'Something is seriously wrong': Room-temperature superconductivity study retracted

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2. There is a financial motivation behind their publicity campaign and irreproducible data

Dias and Salamat are not slowing down. The duo has co-founded a company, Unearthly Materials, to pursue commercial room-temperature superconductors. At conferences this summer, Dias has presented claims of superconductivity in new hydride compounds. Although he declined to comment on those claims until they are published, he says, “We’ve moved on from the 2020 work.” Salamat adds, “We’re on the precipice of a new era of high-temperature superconductivity.”

https://www.science.org/content/article/something-seriously-wrong-room-temperature-superconductivity-study-retracted

Dias is an internationally recognized scientist in the field of high pressure physics, and his work has also been reported in popular press, e.g. New York Times, BBC, NBC, NPR, Physics Today, New Scientist, Chemistry World, Science News, and Nature News and Views.

https://www.hajim.rochester.edu/me/people/faculty/dias-ranga/index.html