The team led by Prof. Anshu Pandey from the institute’s Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, claim to have achieved superconductivity at ambient temperature and pressure. Superconductivity at ambient temperature has been a holy grail in physics. More updates soon,” Prof. Ghosh, co-author of the paper, tweeted on May 27. “We were able to achieve diamagnetism at ambient temperature and pressure.”“Some of the particles can be seen levitating due to repulsion. Levitation is seen because diamagnetism is very strong, which is expected of a superconductor,” Prof. Ghosh says.

Source: The Hindu May 28, 2019 07:39 UTC