Is there a hydride superconducting above 77 K at ambient pressure? · revision history
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- Title · changed
- Revision 1: Is there a hydride superconducting above 77 K at ambient pressure
- Revision 2: Is there a hydride superconducting above 77 K at ambient pressure?
- Plain
- Hydride superconductors need enormous pressure; the goal is a hydrogen-rich compound that keeps a high transition temperature, above liquid-nitrogen temperature, at normal pressure.
- Precise
- Determine whether any thermodynamically stable or long-lived metastable hydride has $T_c > 77\ \mathrm{K}$ at ambient pressure. An answer is a synthesized compound with zero resistance and diamagnetic shielding above 77 K at 1 bar, or a computational search with stated completeness showing none exists among a defined class.
- Settled by
- Synthesis and characterization of a predicted candidate with resistive and magnetic transitions above 77 K at ambient pressure.
- Kind
- well-posed
- Answer type
- yes-no
- References
- (empty)
- Literature status
- open
- Status note · changed
- Revision 1: Calculations (2024) predicted Mg2IrH6 with $T_{c}$ above $100\,\mathrm{K}$ at ambient pressure; no superconducting sample has been reported.
- Revision 2: Calculations (2024) predicted $\mathrm{Mg_2IrH_6}$ with $T_{c}$ above $100\,\mathrm{K}$ at ambient pressure; no superconducting sample has been reported.
- Posed since
- (empty)
Decisions
- Accepted (cosmetic change) · 2026-10-15 · record