Abnormal Thin Film LK99 Result from Korea Excites Chinese Superconductor Researchers

There was a APS presentation by Ulsan Korea University researchers. It is being reported that numerous comments on the Chinese website Zhihu imply that the University of Ulsan’s data plot is so important that a certain superconductivity expert saw the decisive signal proving LK99’s superconductivity in the graph’s temperature rise curve near 200K. Nextbigfuture does …

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Worst Science and Technology Writing of 2023 and March 4 2024 Showdown

There was a public rush to dismiss the research papers and patent from a team of Korean researchers on a copper substituted lead apatite material called LK-99. This material was named after two of the researchers from something they initially discovered in 1999. There was article from the MIT Technology Review listing the LK99 event …

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Possible Meissner Effect Near Room Temperature in Copper-substituted Lead Apatite – LK99 China Experiment

With copper-substituted lead apatite below room temperature, Chinese researchers observe diamagnetic dc magnetization under magnetic field of 25 Oe with remarkable bifurcation between zero-field-cooling and field-cooling measurements, and under 200 Oe it changes to be paramagnetism. A glassy memory effect is found during cooling. Typical hysteresis loops for superconductors are detected below 250 K, along …

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Science and Technology Miracles of 2023

1. Vladan Vuletic (MIT professor and QuEra Co-founder) had a scientific and technical presentation at the 2023 Q2B conference today. The main part of the talk came on the last slide where Vladan laid out his projection for how QuEra and its research partners will be able to advance their breakthrough Quantum Error Correction work. …

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Anger and Ridicule Should NOT Be Used Against LK99 Superconductors and Other Valid Science

Chinese researchers presented a pre-print paper in August that clainmed that cuprous sulfide (Cu2S) contamination explained effects from the bulk form of the Korean LK99 superconductor work. This same research was reported by Nextbigfuture and now it has passed peer review and has been published in the journal Matter. The Chinese Academy of Sciences press …

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Quantum Simulation Analysis Claims that If We Made High-symmetry Phase LK99 It Would Be Ambient Pressure Room Temperature Superconductors

Computational physicists have a new paper that says if we made better LK99 samples with mostly high-symmetry phase then it would make the claimed room-temperature superconductors at ambient pressure. All the experimental attempts to replicate LK99 room temperature superconductors have not worked. However, the attempts at replication have been for bulk samples of copper doped …

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American Superconductor Biggest Business Will Be Demagnetizing Navy Ships to Protect Against Mines

The top five manufacturers of high-temperature superconductors hold over 95% of the global market. These companies are: Sumitomo, American Superconductor (AMSC), Furukawa, Fujikura and SuNam. There are also makers of low temperature superconductors and medium temperature superconductors. Superconducting wires are classified as low-temperature (LTS), medium-temperature (MTS), and high-temperature (HTS). Low-temperature superconductors (LTS) are made from …

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US Navy Shifting to Electric Ships and Superconducting Engines If Costs Were Lowered

The US Navy has built and tested 5 Megawatt and 36.5 megawatt superconducting engines over ten years ago. All of the tests were good and the specifications were met. They need to lower the cost and increase reliability. Test superconducting motors have been built for large wind power systems. If the LK99 superconductors were real …

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All in Podcast Friedberg is Hopeful that LK99 is Real and Opening the Path to Global Transformation

David Friedberg of the All-in-Podcast is hopeful that LK99 is real and can lead to industrial scale commercial room temperature superconductors. Friedberg estimates that 70% of the energy we produce is lost to heat and friction. However, computer chips and networking without heat problems can mean computers that are 100 to 200 times faster. The …

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LK-99 Will be a New and Different Type of Superconductor #LK99

LK99 is the proposed room temperature superconductor and IF it is confirmed as a superconductor then it will likely be a new class of superconductor. It is different than the previously known type 1 and type 2 superconductors. We will need to discover more variants than the first lead-apatite copper phosphorous material. This will help …

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