[Red Badger]

Reference: arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2307.12008, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2307.12037

LK-99 partially levitating

Hyun-Tak Kim et al. (2023)

https://archive.is/o/kIX9s/https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008

[Red Badger]

Ping!.................

[Leaning Right]

Interesting article. But I have a small complaint. The first sentence of the article says the material will conduct electricity “perfectly”. Wow! Then later it says the resistivity was “nearly zero”, which of course is not perfect.

That’s not the fault of the scientist. It’s the fault of a lazy editor.

[nwrep]

The author identifies as a "She/They":

[z3n]

[BigFreakinToad]

if true that would be a game changer

[mjustice]

A team of researchers claims to have created the first materials that conduct electricity perfectly at room temperature and ambient pressure, but many physicists are highly sceptical. Speaking to New Scientist, Hyun-Tak Kim at the College of William & Mary in Virginia says he will support anyone trying to replicate his team’s work.

This is how science is supposed to work. If they're willing to share their process and results, and other scientists can replicate it, it moves closer to being accepted as a solution. The notion that the original scientist is willing to support other teams reproducing his results indicates that the original team believes in their work.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

RB, interesting!

"mixed several powdered compounds containing lead, oxygen, sulphur and phosphorus"

But we do not know what those compounds were? Lead is diamagnetic, so magnatism associated with small internal currents within the resulting non magnetic substance cause levitation? Or does the unamed compound contain something that normally reacts magnetically?

Uses? ..Superconducting motor brushes if you can keep your motor at room temp? For EV cars in cold places, although the Batteries in cold places are the real problem. Cathode/anode battery material?? Propulsion engine or exterior coating for your personal magnetically propelled craft? (Do not lick the coating!)

(So...having some fun with this, the Secret Sauce compounds.....Powdered crushed refrigerator magnets!)

( My Current News Tin Foil Take!) Magnetically fixed on the refrigerator...note what looks like a child's picture of a fleet of UFOs (not pumice rocks!) fleeing their base in an erupting volcano! :O)

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Kim and his colleagues mixed several powdered compounds containing lead, oxygen, sulphur and phosphorus, then heated them at a high temperature for several hours.”

Hard at wok mixing those compounds…

[AdmSmith]

A short video https://sciencecast.org/casts/suc384jly50n

I guess many labs are trying this today

[Libloather]