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| Author(s): | A. Mourachkine |
| Publisher: | Cambridge International Science Publishing |
| ISBN: | 1904602274 |
| Format: | hardback |
| 310pp | |
| Price: | £70.00 |
| Review Date: | 10 May 2004 |
| Review: | It is commonly believed that superconductivity cannot occur at room temperature (300K). The purpose of this book is to show that, under suitable conditions, superconductivity can occur above room temperature and to give guidelines on how to synthesize a room-temperature superconductor. Of the ten chapters, the first seven give an overview of the basic properties of the superconducting state and the mechanisms of superconductivity in various compounds. The last three, more specialist, chapters, deal with the existence of Coopers pairs above room temperature, the onset of long-phase coherence in a room-temperature superconductor, and materials that can superconduct above room temperature. |