Dias' research had to do with superconductivity. Very high pressure and extremely cold temperatures can distort atoms' electron orbits, allowing for electricity to be conducted without energy loss.

Dias and colleagues entered the high-temperature superconductivity game in 2020. Using his experience squeezing hydrogen to high pressure (see box below), Dias’s group published a paper on ...

Dias, however, supposedly found a combination of chemicals that would boost the transition to superconductivity to near room temperature, although only at extreme pressures.

Embattled Superconductivity Scientist Is Out. Ranga Dias is no longer employed by the University of Rochester, months after a university probe found he engaged in research misconduct. By .

Ranga Dias claimed to have discovered the first room-temperature superconductors, but the work was later retracted. An investigation by Nature’s news team reveals new details about what happened ...

Dias created a frenzy in 2020 with the claim that he'd solved half of the problem, creating superconductivity at room temperature but still under immense pressure.

This, says Armitage, implies no superconductivity. In response, Dias told Nature’s news team that the researchers did not subtract a background signal for any chart of electrical resistance ...

The Dias team’s data doesn’t fit that bill, Hamlin says. Physicists are also working to strengthen the evidence for superconductivity in their materials. It’s not all about resistance, or ...

Ranga Dias, a physics professor who made headlines with claims that he had discovered a room-temperature superconductor and ...

Hiranya Pasan, a graduate student in Dr. Dias’s lab, with help from a microscope, made adjustments to a diamond inside a diamond anvil cell for use with his superconductivity experiment. Credit ...

Dias, however, supposedly found a combination of chemicals that would boost the transition to superconductivity to near room temperature, although only at extreme pressures.

The retraction request will add to the scrutiny of Dr. Dias and Unearthly Materials, a company that Dr. Dias founded to turn the superconductivity discoveries into commercial products.