Carbon nanotubes are good conductor of electricity at room temperature its resistance is very less with negligible heat loss but is it possible to achieve Cooper pair effect at room temperature in carbon-nanotubes in the future?
at RT I think never and definitely not in CNTs.. perhaps in alkali metal doped graphene/fullerenes it may be possible..
Tiny tubes of carbon may conduct electricity without any resistance, at temperatures stretching up past the boiling point of water. The tubes would be the first superconductors to work at room temperature.
Guo-meng Zhao and Yong Sheng Wang of the University of Houston in Texas found subtle signs of superconductivity. It wasn’t zero resistance, but it’s the closest anyone’s got so far. “I think all the experimental results are consistent with superconductivity,” Zhao says. “But I cannot rule out other explanations.”
At the moment no superconductor will work above about 130 kelvin (-143°C). But if a material could carry current with no resistance at room temperature, no energy would be lost as heat, meaning faster, lower-power electronics. And electricity could be carried long distances with 100 per cent efficiency.
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1618-nanotubes-hint-at-room-temperature-superconductivity/#ixzz6xpn0s3zP
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