Jin Ling University's computational materials laboratory.
Lu Zhou looked at the black cylinder gradually taking shape under the guidance of the blue beam of light inside the translucent cube. He spoke in a rather emotional tone.
"When I was at the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study, Dr. Hou, and Deputy Director Yang discussed how to steadily synthesize SG-1 superconducting materials. Deputy Director Yang smoked in the corridor all afternoon … Guess how we solved it in the end?"
The device placed in front of him was the core facility of the Institute of Computational Materials — a molecular-level 3D printer.
Unlike the popular household 3D printers on the market, the awesome thing about this thing was that it could autonomously set the spatial order of atomic stacking within a certain precision range, and even adjust the energy of chemical bonds.
This meant that regardless of whether molecules existed in nature, as long as they could logically exist, they could be "printed" in batches through this thing.
Lu Zhou couldn't think of a suitable word to describe how awesome this device was. Just like how few people could accurately describe how awesome his hyperspace theory was.
But there was no doubt that if this thing was brought to the 21st century, materials scientists, biologists, and medical scientists around the world would go crazy with excitement …
The young PhD student who was standing next to Lu Zhou asked curiously, "How did you solve it?"
"Vapor deposition method."
"Vapor deposition method." Lu Zhou smiled and said, "I don't know if we can still do this, but the only method we could think of at the time was to stack the graphene six-grid layer by layer at an angle of 1.1 °, forming a Mott insulator between the cross-sections of each layer. Then, we found the 'half-filled' structure that we dreamed of."
The young PhD student spoke.
"That's … That's too complicated."
He originally wanted to say that it was troublesome, but he felt that it would be rude.
Lu Zhou looked at the expression on the young man's face and continued with a smile.
"… The technical route of the vapor deposition method is locked, and the road ahead is a little smoother. We tried to improve the laboratory preparation method, worked with engineers from Baosheng Group, and found a way to industrialize mass production. However, even so, the cost is only 'acceptable' for a strategic industrial facility like the controllable fusion core. "
"In the past, a scientific idea needed to go through rigorous argumentation, as well as design experiments that would make one's scalp numb. Only then could the idea be tested. But now, the cost of verifying an idea is only one hour and 10,000 credits. "
"The technology of this era is really beyond my imagination."
After hearing the praise from the founder of computational materials science, the PhD student scratched his head in embarrassment.
"Actually, it's not as exaggerated as you say … There are too many scientific researchers in the Pan-Asian Cooperation, and our funding is very limited. In fact, there are not many opportunities to try. Also, most of the novel materials have already been discovered when the molecular printing technology first came out. If we want to make new results now, we still have to go through rigorous calculations and design. "
Lu Zhou smiled and shook his head.
"What a blissful complaint."
"Be content, child."
Hearing the word "child", the PhD student's expression was a little strange.
Although this big shot came from a hundred years ago, he didn't look much older than himself.
Not caring about what this young man from the 22nd century felt, Lu Zhou glanced at the translucent cube in front of him and spoke.
"I already understand the basic situation. I have some ideas here that I want to verify. You can go now."
"Do you know how to use the equipment here?"
Lu Zhou smiled faintly.
"You're underestimating me too much. Before I entered the laboratory, I did some homework."
"How could I underestimate you …" The PhD student scratched the back of his head awkwardly. "I'm just worried that you don't know how to operate these new equipment. But if you insist, I won't stay here. "
As he spoke, he walked towards the door.
But at this moment, Lu Zhou stopped him from behind.
"Wait a minute."
After hearing Academician Lu stop himself, the PhD student stopped and asked him something.
"What's up?"
Lu Zhou smiled and said.
"If it's convenient, can you pour me a cup of coffee? Instant is fine. "
…
What surprised Lu Zhou was that there was no such thing as instant coffee here. It was either a coffee machine or the canned, bottled, or bagged coffee drinks sold in convenience stores.
People in this era didn't seem to like boiling water very much. Although the drink brewed with dry powder had not retired from the stage of history, it had become a rare thing. Few people would deliberately prepare it at home or in the office.
After taking a sip of the bitter black coffee, Lu Zhou put the cup on the table. He then took out a memory card the size of a pen cap and gently placed it on the holographic computer host in the laboratory.
As the blue beam lit up, the holographic image of Xiao Ai quickly appeared in front of him.
"The laboratory is successfully taken over! Now it belongs to Xiao Ai! Φ (≧ ω ∀ *)?? "
Looking at the little guy jumping up and down restlessly in the holographic beam, Lu Zhou spoke.
"Don't do anything, we're just borrowing the equipment here. We have to return it after we're done."
Xiao Ai: "Understood! What does Master need Xiao Ai for? (?????)????”
Lu Zhou did not answer immediately. Instead, he took out an orange-yellow metal ball about the size of a fist from his arms and gently placed it on the table next to him.
Slaughter Core.
The original memory of the "Private-1" smart human guard!
Although his intuition told him that this thing was dangerous, he still wanted to try to study it.
After all, this was the technology from the Calan Empire, the super civilization that once completed the wonders of the ring world …
"I have something here that needs to be analyzed."
…
At the entrance of the computational materials laboratory.
The doctoral student who just came out of the laboratory was hesitating about whether to go to the library to kill time. He saw Principal Cai and Dean Zhou of the Materials Department walk in with a group of people.
His face changed instantly. Thinking of Dean Zhou's previous instructions, the doctoral student turned around and wanted to leave, but he was still seen by Dean Zhou.
Dean Zhou stopped him from a distance. He walked up quickly, stared at him, and asked anxiously.
"Why did you come out alone? Where is Academician Lu? "
"Lu, Academician Lu is still inside." The doctoral student quickly said, "He told me to come out."
Dean Zhou stomped his feet anxiously and stared at him.
"Didn't I tell you to follow him? How could you leave him alone in there! "
He wasn't worried that Academician Lu would damage his precious instruments … Well, he was actually a little worried. But what he was most worried about was that Academician Lu would hurt himself.
Although the 3D molecular printer was not dangerous, some unstable products and wrong operations could lead to a series of serious consequences, including explosions.
Although similar things had not happened at Jin Ling University, it had happened at the university next door.
An intern imported the wrong model into the 3D molecular printer in the wrong way, creating an extremely unstable folded chain-shaped CHO compound. This compound only existed in the natural environment for less than 1 millisecond before it quickly decomposed into CH4, CO, oxygen, and a lot of heat.
The final result was that the intern not only blew himself up, but the entire laboratory building was filled with black smoke.
Because of this incident, the university next door didn't publish a good computational materials thesis for the whole year last year. The entire department was dragged to safety education classes.
A frozen man from the 21st century, no matter how much homework he had done before, his experience in operating experimental equipment in this era was infinitely close to zero.
Letting such a person stay in the laboratory alone was no different from throwing a cigarette butt into a gasoline barrel.
Looking at Executive Zhou, who was angry with the students, Principal Cai tried to smooth things over.
"Old Zhou, don't make it too difficult for this child. It was Academician Lu who asked him to go out. How can he, a doctoral student, talk back? Think about it from another perspective. "
Although Dean Zhou also understood this, he still shook his head and spoke angrily.
"Nonsense, this is simply nonsense!"
After persuading Dean Zhou, Cai Mingrui then looked at the doctoral student and continued in a gentle tone.
"This is not your fault, just take us to see Academician Lu."
Seeing that the principal had helped him out, the doctoral student finally breathed a sigh of relief and quickly nodded.
"Okay, no problem, please come with me!"
After the group of people entered the research institute, they soon came to the door of the laboratory.
The doctoral student walked forward and pressed his fingerprint on the password lock.
However, something unexpected happened.
The red light on the door lock flashed slightly, but the door still stood there motionless.
The doctoral student saw the word "Locked" appear above the door handle. He was slightly stunned. He whispered, "Strange", then tried again.
The result this time was the same.
The door didn't move at all.
Li Guangya, who had been patient and silent, finally couldn't help but speak anxiously.
"What's going on? Why aren't you going in? "
"It's not that I don't want to go in …"
The expression on his face was full of embarrassment. The doctoral student standing at the door looked back at Dean Zhou and Principal Cai with an awkward expression. He gulped and continued.
"The door …"
"It seems to be locked from the inside."
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