Claims of revolutionary superconductor LK-99 are meeting resistance. Here’s what you need to know – By Darius Mahdavi (CBC News) / Aug 8, 2023
Room-temperature superconductors could change the world, but some physicists aren’t convinced they’re possible
Limitless clean energy, portable MRIs, more efficient quantum computing — these are just a few of the breakthroughs that could be made possible by the discovery of a superconductor that works at room temperature.
“If you made a room-temperature superconductor tomorrow … you’d be famous, you’d win the Nobel Prize,” said Damian Pope, senior manager of scientific outreach at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ont.
So it is no wonder that social media is abuzz with news of LK-99, a material that purportedly acts as a superconductor at ambient pressure and temperatures as high as 127 C. A photo of the material levitating over a magnet caught many people’s attention, though experts have said this is no guarantee of superconductivity.
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