Timeline of my involvement with CSH, the first room-temperature superconductor

CSH paper was published October 14, 2020.

 

October 20, 2020: arXiv:2010.10307,  Nature 596, E9–E10 (2021) (with F. Marsiglio): "Unusual width of the superconducting transition in a hydride "

 

December 10, 2020: Physica C 583, 1353805  (2021) "About the pressure-induced superconducting state of europium metal at low temperatures "

 

August 26, 2021: Science News, "Feeling the pressure "

 

September 26, 2021: Physica C 1353964 (2021), temporarily withdrawn, republished as Physica C 613, 1354228 (2023), "On the ac magnetic susceptibility of a room temperature superconductor: anatomy of a probable scientific fraud ", also in arXiv:2110.12854v1 (2021)

 

October 22, 2021: Science News, "Breakthrough or bust? Claim of room-temperature superconductivity draws fire "

 

November 16, 2021: Science News, "Criticism of room temperature superconductor "temporarily removed" from journal "

 

December 8, 2021: Preprints 2021, 2021120115 "Disconnect between Published AC Magnetic Susceptibility of a Room Temperature Superconductor and Measured Raw Data ". Was submitted to arxiv, arxiv blocked it.

 

December 9, 2021: Preprints 202112.0188 "Incompatibility of Published ac Magnetic Susceptibility of a Room Temperature Superconductor with Measured Raw Data ".  Was submitted to arxiv, arxiv blocked it.

 

January 4, 2022: Preprints202201.0003 "Superconductivity in Carbonaceous Sulfur Hydride: Further Analysis of Relation between Published AC Magnetic Susceptibility Data and Measured Raw Data ". Was submitted to arxiv, arxiv blocked it. Was removed by preprint server on Feb. 4, 2022, is available here.

 

January 5, 2022EPL 137 36001 (2022) "Comment on "Room-temperature superconductivity in a carbonaceous sulfur hydride" by Elliot Snider et al. " Was submitted to arxiv, arxiv blocked it.

 

January 19, 2022: arXiv:2201.07686v1 "Comment on Nature 58, 373 (2020) by E. Snider et al " (with D. van der Marel)

 

February 1, 2022: Preprints202202.0005.v1 "Analysis Of Ac Magnetic Susceptibility Data Of A Room Temperature Superconductor "  (with D. van der Marel). Was submitted to arxiv Jan. 31, 2022, arxiv blocked it.

 

February 16, 2022: Matter Radiat. Extremes 7, 048401 (2022) "Incompatibility of published ac magnetic susceptibility of a room temperature superconductor with measured raw data " (with D. van der Marel) Was submitted to arxiv, arxiv blocked it.

 

March 5, 2022: arXiv:2201.07686v4 "Comment on Nature 586, 373 (2020) by E. Snider et al. Revised 19-2-2022 "  (with D. van der Marel)

 

March 14, 2022: Science News, "Preprint server removes 'inflammatory' papers in superconductor controversy "

 

August 3, 2022: OSF Preprints doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/2gyj9, "On the "User Defined Background" and "Measured Voltage" that detected room temperature superconductivity in carbonaceous sulfur hydride (CSH) ". Was submitted to arxiv, arxiv blocked it.

 

August 6, 2022: arXiv:2201.07686v7 "Extended Comment on Nature 586, 373 (2020) by E. Snider et al " (with D. van der Marel)

 

August 10, 2022: Webpage "User defined background 1" (UDB_1) for the processing and interpretation of magnetic susceptibility data of the world's first and only room temperature superconductor"

 

August 15, 2022: Webpage "How to measure a voltage without going to the lab"

 

September 15, 2022: IJMPB 37, 2375001 (2023) "Room-temperature superconductivity - or not? Comment on Nature 586, 373 (2020) by E. Snider et al. " (with D. van der Marel)

 

September 26, 2022: Chem. Commun. 59, 5765 (2023) "Comment on "Carbon content drives high temperature superconductivity in a carbonaceous sulfur hydride below 100 GPa " by G. A. Smith et al, Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 9064". Was submitted to arxiv, arxiv blocked it.

 

CSH paper was retracted September 26, 2022.