An international team of researchers led by Dr. Saw-Wai Hla, associate professor of physics and astronomy, overcame Joule heating to display superconductivity in four pairs of molecules just .87 nanometers wide.

The study was released today in an advance online publication of Nature Nanotechnology. The team used scanning tunneling spectroscopy to document superconductivity in varying lengths of molecules of (BETS)2-GaCl4, an organic salt, on silver.

The study was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. For more information visit Ohio University’s research reports or access the article online.