A tentative but less nebulous step toward superconductor-fueled electronics.

xpost from https://lemmy.world/post/2494271

Researchers have discovered a new compound called LK-99 that could enable the fabrication of room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductors. Two separate sources have provided very preliminary confirmations of this breakthrough, including a simulation indicating it could be possible and a short video from Chinese researchers that seems to indicate some properties of superconductivity.

  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
    541·
    1 year ago

    Yep. This is one of those world changing tech advances.

    Replication is a huge step.

    But I temper the excitement with the memory that I read my first The Coming Room Temp Superconductor revolution 30 or so years ago. IIRC it was a cover story in Scientific American in the early 90s.

    That said, fuck I hope they have cracked a scalable RTS.

    • Apex_Fail@lemmy.world
      522·
      1 year ago

      First off, don’t refer to the 90’s as “30” years ago. That’s just rude dude…

      Second, yeah this has been an ongoing theme for decades…

      Wait, did I get old? What the fuck?!

      • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
        251·
        1 year ago

        Wait, did I get old?

        Nah. No one every gets old… Old is always 10 years older than you are now.

    • qwamqwamqwam
      16·
      1 year ago

      Agreed, I want to believe so bad, but the Meisner effect is so easy to fake with cameras that even video proof doesn’t cut it for me. I guess at this point it’ll take a preprint from a National Lab . Thankfully that won’t take long apparently given how easy this is to synthesize.