Submitted 1 year ago by neuromancer@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
Those who FOMO-bought into superconductor stocks are going to be in immense pain next week if they haven’t already sold.
Stock prices of Duksung, Seowon and Mobiis ― local manufacturers of tech and materials ― all posted surges during the past few sessions. The price of Duksung rose by 155 percent, Seowon by 73 percent and Mobiis by 127 percent during this week alone.
Jesus christ…
Is a diamagnetic semiconductor still a useful discovery, or do we already have those?
Still useful, and possibly opens the door to a new branch of research using similar methods which might result in even more discoveries in the future.
Even if this turns out to be a complete nothingburger then as long as there wasn’t any fraud involved, it’s still useful for the future.
Moose@moose.best 1 year ago
I think it might still be too early to say for certain. It appears that a lot of the teams working on replication have pretty different outcomes and I think the theoretical studies have shown superconduction may be possible when a very specific structure forms, so maybe the formula just isn’t perfected yet or it needs very specific conditions to form correctly. We’ll know soon enough though, it’s at the very least still an interesting material that deserves more looking into.
neuromancer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
astropenguin5@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The only proof of superconductivity is from simulations done by Berkely National Labs, but only when the copper atom is in a higher energy than normal position in the crystal lattice, making changes of it doing so in the current production technique small. For this reason I’m still holding out hope that it’s just the synthesis process that needs refining, or if it really isn’t a room temp superconductor, will at least lead to a proper room temp superconductor in the near future
Moose@moose.best 1 year ago
Not at room temperature. According to the Wikipedia page, one team in China has a preliminary report stating they got superconductivity (or at least 10^-5Ω) at 110°K, so maybe that temperature can be increased somehow?