Since this is the second story about this kind of research that has been posted this week, I feel it should be made clear that the purpose of this kind of exper

Since this is the second story about this kind of research that has been posted this week, I feel it should be made clear that the purpose of this kind of experiment is not to develop room temperature superconductors for use in devices, but to study the physics of BCS (normal, "low temperature" superconductivity seen in metals like mercury, as opposed to that seen in materials like YBCO) superconductivity in materials with much lighter nuclei, and to get an idea of what might occur in theoretical states of matter like metallic hydrogen. It is only "applied" in the sense that it allows one to understand the mechanisms behind superconductivity, no one doing this research thinks that this will be a useful mechanism for making superconducting transmission lines or whatever.