Periodic Table Mapping of High Temperature Superconductors

The Periodic Table of Elements (PTE), a systematic database of all known elements, has predictive powers through periodicity of electronegativity, atomic and ionic radii, ionization energy and other parameters. In the search for novel superconductors, the PTE has been a useful guide to researchers. The original basic principles of the PTE was classifying the elements in increasing mass per unit atom. This was eventually extended to include atomic numbering, chemical groups and Periods. We harness the same principles to classify superconductors, treating them as “super-atoms’ and hence “layered elements”. We will show that this classification scheme of high temperature superconductors (HTSCs) into the Periodic Table, produces some interesting predictability and aid in the search for novel HTSCs: in particular, higher transition temperatures exist in lower Periods of the Periodic Table of HTSCs.