LK-99 Is the Ambient Superconductor of the Summer
Many social media users are excited about a potential breakthrough in solid state physics, but experts in the field are cautiously skeptical.
Sinead Griff of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in California, had some exciting new discoveries to share with Twitter users about a material that seemed to be magical. She didn't have to do a great deal to get attention.
The unusual material LK-99 has been introduced to the world. It is a superconductor which can carry electricity with zero resistance at room temperature.
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