There is an online comic in korean that explains why the LK99 superconductor is so hard to make. @8teAPi has the translation.
Translated from the excellent comic here: if anyone knows author please ask them to get in touchhttps://t.co/9SSwA8EFqe
— Ate-a-Pi (@8teAPi) August 17, 2023
Why SuperConductor So Hard?
– take a bunch of Lead, burn it together with a bunch of Copper
– make a crystal matrix with exactly ONE location where the Lead gets bumped off and replaced by a Copper atom
– purely on a combinatorial basis, if this was happening every day, you'd… pic.twitter.com/oHV2u9O0zJ— Ate-a-Pi (@8teAPi) August 17, 2023
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— 해삵 (@haesark1) August 18, 2023
Why is the LK99 Superconductor so hard to make?
– take a bunch of Lead, burn it together with a bunch of Copper
– make a crystal matrix with exactly ONE location where the Lead gets bumped off and replaced by a Copper atom
– purely on a combinatorial basis, if this was happening every day, you’d be successful once a month (1 in 31)
-> Then line up multiples of these in one long line, to form the superconducting highway
-> This highway is the 1-dimensional superconducting channel
, Qcenter patents claim they have a method to make a vapor and deposit it as a thin film on a surface like a piece of glass
-> This changes the concentration and purity of the substance and allows the superconductivity to emerge
-> Remember! Superconductivity is the absence of things that slowdown the electrons. So a single obstacle, can block the entire tunnel.. making the electrons go the slow route
JH Kim and the other researchers have brought us close but it is still hard and we need to measure the thin film sample.
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This kind of precise nanostructuring of the material implies it can only be made as thin-film rather than bulk material. Thus LK-99 applications will be limited to semiconductor and other thin-film applications.
It implies too many people gave up on it too soon because they’re omnipotent science gods who should never be questioned
I feel like 3D Printers may be able to make use of it then, potentially, no?
If you can make it float you can sell on eBay for 1k easily, don’t even need to understand it.
Its so hard that even the original Korean team don’t appear to have made it.
I suspect something is up with the thin film stuff that the original team didn’t disclose. Was it a superconductor? Maybe, maybe not. Was it “weird science”? I think definitely and this needs to be investigated.