Chapter 418 Witnessing the Moment of History
The superconducting critical temperature that Ning Chen refers to is naturally not something that can be achieved under ultra-high pressure, but a true room-temperature superconductor under normal pressure.
Being able to come up with such an experimental idea, in addition to Ning Chen’s previously accumulated knowledge of materials science and scientific research and experiments related to materials, it is also inseparable from the discovery of moon stones and the importance of the moon during this period. The study of the structure and preparation of stone.
According to Ning Chen's plan, they can successfully prepare this "room temperature superconductor" within a month at the earliest. And according to Xiaozhi's estimation, the success rate of the experiment has also reached More than fifty percent.
Ning Chen and others are very excited and looking forward to the realization of room temperature superconductivity. Ning Chen has even planned to wait until the experiment is successfully completed. After that, what applications will be carried out in the future?
"These days, there has been little change in the completion progress of my new generation of industrial revolution. It seems that a major technological breakthrough is still needed to complete this task."
See the system interface As the task completion progress bar showed, Ning Chen realized that the scientific research results prepared by Moon Stone in the laboratory would not have much to do with the new generation of industrial revolution. It would still require revolutionary technology such as room-temperature superconductivity. Help yourself accomplish the goals of the Industrial Revolution.
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With the gradual improvement of relevant preparations, Ning Chen’s experimental team officially began research on the preparation of room temperature superconductor materials.
In the years that Ning Chen has been doing scientific research, this is probably the most challenging research topic that Ning Chen has done. Its difficulty is even greater than that of controllable nuclear fusion. It has been cited by many People think that it is an impossible goal.
After all, although the research on controllable nuclear fusion was considered "forever fifty years", at least there is still some hope.
However, it is difficult for people to see the hope of successful research on room temperature superconducting technology. Some people even think that this is a technology that goes against conventional science, because if this magical substance really exists If so, then even a "perpetual motion machine" would be possible to create.
But Ning Chen doesn’t think so, because he has successfully made breakthroughs in controllable nuclear fusion technology, and room temperature superconductivity is not an impossible technology.
Over the years, humans have continued to reproduce technologies that once existed only in concepts into reality. Ning Chen will continue to rely on his own strength to complete these seemingly impossible things.
As Ning Chen expected, after the experiment started, everyone encountered many difficult problems. However, under the leadership of Ning Chen, everyone did not retreat because of these difficulties, but continued to maintain motivation and Focus and work together to solve these problems.
This has allowed Xiaozhi's successful completion rate of this project to rise from 50% at the beginning to 60% or 70%...
With the first At the end of this stage of the experiment, Ning Chen called everyone together to summarize the experiment at this stage and plan the next experimental plan.
This is Ning Chen’s habitual way of handling scientific research work. In addition to regular summaries, Ning Chen will not blindly conduct experiments according to the original plan, but will conduct experiments based on the results of previous experiments. , to fine-tune the next experimental plans to ensure that these experimental plans are the optimal solutions under the existing circumstances.
“Overall, our experiments at this stage have been very successful. We have solved many synthesis methods of molecular structures and phase change structures, and have completed 5% of the synthesis of the target product. Around ten years ago, the success rate of artificial intelligence prediction experiments is also constantly improving. But at the same time, we must continue to maintain a cautious attitude, because in the near future, we will encounter the most difficult part of this experiment... …”
In Ning Chen’s previous plan, he believed that the most difficult part of this experiment was to apply the complex material structure of moonstone to the target superconductor.
Although Ning Chen and others have overcome the problem of synthesizing this structure in previous laboratory experiments on moonstone synthesis, in fact, the difficulty of reproducing the same material structure in different materials is completely different. Previous successful experiences , and it cannot be directly copied intact.
However, after having a large amount of experimental data from the first stage, Ning Chen has thought of some possible solutions to this problem and shared these methods with everyone.
“As for the follow-up experimental plan, I now have two general directions. The first one is to follow the normal way and try to add the special properties of moonstone on the basis of the original superconducting materials. Structure. The experiment period of this method is very long, but the method is relatively mature. The second method is to use a new concept to prepare a separate special structure of the moonstone, and then focus on this special structure. This plan does not have any successful experience, but it does have a certain chance of successfully synthesizing the target substance faster..."
After listening to Ning Chen's two ideas, In this way, no one responded immediately, but quietly thought about it.
As Ning Chen just said, if it is like usual, everyone will definitely adopt the first method by default, because this is probably everyone's only choice.
However, the second material preparation method proposed by Ning Chen also has a lot of room for experimentation. It can even synthesize the target product faster than conventional methods. This makes everyone unable to help but tend to choose such a set of solutions. .
After everyone thought about it, Ning Chen was a little surprised by their final choice.
“Unexpectedly, more people still prefer the second plan. Compared with the traditional plan, everyone prefers to try some novel plans.”
Including Xu Zhou, Song Xiyun, Sui Feng and others all chose the second plan. Only Yuan Shuai, a more conservative teacher, still firmly chose the first experimental plan.
Of course, Marshal Yuan is not that stubborn and rigid person, but based on the current technical level, Marshal Yuan feels that the first option is a safer one.
"Teacher Ning, I actually think that trying the second option is a very good choice, but it is best not to give up the first option easily, in case the second option turns out to be not as easy as imagined. , we can still keep the hope of the success of the experiment."
The original commander explained to Ning Chen the reason why he chose the first option, in case Ning Chen had any misunderstanding about his idea.
Ning Chen will naturally not have any bad thoughts about the former commander because of this. In fact, Ning Chen laid out these two experimental methods for everyone to choose. It is not necessary to choose between these two methods. Choose one method. "Teacher Yuan, as you said, these two methods have their own advantages and disadvantages. Originally, I also hoped that these two experiments could be carried out at the same time, so I will continue to follow my idea and carry out this experiment. . ”
Under Ning Chen’s arrangement, the laboratory was divided into two groups. One group was headed by Yuan Shuai, who used conventional methods to synthesize room temperature superconductors. Another group, headed by Ning Chen himself, is trying to use new methods to synthesize room-temperature superconductors.
But whether it is a conventional method or a new method, Ningchen's latest "material synthesis optimization" technology will be added. It is based on materials science big data and supplemented by artificial intelligence to help everyone in the optimal way. Complete the synthesis of materials.
After the final plan was formulated and the task assignments were completed, the new experiment officially began.
Song Xiyun was assigned to the same group as Ning Chen. After the experiment started, Song Xiyun said to Ning Chen through biological programming:
"Ning Chen, I will definitely help you. Let our group synthesize room-temperature superconductors faster.”
Song Xiyun’s words seemed a bit childish, just like a performance competition between students, but in Ning Chen’s eyes, Song Xiyun like this. It does look a little cute, which adds some motivation to their experiments.
"Okay, let's prove together that our method is possible."
According to Ning Chen's idea, everyone first prepared the special material structure present in the moonstone. come out.
Of course, this material structure cannot exist alone, because if it exists alone, the strong force will destroy the normal stable structure of the material, so Ning Chen must prepare a structure for this structure. Separate frames are used to support the stability of the physical structure, and then these frames can be replaced with other structures.
The difficulty of this experiment is how to construct a material framework that is easy to replace, so that when the structure is replaced, the stability of the material will not be seriously affected, so as to avoid the difficulty of completing the experiment. Results of synthesis experiments.
After two weeks of research, Ning Chen, Song Xiyun and others successfully created a new type of nanomaterial. This nanomaterial has no other special properties. The only advantage is that it is very suitable for This experimental study was conducted because it does not easily react with other experimental raw materials and is very easy to replace.
This experimental result made Ning Chen, Song Xiyun and others feel very excited, because they all understood that with such a key result, the subsequent experiments could proceed smoothly.
"Mr. Ning, fortunately we have a technology called 'Material Synthesis Optimization' that allows us to make this new type of nanomaterial so quickly. Such a perfect framework material... This is really great It meets our experimental requirements this time!”
As the world’s top nanomaterials expert, Xu Zhou had to admire Ning Chen’s research results. Xu Zhou knew in his heart that even in the field of nanomaterials In the branch field, he is definitely not as good as Ning Chen.
“Yes, 'Material Synthesis Optimization' is indeed a very good tool. Its biggest advantage is that it can directly provide the most suitable solutions according to our goals, even if these solutions may not be the most perfect. , but it already has great reference value. Next, we can discuss how to replace these nanomaterials one by one. "
The substances they synthesize now are not the same. Superconductors, let alone room temperature superconductors, but under Xiaozhi's assessment, everyone has become closer to the final goal.
After learning about the research progress of Ning Chen's team, Yuan Shuai was very excited and did not feel any disappointment or sense of crisis because of the "competitive relationship" between the two teams.
Originally, Commander Yuan chose to be in charge of this group just to implement a backup plan. Commander Yuan did not really hope that his experimental team could compare to Ning Chen’s experimental team, but he hoped that Ning Chen would be better. The experimental team was able to successfully accomplish their goals.
After all, if my team succeeded first, although it would be a very gratifying thing, it would still be limited to traditional experimental methods and would not achieve a breakthrough in experimental methods.
Shuai Yuan is even willing that the work he has done is just useless work. Of course, even if the experiment of Ning Chen's team succeeds first, the experimental data produced by Shuai Yuan's team must be quite large. of value.
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In the following experiments, Ning Chen and others successfully replaced these nanomaterial frameworks step by step, and gradually synthesized the "room temperature superconductor" they aimed for.
The moment the experiment was successfully completed, the entire project team members were very excited, and some could not believe that they could actually complete the synthesis of this substance in a completely new way.
Although Yuan Shuai did not participate in this group's experiment, he was equally happy with their results.
However, the former commander still tried hard to suppress his inner excitement and continued to stay at his post, carrying out the synthesis work using traditional methods.
The reason why Marshal Yuan did not stop his work immediately is because the experimental work is not over yet. Even though Ning Chen’s team has successfully completed the preparation of the substance, it has not yet been confirmed that the substance is A superconductor, even a room temperature superconductor.
Ning Chen seemed to have known something in advance. He came to Yuan Shuai's experimental group and said to Yuan Shuai:
"Teacher Yuan, your experiment can be suspended for a while. We will take everyone with us." Let's go to our experimental group over there to participate in the experiment."
Hearing Ning Chen's words, the commander was stunned for a moment, then nodded and replied:
"Okay, I'll let everyone do the experiment. Simply pack up the equipment and then take them over.”
If you don’t know Ning Chen, you might think that Ning Chen is doing this to show off his experimental results.
(End of this chapter)