U.S. Developed Superconducting Plastic Materials

Lucent Technologies, USA, announced that a research team in its research and development department, Bell Labs, has recently developed superconducting properties after the first discovery last year of a plastic material that has a zero resistance at a specific temperature and can become a superconductor. The plastics, thus opening up new ways for superconducting research, have significant scientific and commercial value.
This material is a kind of conductive polymer polythiophene, which is cheap, and it is expected to be widely used in the fields of quantum computers and superconducting devices. According to reports, the subject of superconducting objects made of plastics is how to overcome the complex structures of polymers that hinder the movement of electrons. The scientists of Bell Labs managed to make a thin metal foil from an aluminum oxide alloy and coat it on it. A layer of polythiophene film, the results found that: In the electric field, electrons can pass through the polythiophene film without loss. However, the emergence of this feature requires a very low temperature—absolute temperature 4K.
Although people think that superconducting plastics have broad application prospects, Bertrag, who led the research, believes that there is still much work to do when superconducting plastics are to be put into practical use. At present, they are using the same method to find plastics that have superconductivity at higher temperatures.