UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., July 2 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Diamond is extremely valuable to science and technology not for its sparkle but for its extreme hardness, ability to transfer heat, transparency to a large fraction of the light spectrum and a host of other exceptional properties. Two decades ago, scientists discovered another advantage: under the right conditions, diamond can become a superconductor - allowing electricity to flow through it with zero resistance.
Until recently, though, they knew little about how that happens, limiting its use in high-tech applications.
Now, in a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Penn...