Compared to the impetuousness of others in the laboratory, Liu Hao is still calm.

In fact, the properties of materials that are easy to test can also be achieved with ordinary materials, so there is no need for such trouble.

Therefore, the most critical technical indicators of this smart material are those that require time to be measured.

Fortunately, it doesn't take much time. You can roughly judge the self-repair efficiency and fracture strength recovery rate in the next 24 hours or so in one hour.

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 there was no need to wait too long. Liu Hao even waited until the key technical indicators of the third and fourth batches of materials mentioned by Qiao Yu were released.

“Sure enough, the performance of No. 3-3 and No. 3-4 is the most perfect in all aspects at present. The one-hour breaking strength recovery rate exceeds 70%, which means that it can reach at least 80% after one day.

The self-healing performance has also reached a record high in laboratory history, and is estimated to be close to 90%. The key is that the average performance of all samples currently 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 the excitement, everyone's emotions were a bit hard to describe...

It's a very strange feeling, probably like cheating on an exam to get a high score. After all, everyone has been busy in the laboratory for so long, but there has been no great results.

As a result, people randomly took the data to analyze and came to guide the experiment, and the direction was found, which was amazing.

Although this has happened before, when I cooperated with other professors, they always gave me a data analysis report directly.

Then they adjusted the experimental process based on the report. 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 keep an eye on it for now. I'll report the good news to the boss quickly. By the way, there must be someone in the lab guarding the lab 24 hours a day these days. You can arrange a duty schedule."

Liu Hao confessed and then walked out of the laboratory.

…

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, as he was about 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 currently unseen intelligent materials project. Then he will ask Liu Hao to be his assistant and focus mainly on this fund project.

Although it is said that 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, we might be able to be elected as an academician in the future.

Relatively speaking, Zhang Zuolin feels that he still has a chance. With the platform of Yanbei University, he has already won the title of leading talent in technology entrepreneurship.

Although he is not as good as an outstanding student, if he works hard in the key projects needed by the country and achieves results, and the school helps him, he might be able to do it.

After all, he still has an advantage in terms of age.

As for cool knowledge, the platform recommends 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 a withdrawal mechanism for academicians, there is basically no withdrawal.

What really restricts the ability of academicians to exert their energy is the title of senior academician that is awarded to them when they reach the age of eighty.

The official definition of the title of senior academician has different meanings from describing a senior academician with a reputation for excellence.

Because in principle, when you reach this age, you can no longer hold leadership positions in the Academy of Sciences and departments, and you can no longer 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.

Therefore, 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.

In fact, 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 meet Party A’s requirements! We have now produced six batches of a total of thirty samples, and the average performance of each has reached the previous performance indicators.

Ten percent of the samples have shown key indicators that are of high value. I estimate that in one or two months at most, we will be able to produce the finished product."

I’m so excited, it’s impossible to fake it…

But this is indeed good news.

Party A of this cooperation is the big boss, and this research project itself is also one of the sub-projects supporting the larger project.

If they can succeed, it means that they will definitely be chosen first for similar projects in the future.

It's just that this news is 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 all of a sudden? Is there a laboratory miracle?"

Zhang Zuolin asked subconsciously.

"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, and he helped with the analysis. He said he planned to use a new method to try to analyze it for us.

I gave him all the data. No, I used it for more than half a month. Today I suddenly said that there were results, and then gave us some suggestions. And all these batch samples were strictly in accordance with the experimental process he gave today.

It is recommended to operate.

As a result, the test results of these batches of samples were surprisingly good. By the way, Qiao Yu also said that according to the data released this time, it may also give a better solution. "

After listening to Liu Hao's words, Zhang Zuolin felt that he couldn't sit still. It was the metaphor again!

To talk about it, Qiao Yu's reputation among the professors is even larger than the students.

Mainly it is too capable!

If Zhang Zuolin has an age advantage, then Qiao Yu's age advantage is almost against the sky.

Especially the papers of the broad model axiom system, coupled with the element of the above -mentioned papers, many people think that next year, Qiao Yu is already qualified to accompany the Phils Award and become the first minor Philz Award.

Nominee.

At the age of seventeen, it is very likely that the twenty -one -year -old Napfield Award is very high. Even if he does not need to do anything, even if someone uses his method, it proves that such as twin prime conjectures, or other well -known number theory issues

He is qualified to win prizes.

This also means that Qiao Yu will be the youngest Phils award winner, and will also get many world math awards. Of course, it also includes domestic mathematics awards.

With these achievements, plus Tian Yanzhen and Yuan Zhengxin stood behind him, it was difficult to say when Qiao Yu could become an academician.

But one thing is certain, it will definitely not exceed 30 years old. It may not even exceed 25 years old.

There is no way. When some people do not need the aura of the academician to increase the light to it, but the academician group needs to suck Qiao Yu in to prove that its professionalism and justice, the so -called age problem is not so important.

What should I do?

The youngest Philz Award in the world can't enter the eyes of a group of academicians of a group of mathematics in Huaxia? It is difficult to say who is embarrassing.

In response to the above reasons, the discussion about Qiao Yu has not only been in the mathematical world.

Even the performance of Qiao Yu in the Huaxia Mathematics Conference has not been reported. It is not worth reporting. In fact, it is also considered that Qiao Yu's age does not want to hold too high now.

Of course, from another perspective, they also leave face for a lot of mathematics guys. After all, they all publicize Qiao Yu, so what do the professors who get the award at the meeting think?

Yesterday, Zhang Zuolin was talking about Qiao Yu at a meal. He was very fortunate to look at Tian Yanzhen's face last time and follow the consultant fee for Qiao Yu directly according to the top grid.

Who thought of the name of Qiao Yu from Liu Hao's mouth today.

"I remember Professor Lu said before that your data is not enough, and you can't analyze the results?"

"Yeah, Qiao Yu said that he used a new way. By the way, I also left him in the laboratory. I planned to invite him to dinner at night. After all, this time I really helped us."

"Oh? He's still there? Well, I'll go over there now. You book a private room at the Boya International Center, and I'll treat you to the meal."

"Okay, then I want to call and place an order now."

"Um."

…

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, you need to 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 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 should also be directly related to the modal density distribution.

Qiao Yu felt that the Huairou Institute's research must have used the results of Linhai Jiaotong University and Shuangdan University.

However, China has made remarkable achievements in specific research and has leading advantages. 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 combined with 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 hit the weak spot of the current domestic research results as soon as he took action.

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 do something, but the obstacles in front of him happened to be Professor Frank's alma mater and the school where he currently works.

What's 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.

It's good. Now we just have to contact Huairou Institute. If we can get this cooperation, we should be able to build our reputation.

I was making plans for the future in my mind when I saw Liu Hao leading someone 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, Professor Zhang Zuolin, a professor at the School of Chemistry in our school and a national leading talent."

Oh, this is the real financial boss behind the scenes.

Qiao Yu stood up immediately.

After all, they had given him more than one million in real money before. Moreover, the money was completely unexpected. Qiao Yu was always very polite when dealing with the big money owner.

"Hello, Professor Zhang. Director Tian always says that you are one of the most promising professors in the School of Chemistry, and Senior Brother Liu also says that you are a very good and responsible instructor. I have always regretted that I have not been able to meet you. Today

It’s such an honor!”

When it comes to business exchanges, Qiao Yu always speaks with his mouth. By the way, he brought Director Tian and Senior Brother Liu with him to make his words more convincing.

After all, every investor who can distribute the profits he can earn up to two million without hesitation deserves such respect.

Zhang Zuolin was stunned.

Really, based on his previous stereotype of the genius students in the School of Mathematics, 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 more talkative than him.

As a result, he stretched out his hands, but his mind was stuck for a second, and he forgot what he was about to say.

Fortunately, the professors who were able to pull the project off all belonged to the old world, and they reacted instantly.

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 talked about you and praised you.

!

By the way, I haven’t even thanked you in person for what happened last time, and I owe this project to you again. You even say that, which makes me feel embarrassed. You are truly a young genius.”

Liu Hao stood nearby and kept smiling. But it was not certain whether he was smiling in his heart.

After all, it is probably a very novel experience to watch a sixteen-year-old boy exchanging business blows with his mentor.

What left him speechless the most was that he stood nearby and couldn't say anything.

"You're so flattering. Unlike you who have always done practical things, my research is all theoretical. It's worthless, and I can't really be called a genius!"

"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!

It can be said that it will directly affect the future development of the country's aerospace field. You have done us a big favor this time. I don't know how to thank you. In this way, I will prepare a little wine tonight..."

"Ahem..."

Liu Hao, who finally found the opportunity, coughed twice, and then quickly reminded him: "Um... boss, Qiao Yu is not of age yet, so he can't drink."

Zhang Zuolin glared at Liu Hao 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, and leave one person in the laboratory to guard the rest.

Let’s all pack up quickly and 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 was really curious about this question. Of course, anyone who was engaged in chemistry and wanted to enter a laboratory would 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."

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 and said: "Well, Professor Ma from the Huairou Institute thinks their method is more practical. And he does have some research on block copolymers."

Qiao Yu asked curiously: "Professor Ma? I just read a document about block copolymers. It's called Ma Botao, but it's from the Institute of Applied Chemistry, Shuangdan University."

Zhang Zuolin smiled and replied: "Yes, that is his article. He used to be at Shuangdan University and was just transferred to the capital last year."

Qiao Yu nodded, no wonder, it turned out to be the same person.

"Um...Professor Zhang, are you familiar with Professor Ma? Do you think you can introduce me to him?"

Zhang Zuolin was startled for a moment, then smiled and asked, "What? Do you still want to try that new method and see if it can be used on their side?"

Qiao Yu nodded generously. There was nothing he was embarrassed to admit.

Although the two sides are competitors, since he wants to do this, he might as well tell Professor Zhang directly.

"Well, let's just ask him to have a meal together, but if he doesn't have time, we'll do it 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 that it is full of coincidences, but also that many physical laws also apply 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 side, in fact the researchers and students involved in the project in Huairou also felt the pressure from the other side.

There is no way, the School of Chemistry of Yanbei University is not unknown in the field of scientific research. Just being the only one among universities in the country where all secondary subjects of chemistry are key subjects already shows 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 the balance between thermodynamics and dynamics that is difficult to grasp.

In addition, the memory performance of gels grown in the laboratory begins to decay rapidly within a few cycles, and the recovery efficiency of fracture strength also begins to weaken.

As for the response temperature that often deviates from the design value, and the block copolymer becomes 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 due to the phase separation-polymerization cycle caused by temperature changes.

The gel network is destroyed.

The solution currently being considered is to try to develop lighter interfacial interactions, which may require some adjustments to the nanoparticles that demonstrate the modification. Okay, does anyone 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.

Who is responsible for each piece has already been divided. There is no need to say anything else. If you really have any ideas, most of them will start testing directly.

Although the project is not going smoothly, everyone is still very confident.

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 anything about the other side for a long time."

"Who knows? It's not like you don't know that 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 incomparable to 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 man named Zhang that they could definitely give us a hand, but he was still not convinced! As long as we can succeed this time, we will definitely convince him! Moreover, the aerospace field has higher requirements on the durability of materials.

.So we just need to do our best! Even if they succeed, it will only be a backup option at most!"

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 had been fighting 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, it doesn't want to hang on a rope, and even if both paths fail, it 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 if everyone knows that two different technologies have their own advantages and disadvantages.

Obviously Ma Botao's answer was to everyone's liking and 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 by ourselves. But there is good news, their high-dimensional dynamic simulation framework is almost ready.

So as long as our data here keeps up, we should be able to get results soon and provide us with relevant analysis. Okay, let’s just finish here today.”

After the meeting, Ma Botao took out his cell phone and looked at it. There were two missed calls. To his surprise, it was Zhang Zuolin calling.

He was 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.

But 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 muted. 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 any happy event today? Did you treat me to dinner and thought of me?"

"Haha, it's nothing actually. We just overcame the biggest difficulty in our project today, and the laboratory sample will soon meet the performance requirements. Brother Bo Tao, this should be considered a happy event, right?"
Chapter completed!