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most citedSuperconductivity above 200 K Observed in Superhydrides of Calcium

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39 papers

cond-mat.supr-con2025★ 4 cited

X-ray Diffraction and Electrical Transport Imaging of Superconducting Superhydride (La,Y)H10

Abdul Haseeb Manayil Marathamkottil, Kui Wang, Nilesh P. Salke +9

We report the synthesis and characterization of (La0.9Y0.1)H10 superhydrides exhibiting coexisting cubic Fm-3m and hexagonal P63/mmc clathrate phases observed over the pressure ran…

cond-mat.supr-con2025

Long-Term Stability of Superconducting Metal Superhydrides

Vasily S. Minkov, Mikhail A. Kuzovnikov, Panpan Kong +11

Zhou et al., in their recent publication (Nat. Commun. 16, 1135, 2025), reported the synthesis of lanthanum superhydride, LaHx (x = 10.2-11.1), by laser heating LaH3 with NH3BH3 at…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 8 cited

Stability of Hydrides in Sub-Neptune Exoplanets with Thick Hydrogen-Rich Atmospheres

Taehyun Kim, Xuehui Wei, Stella Chariton +4

Many sub-Neptune exoplanets have been believed to be composed of a thick hydrogen-dominated atmosphere and a high-temperature heavier-element-dominant core. From an assumption that…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Efficient Up-Conversion in CsPbBr3 Nanocrystals via Phonon-Driven Exciton-Polaron Formation

Abdullah S. Abbas, Beiye C. Li, Richard D. Schaller +4

Lead halide perovskite nanocrystals demonstrate efficient up-conversion, although the precise mechanism remains a subject of active research. This study utilizes steady-state and t…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 7 cited

Superconductivity above 180 K in Ca-Mg Ternary Superhydrides at Megabar Pressures

Weizhao Cai, Vasily S. Minkov, Ying Sun +8

The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity above 240 K in binary La-H and Y-H systems inspired further predictions of even higher transition temperatures in compounds such…

physics.geo-ph2023

High-pressure Phase Transition of Olivine-type MgGeO to a Metastable Forsterite-III type Structure and their Equation of States

R. V. Divya, G. Kumar, R. E. Cohen +5

Germanates are often used as structural analogs of planetary silicates. We have explored the high-pressure phase relations in MgGeO using diamond anvil cell experiments com…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Assessing the stability fields of molecular and polymeric CO2

Alexander F. Goncharov, Elena Bykova, Maxim Bykov +4

We investigated the stability of polymeric CO2 over a wide range of pressures, temperatures, and chemical environments. We find that the I-42d polymeric structure, consisting of a…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 74 cited

Superconductivity above 70 K observed in lutetium polyhydrides

Zhiwen Li, Xin He, Changling Zhang +17

The binary polyhydrides of heavy rare earth lutetium that shares a similar valence electron configuration to lanthanum have been experimentally discovered to be superconductive. Th…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Phase transition kinetics revealed by in situ X-ray diffraction in laser-heated dynamic diamond anvil cells

Matthew Ricks, Arianna E. Gleason, Francesca Miozzi +7

We report on a novel approach to dynamic compression of materials that bridges the gap between previous static- and dynamic- compression techniques, allowing to explore a wide rang…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 4 cited

Observation of Conventional Near Room Temperature Superconductivity in Carbonaceous Sulfur Hydride

Hiranya Pasan, Elliot Snider, Sasanka Munasinghe +21

The phenomenon of high temperature superconductivity, approaching room temperature, has been realized in a number of hydrogen-dominant alloy systems under high pressure conditions1…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 8 cited

Structural evolution of iodine on approach to the monatomic state

Elena Bykova, Iskander G. Batyrev, Maxim Bykov +4

We applied single-crystal X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy in a diamond anvil cell up to 36 GPa and first principles theoretical calculations to study the molecular dissoci…

cond-mat.str-el2023

Silvanite AuAgTe: a rare case of gold superconducting material

Yehezkel Amiel, Gyanu P. Kafle, Evgenia V. Komleva +13

Gold is one of the most inert metals, forming very few compounds, some with rather interesting properties, and only two of them currently known to be superconducting under certain…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 23 cited

Superconductivity Observed in Tantalum Polyhydride at High Pressure

X. He, C. L. Zhang, Z. W. Li +15

We report experimental discovery of tantalum polyhydride superconductor. It was synthesized at high pressure and high temperature conditions using diamond anvil cell combined with…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 1 cited

Synthesis of Ultra-Incompressible Carbon Nitrides Featuring Three-Dimensional Frameworks of CN4 Tetrahedra Recoverable at Ambient Conditions

Dominique Laniel, Florian Trybel, Andrey Aslandukov +22

More than thirty years ago, carbon nitrides featuring 3D frameworks of tetrahedral CN4 units were identified as one of the great aspirations of materials science, expected to have…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 54 cited

High-Pressure Synthesis of Seven Lanthanum Hydrides with a Significant Variability of Hydrogen Content

Dominique Laniel, Florian Trybel, Bjoern Winkler +12

The lanthanum-hydrogen system has attracted significant attention following the report of superconductivity in LaH10 at near-ambient temperatures and high pressures. Here, we prese…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 1 cited

Superconductivity above 80 K in polyhydrides of hafnium

C. L. Zhang, X. He, Z. W. Li +15

Studies on polyhydrides are attracting growing attentions recently due to their potential high temperature superconductivity (SC). We here report the discovery of SC in hafnium pol…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Revealing Phosphorus Nitrides up to the Megabar Regime: Synthesis of alpha-P3N5, delta-P3N5 and PN2

Dominique Laniel, Florian Trybel, Adrien Neri +14

Non-metal nitrides are an exciting field of chemistry, featuring a significant number of compounds that can possess outstanding material properties. This characteristic relies on m…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 2 cited

Symmetry protected 1D chains in mixed-valence iron oxides

Denis M. Vasiukov, Ghanashyam Khanal, Ilya Kupenko +9

During the last decade of high-pressure research a whole new series of iron oxides was discovered, like FeO, FeO, FeO etc., featuring closely related struct…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 1 cited

Ultrastable Metallic Glass Nanoparticles with Size-Dependent Mechanical Properties

Abhinav Parakh, Mehrdad T. Kiani, Anabelle Colmenares +5

The atomistic structure of metallic glasses is closely related to properties such as strength and ductility. Here, Ni1-xBx metallic glass nanoparticles of two different sizes are c…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 105 cited

Trapped magnetic flux in hydrogen-rich high-temperature superconductors

V. S. Minkov, V. Ksenofontov, S. L. Budko +2

Recent discoveries of superconductivity in hydrogen-rich compounds stabilized by high pressures have shown that a critical temperature of superconductivity Tc can reach near room t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 32 cited

Universal diamond edge Raman scale to 0.5 terapascal: The implication to metallization of hydrogen

M. I. Eremets, V. S. Minkov, P. P. Kong +3

The recent progress in generating static pressures up to terapascal values opens opportunities for studying novel materials with unusual properties, such as metallization of hydrog…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 16 cited

High pressure induced precipitation in Al7075 alloy

Abhinav Parakh, Andrew C. Lee, Stella Chariton +4

Precipitate-matrix interactions govern the mechanical behavior of precipitate strengthened Al-based alloys. These alloys find a wide range of applications ranging from aerospace to…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 51 cited

Record High Tc Element Superconductivity Achieved In Titanium

C. L. Zhang, X. He, C. Liu +15

It is challenging to search for high Tc superconductivity (SC) in transition metal elements wherein d electrons are usually not favored by conventional BCS theory. Here we report d…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 13 cited

Synthesis and structure of carbon doped H3S compounds at high pressure

Alexander F. Goncharov, Elena Bykova, Maxim Bykov +4

Understanding of recently reported putative close-to-room-temperature superconductivity in C-S-H compounds at 267 GPa demands reproducible synthesis protocol as well as knowledge o…