Hmmm... Fiber optics are made by stretching out glass rods by huge amounts. You can build a fair amount of (2D) structure into the glass rod, and then thin it down to very small dimensions by pulling it (+ heat). It would be very "cool" if one could incorporate a superconductor into a glass fiber in this manner. At 01:51 PM 7/13/2015, rwg wrote:
On 2015-07-10 13:22, Warren D Smith wrote:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08190 hydrogen sulfide allegedly is superconductive at 203K, by far a new record high temperature, but the catch is you need to pressurize it over 90 GPa in a diamond anvil.
A lot of us have gpa's over 90.
I've seen tiny hydraulic tubes hold huge pressure. What kind of pressures can you get by drawing out a thin sealed tube? Maybe made of some special Chinese finger trap molecular structure.
In the limit of thinness, there might be a single strand of H2S polymer, held unwillingly in a lattice. --rwg