Mark Senn

Professor of Chemistry, University of Warwick; lead investigator

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3D scan reveals superconductors are patchworks, not uniform crystals

Leading follow-up research on cuprate crystal structure

For 40 years, physicists assumed cuprate superconductors were uniform crystals. A 3D scan of a material called LESCO shows a hidden patchwork of two atomic arrangements, divided by boundaries hundreds of times wider than expected.

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