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That is.....kind of a huge limitation of the technology lol. Still very cool but less hype
by Melatonic 3y ago
That is.....kind of a huge limitation of the technology lol. Still very cool but less hype
- thorncorona 3y agoI believe the implication is that LK-99 is basically a demonstration of an entire class of materials which should have room-temp superconduction properties. IE we can enumerate through the entire class and find the ones with the properties we want.
- PBnFlash 3y agoThere is no reason to assume that even if it's real. In fact, the tight tolerances of this seem to indicate the opposite.
- thorncorona 3y agoAt least according to this wikipedia chart on superconductor discovery timelines[1], it seems like most discoveries aren't one-off. I have no knowledge in this area though. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_superconductivity#/media/File:Sc_history.gif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_superconductivity#/...
- azernik 3y agoA limitation...at ambient temperature and pressure. Usually this is an optimization frontier, where something that has tetchy critical current/field at high temperature is going to have very good critical current/field at the same temperature as a lower-Tc superconductor. If it superconducts at all at room temp, cooling it down even to 200K (about dry ice temp - quite cheap to do) could get you something very usable.