Bell Labs develops superconducting plastic materials

Lucent Technologies, USA, announced that a research group at Bell Labs, a research and development department, has recently developed superconducting properties after discovering for the first time last year that plastic materials with zero electrical resistance at certain temperatures can become superconductors. Plastics, thus opening up new avenues for superconducting research, have significant scientific and commercial value.
This material is a kind of conductive polymer material polythiophene, which is of low value, and it is expected to be widely used in the fields of quantum computers and superconducting electric devices in the future. According to reports, the subject of superconducting objects made of plastics is how to overcome the complex structures of polymers that hinder the movement of electrons. The scientists of Bell Labs managed to make a thin metal foil from an aluminum oxide alloy and coat it on it. A layer of polythiophene film, the results found that: In the electric field, electrons can pass through the polythiophene film without loss. However, the emergence of this feature requires a very low temperature - 4K absolute temperature.
Although people think that superconducting plastics have broad application prospects, Bertrag, who led the research, believes that there is still much work to do when superconducting plastics are to be put into practical use. At present, they are using the same method to find plastics that have superconductivity at higher temperatures.