# Materials

- kind: region

Substances with properties nobody has yet made at room temperature and pressure.

## Problems

- [Room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor](/wiki/Problem:room-temperature-superconductor.md) (open)
- [Metallic hydrogen](/wiki/Problem:metallic-hydrogen.md) (open)
- [The order of the elements](/wiki/Problem:periodic-table.md) (solved)
- [The island of stability](/wiki/Problem:island-of-stability.md) (open)

Part of [Chemistry and matter](/wiki/Continent:chemistry.md).

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