New superconductor first predicted via computer simulation now a reality 10/16/2013 - 00:00 A new, extremely hard superconductor has been discovered by researchers in Europe and the US.1 Significantly, iron tetraboride's superconductivity was predicted from advanced electronic structure computations years before it was synthesised. The researchers hope that their work will provide a stepping stone to discover new superconductors using computational algorithms
