Almost every “breaking news” in the field of room temperature superconductivity brings agitation to global capital markets. After teams from South Korea, China, and the US carried out room temperature superconductivity verification tests one after another, superconducting concept stocks in the US and China “boiled.”
According to the news, the Huazhong University of Science and Technology team successfully verified and synthesized an LK-99 “room temperature superconducting crystal” that can be maglev for the first time, which is expected to achieve true non-contact superconducting maglev. In addition, researchers Sun Yan and Liu Peitao from the Institute of Metals Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences mainly carried out theoretical calculations. Judging from the calculation results, LK-99 is likely to be superconducting at room temperature.
According to media reports, regarding the significance of these verification videos, Zhao Kang, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, stressed to reporters: “Simply being able to levitate is not enough to prove that room temperature is superconducting. As a matter of course, testing at room temperature is less difficult, and the test data should be good. However, their data (referring to the Korean team) is very poor, and there is no proof that it is zero resistance, and zero resistance is the best evidence of superconductivity.”
Meanwhile, on the other side of the ocean, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) of the United States submitted a paper on arXiv. The results support LK-99 as a superconductor of ambient pressure at room temperature. Currently, the paper has garnered widespread attention and discussion on Twitter.
According to an analysis by the Zheshang Securities Research Report, the application of superconducting materials is currently limited to low temperature and high pressure environments. If breakthroughs are made in room-temperature atmospheric pressure superconducting materials, changes will occur in many fields such as energy, transportation, computing, and medical testing.
However, according to the media on August 2...