Right now, even these «high - temperature» copper -
oxide materials operate as superconductors only when cooled to below -100 degrees Celsius.
Not exact matches
Prof Freer said: «Current
oxide thermoelectric
materials are limited by their
operating temperatures which can be around 700 degrees Celsius.
Yet scientists still know so little about how these metal
oxides operate in nature, or how we can make them with the absolute control needed for high - performance
materials in energy applications.»
The technique can
operate in a range of environments, including in liquid and in air, and unlike the STM, it can be used with insulating
materials; in their original paper, Binnig and colleagues used the instrument to analyse an aluminium
oxide sample.