Hopes are that the emergent family of iron-based superconductors, the pnictides, could act as a Rosetta stone in decoding the two-decade mystery of superconductivity observed at high temperatures.
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Zaanen, J. The pnictide code. Nature 457, 546–547 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/457546a
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