Ashkan Salamat

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Assistant Professor of Physics
Expertise: Physics, Chemistry

Biography

Ashkan Salamat is an assistant professor of physics at the Department of Physics & Astronomy. Salamat is also a part of 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó’s High Pressure Science and Engineering Center, a multidisciplinary group that explores fundamental experimental, computational, and engineering problems of materials under high pressure.

Salamat’s research focuses on identifying the precise makeup of metal superhydrides – extremely hydrogen-rich materials – and techniques to readily synthesize them. Prior to joining 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó, Salamat was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, researching warm dense hydrogen. In 2019, Salamat was one of just 46 university professors nationwide – and the first from 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó – to earn an Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.

Salamat currently manages the Salamat Lab at 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó, exploring the high energy density landscape of light elemental (H-C-N-O) systems and their related compounds, which are relevant for Fundamental and Applied sciences.

Education

  • Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, University College London, UK
  • M.Sci, Chemistry, Imperial College, UK

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Has the quest for room temperature superconductivity finally succeeded? Researchers at the University of Rochester (U of R), who previously were forced to retract a controversial claim of room temperature superconductivity at high pressures, are back with an even more spectacular claim. This week in Nature they report a new material that superconducts at room temperature—and not much more than ambient pressures.
The Nevada Independent
Water and tourism woes at Lake Mead, a breakdown of the Inflation Reduction Act and a scientific discovery at 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó.
Yahoo!
Two years ago, a team of physicists synthesized a room-temperature superconducting material for the first time, making the material superconducting at 15°C under an extreme pressure of 267 GPa. Recently, the team published new research breaking the previous record, making the material appear superconducting at room temperature with only 91 GPa pressure.
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Less than two years after shocking the science world with the discovery of a material capable of room-temperature superconductivity, a team of 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó physicists has reproduced the feat at the lowest pressure ever recorded.
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