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New superconductors can be built atom by atom (www.sciencedaily.com)
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Did not know that you can now put atoms together like Lego.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The technique is not novel (a decade ago IBM even made a stop-motion film with carbon monoxide molecules to demonstrate it, and more than twenty years before that showed off "IBM In Atoms" as a proof of concept) but it's an interesting application. The real question in terms of application is, can this technique open the door to higher temperature superconductors?