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  • anyone with a better understanding able to articulate potential trade-offs/complications to using this in practical applications?

    *edited:
    more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864624

    the critical field and critical current seem very low … This means you can’t actually push big current through this thing (yet). You can’t make a powerful magnet, and you can’t make viable power lines

    The method to produce this material as described in the related paper [1] is fairly simple and could be done at home with a $200 home metal melting furnace from amazon and the precursors (which also seem to be fairly standard easy to obtain metals)

    Read this comment thread from SC researchers: <reddit link removed>
    Lots of problems with the paper, they claim. It is not up to the standards of current SC research. One of them says Dias’s work shows more merit than this.