Today’s Superconductor Presentation by Sukbae Lee LK99 Researcher Is Reported to Be Private

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There will only be invited reporters at today’s LK99 related superconductor presentation by Sukbae Lee.

UPDATE: Article with highlights of what was said by Sukbae Lee.

Prof. Lee Seokbae, the L in LK99, is going to introduce the room temperature superconducting research he has conducted and their future on Jan 9th. It will be the first time we can see his formal statement.

Seokbae Lee had his team are scheduled to show a video of Meissner levitation with flux pinning in less than two months at the major US APS conference. The paragraph describing the planned presentation and the scheduling of the presentations would not be made without strong verification and certainty that everything was working.

It is already late afternoon on Sunday, Jan 7 in South Korea. South Korea is 14 hours ahead of the east coast of the USA.

Seokbae Lee is now the CEO of the Quantum Energy Research Institute.

The Seokbae Lee APS presentation brief is here.

There has been separate multiple Chinese experimental results with similar to LK99 copper substitute lead apatite materials showing near room temperature weak superconducting effects.

APS Presentation Planned in Two Months

We synthesized materials, Pb10-xCux(P(O1-ySy)4)6O1-zSz (PCPOSOS), called PCPOSOS, which exhibit superconducting behavior at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. These materials displayed characteristics of a superconductor, including zero resistance, the Meissner effect, and partial levitation when placed on a magnet (arXiv: 2307.12037). The partial levitation is caused by an inhomogeneity in the magnetic field of the magnet and occurred within the range of critical magnetic fields, Hc1 and Hc2. That is, the magnetic field of the magnet increased with going from center to the edge of magnet. The magnet had approximately 2000G at the center and approximately 3,000G at its edge. The levitation occurred near center. This indicates the center of the magnet is close to Hc1. It disappeared between center and the edge near Hc2, with Hc1 being much smaller than Hc2, because the magnetic moment at Hc2 is much smaller than that at Hc1. When the magnet is slightly moved, the levitation returns to its original position. This phenomenon is analyzed as flux pinning, which is typical of a type-II superconductor. Moreover, the quantum-locking phenomenon, characteristic of a Type-I superconductor, may appear. However, we interpret PCPOSOS as a Type-II superconductor. We will show two videos of levitations and two videos of magnets.

8 thoughts on “Today’s Superconductor Presentation by Sukbae Lee LK99 Researcher Is Reported to Be Private”

    • no, I am not invited to the Korea presentation. I also have no direct communication with the team. I did message Kim (K in LK99), and I got a canned reply (thank you with no information). I am in California. The prior direct communications seem to have been from Yonhap – the main Korea news agency.
      Yonhap is South Korea’s only news agency large enough to have some 60 correspondents abroad and 600 reporters across the nation. Its largest shareholder is the Korea News Agency Commission (KONAC).

    • I expect that the work is not bullet proof enough to satisfy the masses who want to dismiss it. There are thousands of valid conferences and scientific meetings with minimal to press coverage. They are not making it secret. They are inviting some press. However, there last upload to Arxiv (preprint release) went viral and caused a surge of interest and a huge backlash..before they were ready. It can be logistically difficult and time consuming to arrange a major press conference.

      They are tracking to a March 4 2024 presentation at the major APS (American Physical Society) conference. The APS will be in the US and interested media can gather there. IF major media wanted to cover this event, it was not secret. It was announced in a Korea newspaper, online site. Major media could request access. I do not know how that would be treated.

      However, NY Times, MIT Tech Review and a lot of other media have already judged LK99 to be a mistake and not a superconductor. Will they go and check this to verify? They could not be bothered to fully read the patent or the full papers to determine that the “it was a mistake” did not answer the thin film aspect.

      • So, it sounded like they actually plan to demonstrate the effects in the presentation, is this an accurate understanding? If so, that would seem pretty bullet proof (assuming there’s no fraud which is a safe assumption).

        • It is already announced that it will be playing a video. The priority is getting patents, doing deals and making money. They are describing international patent wars and competition to get this. Convincing the people in the room will not get them more money. Big Money that is interested enough to investigate will get the private show when negotiations are serious.

    • Short answer: they don’t owe it to anyone, especially in the West, if the funding is private. The world will wake up to when applications hit the markets.

      • Yes, indeed, we’ll all hear it from the applications loud and clear when it all ripens.

        I thought that all sufficiently thin superconductors turn into type-II.

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