OT: Silver fluoride as a high temperature super-conductor?

Today's Proceedings of the (US) National Academy of Sciences had an interesting paper

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It's Polish - though written in English.They haven't made any kind of superconductor, but they think they know how they might get monatomic layers of AgF2 to become super-conducting.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney
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I thought this was particularly interesting:

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.. particularly that the behavior was predicted and not just discovered.

--Spehro Pefhany

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Although it has been thought for a while that metallic hydrogen at even more insane pressure might be a room temperature superconductor too. eg.

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Predicted a remarkably long time ago in 1968! (behind paywall)

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Martin Brown
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