Superconductors are materials whose electrical resistance decreases to a not measureable value below a critical temperature. Through external magnetic fields it is possible to lower this temperature.

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute and the Canadian University of Saskatchewan for energy and transportations succeeded in creating a material that has superconducting properties without cooling by liquid gases like nitrogen. The material consists of a hydrogen-silicon compound which is made under extremly high pressure to the artificial gas "Silane". Similat to methane which consosts of four hydrogen and one carbon molecule this gas has instead one silicon and four hydrogen molecules.