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Possible superconductivity at room temperature

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IN this paper some observations are presented on an anomalous current in aluminum-carbon-aluminium (Al-C-Al) sandwiches, at room temperature, which in several respects behaves in the same way as the Josephson current might be expected to do. At first the switching effect was studied in Al-C-Al sandwiches discovered by Ovshinsky1 and Pearson2 in chalcogenide glasses and amorphous oxides. In carbon sandwiches subjected to proper electrical pulsing, changes in resistance of a factor of 1,000 were found, the changes being reversible and with a memory time of the order of a few days3.

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ANTONOWICZ, K. Possible superconductivity at room temperature. Nature 247, 358–360 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/247358a0

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