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Frontiers of Organic Superconductors

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Lower-Dimensional Systems and Molecular Electronics

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Many investigations have been made on chemical, physical and structural properties of organic superconductors, since the discovery of the first organic superconductor (TMTSF)2PF6 by Jérome, Bechgaard et al. in 1980 [1]. As yet, they are not sufficient enough to yield a definitive picture of the mechanism of superconductivity, and to predict new organic superconductors. At present, more than 30 organic superconductors have been reported, and they have a maximum Tc (midpoint of resistance jump) in the range of 11. 0 – 11. 1 K (a Tc of 12. 8 K was recently observed in one single crystal). The total number of organic systems is still less than 1%, and the maximum Tc is less than 1/10 of those of inorganic systems (Fig. 1). It is an urgent task for chemists to explore a variety of new organic superconductors, and to extend Tc to the range of 15 – 20 K, at least.

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Saito, G. (1990). Frontiers of Organic Superconductors. In: Metzger, R.M., Day, P., Papavassiliou, G.C. (eds) Lower-Dimensional Systems and Molecular Electronics. NATO ASI Series, vol 248. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2088-1_4

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