Chapter 173 You Finally Upgraded

"Mr. Xu, I have a roommate named Yuan Shuai. His undergraduate grades are good, and his qualifications for graduate school are basically confirmed. If you accept a master's degree in the future, you can consider this student. He himself is also willing to come to our laboratory."

"Is that the original commander? I have heard of this student's name, and other teachers have indeed spoken well of him."

In fact, many graduate tutors will pay attention to some outstanding undergraduate students in their majors, because the relationship between tutors and students is a two-way choice.

Paying attention to these outstanding students earlier will also have a greater chance of receiving some more capable graduate students, which will be helpful to your future scientific research work, professional title selection, etc.

Xuzhou naturally hopes that he can recruit more outstanding students.

"Yes, Marshal Yuan's greatest advantage is that he is very serious about his work and very patient and perseverant. Of course, Teacher Xu, don't let it affect your judgment just because Marshal Yuan was my roommate before."

Ning Chen knew that it was best to avoid suspicion in such matters, but Ning Chen also objectively felt that the former commander was indeed good, so he still recommended the former commander to Xu Zhou.

"Okay, I will seriously consider this matter."

Xu Zhou still believed in Ning Chen's vision. Normally, Ning Chen would not recommend any students to him. Those who could be recognized by Ning Chen must have something special about them.

At this time, Xu Zhou suddenly remembered something.

"By the way, Ning Chen, is there another student named Yang Yan in your class?"

"Yes, he is also my roommate."

When he heard that Yang Yan was also Ning Chen's roommate, Xu Zhou said in surprise:

"Ning Chen, your dormitory is really a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger. Hey, let me ask you, has Yang Yan ever said that he wants to come to our laboratory?"

Xuzhou knew that Yang Yan was currently the top-ranked student in the materials major this year, so he was even more impressed by the name Yang Yan.

"Hmm... not really."

"That's right. He has been suppressed by you before, so he probably doesn't want to be in the same laboratory with you anymore." Xu Zhou said with a smile.

Ning Chen felt that Xu Zhou's joke might actually be true.

If it were me, I probably wouldn't want to do experiments every day with someone who always puts pressure on me.

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Hard work paid off. After a stage of experiments, Ning Chen continued to make some breakthroughs in the research of new topics.

In constant attempts, Ning Chen increased the superconducting critical temperature of some iron-based superconductors by replacing atoms with smaller radii.

Although the superconducting critical temperature of these iron-based superconductors still has not exceeded the record of 55K, these results are undoubtedly of great research significance.

This will help Ning Chen better predict other iron-based superconductors and find other iron-based superconductors with higher superconducting critical temperatures.

In the evening, Ning Chen returned home and tried to construct a new iron-based superconductor model using various experimental data obtained during this period in his study.

At this moment, Ning Chen suddenly felt the changes in the system interface.

"Has another subject suddenly been upgraded?"

Thinking of this, Ning Chen turned his attention to the system interface, only to find that he was not the one who upgraded.

[Artificial Intelligence: Xiaozhi]

[Level: D level (10000/100000)]

[Ability: voice chat, intelligent search, question answering (E level), modeling (F level)]

Seeing that Xiaozhi's level was finally upgraded from E-level to D-level, Ning Chen couldn't help but look forward to Xiaozhi's changes.

Immediately, Ning Chen noticed a new ability that appeared on Xiao Zhi's ability column.

"Modeling? It should be the ability to model, right?"

Although the system's current rating for Xiaozhi's modeling is only F level, Ning Chen knows that even if it is only F level, his ability is not too bad.

Thinking of this, Ning Chen immediately tried to evaluate Xiaozhi's modeling ability.

Ning Chen copied the experimental data he had created to his desktop computer, and then said silently in his mind:

"Ash Ketchum!"

【Here you are, Master】

"Based on the data I just copied into the computer, construct a model of superconductors. It requires being able to predict various new iron-based superconductors and their corresponding superconducting critical temperatures."

[Received instructions from the master and is modeling the data provided by the master...]

This process was slower than Ning Chen imagined. Ning Chen felt that it involved a very large amount of calculations. Even his top-end computer did not have enough computing power.

Ning Chen wondered whether he should modify this computer in the future and add more CPU and memory to further enhance the computer's computing power.

This method is equivalent to transforming this computer into a supercomputer.

Of course, Ning Chen also understood that simply increasing the CPU and memory was not enough. Some parallel computing technologies were also needed.

Ning Chen's current informatics capabilities are not enough to complete such a level of transformation, and if too many CPUs are added, the home circuit will not be able to bear such high operating power.

"It seems that the matter of computer transformation needs to be considered in the long term. When I have time, I will have to improve my information science level."

While Ning Chen was thinking about these things, Xiaozhi had already completed part of the calculation and modeling work.

Ning Chen checked the models built by Xiaozhi and was pleasantly surprised to find that these models were indeed very advanced.

The software used by Xiaozhi for modeling is different from any modeling software on the market, but Ning Chen feels that the functionality and smoothness of this software are unique.

Xiaozhi organized the experimental data provided by Ning Chen very clearly and made some predictions of his own based on these experimental data.

Ning Chen carefully analyzed the model and various prediction data built by Xiaozhi, and felt that Xiaozhi's analysis and predictions were very well-founded.

At least generally speaking, Ning Chen couldn't find too many faults, which was completely different from the random predictions of low-level artificial intelligence.

Based on Xiaozhi's prediction model, Ning Chen felt that even if he directly carried out experiments according to Xiaozhi's predictions without any brain, the results would not be too bad.

However, Ning Chen will not rely entirely on artificial intelligence, but only uses artificial intelligence as an auxiliary tool.

Moreover, the current Xiaozhi's modeling processing ability is only F level, and there is still a lot of room for improvement.

Ning Chen referred to the models built by Xiaozhi and combined with his own understanding, continued to calculate and optimize these models.

After some calculations, Ning Chen finally selected his most ideal substance.

"If my calculations are correct... the superconducting critical temperature of this iron-based superconductor may reach about 60K!"

Ning Chen is confident that the error in his calculation of the superconducting critical temperature of this material will not exceed 10K.

If all goes well, this material has the potential to set a new superconducting critical temperature record for iron-based superconductors.

The next day, Ning Chen came to the laboratory and first briefly explained his thoughts to Xu Zhou.

After reading Ning Chen's latest iron-based superconductor model, Xu Zhou also felt very novel and at the same time he was very optimistic about Ning Chen's research this time.

"So, Ning Chen, the iron-based superconductor you want to synthesize this time also belongs to the same system as the previous iron-based superconductor?" Xu Zhou asked.

"It can also be said that because their cores are all FeSe films. The difference is that this time I used it as a SrTiO3 substrate and plated a FeSe single-atom layer film on it to maximize its superconducting energy gap. "

"I think this solution is very good, and it is very promising to continue to break through the superconducting critical temperature limit of iron-based superconductors. Ning Chen, I am looking forward to the final experimental results now."

"I'm looking forward to it too. Then Teacher Xu, I'll make it as soon as possible." Ning Chen said with a smile.

After chatting with Xu Zhou about his experimental plan, Ning Chen began to prepare the material.

Shengzhou University recently purchased MBE equipment, which eliminates the need for Ning Chen to go to the Chinese Academy of Sciences to prepare FeSe thin films.

Ning Chen knew that this equipment might have been purchased specifically for his own research, because other than himself, no one else's research involved this technology.

Arriving at the Molecular Beam Epitaxy Laboratory, Ning Chen began the work of manufacturing FeSe single atomic layer films.

With his previous experience at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ning Chen had sufficient proficiency in operating this technology. In a few days, Ning Chen produced enough FeSe single atomic layer films.