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Re:Room-Temperature Superconductor Replicated by Yizahi on Thursday January 04, 2024 @08:32AM (#38866757)
Liquid nitrogen temp superconductor would be a world changing revolution with first page articles of all major outlets for a few years.

These guys claim -23C SC which is insanely harder than even non-existent -196C SC. I think this story will be debunked pretty fast, just like every other one before.

Re:Room-Temperature Superconductor Replicated by drkevorkian on Thursday January 04, 2024 @08:46AM (#38866903)
Not sure what you're saying here, YBCO and related materials become superconducting with liquid nitrogen temperatures
Re:Room-Temperature Superconductor Replicated by Yizahi on Thursday January 04, 2024 @09:01AM (#38867041)
Ok, I was incorrect there. I was thinking more about industrial application potential. There are some cuprates which are SC above -196C, there are some materials which are SC there under some enormous pressure and so on. They are not quite useful for us today, and the research in them is slow. As soon as someone will create industrially applicable SC with LN temps it will be a world revolution, in medicine first of all, then in research and maybe electronics etc.

But my point was not about the old inventions, but about this new PCPOSOP material. Researchers claim an insane jump to -23C (maybe) superconductor which is highly suspicious on it's own. It's like some researchers will claim they have discovered some material with a melting point of +10000C at 1 atmosphere. Sure, maybe. But the fact that materials with melting points between +4000C and +10000C are missing is super suspicious.

Re:Room-Temperature Superconductor Replicated by vient on Thursday January 04, 2024 @08:46AM (#38866900)
> non-existent -196C SC

What do you mean? Copper oxide superconductors are known and made for more than 30 years.