Superconductivity to cosmology: K. Alexander Mueller explores mysteries in energy

摘要

In 1913, physicist Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes received the Nobel Prize for liquifying He and his discovery of superconductivity two years prior. It would be over 76 years later until K. Alexander Mueller, together with Johannes Georg Bednorz, would be honored as Nobel laureates for their discovery of high-temperature superconductivity (HTS), grounded in their research with metal oxides. When we asked Mueller, recently, what he would advise young materials scientists in regards to research for energy, he said, "I've always been a fan of oxides, therefore to work in oxide would not be bad."