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The two Chinese labs working on replicating LK-99 appear to have found a room-temperature superconductor at ambient pressure. (arxiv.org)

submitted 7 months ago by yogthos@lemmygrad.ml to c/technology@lemmygrad.ml

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Here's what's different from last time:

it's more like "room temperature" than room temperature, the paper says 250K which is -23 C.
it has already replicated, with two separate labs in China confirming the results.
The chemical difference appears to be that this thing has sulphur where LK-99 did not.

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[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There are tons of useful applications for superconductors that are impractical to do currently. Some examples, include cheap magnetic levitation, fusion containment, computing, power transmission, etc. Finding a superconductor that works at roughly room temperature and ambient pressure has been the holy grail in material science for a little while now. Basically, it would be a huge breakthrough that could allow a lot of new tech we can't currently make.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago

Oh, well then fuck yeah, I'm happy now