Silicon becomes a superconductor

[ZapperZ]

If you missed the paper in this week's Nature, let's just say that this is an unexpected discovery. You can read a report of it in PhysicsWeb

http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/10/11/19/1

Zz.

 

[armandowww]

Just an alloy...! A 9% boron doping is too much for a silicon elementar superconductor.