Scientists have
long theorised that there are other types of
superconductor out there waiting to be discovered, and it turns out they were right: new research has identified a g-wave superconductor for the first time, a major development in this area of physics.
Superconductors are materials that offer no electrical resistance, so electricity can pass through them with close to 100 percent efficiency.
That sounds great when you think about the potential of super-efficient power grids that don't lose energy to heat. But there's a catch. Materials that are able to act in this way usually need to be cooled to ultra-low temperatures before the actual superconductivity starts happening.
Up until now though, almost all superconductors have been confirmed as 'spin-singlet', made up of
Cooper pairs of electrons that combine a spin-up electron with a spin-down electron, removing the material's electrical resistance along the way.
There are currently two types of superconductivity that fit this description, s-wave and d-wave
