Writing InternRanga Dias, a physicist at the University of Rochester, announced that he and his team had achieved a century-old dream of the field: a superconductor that works at room temperature and near-room pressure. ”A Troubled Historytype="text/template">{"type":"Article","id":"component-640a6309da21b","data":{"post":{"id":94059,"title":"Room-Temperature Superconductivity Claim Falls Apart [Update]","link":"https:\/\/www. Following the publication of this article, a representative for Dias told Quanta that those were “aspirational statements,” that the company had not raised the money, and that the names listed were prospective investors