LK-99 isn’t a superconductor — how science sleuths solved the mystery (original) (raw)

Efforts to replicate the material have pieced together the puzzle of why it displayed superconducting-like behaviours.

  1. Dan Garisto

Researchers seem to have solved the puzzle of LK-99. Scientific detective work has unearthed evidence that the material is not a superconductor, and clarified its actual properties.

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Nature 620, 705-706 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02585-7

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