The future of electronics will be based on novel kinds of materials. Sometimes, however, the naturally occurring topology of atoms makes it difficult for new physical effects to be created. To tackle this problem, researchers have now successfully designed superconductors one atom at a time, creating new states of matter.
Strange, I actually know that movie, but never thought this would be possible with different kinds of atoms at the same time. Also from a material point of view I find it fascinating, that different kind of atoms will still stick together and keep the desired structure and not move to form a more energy efficient lattice structure. Is this all happening at temperature close to 0 K?