South Korean Researchers Claim Room Temperature, Ambient Pressure Superconductor
July 26th, 2023—
I don’t know why there’s no news coverage of this. Maybe someone out there in Cryptogon land would we willing to submit a sanity check for us laypeople.
I remember reading about this in the 1980s. I asked my high school chemistry teacher when he thought it would happen.
“Probably not in my lifetime, but maybe in yours.”
I just checked and my chemistry teacher, Mr. C, is still alive.
Via: arXiv:
The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor
Sukbae Lee, Ji-Hoon Kim, Young-Wan Kwon
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.
Huge news—like to know more about that last bit you quoted, regarding whether there has been much testing done by these scientists on the durability of that structure—then again, if this is a controlled release out of the “black” world to coincide with all the dog and pony disclosure going on in the congress/media etc., then probably it (and its successors?) have been well tested in all the UFO/UAP’s running around.
“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.”
More here:
https://bird.trom.tf/i/status/1684044616528453633