Tag: LK-99

The global scientific community has greeted the development of a room temperature superconducting material by a group of Korean scientists with both hope and skepticism. The development of such a superconducting alloy, christened LK-99, if proven to be what it is claimed, has the potential to revolutionise the world “in ways you cannot imagine”, says Prof Deepshikha Jaiswal Nagar, Associate Professor (Physics), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, and also fetch the Korean scientists a physics Nobel Prize. Sukbae Lee, Ji-Hoon Kim (from whom comes “LK”) and Young-Wan Kwon, reported through a scientific paper in...