LK-99 May Change The World Quickly
First it has to be replicated in other labs, but if LK-99 -- a special lead apatite crystal that appears to be a superconductor at room temperature -- can be reproduced, it may change our entire tech.
Maybe you’ve already seen some very excited tweets from usually sober materials researchers and physicists regarding LK-99.
A Korean team of researchers put out a pre-publication paper detailing their findings and other labs are already working to replicate (or disprove) their claim.
Although not “hard” to produce, LK-99 manufacture requires a lab environment — furnace, vacuum, etc. — and the process takes reportedly about 34 hours. If any teams began setting up for production within hours of this paper being released, they may be ready to announce their results within a matter of hours.
A room temperature ambient pressure superconductor would allow (potentially) for lossless electric transmission lines at great distances; mainstreaming of efficient nuclear fusion; anti-gravity cars or planes … and so much more. The possibilities are almost endless.
Of course, there is cause for skepticism: the claims are still brand new. The Korean research team is not well known to other research groups. There were some typos and weirdness in their paper, although stylistic weirdness is not unheard of in scientific pre-publication papers, especially ones translated from Korean to English and then perhaps back again, all in a haste.
Also, it’s been pointed out that LK-99 may not perform well around electricity or magnetic fields, which would greatly limit it’s “sci-fi” use cases.
Some are saying “how wasn’t this discovered earlier” — yet isn’t that the cry whenever anything new and extraordinary enters our societal line of sight? How did we not see it before? LK-99 may be exotic in its properties, but producing it doesn’t seem like too exotic a task… again, any university-level lab should be able to reproduce (or disprove) the claims soon.
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