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Re:The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor by marcosdumay on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @11:14PM (#36872676)
Can you? The proposed model implies this relies on non-periodic impurities to achieve superconductivity, and the displayed strength is consistent with superconductivity only appearing on some places spread inside the material. This seems qualitatively different from YBCO.

I don't know enough to be sure on the certainty of that model, but it seems well supported. So I'd be surprised if only improving the material quality was enough to make it strong.

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Re:The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor by eru on Thursday July 27, 2023 @09:11AM (#36892900)
You are probably right about the details, but as a general observation: industrial products tend to get better over time as people learn how to make them more properly. The first batches coming out of a lab are usually terrible compared to what's coming out of factories a few decades down the line.
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