Obviously, Professor Stanley wasn't the only one who was shocked.
Director Li brought the sample back to Beijing and helped Lu Zhou register the patent. He then asked someone to send it to the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation.
The next morning, Academician Yuan Huanmin rushed to the State Administration for National Defense and found Director Li's office.
"That SF-1 Super Fiber! Which department made it?! "
Director Li stared at Academician Yuan, who was standing at the door, dumbfounded. Director Li's face was filled with shock.
If he didn't remember wrongly.
The bag of samples should have been delivered to this old academician yesterday afternoon …
"Ahem, have some water and calm down." Director Li coughed and looked at his secretary, who was also shocked. He said, "Xiao Li, go pour a cup of tea for Academician Yuan."
"Oh, okay."
The secretary, Xiao Li, quickly walked over to the cabinet with the electric kettle. Before long, he returned with two cups of tea and placed them on the coffee table in the office.
Director Li stood up from his desk and pulled Academician Yuan to sit down on the sofa in front of the coffee table.
"Didn't you ask me to ask Academician Lu if he could make this thing? When I went to Jinling this time, I casually asked him about it, and he gave it to me. "
Academician Yuan Huanmin was fine when he heard the first part, but when he heard the second part, he nearly spat out the water in his mouth.
"Then he gave you this thing?" Academician Yuan forcefully swallowed a mouthful of tea. His face was red, and his excited voice was filled with disbelief. "What the hell?"
Looking at his muddled expression, Director Li could probably understand his mood, so he couldn't help but smile bitterly.
"I know you're surprised, I'm actually more surprised than you. From the time I asked him if he could make it to the time he gave me the finished product, it took less than five minutes. You can imagine the look on my face … I was even more shocked than you are now. "
Academician Yuan looked at Director Li, who was sitting across from him. He nodded, then shook his head.
If this was the case, he could imagine Director Li's surprise at the time. However, what he couldn't imagine was how Lu Zhou made this thing in five minutes!
"But how did he —"
"I know what you want to ask, but I don't know either. I only heard that it's a computational materials science method to build a model, then quickly verify it in the laboratory … Let's not talk about that for now. Tell me, is this thing easy to use?"
"Only useful?" Academician Yuan smiled and shook his head. He sighed and said, "Have you seen nylon rope before?"
"Of course I have. What's wrong?"
"Replace the polyamide fiber with the super fiber you gave me yesterday." Academician Yuan looked at Director Li and said in a serious tone, "The tensile strength will increase by at least a thousand times."
"A thousand times?!"
Director Li was shocked by this number. He couldn't help but ask.
"Is, is it that exaggerated?"
Academician Yuan Huanmin looked at Director Li's face and shook his head.
"It's not exaggerated at all."
The Young's modulus of nylon rope was about 1.4 GPa, and the Young's modulus of this SF-1 super fiber had changed from GPa to TPa. Even if a series of factors such as the process were taken into account, this wasn't an exaggeration at all.
"It's not an exaggeration to say that using this thing as fabric or clothing is like a bulletproof vest without the ceramic lining. If this thing was used as a rope, it would have the tensile strength of an aircraft carrier's arresting rope. We haven't tested the other physical properties, but in terms of tensile strength, I can't think of a material that's stronger than it! "
"It's that nutty …"
"It's not just nutty." Academician Yuan sighed and said, "The only thing that limits its use is our imagination, maybe …"
"Maybe?"
Academician Yuan pondered for a while and felt like his idea was too ridiculous. He quickly shook his head and denied his idea.
"No, that … is a bit exaggerated."
Director Li was tickled by this guy's suspense, and he immediately asked anxiously.
"What do you mean it's too exaggerated?"
Academician Yuan Huanmin hesitated for a while and finally spoke.
Academician Yuan Huanmin felt like his actions were a bit immoral. He hesitated for a bit and finally spoke.
"What I want to say is, maybe even the space elevator …"
"It's possible!"
…
As the saying went, the more you know, the less imagination you have.
Scholars like Dyson were in the minority. Most people would gradually lose their seemingly unrealistic fantasies about science as their knowledge and understanding of science increased.
It was quite strange for Director Li to hear the word "space elevator" from Yuan Huanmin, an old academician who had been in the aerospace field for decades.
However, compared to the space station at the Lagrange point and the scientific research station on Mars, this thing was still a bit beyond his imagination.
Regardless of how surprised he was at this moment …
When Academician Yuan went to his office, the entire materials science community was shocked by a paper!
Water Wood Forum.
"Have you guys seen that paper? It's the one that God Lu recently uploaded to arXiv! "
"We didn't follow it, we're in materials engineering, not mathematics and physics. Why would we care about his paper?"
"He published a paper in the field of materials!"
"F * ck?! Is this for real? How long has it been since he last researched materials? Didn't he go to physics? "
"He resigned from the position of chairman of the ILHCRC some time ago … Let's not talk about this, hurry up and read it. When our professor just saw the paper, he was so surprised that his jaw dropped!"
The title of the paper was very short, so short that it could be read in two seconds.
However, the amount of information in it was enormous!
Since the birth of the discipline of computational materials science, the theoretical calculation of complex systems had faced two major challenges. One was how to transform accurate theoretical treatment at the microscopic level into a direct description of mesoscopic and macroscopic phenomena. The other was how to further improve the accuracy of the density functional method, which was the basis of existing large-scale calculations.
The limitations of implicit functional density in describing van der Waals forces, metal bonds, and other problems had always been a big headache for researchers in the field of computational materials science.
But now, this problem was actually solved so easily by a paper on arXiv?
Everyone was shocked by this unexpected news.
And not just that!
What was even more surprising was that the name of this paper was actually Lu Zhou!
Since his last achievement, many people couldn't even remember how long it had been since he last engaged in materials science research.
No one expected that his resignation from the ILHCRC board of directors was actually to pave the way for his return to materials science.
What was even more unexpected was that as soon as he came back, he did such an earth-shattering thing …
This was terrifying!
(The battle of the girls has begun ~ The upper right corner of the bookshelf can help, please everyone ~ ~)
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