Chapter 235 I am the authority in the superconducting world!
At this time, Xu Zhou couldn't help but become excited.
In all these years of scientific research, Xu Zhou has experienced something similar for the first time. Compared with the ordinary scientific research life, this incident is indeed more exciting.
Now Xuzhou is even looking forward to how things will develop next.
That evening, Ning Chen and others compiled a new paper and published it on arXiv.
If you continue to choose the arXiv platform, you can publish your paper faster, so that people all over the world can see the content of this paper for the first time.
In this paper, Ning Chen announced the detailed experimental steps during the experiment, and even shared the precise data of the experimental conditions without reservation.
Although these data have certain confidentiality significance, Ning Chen still knows which point is more important than affecting his academic reputation.
According to these detailed experimental steps and accurate experimental data, as long as the laboratory has a scientific research environment and scientific research capabilities that meet the standards, the experiment can be reproduced.
Shortly after Ning Chen published the paper, the paper aroused heated discussions in academic circles around the world.
"The Ningchen team has published a new paper on room temperature superconductivity? It seems that they are not ready to admit defeat on this matter yet?"
"So many laboratories have successfully reproduced the Experiments on room-temperature superconductivity, it seems that there are problems with the experiments of Ning Chen’s team.”
“Huh? This paper seems to list a lot of detailed experimental conditions, and these data are from all previous papers. "
"If so much detailed data is released, things will really become more interesting. I wonder if several other laboratories would dare to release these detailed experimental data. , to see if the experimental conditions between them are the same."
"After Ning Chen published this paper, the pressure returned to the South Korea Laboratory. If Ning Chen did not have full confidence. The team should not dare to publish these experimental conditions publicly.”
As this matter fermented, more scientific research teams paid attention to this matter and prepared to conduct recurrence experiments of this suspected room-temperature superconducting material.
After the scientific research team in South Korea learned about this incident, the entire team became even more uneasy.
"Ning Chen...actually made all these data public?"
Lin Zhongxuan also had to admit that Ning Chen's approach was really decisive, and it could be said that it was blocked all of a sudden. Their escape route.
But this cannot be blamed on Ning Chen, because everything Ning Chen did was very reasonable and completely based on an objective scientific perspective.
If I had to blame, I could only blame the member of my team who published untrue experimental results in advance without authorization, and his repeated wrong decisions.
However, things have reached this point, and Lin Jonghyun has no room to retreat.
After thinking about it, Lin Jonghyun could only call the team members together again to discuss the future response plan.
Everyone looked at the experimental data in Ning Chen's paper, and their faces were very solemn.
They are all people who have participated in the entire experiment. They know that Ning Chen's experimental data are very accurate and can indeed produce the same experimental product.
Even the differences in some data are due to the optimization of experimental conditions and will not cause differences in experimental results.
At this time, a team member said:
"Professor Lin, now we can only continue to deny these experimental conditions of Ning Chen. Many subtle differences in experimental conditions will affect The last experimental phenomenon. As long as we insist on not publishing our experimental conditions, there is still room for relaxation. "
What this member said does make some sense, because many materials science experiments are. It is difficult to reproduce, which can indeed be an excuse for them to continue to quibble.
And when general laboratories publish papers, they will indeed omit some important experimental conditions to prevent other laboratories from easily replicating their experiments.
As long as there are not many laboratories to replicate this experiment in the future, then there is hope that this matter will be dealt with coldly and no longer attract too many people's attention.
A few days later, Nam Goryeo’s laboratory published another paper on arXiv.
To be precise, this is not a standard paper, but more like an explanation of the situation.
But because this matter has attracted so much attention, the website still allowed the publication of this "paper".
In the paper, Lin Zhongxuan said that the experimental product made by Ning Chen was very similar to their experimental product, but it was not exactly the same product.
Because there is a certain degree of confidentiality in this result, Lin Jonghyun will not release his detailed data to the public, and hopes that everyone will end the discussion on this matter.
This paper by Lin Jonghyun did not achieve the desired effect. On the contrary, it attracted more laboratories to participate in the reproduction of this experiment. Many universities at home and abroad, including Harvard University, Stanford University, MIT, Shuimu University, and Yenching University, have laboratories ready to conduct replication experiments in an effort to obtain real experimental results.
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In the following time, Ning Chen did not pay attention to this matter anymore, but continued to conduct his own superconducting experiments.
In fact, no matter how others view it, the experimental differences between himself and the South Korea scientific research team will not have any impact on Ning Chen's research.
Normally Ning Chen doesn’t pay attention to all kinds of news from the outside world. He mostly just searches for various academic papers.
As time passes day by day, other experimental teams have completed repeated experiments on this suspected room-temperature superconductor.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences was one of the first experimental teams to complete this replication experiment, and also published their experimental paper on arXiv.
This experiment was led by Tao Wei. The purpose of the experiment was mainly to train some young researchers and did not pursue any scientific research results.
Of course, Tao Wei also wanted to know whether what happened this time was right or wrong.
Based on his understanding of Ning Chen, Tao Wei believed that the paper published by Ning Chen must be completely true.
Through this experiment, Tao Wei also confirmed his previous conjecture.
This material that is suspected to be a room temperature superconductor is indeed just a magnetic material and does not have any completely conductive properties.
After completing the synthesis and measurement of substances, Tao Wei also informed Ning Chen about the matter.
"Mr. Ning, our Chinese Academy of Sciences has completed the reproduction of the experiment, and there are no problems with your paper. We compared your paper with that of the South Korea scientific research team and confirmed that the two substances are indeed exactly the same. It's just that we don't know Why did the scientific research team of South Korea do such a thing? "
"Thank you, Academician Tao, I only carried out the reproduction of this experiment out of rigorous scientific research. As for South Korea. I don’t know anything about the Korean team.”
In fact, Ning Chen has some speculations about this South Korean scientific research team, but there is no clear evidence for these speculations. I don't intend to spend any energy pursuing this matter.
All Ning Chen had to do was to follow science and state his experimental conclusions objectively.
After the Chinese Academy of Sciences completed this replication experiment, universities including Stanford, MIT, Harvard and other institutions also completed their replication experiments one after another.
Without exception, their experimental results point to the fact that this material is not a room-temperature superconductor, but just a magnetic material.
Such experimental results have gradually shifted the direction of public opinion.
“If we say that the scientific research teams of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuimu, and Yanda University may come to negative results because of their personal relationship with Ning Chen, but even those foreign universities have come to the same conclusion. Conclusion, that can fully explain the problem."
"I just said that it is not that easy to make a superconductor at room temperature. Now we have not even discovered a 150K superconducting material, how could it be possible all at once. What about the discovery of room-temperature superconductors? ”
“It seems that the problem lies with the scientific research team in South Korea. But I have a question, why have several experimental groups successfully reproduced their experiments? But the laboratories of other universities later stated that the material reproduced was not a superconductor?”
"Just look at the experiences of those laboratories. They are all laboratories with very average reputations. Maybe they have some shady dealings with the laboratories in South Korea. But the laboratories behind them , all come from top universities in the world, and their credibility is much higher.”
In the face of these conclusive experimental results, the scientific research team of South Korea has nothing to argue with and has no choice but to choose. Treat this matter coldly and no longer respond to matters related to room temperature superconductors.
In fact, at this time, the entire academic community has reached a unanimous conclusion that this material is not a normal temperature superconductor, not even a superconductor, but a special magnetic material.
Only some non-academic people will firmly believe that the scientific research team of South Korea did not continue to respond to this matter just to keep it confidential, and feel that this room temperature superconducting material really exists.
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Since publishing a paper containing detailed experimental procedures and data on arXiv, Ning Chen has not participated in this matter again, but has quietly focused his energy on his own research.
After constant experimentation, summary, analysis, and improvement, Ning Chen and Yuan Shuai finally successfully synthesized the ideal substance.
This substance is a copper oxide, but it is different from previous cuprate superconducting materials.
When Ning Chen designed this material, he added a lot of theories from the study of iron-based superconductors, which made this material special.
(End of this chapter)