Journals had retracted papers on superconductors that worked at room temperature and materials science that involved Ranga Dias.

In a number of cases, these changes enabled superconductivity at unusually high temperatures, although still well below the freezing point of water. Dias, however, supposedly found a combination of chemicals that would boost the transition to superconductivity to near room temperature,

The University of Rochester has confirmed that it no longer employs Ranga Dias, who was found by investigators to have committed data fabrication.