PROGRAMS | 1.15.2025

Grafton Sciences launches program to build room-temperature superconductor

Today we are launching a program to pursue one of the most consequential open problems in physics: the realization of a room-temperature superconductor.

Recent advances in high-pressure hydrides, computational materials prediction, and data-driven physical modeling suggest that the search for ambient-condition superconductivity can now be approached systematically rather than serendipitously. We believe that progress will come from co-designing materials, measurement, and theory together — uniting simulation, synthesis, and characterization in a single, continuously informed workflow.

The effort is part of our broader mission to build physical superintelligence — systems capable of autonomously exploring and engineering the physical world. Achieving superconductivity at higher temperatures would mark a transformative leap in that direction, enabling advances in energy transmission, computation, and sensing that redefine what is physically possible.