Chapter 282: There is great potential in this direction!
What Ning Chen said is true. When Ning Chen started to conduct experiments independently, he tried his best to publish a relatively ordinary SCI paper.
Of course, Ning Chen was just a freshman at that time, and it was already very difficult to achieve such a level.
Shuai Yuan also knew that Ning Chen was just comforting himself. Of course, he could get Ning Chen's guidance, and he was very satisfied.
Next, Ning Chen gave some of his own suggestions to Commander Yuan from the perspective of experimental ideas and experimental design.
Compared with experimental operations, Ning Chen feels that these are more important things. After all, operations can be compensated for by advanced experimental equipment, but experimental ideas and experimental designs can only be led by humans.
The former commander sighed that Yu Ning Chen had so many better experimental ideas. He listened carefully to Ning Chen's suggestions and recorded some key points.
After saying this, Ning Chen and Yuan Shuai summarized this research project together.
"Shuai Yuan, your research project this time is of great significance in the field of superconductivity. This research project has opened up a new research system on superconducting materials and proved for the first time that nickel oxidation It is possible for objects to have superconducting properties, and the critical temperature of superconducting is not too low."
After a pause, Ning Chen continued:
"In addition, this research result will also help us to study the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity more deeply, and use these theories to better design and predict superconducting materials. To be honest, Your achievement, Mr. Yuan, also helped me further revise my superconducting material prediction model.”
Ning Chen had summarized such a superconducting material prediction model before, but because there was not enough material. Because of this, this model still has certain errors.
But after adding the new experimental data of Yuan Shuai, Ning Chen raised the accuracy of this prediction model to a new level.
The commander-in-chief also didn’t expect that his research could have so many uses. This seemed like an accident.
“Ning Chen, my research still involves a lot of luck. Originally I just wanted to find a new superconductor, but in the end I discovered a high-temperature superconductor, and I also knew how to explain it. The mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity provides so much help... It seems that I still need to continue to improve my basic knowledge. ”
The former commander said this not to show off, but because there was still a gap in his abilities.
Fortunately, I had better luck this time. The difference between the experiment and the prediction made the final experimental result tilt in a better direction.
But if you are unlucky, not even a superconductor may be discovered this time, and the entire project will completely fail.
Ning Chen didn’t think this was a problem, and said with a smile:
“Commander Yuan, there is nothing to worry about, because luck is also a part of scientific research. During the process, there are often things that are inconsistent with my predictions. The most important thing is to maintain a good attitude. No matter what the results are, stay calm and summarize the experimental phenomena seriously. "
Ning Chen knew clearly that if he had not carefully studied various superconducting materials and superconducting theories, he would never have such an idea.
Luck only plays a small part in it.
After talking about the topic, Ning Chen also wanted to know the original commander’s opinion on the submission of this paper.
"Shuai Yuan, which academic journal do you want to publish this paper in?"
After thinking about it, Shuai Yuan said:
"If it's possible, of course it should be published in "Academic Sky". Even if it's a sub-journal on materials, it's fine."
Hearing Yuan Shuai's idea, Ning Chen also nodded gently. nod.
After several years of development, "Academic Sky" has become the most influential academic journal in the world's academic community.
Being able to publish an article in the main journal has become the dream of every scientific researcher in the world.
In particular, "Academic Starry Sky" is a domestic academic journal, which is the main reason why Yuan Shuai chose "Academic Starry Sky" as an ideal journal.
However, Ning Chen had different ideas from the original commander when it came to the proposal for delivering this paper.
"Commander Yuan, as far as I know, there are currently a large number of papers to be published in "Academic Starry Sky", and the journal papers in the next few months are already fully booked. And based on the standard of this paper, it has been successfully published. It is possible that the main journal of "Academic Sky" will accept it, but I cannot accurately judge the specific possibility. "
Although Ning Chen is one of the chief editors and chief reviewer of "Academic Sky". People, but Ning Chen cannot rely on his own judgment to decide whether a paper can be successfully published in a journal.
"In comparison, the possibility of this paper being accepted by the Materials Journal of "Academic Star" will naturally be much greater. However, I think your paper is more suitable to be submitted first. Try an academic journal with a higher impact factor.”
Hearing Ning Chen’s words, Yuan Shuai asked in surprise:
"Then...which academic journal do you think is more suitable for me to submit to?"
"Let's try submitting to the main journal of "Nature" first. Although the current "Nature" is not as good as "Academic Starry Sky" ", but its influence in the international academic community is still very high. Based on the quality of your paper, there is still a lot of hope that it will be accepted by the main journal of "Nature"."
" But... Ning Chen, I still prefer to invest in domestic academic journals. Didn’t you say before that we should focus on developing domestic academic journals so that our academic community in Xia can develop better and better? "< br>
Otherwise, there would be no need for Ning Chen to put all his efforts into establishing "Academic Starry Sky", a domestic academic journal.
When he first founded this academic journal, Ning Chen even gave up submitting his papers to top journals such as "Nature" and chose to publish them all in the newly established "Academic Sky", even if No paper awards can be obtained.
"Commander Yuan, this is actually not a contradiction. Now you have just started to independently carry out your own project. You still need to accumulate enough scientific research results before you can rise to a higher level and then consider Xia Guo's academic work. When I first started doing scientific research, I had similar ideas.”
In fact, at the beginning, Ning Chen had similar ideas to the current commander, and even participated in it. When Qiucheng competed with college students in mathematics competitions, Ning Chen also felt some inner resistance to the process of studying and answering papers in English.
But Ning Chen also knew that only in this way could he reach a higher level more quickly and have the possibility of founding "Academic Starry Sky" in the future.
After listening to Ning Chen’s explanation, the former commander also understood Ning Chen’s thoughts.
"Ning Chen, I understand. I will try to submit to the main journal of "Nature" first. But when my ability is strong enough, I will still give priority to domestic academics as I hoped before. Journal submission of papers.”
"Okay, I believe such a day will come soon." Ning Chen said with a smile.
...After discussing various issues on this topic with Ning Chen, Yuan Shuai compiled the research results into a paper and submitted it to the main journal of "Nature".
After receiving this submitted paper from Yuan Shuai, the editor of "Nature" also attached great importance to it.
Because of the paper submission unit, at first, they were a little surprised to think that this would be the paper Ning Chen submitted to the journal.
Since the founding of "Academic Starry Sky", Ning Chen has not submitted papers to the main journal of "Nature". This has also affected the quality of "Nature" journal papers to a certain extent, resulting in the impact factor of "Nature" being compared with It had dropped quite a bit before.
They know that the quality of a journal's papers cannot rely on one author, but the existence of Ning Chen does have a great impact on the quality of the journal's editing.
They understood very well that Ning Chen founded an academic journal on his own, but they also looked forward to the day when Ning Chen would again choose "Nature" as the target for paper submission.
However, when they saw clearly the author of the paper submission, they discovered that this was not the paper submitted by Ning Chen.
"It turns out that Ning Chen is from the same laboratory at the same school... But from this point of view, at least Ning Chen has read this paper and may have provided guidance."
They knew how high Ning Chen's status was at Shengzhou University, and it was unlikely that such a relatively high-quality paper would be submitted directly to Ning Chen.
However, I wonder what the editors of "Nature" would think if they knew the content of the conversation between Ning Chen and the former commander.
As expected, Yuan Shuai's paper successfully passed the preliminary review of "Nature" and was judged by the editors to be a paper of focus, and reviewers were prioritized for review.
On the other hand, after Ning Chen finished following the experimental subject of Yuan Shuai, he was also thinking about the possibility of continuing to move forward in this direction.
"If my guess is not wrong... there should be more than just one type of nickel oxide superconductor."
And Ning Chen feels that if we continue to explore in this direction, we are likely to discover some superconductors with higher superconducting critical temperatures in the future.
After confirming this idea, Ning Chen began to predict the next material.
This is Ning Chen's consistent way of doing scientific research projects. Before officially conducting an experiment, Ning Chen will predict the process and results of the experiment in advance and make a very detailed plan.
Ning Chen would never pin his scientific research results on luck. Things like accidentally discovering a superconducting material may happen, but this kind of research method will be very inefficient.
Soon, Ning Chen used the superconducting model he had constructed to predict nickel oxide superconductors.
Now Ning Chen has the help of both Xiaozhi and Quantum Leap. He can construct various models and complete complex calculations in the shortest time. This has doubled Ning Chen's work efficiency.
Of course, Ning Chen will still not rely on artificial intelligence and quantum computers, but will insist on focusing on himself and ensuring that the entire research process is in accordance with his own ideas.
After a process of modeling and calculation, Xiaozhi successfully predicted multiple nickel oxides that may achieve superconducting properties, and predicted the corresponding superconducting critical temperature.
"That's right... After so many trainings, Xiaozhi, your ability is much stronger than before." Ning Chenxin said.
It is no exaggeration to say that once Xiaozhi continues to make progress, it may really replace many human jobs and directly help humans solve some complex problems.
Xiaozhi now has a very high level of intelligence and can break through the Turing test very easily, which is far beyond the comparison of artificial intelligence with the capabilities of ChatGPT.
Even in terms of the method of material synthesis, Xiaozhi also gave Ning Chen some possible recommendations for Ning Chen to refer to.
However, Xiaozhi is still a little immature when it comes to material synthesis plans, and Ning Chen still needs to handle these tasks personally.
"In the field of materials science, there is still some gap between you and me, Xiaozhi. After all, I am also at the Lv3 level of materials science."
The subject level of Lv3 It doesn't seem to be outstanding, but under the strict rating standards of the system, this is undoubtedly the world's top level.
After identifying several materials with high research value, Ning Chen began to study the possible synthesis methods of these materials.
Material synthesis has always been a key and difficult issue in the field of materials. Even if the structure of a material is accurately predicted, it does not mean that the material can be processed smoothly.
Ning Chen first conducted a detailed analysis of the structures of these substances, and then predicted the properties of these substances.
After that, Ning Chen used Xiaozhi to search for relevant documents and look for some possible synthesis methods.
These past synthesis methods may not be really effective. Some papers still have data deviations and even academic fraud, but they can still provide Ning Chen with a lot of ideas.
After some analysis and research, Ning Chen has determined some material synthesis methods that can be tried.
“Now it’s time to select some precursors.”
The so-called precursors refer to some experimental raw materials used in the process of synthesizing the target substance.
This is a very important step in the material synthesis experiment.
To put it simply, the choice of precursor is directly related to the composition of the elements contained in the substance.
Of course, it is not enough to simply select precursors based on the elemental composition of the substance. Appropriate precursors must also be selected based on various experimental conditions in the synthesis method.
“Well...if we look at these reaction conditions, it should be more appropriate to choose these types of precursors.”
The selection of precursors and the experimental synthesis method were determined , experimental reaction conditions, etc., the remaining work is experimental verification.
After sorting out these experimental plans, Ning Chen came to the laboratory the next day to prepare for this new experiment.
(End of this chapter)