High Pressure Superconductor

Compressed titanium and sulfur nanoribbons can transmit electricity without energy loss, scientists find (msn.com)

Their experiment can be described as dimension squeezing. About 3 degrees above absolute zero, all the weird quantum effects start to become impossible to ignore, so they took a known superconductor, made a nano ribbon out of it, and applied pressure. Nanoribbons are quasi 2d, with their quantum effects often extending above and below them and, by applying pressure, they squeezed it dimensionally, and discovered it becomes progressively more conductive, until it becomes a superconductor.

The more they can characterize superconductivity as just another phase transition, the easier it will become to reproduce it at room temperatures, using 2d metamaterials. The newest superconducting diodes, for example, will likely go on electrical power stations, to prevent power from flowing back into the generators.