14 September 2023FeaturesPatents ChannelRobert McFarlane

LK-99 and the quest to patent a room-temp superconductor

Headlines earlier this summer trumpeted the news that a team of researchers in South Korea had created a material called LK-99, which behaved as a superconductor at room temperature and ambient pressure.

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