World's Smallest Superconductor Discovered

arcticstoat writes "One of the barriers to the development of nanoscale electronics has potentially been eliminated, as scientists have discovered the world's smallest superconductor. Made up of four pairs of molecules, and measuring just 0.87nm, the superconductor could potentially be used as a nanoscale interconnect in electronic devices, but without the heat and power dissipation problems associated with standard metal conductors."

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Just now?

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Re:Why does supercooling lead to superconductivity

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I know that certain fluids and such only behave a certain way at a super low temperature. I'm pretty certain that this molecule, that is probably a super tiny transistor, only behaves as such at a super low temperature. The step from, "small set of moleculesthat will act like a transistor" to "supercomputer" is a very large one, the same as almost every other thing like quantum computing where the end message will change if read by a man in the middle. The title is simply to get your attention, this is no supercomputer, this is an impractical transistor for a processor that will probably never exist.