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Want a flying skateboard? Your own personal home fusion reactor? A wearable MRI scanner you can buy online? If a room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconducting material really has been found, that is just the tip of the technological iceberg.
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If this research proves accurate the whole world of electrical conduction could change everything from power transport to computer chips. The only question is if the research stands up and has actually created a super conductor. If anyone has knowledge in this area, it would be appreciated for it literally be a game changer for numerous uses.
Misconduct allegations are leading scientists to question the work of Ranga Dias, including his claimed discovery of a room-temperature superconductor.
www.nytimes.com
LK-99 results aren’t tied to one company or set of researchers, and appear to be spreading through social media faster than technical publications.
A team of South Korean researches claimed that they had successfully synthesised LK-99, a superconductor that functions in room temperature. Had this been true and verifiable it would have been massive for the tech industry. However, a team of Indian engineers debunked the claim
Misconduct allegations are leading scientists to question the work of Ranga Dias, including his claimed discovery of a room-temperature superconductor.
www.nytimes.com
LK-99 results aren’t tied to one company or set of researchers, and appear to be spreading through social media faster than technical publications.
A Korean superconductivity academic body invalidated the research results from a team of Korean researchers claiming to have developed a room-temperature superconductor in its preliminary assessment.
koreajoongangdaily.joins.com
"Meanwhile, the Quantum Energy Research Centre was found to have falsely named local companies and research institutes as partners on its website on Thursday.
The company shut down its homepage that day."
"While the company’s website previously displayed a message that it has been blocked due to excessive traffic, it has now been shut down altogether as of Thursday with a message saying that it is “under construction.”"
"Meanwhile, the Quantum Energy Research Centre was found to have falsely named local companies and research institutes as partners on its website on Thursday.
The company shut down its homepage that day."
"While the company’s website previously displayed a message that it has been blocked due to excessive traffic, it has now been shut down altogether as of Thursday with a message saying that it is “under construction.”"
Some mixed results in replication experiments. A few groups claim to have replicated, a few groups have said they failed to replicate.
I think there are a lot of open questions about how commercial this will be. It looks simple to manufacture so that's a plus. But it's made of lead, so that's a minus. Does it retain it's super conducting properties for a long period of time or does it degrade? If so how quickly? In any case, if this is true, it probably opens up new investigative paths to developing superconductive materials.
The papers says that the zero-resistance property（the most useful property of superconductor） is only good up to 20mA，that means it doesn't have much practical use in real world applications
For the first time in the world, we succeeded in synthesizing the room-temperature superconductor ($T_c \ge 400$ K, 127$^\circ$C) working at ambient pressure with a modified lead-apatite (LK-99) structure. The superconductivity of LK-99 is proved with the Critical temperature ($T_c$)...
arxiv.org
For the first time in the world, we succeeded in synthesizing the room-temperature superconductor (Tc≥400 K, 127∘C) working at ambient pressure with a modified lead-apatite (LK-99) structure. The superconductivity of LK-99 is proved with the Critical temperature (Tc), Zero-resistivity, Critical current (Ic), Critical magnetic field (Hc), and the Meissner effect. The superconductivity of LK-99 originates from minute structural distortion by a slight volume shrinkage (0.48 %), not by external factors such as temperature and pressure. The shrinkage is caused by Cu2+ substitution of Pb2+(2) ions in the insulating network of Pb(2)-phosphate and it generates the stress. It concurrently transfers to Pb(1) of the cylindrical column resulting in distortion of the cylindrical column interface, which creates superconducting quantum wells (SQWs) in the interface. The heat capacity results indicated that the new model is suitable for explaining the superconductivity of LK-99. The unique structure of LK-99 that allows the minute distorted structure to be maintained in the interfaces is the most important factor that LK-99 maintains and exhibits superconductivity at room temperatures and ambient pressure.
For the first time in the world, we succeeded in synthesizing the room-temperature superconductor ($T_c \ge 400$ K, 127$^\circ$C) working at ambient pressure with a modified lead-apatite (LK-99) structure. The superconductivity of LK-99 is proved with the Critical temperature ($T_c$)...
The superconductivity of LK-99 originates from minute structural distortion by a slight volume shrinkage (0.48 %), not by external factors such as temperature and pressure.
newatlas.com
