August 17, 2023 – 7:54 PM
The South Korean university where the experiments that formed the basis of the discovery were carried out, investigating the study that is considered the biggest scientific sensation in recent weeks, writes: gizmodo.
A few weeks ago, news reached the scientific world that South Korean researchers had been the first to make a superconducting material at room temperature and at normal atmospheric pressure. When a material is superconducting, it means that it conducts electricity without resistance and excludes magnetism. If they discover a material that can do this without extreme cold and pressure, it could generate new innovations in almost every field of technology. We wrote more about the superconductor and the uncertainties surrounding it in this article.
The success of the science experiment was already disputed by many people when the study was born, but the university is now investigating a different kind of complaint in connection with the case. According to the filing, Kvon Jungvan published the advanced study without the permission of the co-authors.
At the end of July, Kvon uploaded the study’s preprint manuscript to Cornell University’s arXiv server with co-authors Li Sukpe and Kim Jihun. A few hours later, Li and Kim, along with four other co-authors, uploaded another paper on the same topic to arXiv. In this, Kvon was conspicuously absent from the list. Kim Hyuntak, a physics professor involved in the research, told Bloomberg in early August that the group uploaded the second paper in response to Kvon uploading the original manuscript.
Kvon and the university have not yet commented on the investigation.
