xpost from https://lemmy.world/post/2494271
Researchers have discovered a new compound called LK-99 that could enable the fabrication of room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductors. Two separate sources have provided very preliminary confirmations of this breakthrough, including a simulation indicating it could be possible and a short video from Chinese researchers that seems to indicate some properties of superconductivity.
Ars has a interesting article about it and from what it said it’s not as easy to fabricate as everyone claims. The process is simple but very random and imprecise. It’s possible that you can get a superconductor this way but only sometimes and in parts of the crystal. This will make confirmation difficult and makes it sound even more like BS (“it works for me, you’re doing it wrong…”).