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cuprates

A layered cube with an orange core and dark outer layers, surrounded by molecular structures, symbolizes cuprates, a class of superconducting ceramic materials discovered in the 1980s.

A class of complex ceramic materials, typically featuring layers of copper and oxygen atoms, that exhibit superconductivity at unusually high temperatures. Discovered in the 1980s, cuprates shattered the assumption that superconductivity was confined to near absolute zero. Decades later, the precise quantum mechanism that allows electrons to pair up in these materials remains largely unsolved.

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