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 .

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 president of the University of Rochester has recommended firing Ranga Dias, a star faculty member who claimed to have discovered a room-temperature superconductor, for research misconduct.

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.

Even so, since the 1911 discovery of superconductivity in mercury at -269 °C (4.15 K), no one else has ever claimed to have identified a superconductor with such a high T c. No one other than Dias ...

The challenge with working in a black-box environment such as a diamond anvil cell is that replication is far harder than with LK-99 – and led to arguably the most controversial chapter in ...

Ranga Dias, the physicist at the centre of the room-temperature superconductivity scandal, committed data fabrication, falsification and plagiarism, according to a investigation commissioned by his ...

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

Superconductivity is the phenomenon in which the electrical resistance of certain metals and compounds becomes zero when they are extremely cooled. Room- temperature superconductivity , in which ...