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Mesoporous Superconductors: Superconducting Quantum Metamaterials from Convergence of Soft and Hard Condensed Matter Science (Adv. Mater. 26/2021)
Author(s) -
Beaucage Peter A.,
van Dover R. Bruce,
DiSalvo Francis J.,
Gruner Sol M.,
Wiesner Ulrich
Publication year - 2021
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.202170203
Subject(s) - superconductivity , materials science , metamaterial , mesoporous material , condensed matter physics , mesoscale meteorology , quantum , nanotechnology , quantum dot , chemical physics , physics , quantum mechanics , optoelectronics , biochemistry , chemistry , catalysis , meteorology
In article number 2006975, mesoporous superconductors are prepared by Ulrich Wiesner and co‐workers via solution‐based block‐copolymer self‐assembly leading to high‐quality quantum metamaterials. The full promise of this soft‐materials approach is realized by producing superconductors with four different mesoscale morphologies. In these materials, the superconducting transition temperatures show variations with mesoscale structure despite nearly identical atomic crystal lattices. The materials exhibit atypical flux avalanches, characteristic of granular materials.