Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane

4 days ago (nature.com)

  > "a single layer of Bi2Sr2CuO6+δ (Bi-2201)"

I did not realize one could learn how much chemistry they did not know from a single name. "+δ" is one I've never seen before.

The writing here seems very odd. It reads like a product announcement or blog page, not an article in Nature. I'm left questioning its validity.

  • I noticed that too.The writing style itself seems a bit strange. I'm not deep into superconductors, so I can't judge the science itself but I have doubts about how much trust this article can give.

That was fun but this is gun?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-026-03375-4

The two teams could "synergize" their tacit knowledge, overcome "involution"?

Without open peer review like in the old days it's hard, even with frontier models, for nonexperts to know if the above breakthrough was (unfairly?) relegated or how significant TFA is truly