Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing::It’s been a rough few days in the condensed matter physics realm following claims of the world’s first room-temperature superconductor being achieved. However, work to verify and replicate the results
To be clear, absolutely no one has replicated zero resistance, which is the only thing that matters for a superconductor.
All of the “successful replications” so far have just been tiny flakes of material moving in a magnetic field. No one has even got it to fully levitate, they all stand on one end, which any ferromagnet would do. One video demonstrated that a flake was not attracted to the magnet, which could rule out ferromagnetism. Even assuming that’s true it could still just be diamagnetic - pyrolytic carbon behaves exactly the same way and it’s not a superconductor.
A university today has successfully replicated and proven 0 resistance. Still a ways to go before a viable commercially available version is developed.
https://twitter.com/lipez400/status/1686793608626663441
Below 110K. That’s still at least 160K away from room temperature.
Thanks for the link. It’s worth noting that they achieved that at temperatures below 110 Kelvin, and the big breakthrough would be doing the same at room temperature and pressure.