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Superconductivity: Long‐Range Ordered Amorphous Atomic Chains as Building Blocks of a Superconducting Quasi‐One‐Dimensional Crystal (Adv. Mater. 38/2020)
Author(s) -
An Chao,
Zhou Yonghui,
Chen Chunhua,
Fei Fucong,
Song Fengqi,
Park Changyong,
Zhou Jianhui,
Rubahn HorstGünter,
Moshchalkov Victor V.,
Chen Xuliang,
Zhang Gufei,
Yang Zhaorong
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.202070289
Subject(s) - superconductivity , amorphous solid , materials science , condensed matter physics , lattice (music) , range (aeronautics) , chain (unit) , crystal structure , crystallography , chemical physics , physics , quantum mechanics , chemistry , acoustics , composite material
Crystalline and amorphous structures are two of the most common solid‐state phases. The combination of short‐range disordered and long‐range ordered structures at the atomic level is extremely rare. In article number 2002352, Xuliang Chen, Gufei Zhang, Zhaorong Yang, and co‐workers develop a system with long‐range ordered but short‐range disordered building blocks by compressing a linear chain compound under high pressure. Thus a first case where superconductivity is hosted by a lattice with periodic but amorphous constituent atomic chains is demonstrated.