Chapter 164 A happy event is coming
Compared with the impetuousness of others in the laboratory, Liu Hao is still calm.
The properties of materials that are easy to test can actually be achieved with ordinary materials, so there is no need for such trouble.
So the most critical technical indicators of this smart material are those that require time measurement.
Fortunately, it doesn’t take much time. In one hour, you can roughly judge the self-healing efficiency and fracture strength recovery rate in the next 24 hours or so.
As for the memory retention ability, it may take longer, but it only takes half a day.
In fact, if the first two performance indicators can meet the requirements, the memory retention ability will definitely not be too bad.
So you don’t need to wait too long. Liu Hao even waited until the key technical indicators of the third and fourth batch of materials mentioned by Qiao Yu were released.
"Sure enough, No. 3-3 and No. 3-4 are currently the most perfect in all aspects. The recovery rate of breaking strength in one hour exceeded 70%, which means that it can reach at least 80% in one day. .
The self-healing performance has also reached a record high in the laboratory, and is estimated to be close to 90%. The key is that the average performance of all samples exceeds most of our previous results.”
When the laboratory results were displayed in front of everyone in the research team, the atmosphere in the laboratory was a bit strange.
Everyone should be excited and happy, and they were indeed excited for a while. But after being excited, everyone's mood was a bit hard to describe...
A very strange feeling, probably like getting a high score by cheating on an exam. After all, everyone has been busy in the laboratory for so long, but there has been no great results.
As a result, people just took the data for analysis and came over to guide the experiment, and the direction was found, which is amazing.
Although this has happened before, when working with other professors, they would always give me a data analysis report directly.
They then use the report to adjust the experimental process. This time it was different. Qiao Yu didn't give them a report, but directly guided them in the experiment, and then it was done.
Does this feel like a substitute?
"Okay, you guys just keep an eye on it. I'll quickly report the good news to the boss. By the way, there must be someone on duty in the laboratory these days, 24 hours a day. You can discuss a duty schedule. Come out."
Liu Hao confessed and walked out of the laboratory.
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Zhang Zuolin, who had just returned to the office, casually answered Liu Hao's call.
I have to say that this call came quite coincidentally. He was also planning to call Liu Hao to talk about something.
A project he applied for was recently approved. The goal of the project is to develop more efficient catalysts that can convert carbon dioxide into high value-added chemicals such as methanol and ethylene.
He plans to recruit another assistant to take charge of this smart material project that is not yet visible. Then he asked Liu Hao to be his assistant and focus mainly on this fund project.
Although horizontal projects are more profitable, Zhang Zuolin, who is only 46 years old this year, still has some pursuits.
China is pursuing dual carbon goals and has an urgent need for technologies in carbon capture and utilization.
If we can make more important results in this area, maybe we can be elected as an academician in the future.
Relatively speaking, Zhang Zuolin feels that she still has a chance. With the platform of Yanbei University, he has been awarded the title of leading talent in technological entrepreneurship.
Although it is not as good as outstanding students, if they work hard in the key projects needed by the country and achieve results, and the school will help them, maybe it will happen.
After all, he still has an advantage in terms of age.
Trivia: Platforms recommend professors to become academicians, often based on cost-effectiveness.
After all, there are only so many places for academicians to be added every year. Although there is currently an exit mechanism for academicians, there is basically no way to exit.
What really restricts the ability of academicians is the title of senior academician that will be awarded when they reach eighty years old.
The official definition of the title of senior academician does not mean the same thing as describing a senior academician who is an expert.
Because in principle, at this age, you can no longer hold leadership positions in the Academy of Sciences and departments, nor can you participate in the nomination and election of academician candidates.
In other words, when you reach the age of eighty, you no longer have the right to help the platform fight for various benefits.
So relatively speaking, it is obviously more cost-effective to push a professor in his fifties to become an academician than to push an academician in his sixties.
After all, the former can still be active in academia for more than twenty years, while the latter only has about ten years left.
Actually, this is very reasonable. After all, when a person reaches the age of eighty, it is difficult for the brain to accept new things and keep up with new scientific development directions.
After answering the phone, Zhang Zuolin was still thinking about how to mention this matter to Liu Hao, when she heard Liu Hao say excitedly: "Boss, there has been a breakthrough in the subject.
It is estimated that it won’t be long before our laboratory results will meet Party A’s requirements! We have now released six batches of a total of 30 samples, and the average performance has reached the previous performance indicators.
Ten percent of the samples showed key indicators that already have high value. I estimate that in one or two months at most, we will be able to produce the finished product. ”
So excited, it can’t be fake...
But this is indeed good news.
Party A of this cooperation is the big boss, and this research project itself It is also one of the sub-projects of the supporting large project
If they can succeed, it means that they will definitely be given priority for similar projects in the future.
This news is just too sudden.
"Oh? The progress is so fast? Didn't you say there was no progress last Wednesday? It's only been a few days, why has there been so much progress suddenly? Is there a laboratory miracle?"
Zhang Zuolin subconsciously said asked.
"It's not a laboratory miracle. Didn't I report it to you last week? I asked Qiao Yu from the research center for help again. He helped with the analysis. He said he planned to use a new method to try to help us. Analysis.
I gave him all the data. No, after using it for more than half a month, I suddenly said there were results and gave us some suggestions. And all these batches of samples were strictly operated today according to the experimental process recommendations he gave.
The test results of these batches of samples were surprisingly good. By the way, Qiao Yu also said that based on the data released this time, a better plan might be given. "
After listening to Liu Hao's words, Zhang Zuolin felt unable to sit still. It's that Qiao Yu again!
To be honest, Qiao Yu's reputation among professors is even higher than that of students. It's even bigger in the middle.
The main thing is that it's so powerful!
If Zhang Zuolin has an age advantage, then Qiao Yu's age advantage is simply incredible.
Especially with the publication of the paper on the generalized modal axiom system and the paper on the upper bound of prime numbers, many people believe that Qiao Yu will be qualified to accompany him in the Fields Medal next year and become the first minor. Fields Medal nominee.
At the age of seventeen, I will run with him, and at the age of twenty-one, I have a high possibility of winning the Fields Medal. He doesn't even need to take the initiative to do anything. Even if someone uses his method to prove the twin prime number conjecture or other well-known number theory problems, he is eligible to win the prize.
This also means that Qiao Yu will be the youngest Fields Medal winner and will also win many world mathematics awards. Of course, it also includes domestic mathematics awards.
With these achievements, and with Tian Yanzhen and Yuan Zhengxin standing behind him, it is difficult to say when Qiao Yu will become an academician.
But one thing is for sure, it will definitely not be more than thirty years old. Probably not even older than twenty-five.
No way, when some people are so awesome that they don’t need the aura of academicians to add glory to them, but the academician group needs to absorb Qiao Yu to prove their professionalism and impartiality, the so-called age issue is actually It's not that important.
What else should I do?
The world's youngest Fields Medal winner, can't he get noticed by a group of academicians of the Academy of Mathematics in China? It's hard to say who was embarrassed by the news.
For the above reasons, the discussion about Qiao Yu has long gone beyond the mathematics community.
Even Qiao Yu's performance at the Chinese Mathematics Annual Conference was not widely reported. It’s not that it’s not worthy of reporting, but in fact, considering Qiao Yu’s age, he doesn’t want to praise it too highly now.
Of course, from another perspective, it is also to save face for the math giants. After all, they were all there to promote Qiao Yu. What did the professors who won awards at the conference think?
Zhang Zuolin was at a dinner party yesterday, and everyone was still talking about Qiao Yu. He was quite fortunate that during the last cooperation, Tian Yanzhen paid Qiao Yu the full consulting fee for his sake.
Who would have thought that I would hear Qiao Yu’s name from Liu Hao again today.
“I remember Professor Lu said before that your data is not enough and you cannot analyze any results?”
"Yes, Qiao Yu said he used a new method. By the way, I still leave him in the laboratory. I plan to treat him to a meal tonight. After all, he really helped us a lot this time."< br>
“Oh? Is he still there? Well, I’ll go there now One trip. You book a private room at Boya International Center and I’ll take care of the meal.”
“Okay, I’d like to make a call now.”
“Yes. ”
……
While waiting for the results from the laboratory, Qiao Yu had been sitting in front of the computer in his office, looking through the literature on block copolymer phase separation and nanoparticle filling technology.
If you want to cooperate, know yourself and the enemy.
What surprised him was that China was still leading in some aspects of research in this area.
Relevant research is relatively strong at the places where I attended a conference not long ago, Linhai Jiaotong University and Linhai Shuangdan University.
For example, an article published by a team from Linhai Jiaotong University in Advanced Materials the year before last described in detail the research progress in the synthesis of bicontinuous structure porous materials based on the self-assembly of block copolymers.
By adjusting the block chain length and polarity, the formation of microphase structures such as spheres, columns, and layers can be controlled, which can directly affect material properties.
So if the control of the microphase structure can be directly modeled through the modal path, it means that the phase separation behavior can be geometrically optimized.
Considering the technical design of Huairou Institute, the filling ratio of nanoparticles will directly affect the fracture strength and self-healing ability of the material. This piece should also be directly related to the modal density distribution.
Qiao Yu feels that the research at Huairou Institute must have used the results of Linhai Jiaotong University and Shuangdan University.
However, China has made remarkable achievements in specific research and has a leading advantage. The disadvantages and shortcomings lie precisely in the theoretical model.
Especially compared with foreign theoretical research, there is still a big gap in domestic system modeling and prediction of complex phase behavior, especially when combining high-dimensional dynamic simulation and new geometric tools.
To put it simply, theoretical tools such as polymer statistical mechanics, field theory simulation, etc. are not as mature as those abroad.
At the same time, the analysis of complex systems such as asymmetric phase behavior and multi-component systems is also lagging behind.
What a coincidence, he struck at the weakness of the current domestic research results.
According to the statement in the paper and the tools cited, it can be seen that the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Germany is at the top in terms of the design and optimization of functional block copolymer materials.
In the field of related theoretical modeling, MIT and Berkeley are the most powerful.
Really, after collecting this information, Qiao Yu just felt that there were so many coincidences in this world, it seemed a bit fake. He wanted to make something happen, but the obstacles in front of him happened to be Professor Frank's alma mater and the school where he currently works.
What is even more coincidental is that block copolymers and nanocomposites are included in many stuck technology research lists.
In other words, even if you want to introduce advanced foreign technology in this regard, it is not that easy.
Very good, now we just need to contact the Huairou Institute. If we can get this cooperation done, we should be able to build our reputation.
I was making plans for the future when I saw Liu Hao leading a man in - a dry old man who looked to be in his forties and wearing glasses.
It’s not that Qiao Yu likes to despise people. The main reason is that when he looks in the mirror every morning, he can see a very tender face, so whenever he sees people over thirty years old, they look like dry old men... …
"Qiao Yu, let me introduce to you. This is my mentor, a professor at the School of Chemistry in our school, and a national leading talent, Professor Zhang Zuolin."
Oh, this He is the real financial boss behind the scenes.
Qiao Yu stood up immediately.
After all, they gave him more than one million in real money before. Moreover, the money was completely unexpected, and Qiao Yu was always very polite when dealing with the financial boss.
"Hello, Professor Zhang. Director Tian always said that you are one of the most promising professors in the School of Chemistry, and Senior Brother Liu also said that you are a very good and responsible tutor. I have always regretted that you are not It’s such an honor to meet you today!”
Qiao Yu always speaks up when talking about business. By the way, I brought Director Tian and Senior Brother Liu with me to make his words more convincing.
After all, every investor who can divide the profits he can earn into two million without hesitation deserves such respect.
Zhang Zuolin was stunned.
Really, based on his previous stereotype of the genius students in the Mathematics Academy, he expected to face a guy who was not very good at words. Who would have thought that Qiao Yu's mouth seemed to be able to speak better than him.
As a result, he stretched out his hands, but his mind was stuck for a second, and he forgot what he was going to say.
Fortunately, the professors in the Nengla project all belong to the old Jianghu, and they can react in an instant.
While holding his hands together, he immediately organized his words: "Well... I'm honored. Qiao Yu, when I had dinner with some professors from foreign schools yesterday, everyone also talked about You. They are all praising you!
By the way, I haven’t even thanked you in person for what happened last time. This time, I owe it to you again. It makes me feel embarrassed when you say that. You are truly a young talent. ”
Liu Hao stood beside him and kept smiling. But it’s not necessarily true whether he was laughing in his heart.
After all, watching a sixteen-year-old boy exchanging business bragging rights with his mentor, he probably It was also a very novel experience.
What made him speechless the most was that he stood by and couldn’t say anything at all.
“You are so flattering. Unlike you who have always done practical things, my research is all theoretical. It’s not valuable, and it’s really not a talent! ”
"What do you mean it's all theoretical? The analysis you did for us last time directly helped our project solve a big problem. Not to mention this time! You don't know that our project is very important!
< br>It can be said that it will directly affect the future development of the country's aerospace field. You have helped us a lot this time. I don't know how to thank you. So, I will prepare a little wine tonight..."
< br>"Ahem..."
Liu Hao, who finally found the opportunity, coughed twice, and then quickly reminded: "Um...boss, Qiao Yu is not an adult yet, so he cannot drink."
Zhang Zuolin stared. Liu Hao glanced at it and said, "Don't I know? That's it, don't you know how many more bottles of juice you will order later? You go and ask others to prepare them. Leave one person in the laboratory to guard them, and everyone else should quickly clean up. Okay, let’s go eat together first.”
Qiao Yu had a polite smile on his face and felt very cordial watching the teacher training the students.
Liu Hao went to the laboratory next door to inform him of the good news.
Zhang Zuolin looked at Qiao Yu and asked: "I just heard from Liu Hao on the phone that you used a new analysis method to find the rules this time? Can I ask what method it was?"
He is really curious about this question. Of course, anyone who is engaged in chemistry and wants to enter the laboratory will probably be curious.
Qiao Yu smiled shyly and answered with a smile: "To put it simply, it is the modal analysis method. Map the data into the modal space and do some simple mapping."
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After saying that, he asked again: "By the way, Professor Zhang, I heard from Senior Brother Liu that your material-only project still has a competitive relationship with another team at the Huairou Institute of Chemistry?"
Zhang Zuolin nodded. , said: "Well, Professor Ma from Huairou Institute of Technology thinks their method is more practical. And he does have some research on block copolymers."
Qiao Yu asked curiously Said: "Professor Ma? I just read a document about block copolymers. The work is called Ma Botao, but he is from the Institute of Applied Chemistry of Shuangdan University."
Zhang Zuolin smiled and replied: " Yes, that's his article. He used to be at Shuangdan University, and he was just transferred to the capital last year."
No wonder, it's the same person.
"Um...Professor Zhang, are you familiar with Professor Ma? Can you introduce me to him?"
Zhang Zuolin was startled for a moment, then smiled and asked: "What? Do you still want to know me?" Can the new method be used on their side?"
Qiao Yu nodded generously. Nothing to be embarrassed to admit.
Although the two sides are competitors, since he wants to do this, it is better to tell Professor Zhang directly.
"Well, let's just ask him to have a meal together, but if he doesn't have time, just next time."
After saying that, Zhang Zuolin readily took out her mobile phone from her pocket.
......
At the Huairou Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, about 30 kilometers away from Yanbei University, the "Warm-Responsive Intelligent Memory Gel" research group is holding a phased meeting.
The most amazing thing about this world is not only full of coincidences, but also the many laws of physics that take effect in life.
For example, the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics at the micro level can be used to describe an individual’s thinking mode. There are always people who look normal, but suddenly explode because of something...
The same interaction of forces can also be used to describe the competition between two research groups.
While the research team led by Liu Hao felt the pressure from the other party, in fact, the researchers and students involved in the project in Huairou also felt the pressure from the other party.
No way, the School of Chemistry of Yanbei University is not unknown in the field of scientific research. Just being the only university in the country where all secondary chemistry subjects are key subjects already speaks volumes about its strength.
In terms of scientific research, there are not only multiple key laboratories, but also a high-level analysis and testing center as support. In addition, the early progress of the project is very fast, which brings great pressure to the institute.
Qiao Yu’s judgment was correct. Although two technical difficulties were overcome in the early stage, the laboratory is now also facing many problems.
The most prominent problem at present is the contradiction between efficient response and stable memory function. In other words, it is difficult to grasp the balance between thermodynamics and kinetics.
In addition, after a few cycles of gel cultured in the laboratory, the memory performance begins to decay rapidly, and the recovery efficiency of the breaking strength also begins to weaken.
As for the response temperature often deviating from the design value, and the block copolymer becoming unstable under mechanical stress after phase separation, these are still minor problems.
To be honest, everyone is under similar pressure. After all, laboratory results are directly related to the direction of future batch industrial production and process amplification.
At this time, the leader of the research team, Ma Botao, was also making a summary: "... Regarding the latest batch of samples, the problem of memory performance degradation during the temperature cycle is initially observed to be caused by temperature changes. Phase separation-polymerization cycles destroy the gel network.
The solution currently being considered is to try to develop more mild interfacial interactions, which may require some adjustments to the nanoparticles that demonstrate the modification. Okay, do you have anything else to add? ”
Soon, Ma Botao’s summary was completed, tasks were assigned, and the meeting entered the stage of free speech.
In fact, there is nothing to talk about in terms of technology.
< br>Who is responsible for each piece has already been divided. No need to say anything else. If you really have any ideas, most of them will start testing.
Although the project is not going smoothly, everyone is currently doing it.
Confidence is still high.
Naturally, someone asked about the situation next door: "Professor Ma, how is the situation on the other side now? Didn't we say there was a breakthrough three months ago? I haven't heard any news on the other side for a long time."
“Who knows. It’s not like you don’t know Dao, there is no truth in that person named Zhang. But let’s not worry about them. I still say that the technical direction they chose is wrong!
The mechanical properties of dynamic covalent bonds are definitely wrong. There is no way to compare with our technology, as long as we do it well , the stability can far exceed their technology, not to mention how many cases of their method have been successfully applied in the field of composite materials?
Last time I told the person named Zhang that they can definitely give it to us. Give it a try, he's still not convinced! As long as we can do it this time! Success will definitely convince him! And the aerospace field has higher requirements for material durability, so we just need to do our own thing! Even if they succeed, it will be a backup option at best!"
< br>Ma Botao said decisively.
Well, it's not that there was any quarrel between Ma Botao and Zhang Zuolin, it's just that they have different ideas.
The two of them fought for a long time about this project. After both parties used their own plans to convince Party A, it became a competition between two different technical concepts.
From Party A’s point of view, I don’t want to hang myself on a rope. Even if both paths fail, I will think of other ways.
But from the perspective of both parties being direct competitors, one must think that the other party is a fool. Even though everyone knows that two different technologies have their own advantages and disadvantages.
Obviously Ma Botao's answer is to everyone's liking. It made the atmosphere of the meeting more relaxed.
A confident statement from a team leader can indeed influence the mentality of the entire team.
"By the way, Professor Ma, how's it going with Professor Luo? Do you have any feedback?" someone asked before the meeting was about to end.
“Professor Luo can’t provide much help for the time being. The main reason is that the amount of data we provide is not enough. Everyone knows the current situation, and the other side refuses to provide us with database and model support.
But it doesn’t matter, we can solve the key problems on our own question. But there is good news. Their high-dimensional dynamic simulation framework is almost ready.
So as long as our data keeps up, we should be able to get results soon. Related analysis. Okay, that’s about it for today.”
After the meeting, Ma Botao took out his cell phone and looked at it. There were two missed calls. To his surprise, they were called by Zhang Zuolin.
He is used to turning on Do Not Disturb during meetings. Fortunately, it had only been five minutes since the second missed call.
After thinking for a moment, he replied directly to Zhang Zuolin.
Although at the meeting just now, Ma Botao showed disdain for Zhang Zuolin's research.
However, after the other party answered the phone, he was still very polite.
"Brother Zuo Lin, I'm sorry. I was in a meeting just now and the phone was on silent. What's the matter?"
"Oh, it's nothing. I just want to ask if you have eaten? If not, come over and have a meal together." Right here at Yanbei Boya International Hotel."
"Brother Zuo Lin, is there anything happy today? Did you think of me while you were eating?”
“Haha, it’s actually nothing. It’s just that our project has just overcome the biggest difficulty today, and the laboratory sample is about to meet the performance requirements. Brother Bo Tao, this should be the case. It’s a happy event, right?”
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(End of this chapter)