Section 271
Several people took out their phones and took photos, and then shared them in their own circle of friends.
Liu Xiaodong, for example, also sent this photo to Zhou He, who had advised him to run away earlier.
Zhou He has now fled abroad and is now a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. I heard that he is living a good life now, but when he saw the pictures sent by Liu Xiaodong, he was shocked.
As they are engaged in materials, they certainly know how valuable the first prize of technological invention is. For a moment, Zhou He could not help but express his envy of Liu Xiaodong.
[Damn, if I had known that the Science Island Laboratory was so cool, I would have tried it. ]
Liu Xiaodong laughed and replied: [Isn’t it pretty good for you to stay at Columbia University now? ]
Zhou He: [Don’t say it, staying here will make you nervous. I came here to endure the experience of studying abroad. When I can return to China, I will return and start as a lecturer. But you, I am afraid you can become a professor directly now, right? ]
Liu Xiaodong replied: [No, no, I was just promoted to assistant researcher not long ago.]
Zhou He: [You kid!]
Liu Xiaodong's face was full of smiles.
Of course, the other three people had similar expressions, and Xiao Yi was probably the only one who looked calm.
At this point, the first prize of the Technology Invention Award was finally awarded, and the other awards began to be awarded next.
Time passed quickly, all the awards were awarded, and this awards ceremony ended.
Related reports soon appeared on various news platforms.
At this time, the Chinese people's attention to the development of science and technology can be said to be the first in the world, and people will pay attention to these scientists who have made great contributions to science and technology.
Therefore, the top of the major hot search lists were quickly occupied by related entries.
For example, the two old scientists who won the highest science and technology award were also sought after by people.
For example, the quantum anomalous Hall effect completed by Academician Xue, this Nobel Prize-level achievement, has also attracted the attention of quite a few netizens, especially when people learned that Academician Xue only scored 39 points in physics when he was young, which made people feel a sense of comedy.
However, in fact, Academician Xue scored 99 points in physics in the college entrance examination, only one point away from the full score, and he is still a complete academic master.
Of course, in addition to the two winners of the highest science and technology awards, another hot search has attracted people's attention.
[Xiao Yi won three first prizes]
This news once again ignited the excitement of netizens.
Those who understand naturally know how difficult it is to win the first prize in natural sciences and the first prize in technological inventions. As a result, Xiao Yi now won three at once.
So that the most popular comment under this news is: [Although the conference has been changed to a three-year session, it still does not affect Xiao Shen's record of winning a first prize a year. ]
Other comments are also various.
[When will Xiao Shen become an academician? ]
[Next year! ]
[Ah? Three first prizes? Are you kidding me? These three first prizes are probably equivalent to one of the highest science and technology awards, right? 】
[No need to think, Xiao Shen is only a matter of age away from winning the highest science and technology award]
[The highest science and technology award has no age requirement, so I say a number, and I can get it in the next session! 】
[Okay, okay, I'll also say one, and I can get it in the next session! 】
[I think I can get it in two sessions! 】
[……]
Chapter 233 Nuclear fusion enters the countdown
As various news spreads more and more widely, people's discussion of this science and technology awards conference has always been high.
As Xiao Yi, who won three first prizes in one session, has undoubtedly become the hot topic of most people's discussion.
Basically, people have tacitly accepted that although he did not win the highest science and technology award, it is actually equivalent to winning the highest science and technology award.
However, Xiao Yi still did not pay too much attention to these topics about himself as usual.
After all, for other scholars, winning an award may be a [qualification] to help them go further, but for a scholar like him who is already considered to be equal to the top scientists of mankind such as Einstein and Newton, winning an award is nothing more than icing on the cake.
There is nothing much to say.
So, after returning to Fei City from Shangjing, Xiao Yi once again devoted himself to the research of twisted carbon.
As for Liu Xiaodong and others, after returning to the laboratory, they directly enjoyed the hero-level treatment. Everyone in the laboratory came to congratulate them and asked several people to treat them.
They are not very old. The oldest Tang Chunming is not even 30 years old now. Now with this award, it is completely no problem for him to become a full researcher directly.
It can be said that he has completed the journey that others have to take for a lifetime in one day.
Of course, the four people are not too high-profile. After all, they also know that this achievement was made by Xiao Yi.
Being able to win the award was also because Xiao Yi was willing to take them to win the award, so that their laboratory could have a few more first prize winners in technological inventions.
Like other award-winning projects of technology inventions, six people are basically filled in, while the natural science award can only be filled in five at most. Therefore, except for mathematics, which is basically completed by one person, the winners of other projects are also filled in, mainly for the purpose of getting more winners for their respective award-winning units.
That is, there are only five researchers in their lithium-sulfur solid-state battery project, so in the end, only five names were filled in.
Soon, a few days passed, and the related heat gradually died down. Except for some people who were still discussing it in some corners, the main perspective of the majority of people was shifted to other aspects, such as the upcoming Paris Olympics and the sanitation of the Seine River, which frequently became a hot topic of discussion.
And time passed quietly again.
…
One month later.
Late at night.
The lights in the laboratory were still bright.
And Xiao Yi was alone in the laboratory, conducting an experiment on a new synthesis method.
Since the interior of the twisted carbon presents a complex twist-like structure, it may be possible to achieve the twisted shape of its internal structure by using the effect of the magnetic field to control the flow of graphite in a molten state.
However, one of the key issues is that the melting point of graphite is as high as 3652 degrees Celsius, so it can only be heated by arc furnace or plasma furnace, which will undoubtedly increase the production cost.
Of course, for now, as long as the material suitable for the first wall material can be made, no matter how high the cost is, it is acceptable.
What's more, once nuclear fusion is really developed, these costs will be reduced rapidly.
After all, once the electricity bill is reduced, the cost of almost all commodities in the world will be reduced.
"Well... it will take a while to heat it up."
Xiao Yi suddenly remembered that the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics seemed to be broadcasting now.
So he took out his mobile phone and took a look online.
As a result, he frowned after a few glances, and the silence of the CCTV anchor was quite deafening.
Until the three people got into a house and the camera was pushed out of the door, he finally turned off the live broadcast.
With his IQ, he is still a little far away from understanding such art.
Looking at the arc furnace in front of him again, the graphite inside has reached a molten state.
Then he closed the arc furnace and transferred the molten graphite inside to another furnace.
He spent a lot of time building this furnace. The principle is similar to that of electromagnetic stirrers and other devices based on magnetohydrodynamics. Through the electromagnetic interaction between the external magnetic field and the inside of the melt, the flow, heat transfer, and composition of the melt can be regulated.
However, the external magnetic field of the furnace he built by himself uses the HTSC-1 superconductor magnetic field. With the super strong magnetic field of HTSC-1, the molten materials can be directly suspended, thus avoiding problems such as impurity pollution.
Of course, products such as magnetic levitation melting furnaces have long existed, but his magnetic levitation furnace has a key advantage, which is that it can achieve more precise control of the internal molten material fluid by automatically adjusting the magnetic field line. Here, he used the new model that combined the multi-fluid model and the NS equation in order to study the Greenwald limit.
So this furnace was also named the Precision Magnetic Levitation Fluid Control Furnace by him, and he is also preparing to apply for the relevant structural patents.
Soon, the molten graphite was slowly poured in. Under the control of the strong magnetic field, the melt was stably controlled in the middle of the furnace.
Then the furnace cover was closed, and the vacuum pump was started to extract the air inside to prevent the air from being mixed in during the electromagnetic stirring. At the same time, this can also prevent the melt temperature from dropping and causing it to re-solidify. In addition, there are heating devices inside, which basically avoids the possibility of solidification of the internal melt.
Then, he came to the computer next to him and uploaded the stirring program that had been set up before.
Then, the electromagnetic stirring process began.
Although it cannot be seen from the outside, the real-time state of the internal melt is displayed on the computer. It can be seen that under the established program, the internal melt begins to flow and rotate with the change of the external magnetic field.
Just like a nuclear fusion device, of course, the two are indeed quite close in principle.
In this way, with such a stirring process, the internal microscopic state of the melt is constantly changing.
And these changes will make the final lattice structure move in the way Xiao Yi wants when the melt finally solidifies.
Although strictly speaking, the melt is a disordered liquid substance without a regular lattice structure like a solid, the melt is not completely random and disordered. It still has a certain order and short-range correlation at the microscopic level. This microstructural feature is usually called short-range order or local order.
In the stirring process of the precise magnetic levitation fluid control furnace, as long as the design program is good enough, this short-range order or local order can be controlled.
In this way, as time passed, about five minutes later, Xiao Yi started the cooling process.
The cooling process was naturally specially designed, and a variety of cooling methods were adopted, including electromagnetic stirring cooling, radiation cooling and gas cooling, so as to avoid affecting its internal structure during cooling.
Until the end, the melt solidified again and the temperature reached room temperature.
Xiao Yi opened the furnace and looked at a piece of columnar material that had been formed inside.
He raised his eyebrows and took out the columnar material.
After observing it for a while, the color of its exterior was no longer black or silver-gray like graphite, but with a little light gold and blue.
"Is it a bit similar to highly oriented pyrolytic graphite?"