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Superconducting Quantum Metamaterials from Convergence of Soft and Hard Condensed Matter Science

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)

Author

P.A. Beaucage
R.B. Van Dover
F.J. DiSalvo
Sol Gruner
U. Wiesner

Abstract

Superconducting quantum metamaterials are expected to exhibit a variety of novel properties, but have been a major challenge to prepare as a result of the lack of appropriate synthetic routes to high-quality materials. Here, the discovery of synthesis routes to block copolymer (BCP) self-assembly-directed niobium nitrides and carbonitrides is described. The resulting materials exhibit unusual structure retention even at temperatures as high as 1000 °C and resulting critical temperature, Tc, values comparable to their bulk analogues. Applying the concepts of soft matter self-assembly, it is demonstrated that a series of four different BCP-directed mesostructured superconductors are accessible from a single triblock terpolymer. Resulting materials display a mesostructure-dependent Tc without substantial variation of the XRD-measured lattice parameters. Finally, field-dependent magnetization measurements of a sample with double-gyroid morphology show abrupt jumps comparable in overall behavior to flux avalanches. Results suggest a fruitful convergence of soft and hard condensed matter science. © 2021 Wiley-VCH GmbH

Date Published

Journal

Advanced Materials

Volume

33

Issue

26

URL

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85105794491&doi=10.1002%2fadma.202006975&partnerID=40&md5=bb9b0aafb3c2f3533731582900d6fbc0

DOI

10.1002/adma.202006975

Group (Lab)

Sol M. Gruner Group

Funding Source

1707836
DMR‐1707836
DE‐SC0017631
DGE‐1650441
DMR‐1332208
DMR‐1719875

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