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[Zeev Hed]

I know Burgoine's work well. He failed to understand that oxygen diffuses through plastic and in time, the bismuth filament simply oxidized. Intermittent ambient superconductivity is quite old (even though people did not call it that name for fear of being castigated by the physics community. In the late 60' Ovshinsky observed "strange" effects in amorphous materials and Battelle Memorial Institute (were I worked at the time) even got a patent (yes, I was the guilty party, and my attempt to use the term "intermittent ambient superconductors" was crushed "harshly", the patent was named "Polaronic Semiconductor Devices" instead(g).)

The trick is how to stabilize those intermittent fleeting phenomena, and that has finally been done, it took 35 years (I have tested one sample that is already close to 10 years old).... the other trick is how to fool the unidimensional systems to provide for essentially bulk superconducting properties. That is not yet solved (I think it will), but, luckily, there are many nano applications where the bulk phenomena are not required.