A startup, Cutting Edge Superconductors, claims to have a variant of the South Korean LK99 room temperature superconductor that shows low resistance and some weak evidence of meissner effect and quantum locking. The sample is tiny. They are trying to get a few hundred thousand in SBIR and NASA grants and $600,000 in crowdfunding. The electrical resistance is not low enough to be definitive and the other effects are interesting but not conclusive. The lead will be presenting his work at a conference in October, 2024.
Two pellet samples, made last week. We are testing these samples.
We are getting close to making good quality pellet samples of our CES-2023, room temperature ambient pressure superconductor. #lk99
Stay tuned! pic.twitter.com/KvLDsdhgzz— Yong-Jihn Kim (@jihn_yong) April 24, 2024
They claim to have made progress on production of larger pellets and have shown pictures. Both preliminary resistance measurement and quantum locking show Tc = 104 C = 377 K. Dr. Kim claims CES is almost ready for mass production of CES-2023 for commercialization.
Dr. Kim will give an Invited Talk on our CES-2023, Room Temperature Ambient Pressure Superconductor at the 3rd International Conference on Physics and Its Application, that will be held in Boston, MA, in October 21- 23, 2024.
Cutting Edge Superconductors (CES), Inc. was founded on November 22, 2011 by Dr. Yong-Jihn Kim, based on his next generation cryogen-free MRI patent. He is a Physics Professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus, since August 2001. He is originally from South Korea. He got his Ph. D. from Seoul National University in Korea and did postdoctoral researches at Harvard and Purdue.
In 2001, a new material, MgB2 was found to be a high transition temperature superconductor, with a potential of producing low cost cryogen-free MRI. This next generation MRI will be almost maintenance free, and therefore it will reduce the MRI scan cost up to 40%.
Dr. Kim has been working on superconductivity over 20 years. In 2001 he immediately identified the superconducting mechanism of this newly discovered superconductor, MgB2, by inventing a new method. So the most important scientific problem has been resolved by him.
In 2023, they have shown a low purity variant of LK99 that shows a superconducting transition at Tc = 104 degree C, in agreement with the previous result by quantum locking, based on the Meissner effect. Using the pure samples, resistance vs T will be measured soon.
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…there is not much more to add.
https://francis.naukas.com/2024/07/26/la-situacion-actual-de-la-supuesta-superconductividad-ambiental-en-apatitas-lk-99-pcposos/
Not that it matters, but it is amazing how such videos fail at presentation of such a presentable effect as locking. When some guy shows HTSC locking by pressing a pellet into a ring of magnets and sending it gliding over that ring, there is no need to narrate “you are witnessing”. Or when a pellet is pressed into the field and hangs sideways, with presenter waving the magnet in front of camera, and the pellet stays locked, there is no need for such narrative. It does more harm than help if they are not quite ready to show the effect. Perhaps the SC material constitutes a tiny fraction of the sample and the locking effect is barely visible. Regardless, when this thing is ready, if it is SC above 100C, any half-awake presented will show that the sample is locked (hanging sideways or glides over a ring of magnets) at boiling water temperature. No narrative would be required then.
No, it DOES matter. You underestimate what should be obvious to everyone. What’s scary, IMO, is when people do not notice things so obvious, it bites them in the butt. Those idiots may notice the pain, but are clueless as to what and why they feel. Oh, so sad. Very scary, because their so stupid.
What’s REALLY scary? Is people who are stupid by choice. That’s not scary, it’s terrifying. No s***…
Thanks, Brian, for featuring our company.
The title of our proposal for NASA SBIR Ignite is “Optimization of a novel room temperature ambient pressure superconductor for Aviation Applications”. The title indicates that we, Cutting Edge Superconductors, are almost ready for producing MVP during the project of 6 months.
More details are available here,
https://www.youtube.com/@CuttingEdgeSuperconductors/community.
Well, like so many developments in this field, we get a few aspects a little closer in this field, and something, usually something utterly unanticipated, happens, and screws the whole thing up. I hope someone gets room temperature superconductivity right. Do I think it will happen? Yes. But soon? Perhaps not. Anymore then we’ll be sucked threw vacuum tubes to go from one floor to another. (Meet George Jetson! Everybody dance! or not…)