to use it to read the temp or humidity of a room. (knowyourmobile.com)
  • There are a few different ways that you can use the HomePod and HomePod mini to read the temp and humidity in the room it is assigned to. (knowyourmobile.com)
  • Or "Hey Siri, what's the humidity in my living room? (knowyourmobile.com)
  • And Siri will answer you with the temp or humidity level based on the readings from the HomePod or HomePod mini in that room. (knowyourmobile.com)
  • On the screen that follows, you can see the temperature and humidity conditions for the room. (knowyourmobile.com)
  • But a group of Harvard physicists have overcome some key obstacles to turn the impurities in lab-grown diamonds into quantum bits capable of holding information at room temperature for nearly two seconds -an eternity in quantum coherence times. (popsci.com)
  • A new study from North Carolina State University explores the mechanism involved in this macroscopic quantum phase transition and explains how and why materials like perovskites exhibit macroscopic quantum coherence at high temperatures. (solarpowerconference.com)
  • Sometimes it still over proofs in the fridge while Lucy is sleeping:-) But the kitchen temperature has to be in the high 80's to skip the entire bulk ferment. (thefreshloaf.com)
  • Now, researchers at the University of Rochester (N.Y.) have dramatically slowed light within a solid at room temperature-conditions considered vital for slow light to be harnessed for practical uses such as in optical-communication systems. (sciencenews.org)
  • A team of researchers claims to have created the first materials that conduct electricity perfectly at room temperature and ambient pressure, but many physicists are highly sceptical. (newscientist.com)
  • The researchers then measured how much a millimetre-sized sample of LK-99 resisted electricity passing through it at different temperatures and found that its so-called resistivity fell sharply from a sizeable positive value at 105°C (221°F) down to nearly zero at 30°C (86°F). (newscientist.com)
  • Now, however, researchers may have found a way to transport vaccines safely at higher temperatures. (springwise.com)
  • The researchers have reported a resistance-free flow of current at a temperature of 15 Degrees Celsius . (blogarama.com)
  • The recent breakthroughs in this regard have been revolutionary as researchers raised the operating temperature of lightweight compounds, such as lanthanum hydride. (blogarama.com)
  • In what can only be described as completely surreal, a team of researchers from South Korea have recently made their findings on a new material public, claiming that it's the world's first room-temperature semiconductor that operates at ambient pressure. (ponoko.com)
  • Researchers have found a way to control the interaction of light and quantum 'spin' in organic semiconductors, that works even at room temperature. (cam.ac.uk)
  • Currently, most vaccines need to be stored at very specific low or ultra-low temperatures. (springwise.com)
  • This level of control over quantum properties can normally only be achieved at ultra-low temperatures. (cam.ac.uk)
  • The tubes are then spun for 15 seconds at room temperature to facilitate antigen-antibody interaction. (medscape.com)
  • In this paper, we report on an original way, taking place at room temperature and ambient pressure, to replace the silicon oxide shell of luminescent Si nanocrystals with capping involving organic residues. (fzu.cz)
  • It is the first system of its kind to work at room temperature, making it amenable to a compact, portable setup that may be added to high-precision experiments to improve laser measurements where quantum noise is a limiting factor. (scienceblog.com)
  • We describe in this article development and properties of new human acetylcholinesterase (AChE) crystals of space group P3 1 and a new unit cell, amenable for room-temperature X-ray diffraction studies. (rcsb.org)
  • Unfortunately, it seems room-temperature superconductivity is going to remain the holy grail for quite a long time. (techenclave.com)
  • UNLV physicist Ashkan Salamat and colleague Ranga Dias, a physicist with the University of Rochester, made international headlines in 2020 by reporting room-temperature superconductivity for the first time . (newswise.com)
  • The effect of different temperatures on the strength of vection was investigated. (scirp.org)
  • Temperature readings range from 62-84 degrees Fahrenheit to 17-29 degrees Celsius. (nrgideas.com)
  • Sulfur mustard is usually a solid when the temperature is less than 58° Fahrenheit. (cdc.gov)
  • Exciton polaritons, the part-light and part-matter quasiparticles in semiconductor optical cavities, are promising for exploring Bose-Einstein condensation, non-equilibrium many-body physics and analogue simulation at elevated temperatures. (nature.com)
  • Room-temperature polariton lasing in semiconductor microcavities. (nature.com)
  • This has previously been observed only at extremely low temperatures, and the achievement brings spintronic devices using silicon as a semiconductor a step closer. (phys.org)
  • Modern detectors rely on cooled semiconductor devices that are energy-intensive and bulky, but our research presents a new and exciting way to detect this light at room temperature," he added. (optics.org)
  • Although they might seem to fall behind their rival, namely, direct band gap based semiconductor nanocrystals, when it comes to the emission of light, room for improvement still lies in the exploitation of various surface passivations. (fzu.cz)
  • Superconductivity is a remarkable phenomenon first observed more than a century ago, but only at remarkably low temperatures that preempted any thought of practical application. (newswise.com)
  • a suggested typical range for summer is 23-25.5 °C (73-78 °F), with that for winter being 20-23.5 °C (68-74 °F). Some studies have suggested that thermal comfort preferences of men and women may differ significantly, with women on average preferring higher ambient temperatures. (wikipedia.org)
  • The WHO's 2018 guidelines give a strong recommendation that a minimum of 18 °C (64 °F) is a "safe and well-balanced indoor temperature to protect the health of general populations during cold seasons", while a higher minimum may be necessary for vulnerable groups including children, the elderly, and people with cardiorespiratory disease and other chronic illnesses. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, it is known that functionally relevant conformations of both macromolecules and pharmacological ligands can differ at higher, physiological temperatures. (rcsb.org)
  • Only in the 1960s did scientists theorize the feat might be possible at higher temperatures. (newswise.com)
  • The materials themselves haven't advanced much since superconductivity at higher temperatures that still require liquid nitrogen yields no benefits as far as industrializationis concerned. (techenclave.com)
  • Our initial observations indicated that something was protecting these atoms from thermal disturbances at higher temperatures," Gundogdu says. (solarpowerconference.com)
  • The peak wavelength at room temperature was 274nm and the thermal shift between -5°C and 65°C was 32pm/K, under current injection 10% above threshold. (semiconductor-today.com)
  • The low dark current is manifested in the spectrally resolved photocurrent measurements, which reveal strong photocurrent contributions from the InAsP quantum discs at room temperature with a threshold wavelength of about 2.0 μm and a bias-tunable responsivity reaching 7 A/[email protected] μm at 2 V bias. (lu.se)
  • A newly synthesized nanomaterial known as K x W 7 O 22 (K x WO) exhibits a stable room-temperature ferroelectric property. (mdpi.com)
  • In previous apo room-temperature structures, the active site and allosteric sites adopted alternate conformations, including open and closed conformations of the active-site WPD loop and of a distal allosteric site. (iucr.org)
  • Their new low temperature P3 1 space group structures appear similar to those previously obtained in the different P3 1 21 unit cell. (rcsb.org)
  • Successful solution of the new room temperature 3.2 Å resolution structure of BW284c51*hAChE complex from large P3 1 crystals enables us to proceed with studying room temperature structures of lower affinity complexes, such as oxime reactivators bound to hAChE, where temperature-related conformational diversity could be expected in both oxime and hAChE, which could lead to better informed structure-based design under conditions approaching physiological temperature. (rcsb.org)
  • And if the temperatures are too high or too low, the vaccine will lose its ability to protect against disease. (springwise.com)
  • Spin polarization has also been achieved at room temperature in ferromagnetic semiconductors such as manganese-doped gallium arsenide . (phys.org)
  • Until recently spin polarization in non-magnetic semiconductors like silicon has only been achieved at temperatures of 150 K, but new research has achieved spin polarization at ambient temperature. (phys.org)
  • They concluded that it did exhibit this effect in the temperature range where it also had near zero resistance. (newscientist.com)
  • One effect of using DPD p-doping, it is thought, was the series resistance being almost constant over the temperature range, unlike devices with Mg-doped cladding. (semiconductor-today.com)
  • The activation energy of Mg-doping is very high, resulting in large changes (reductions) in resistance of the cladding as the temperature increases. (semiconductor-today.com)
  • The reduction in series resistance to 8.4Ω, from 12Ω in the team's previous work, was key to achieving CW lasing at room temperature. (semiconductor-today.com)
  • Room-temperature X-ray crystallography provides unique insights into protein conformational heterogeneity, but obtaining sufficiently large protein crystals is a common hurdle. (iucr.org)
  • With this demonstration, we further establish perovskites as a promising platform for room temperature polaritonic physics and pave the way for the realization of robust mode-disorder-free polaritonic devices at room temperature. (nature.com)
  • Semiconducting perovskites that exhibit superfluorescence at room temperature do so due to built-in thermal "shock absorbers" which protect dipoles within the material from thermal interference. (solarpowerconference.com)
  • Recently, a team led by Kenan Gundogdu, professor of physics at NC State and corresponding author of a paper describing the work, had observed superfluorescence at room temperature in hybrid perovskites. (solarpowerconference.com)
  • The performance under continuous wave/direct current (CW/DC) operation with no thermal control at room temperature was compared with the pulsed results (Figure 3). (semiconductor-today.com)
  • To make the new material, called LK-99, Kim and his colleagues mixed several powdered compounds containing lead, oxygen, sulphur and phosphorus, then heated them at a high temperature for several hours. (newscientist.com)
  • It's a landmark," says José Flores-Livas, a computational physicist at the Sapienza University of Rome, who creates models that explain high-temperature superconductivity and was not directly involved in the work. (technologyreview.com)
  • RTILs are being studied as an alternative to the diluent, n-dodecane (n-DD), in aqueous reprocessing and as possible substitute to high-temperature molten salts in nonaqueous reprocessing applications. (hindawi.com)
  • In view of this, the pyrochemical method also offers a few challenges with respect to the plant design, requirement of inert atmosphere, high-temperature operation and corrosion problems, and so forth. (hindawi.com)
  • The shape and makeup of this second "nanomechanical" mirror is the key to the system's ability to work at room temperature. (scienceblog.com)
  • For those that can't fit an HVAC system into their homes, a portable air conditioning unit will work wonders for cooling down a living room. (yahoo.com)
  • Does a dehumidifier work in cooling down a room? (yahoo.com)
  • Nevertheless, simulations showed that the device could work at room temperature. (bits-chips.nl)
  • Is this the work of some rogue fan intentionally sabotaging the HVAC unit in the Visiting Team Locker Room? (burntorangenation.com)
  • F. Calvo, E. Pahl, M. Wormit, P. Schwerdtfeger: Evidence for Low-Temperature Melting of Mercury owing to Relativity, Angew. (uni-heidelberg.de)
  • Superconductivity was first observed in solid mercury at the super cold temperature of 4.2 K (-452 F) back in 1911. (insidescience.org)
  • To achieve the feat, the scientists chemically synthesized a mix of carbon, sulfur, and hydrogen first into a metallic state, and then even further into a room-temperature superconducting state using extreme pressure - 267 gigapascals - conditions you'd only find in nature near the center of the Earth. (newswise.com)
  • Biopharmaceuticals company EnsiliTech has developed a technology that makes biopharmaceuticals safe and stable at room temperatures. (springwise.com)
  • However, a room-temperature polaritonic platform on par with the GaAs quantum wells grown by molecular beam epitaxy at low temperatures remains elusive. (nature.com)
  • Furthermore, data from one study showcased no decline in insulin activity for specific insulin types when subjected to oscillating ambient temperatures between 25°C and 37°C for up to three months, akin to the day-night temperature cycles experienced in tropical climates. (scienceblog.com)
  • Some people mix it 50/50 with AP but I don't bother with AP anymore since wet dough was still sticking when proffing at room temperature. (thefreshloaf.com)
  • My question is, assuming you make a lean dough and are careful with the amount of yeast and room temperature variations, is it possible to do a RT ferment for more than 24 hours? (pizzamaking.com)
  • Banchero, You are correct that room temperature is critical to making a dough that can ferment at room temperature for more than a day. (pizzamaking.com)
  • The finished dough temperature and the amount of yeast used also are critical. (pizzamaking.com)
  • Studies from Indonesia have shown that the range of comfortable temperature falls between 24-29 °C (75-84 °F) for local residents. (wikipedia.org)
  • Minimal-risk high temperatures range from about 21 to 30 °C (70 to 86 °F) depending on the region, with maximum acceptable temperatures between 25 and 32 °C (77 and 90 °F). Temperature ranges are defined as room temperature for certain products and processes in industry, science, standards, and consumer goods. (wikipedia.org)
  • The biggest hurdle in the development and deployment of superconductive technologies was the prohibitively expensive cooling mechanisms required to keep the circuits in the operating range of temperature. (blogarama.com)
  • The findings demonstrated consistent insulin potency within a temperature range of 4°C to 37°C, with no clinically significant degradation of insulin activity. (scienceblog.com)
  • AMSBIO announce RNAdvantage-the first product in a new range of stabilization solutions that provide robust protection for your RNA samples at ambient temperature. (labmanager.com)
  • Sally's Baking Recipes expands on this, explaining that room-temp eggs, butter, and other dairy ingredients form an emulsion that traps air. (tastingtable.com)
  • Liquid nitrogen expands 696 times its original volume when changing from cryogenic liquid to a room temperature gas. (lu.se)
  • According to the most accepted definition, RTILs are composed fully of dissociated ions and melt at temperature lower than 373 K [ 5 - 7 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • No, a dehumidifier will not lower the temperature of your room, but it can make you feel cooler. (yahoo.com)
  • A team of physicists from UNLV's Nevada Extreme Conditions Lab (NEXCL) used a diamond anvil cell, a research device similar to the one pictured, in their research to lower the pressure needed to observe a material capable of room-temperature superconductivity. (newswise.com)
  • The fan will blow air over the cold water, creating a cooling effect in the room. (yahoo.com)
  • Effects of hot and cold temperature exposure on performance: A meta-analytic review. (scirp.org)
  • These automations, for example, might tell you smart blinds to open if the room gets too cold or a smart fan to engage if the room gets too humid. (knowyourmobile.com)
  • In no-knead sourdough bread recipes, some call for 24h or more of cold fermentation, while others call for slow 12-18h fermenting in room temperature. (thefreshloaf.com)
  • Perhaps the house includes a bonus room over the garage that is cold in winter and hot in summer. (greenbuildingadvisor.com)
  • Overall, our results illustrate the promise of serial methods for room-temperature crystallography, as well as future avant-garde crystallography experiments, for PTP1B and other proteins. (iucr.org)
  • This ability to immediately stabilize samples at room temperature after collection ensures high RNA integrity for RNAseq experiments, no rtPCR inhibition, and rapid RNase inactivation. (labmanager.com)
  • The importance of the result is that you can engineer these mechanical systems so that at room temperature, they still can have quantum mechanical properties," says Nergis Mavalvala, the Marble Professor and associate head of physics at MIT. (scienceblog.com)
  • Low temperatures can create the circumstances for such pairs to form in a wide variety of materials. (technologyreview.com)
  • The purpose of the test method is to provide a comparative means of quantifying the emittance of materials near room temperature. (astm.org)
  • However, the Cambridge-led team has been able to control the quantum behaviour of these materials at room temperature, which opens up a new world of potential quantum applications by reliably coupling spins to photons. (cam.ac.uk)