LK-99: Team In China Sees Partial Replication, Exotic Properties of Synthesized Sample
This is where cutting-edge journalism can be truly exciting; we're days ahead of the TV stations and newspapers on this one, since it broke online initially.
A Chinese team reportedly has partial replication of LK-99, using the production process outlined in the controversial South Korean paper on LK-99 — a modified lead apatite crystal which appears to have superconductor properties at room temperature.
Video update below has all the details. A member of the Chinese research team suggested, also, that the Korean scientists may be holding back part of their process, which could explain why their sample was less pure than the purported original sample.
Separately, it came out on Twitter that a quartz tube apparently cracked during the original synthesis process in South Korea — exposing the mixture to oxygen at an unexpected moment — and allowing for a purer sample than otherwise would have been produced, if it would have been produced at all.
If this is the case, researchers can bake the oxygen exposure moment into their next round of experiments.
These twists and turns define science; penicillin was invented largely as lab accident also.
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