Stronger Meissner Effect with China’s LK99 Variant Room Temperature Superconductor

May 23, 2024 by Brian Wang

Copper-substituted lead apatite, aka LK-99, was claimed to be room-temperature superconductor, but due to the complicated components and structures, the reproduction is still controversial. Chinese researchers have some replication of the Korean work and have extended with better procedures and research. They have updated a prior paper with new synthesis (instructions about how to make …

South China Researchers Progress on Room Temperature Superconductivity Research

May 22, 2024 by Brian Wang

The pursuit of room-temperature superconductivity has long been a holy grail in the field of condensed matter physics because it could revolutionize all electricity based technologies and in particular make computers at least hundreds of times faster. In mid-2023, the Korean LK-99 (copper-substituted lead apatite) material provided a controversial possibility of a major breakthrough. Researchers …