China’s LK99 wikipedia reports that University of Electronic Science and Technology of China , South China University of Technology , Central South University are making LK99 samples which could have one-dimensional superconducting chains.
These are translations of incomplete research reporting and wikipedia entries. However, the basic point is that there is a lot experimental work to be done before concluding that room temperature superconducting phases can be ruled out. One dimensional strands of superconductance would be difficult to make and difficult to detect.
The difficulty is explained in an online cartoon.
Professor Luo Tianyong and Xi Zhixi (Yao Yao) found “quick silver flash jump” and “extreme speed missile” in the analysis of LK-99 produced by “Niu Jianzha” and others from Central South University using different doping methods , and the “ultra-low resistance” phenomenon. Through analysis, it is believed that the conclusions of the Peking University paper and the Max Planck Institute may be wrong. It is believed that the samples made by his team may contain “one-dimensional superconducting chains”. It cannot be ruled out that there is a room temperature superconducting phase in LK99.
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Lk-99 is probably not the commercially viable “one”. What it does do is show that there is a new class of room temp superconductors out there. It will likely be modeled and teased and tuned for a decade. Even then, it’s different from type I and type II superconductors. Still, I think it shows promise in things like computer chips.
Bro is simping hard for this, there is insufficient evidence for either claim A) that it has the properties they had originally purported, or B) that it is bereft of any of these qualities. Yet you keep putting out article after article trying to support claim A). Any conflict of interest to declare here?
You are a moron who does not know how the world works. No one is making any money on LK99 yet. The original Korean researchers are the ones under pressure to prove that this is real. I am reporting what everyone has been writing. I am summarizing experimental and theoretical papers and other related content. All of the too much and too long did not read stuff. Which is what I do for all deep technology and deep science. I summarize all of the nuclear fusion papers, I summarize space projects and papers, I summarize quantum computer developments. I summarize antiaging. Normally, there is only news worthy developments once a year or twice a year for most companies. Tesla and SpaceX and large language models are unusual with developments every week or multiple times per week. LK99 is in the same category of unusual rapid pace of developments. I have written over 32,000 articles over the past 17 years. My bio here and on Linkedin shows what I am involved in. I have invested in Tesla, SpaceX and some other tech stocks and some startups. I fundraise for a few startups.
I do not expect you have conflicts of interest to declare. I take your comment as a declaration of stupidity and ignorance and rudeness which I treat with the disdain such rudeness deserves.
Jou should simply ignore moron. Waste of time and effort replaying to obvious shallow not reader.
Move along with your infantile thinking. Science is about experiments, hypotheses, and finding the best explanations for what’s observed as we continue to push back boundaries and expand our knowledge. LK-99 may not be a conventional superconductor, but there is clearly an interesting physics in it. We cannot for a minute assume that we know everything there is to know. nextbigfuture.com is probably the foremost up-to-date site w.r.t LK-99, and as I have said before, “Bro” is doing a commendable job.
Well done, Dr. Brian Wang.
This effect is not one-dimensional but a dimensionless component, and yet it still does not meet the four-fold criteria of a true superconducting material. It’s a fraud on the scientific community.
Have have yo done your own experiments?
Going to have to go with Brian on this one
It might seem that the recent Chinese scientists discovery of how to make large single molecule thick perovskite 30cm wafers, could be adapted to vacuum deposit LK 99 on to in order to test this in a larger scale.
They should also consider doing the deposition in a strong magnetic field to get the molecules to line up correctly. As the latest theories seem to indicate two possible alignments.
Also other studies indicate that Oxygen is a preferred doping agent so they might flood the deposition chamber with pure oxygen prior to pumping down to the required vacuum so that only a few stray O2 molecules might remain to contaminate the sample.
Brian,
Love your work brother BUT K-99 IS NOT a superconductor!
The result was a transparent purple crystal — pure LK-99, or Pb8.8Cu1.2P6O25. Separated from impurities, LK-99 is not a superconductor, but an insulator with a resistance in the millions of ohms — too high for a standard conductivity test to be run.
Not one western institution has verified it, and they never will because its not true! Another CCP TALL TALE…
finding ways to not make something work is meaningless. I could make a pure crystal of chocolate and it would not be a soufle. The inventor of the soufle never told anyone to make a pure crystal of chocolate. The western institutions of Kings College of London and University of Colorado have researchers who indicate that LK99 has interesting pathways to superconductivity and could be a superconductor. This could be the holy grail of physics and people want to shut it down after one month without a more detailed rebuttal and without trying to make the thin film material which is the one that has superconducting resistance claims. Also, this is korea work originally and not China. Which is also meaningless. If the theory is saying that this could be something and we are getting many interesting scientific results then this is worth investigating a lot more.
Was it so hard for you to understand the analogy.
I don´t agree with Brian many times. But he is right. And he is not saying it IS a superconductor.
But that the “recipe”, the pre-print papers, etc, were too superficial (due to all the hurry in publishing it because of the other guy publishing first) to rule out after one month of testing because they saw no signs of superconductivity in 3d samples that even the pre print papers never said were superconductive.
What a way to turn a scientific endeavor ( which should be celebrated and further researched) and involve politics and agendas into the field of science. That is unbecoming of a scientist.
Chill with the orientalism bs.
Hi Brian, Thanks for the notification. I am excited as this is evidence of my theory of superconductivity and high temperature superconductivity by isotope enrichment and clumping [by positive and negative nuclear magnetic moments (NMMs)] in materials and particular material. In the case of LK-99 [ Pb(10-x)Cux(PO4)6 ], I have proposed the superconductivity being due to clumping of 17O with its negative NMMs with positive NMMs of 31P and 63Cu and 65Cu and some 207Pb; see my paper describing this at { https://vixra.org/abs/2308.0015 }. I think these local regions of superconductivity noted in the one dimension may arise as chance clumping (stochastic) of 17O in some linear chains of the Pb(10-x)Cux(PO4)6 . It may be that some regions have local pressure to cause the superconductivity in one dimension. But then when considering that Lee and coworkers vapor deposited the Pb(10-x)Cux(PO4)6, it is hard to reason by the vapor deposit would cause such stochastic local mechanical pressures along chains for such local superconductivity. It would be good to observe the local chains by Raman spectroscopy or mass spectroscopy to see if isotopic enrichments are along these superconducting chains for the superconductivity being caused by an isotope effect. Thanks, Reginald B. Little