f you’ve been spending a lot of time following techies on social media in the past few weeks, you might have heard about. This is a substance whose “recipe” was published by researchers in late July, along with claims that it could act as a superconductor at room temperatures, something that hasn’t been discovered before.
Unfortunately, it so far looks like that LK-99 is not, in fact, a superconductor at all, though it may have some other interesting properties. But the internet’s momentary obsession with the material highlights a real optimism towards the discovery of a technology that could move a wide swathe of industries forward.
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