-2F superconductor (Tl4Ba)Ba2Ca2Cu7Oy

by bokchoi on 10/12/2009, 4:50 PM with 19 comments
  • by mechanical_fish on 10/12/2009, 5:07 PM

    Do people cite journals anymore or is that too 20th-century?

    Who did this work, where, and how? The tendency to use the passive voice has always been a bit annoying, but here's it's criminal:

    This discovery is being released into the public domain without patent protection in order to encourage additional research.

    Released by whom? By one E. Joe Eck, working alone in his basement with no funding, no students, no assistants, no institutional support, and exactly one reference to earlier literature? Citations please.

  • by trafficlight on 10/12/2009, 5:06 PM

    I always like seeing this attitude:

    Before commercialization is possible, a refinement method will need to be developed to increase the VF.... This discovery is being released into the public domain without patent protection in order to encourage additional research.

  • by modeless on 10/12/2009, 5:58 PM

    Sorry, this cites a previous discovery of a superconductor at -24F (-31C) from May of this year. If that was actually true I guarantee you would have already heard about it from somewhere more prestigious than a self-published website.

  • by christopherolah on 10/12/2009, 6:14 PM

    A few thoughts and questions:

    What does the y in (Tl4Ba)Ba2Ca2Cu7Oy stand for?

    Google search for the chemical turns up surprisingly few hits for something like this... http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&r...

  • by mcav on 10/12/2009, 5:45 PM

    In practical terms, what does this mean?

  • by tocomment on 10/12/2009, 5:40 PM

    I wonder how big of news this is?