Three exotic new species of superconductivity were spotted last year, illustrating the myriad ways electrons can join together to form a frictionless quantum soup.

We know, for instance, that for a material to superconduct, electrons have to pair off, and these pairs must be coherent—i.e., their movements must be synchronized. If electrons are paired but ...

They know that for a material to superconduct, electrons must pair off, and these pairs must be coherent – their movements ...

proposed a new structural design strategy—using lone pair electrons as ‘chemical scissors’ to prepare 2D van der Waals (vdWs) oxides. As a result, they discovered a stable 2D van der Waals ...