The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?

Post by CamperBob2 » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 9:50 PM UTC

marcosdumay wrote: post #293

obblekk wrote: post #150

The method to produce this material as described in the related paper [1] is fairly simple and could be done at home with a $200 home metal melting furnace from amazon and the precursors (which also seem to be fairly standard easy to obtain metals). If this is real, I'd expect some smart people from hackaday / youtube to reproduce this within weeks if not days. If this is real, it'll change society quickly and perman…

Ok, let me just add the obvious disclaimer: don't try this yourself unless you have a pretty good understanding of chemical lab safety. Really. It's more likely that you will contaminate your land, and possibly your neighbors land too than that you will manage to replicate it.

Post by foxhill » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 9:51 PM UTC

ragebol wrote: post #16

foxhill wrote: post #6

big if true. far from a chemistry expert here, but synthesis looks basically trivial (if you consider 10e-5 torr vacuum to be trivial), and the materials are readily available. hell, from the instructions alone i could probably make it at home. i mean the search space is unfathomably large, so i suppose it’s possible that something like this exists, but the paper quality itself doesn’t.. spark joy? :) i’ll maintain a…

If it's true, it'll also SPARC joy. And ITER etc

Post by Baeocystin » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 9:54 PM UTC

marcosdumay wrote: post #242

scarmig wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their other data doesn't line up with ferromagnetism, though. It's either the real thing or a big fraud. Guess we'll find out soon enough. ETA: the video referenced is apparently available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtVjGWpbE7k . Interestingly, posted on Feb 26, 2023.

Yeah, that thing does really want to stay in a constant level on the magnetic field. That would dispel every other explanation on the GP, as it's not simply being repelled or attracted.

Post by CamperBob2 » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 9:56 PM UTC

sfink wrote: post #46

danbruc wrote: post #31

After skimming the paper, it reads like a legitimate paper even though I have zero expertise in the area. That it is in Word instead of LaTeX makes it feel a bit less legitimate to me and they could of course always have some error in there setup. The most notable thing to me was that this was done in a thin film where structural defects are supposedly responsible for strain in the material which in turn enables the…

So you're saying it could be a great sensor, similar to a Josephson junction? :-) Update: "yes", from the paper: "The Josephson-like phenomenon for the under-damped junction of superconductor-normal metal-superconductor(21, 22) or Inter-grain coupled superconductors(23) and the thermoelectric effect(24-26) of the inter- or intra-grain network were also observed."

Post by mrguyorama » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 9:57 PM UTC

distortionfield wrote: post #254

carabiner wrote: post #159

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Ya no shit. Desperation makes people do dumb things.

You think this team would jeopardize their reputations by faking this data with such easily verifiable and thus refutable claims?