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LITTLE1 has speculated on the possibility of synthesizing an organic superconductor; for an example he considers a macromolecule consisting of an axial long-chain ‘spine’ of alternately doubly and singly bound carbon atoms with a complex resonating aromatic dye type of side-chain attached to every alternate carbon atom. He argues that it is possible for the virtual oscillation of charge in this type of side-chain to provide a sufficiently attractive interaction with electrons moving in the spine for superconductivity to result. He suggests that since this is essentially an electronic oscillation coupling rather than a phonon-coupled interaction, a very high transition temperature may result and room-temperature superconductivity may be possible; the biological implications of this are, of course, of great significance.
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ATHERTON, D. Electrostatic Switching of One-dimensional Superconductors. Nature 205, 687 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205687a0
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