Superconductor claims are ‘baseless,’ say South Korean experts. The claims made by sure researchers in South Korea that a viable superconductor had been developed were deemed “baseless” by a South Korean academic body on Wednesday. The group cited their inability to duplicate the results as the reason for their statement.
A trait that would revolutionize power grids and enhance sectors such as computing chips, where electrical resistance acts as a speed constraint, is the ability of superconductors to enable electrical current to flow without any resistance. Superconductors are materials that have this capability.
Two papers were written by South Korean scientists and published in July on a website scientists use to share findings before formal peer review and publication. These articles claimed to have discovered a superconductor that was given the name LK-99. As far as scientists are concerned, it can function at ambient temperature and has been a holy grail for a long time.
As a result of the papers’ assertions regarding superconductor properties, there was a frenzy on social media and stock movements.
In contrast, a white paper put out by the Korean Society of Superconductivity and Cryogenics with the help of eight local labs said that it had not discovered any examples of zero resistance or the so-called Meissner effect, which happens when a superconducting material pushes away a magnetic field.
“For the claim that LK-99 is a room-temperature, normal-pressure superconductor to be not just a claim but to be proven scientifically universal, there must be cross-measurement and replication by a third party,” the scientific society stated.
According to the organization, their attempts to duplicate the results were unsuccessful, and the Quantum Energy Research Centre, whose researchers were among the authors of the publications, was requested to provide samples to verify the findings. However, the Quantum Energy Research Center did not supply the samples, which resulted in incomplete verification. A request for comment was sent to the authors of the superconductor claims, but they did not immediately address the request.
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