Korean LK99 Variant Superconductor Partial Update Highlights

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Here are the highlights of Sukbae Lee’s (L in LK99, room temperature superconductor) private superconductor update.

The class of room temperature and room pressure superconductors is real.
He and other researchers have formed a corporation and the success of the company and its patents is the priority.
IBM is the first company to start discussions. Nextbigfuture believes there are other companies.
Sukbae Lee believes China groups have successfully reproduced the sample.
They have a video detecting zero resistance.
Sukbae Lee and his team are confident
APL materials review process : Ongoing
Patent registration: Ongoing
Why no samples and data? -> We are a corporation. Patent.
We are going to be proved by other researchers
There are still instabilities and other issues to be worked through.
There are currently limitations around a narrow range of magnetic fields.

11 thoughts on “Korean LK99 Variant Superconductor Partial Update Highlights”

  1. Brian, many people have in the past two articles about LK99 that this new way of doing things remind them of Rossi and his e cat. It was his word, he works but disclose how everything worked because “patents”, etc

    I think it would be really nice if you created an article about the differences and similarities, if any, you see between how Rossi conducted his scam and how the Koreans are running their hopefully real deal.

    Thanks

  3. it’s different from the original LK99.
    and it seems plausible.
    Original one was unwilling leaked to the public. This PCPOSOS is the real one rebuilt from the original

  4. But Wikipedia section has list of different labs and their conclusions are mostly negative. I don’t know how much are these Chinese labs more reputable than Eu or USA based ones? I don’t say they are bad.

    If there was something into it, western labs would be more founded to research it not just some scraps.

    Didn’t they apply for at least 3 patents in the last few years?
    I want concrete evidence, not excuse, that it is patent issue. They filled a patent in 2020, then in 2021,… Now in 2024 where is the evidence?

  5. So reminiscent of Rossi,but how much can it hurt us if it is a fraud or an honest mistake? This is a great field and Asian countries as well as Western ones, put a lot of effort into high temp SC’s.

  6. The pictures show low resistance readings. There will be videos shown of flux locking and some Meissner effect. You do not know it is a “majority of reputable labs”. There was a Korean “validation team”, Max Planck group in Germany, US team(s), and a China team and some other groups that loudly claimed it was not a superconductor.

    There are 10 teams in China working under it could be a superconductor, many computational and theoretical teams including Berkeley National Labs, the original korean team and US teams.

    Most semiconductor companies and researchers in the world cannot make 2 nanometer lithography. But Taiwan Semiconductor can.

    Making LK99 variants work and work reliably is hard and the china scientists have explained some of the difficulties and challenges.

    • I hope this doesn’t turn out to be a situation in which we have a viable room temperature superconductor, but that it never becomes reliable to utilize in any meaningful way. That would be rather depressing. But, this is all still early stage research.

      • What do you think a brittle ceramic is going to revolutionize in power transmission and electronics as all the hypsters have been claiming?

        We’ve had high temp ceramic superconductors for a couple decades now and they revolutionized nothing.

        A room temp/pressure ceramic would be an impressive scientific discovery, but with only a handful of niche uses. Hiding behind a corporate shield just sounds like a money grab to me.

        • Circuit boards are still made of brittle fiberglass bonded to sheets of copper, so this can still profoundly impact the electronics industry, if true.

          Consider the ability to potentially create an MRI without using helium to cool it. There is a coming helium crisis.

          Furthermore, this does not need to be the final solution. This can open the door to further compounds with better properties. The first transistor has very little in common with the ones used in modern processors.

  7. So he didn’t provide any evidence to back his claims, while majority reputable labs concluded it is not superconductor.

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