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.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
      172·
      11 months ago

      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.

    • Flamingoaks@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      11 months ago

      nothing, ceramic super conductors that operate at “high” temperature have been known about for decades this one has a particularly “high” temperature but its not significantly higher such that it would make a difference. people care about super conductors because they are conductors aka they wanna make cables out of them and u cant make a cable out of ceramic, and this is a ceramic material. i mean its so brittle they couldnt even make a full puck of it for their big headline picture.