Materials design for new superconductors
- 23 May 2016
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Reports on Progress in Physics
- Vol. 79 (7), 074502
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0034-4885/79/7/074502
Abstract
Since the announcement in 2011 of the Materials Genome Initiative by the Obama administration, much attention has been given to the subject of materials design to accelerate the discovery of new materials that could have technological implications. Although having its biggest impact for more applied materials like batteries, there is increasing interest in applying these ideas to predict new superconductors. This is obviously a challenge, given that superconductivity is a many body phenomenon, with whole classes of known superconductors lacking a quantitative theory. Given this caveat, various efforts to formulate materials design principles for superconductors are reviewed here, with a focus on surveying the periodic table in an attempt to identify cuprate analogues.Keywords
Funding Information
- US DOE, Office of Science (DE-AC-0298CH1088)
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