A South Korean research team recently created a buzz with a claim that it has created one of the holy grails in science a room-temperature superconductor called LK-99 – prompting researchers around the world into a race to replicate the experiment. Two weeks after their claimed discovery, no one has yet been able to completely reproduce the sensational result that could revolutionize power grids. Amid the mi.
LK-99 s discovery, detailed in two papers from South Korea in late July, sent social media into a frenzy - but the world s scientists are far from convinced we re on the precipice of a revolution just yet.
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Superconductors are materials that allow electrical current to flow with no resistance, a property that would revolutionize power grids where energy is lost in transmission as well as advance fields such as computing chips, where electrical resistance acts as a speed limit.