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Chemists overturn 40-year assumption about a key class of superconductors

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What happened

Scientists at Warwick have shown that a material treated for 40 years as a uniform, textbook superconductor is in fact a patchwork of different crystal structures throughout its bulk, using an advanced 3D imaging technique to see deep inside the crys…

Key facts

  • Scientists at Warwick have shown that a material treated for 40 years as a uniform, textbook superconductor is in fact a patchwork of different crystal structures throughout its bulk, using an advanced 3D imaging technique to see deep inside the crys…
  • Reported by Phys.org and published Thu, 17 Sep 2026 23:00:01 UTC.

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