A material long thought to be magnetic—iron telluride—can conduct electricity with no resistance when disorder is removed. Researchers supported by the Moore Foundation show how this hidden state can also be tuned.
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New research has now revealed that iron telluride, a compound composed of the chemical elements iron and tellurium and long thought to be an ordinary magnetic metal, is in fact a superconductor.
