Search for a Room Temperature Superconductor,
Abstract
A new model for a room temperature superconductor based on a sandwich or inclusion compound is discussed. It is reinforced by findings of areas of superconductivity in the sodium salts of cholic, desoxycholic, lithocholic and cholanic acids. An extrapolation of a plot of the value of transition temperature versus the average number of valence electrons/number of atoms of the steroids showed that cholesterol, present in large quantities in the brain and wall of nerve cells, should be superconductive at room temperature. Cholesterol, however, does not have the complete postulated structure required. A study of nerve cell conductivity indicated that sodium ions were being shuttled back and forth across the cell membrane at a definite pulsed rate. These, by being stationed at key positions in the cholesterol channel could satisfy the theoretical and empirical requirements for room temperature superconductivity.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1974
- Accession Number
- ADA009004
Entities
People
- S. Goldfein