Chapter 678 Nature Magazine
Facing Bruno Juett's "earnest expectations", Gu Lizhi seemed very moved. Now that he has come to the other side of the ocean, he feels that his life has entered a brand new stage.
Even if Bruno Juett got the data, he still wanted to call Gu Lizhi over. Of course, it was not because of some bullshit promise. After all, the Ansa people did not have such a thing as credibility. He wanted Gu Lizhi to directly replicate the experimental process of Mo Xin Technology, reduce the experimental time as much as possible, and get results quickly.
After all, MoXin Technology will not stop here, Bruno Juett is very sure of this.
Walking into the University of Manchester, Gu Lizhi felt as if he had walked into the Middle Ages in Europe. He was amazed by the various antique buildings inside. He was addicted to the majestic and tall feeling. He felt that it was a symbol of the combination of freedom and classicism, full of heritage. Thinking of the featureless high-rise buildings in Zhonghai that were only made of cement and glass walls, he felt that those things were crude and stereotyped, without any artistic quality.
Gu Lizhi was taken to the University of Manchester to register and was arranged to live in a luxurious single room.
Gu Lizhi was very satisfied with the favorable accommodation and living conditions.
Bruno Juett was very efficient. Within a few days, he obtained sponsorship, formed a scientific research team, and immediately started research on the graphene project.
In the laboratory, Gu Lizhi was grateful for Bruno Juett's "kindness of recognition" and answered all of Bruno Juett's questions.
"Moxin Technology intends to use micromechanical exfoliation to successfully separate graphene from graphite. The two-dimensional material block layered flakes to be exfoliated are placed on a transparent tape and repeatedly pasted and exfoliated to turn the block material into a thinner layered flake. The layered flakes on the tape are then transferred to silicon dioxide. After a period of rest, the tape is slowly exfoliated. Repeating the above steps, a single-layer graphene structure can be obtained."
Bruno Juett was very excited after hearing this. He patted Gu Lizhi on the shoulder and said, "You have done a great job. After this is done, you can complete your studies at the University of Manchester. I can even let you be my assistant after graduation."
Gu Lizhi was so excited about this promise that he almost knelt down to kowtow.
"Thank you, Professor. I will definitely not let you down!"
Bruno Juett nodded slightly, then changed the subject and said, "I'm afraid you can't directly participate in the graphene research, after all, you have signed an agreement. But as compensation, I will let the school waive your tuition and give you a scholarship."
On the surface, Bruno Juett was kind to Gu Lizhi and tried to comfort him.
In fact, Bruno Juett was sneering in his heart.
This idiot in front of me has no idea what a Nobel Prize-level research project means.
Even if you just participate, it can leave a strong mark on your resume, which is very important for your future development in the academic world.
Compared with this, the tuition fees and scholarships of a mere tens of thousands of pounds are simply insignificant.
How could a person from Xia appear in the research team of the University of Manchester?
Gu Lizhi had no doubt at all about what Bruno Juett said, and thought that Bruno Juett was considering him.
Bruno Juett asked, "What is the progress of Moxin Technology's experiments?"
In response to Bruno Juett's question, Gu Lizhi of course answered all his questions without reservation: "Moxin Technology's experiments are progressing very quickly, but it is currently stuck at several key nodes. The probability of a breakthrough within half a year is very low. The most important thing is that the Chinese New Year is coming soon. This is the most important festival in Xia Country, and it should be able to slow down the progress of Moxin Technology a little."
When Bruno Juett heard about the rapid progress, he was a little worried. But when he heard that the other party had reached a bottleneck and that the progress would be delayed due to the New Year, he immediately became happy and said, "That's great! Young man, I have high hopes for you. Work hard. You will definitely have a place in the future of Manchester University."
After being praised again and again by Bruno Juett, Gu Lizhi was a little confused.
In the blink of an eye, it was the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. In the morning, Lu Yiming was busy welcoming the Kitchen God at home with Ning Xuehua, but suddenly he received a call from Tan Hongbo.
"Success! Teacher Lu, I succeeded!"
An image immediately emerged in Lu Yiming's mind of a depressed man standing under a telephone pole and shouting "I'm saved."
"Successful?"
Lu Yiming was also very happy.
Although it is still a long way from commercial application, it is definitely a groundbreaking achievement.
"Yes, we have successfully used the method you provided to separate a single-layer graphene structure. Now we have direct materials to study the physical properties of graphene, instead of relying entirely on theoretical speculation! Professor Yu is drafting a paper and plans to publish this achievement."
Lu Yiming said: "Okay, as soon as possible, we must get ahead of those foreigners and slap them in the face!"
Tan Hongbo said excitedly: "This achievement will surely make a sensation in the world. I'm afraid we will be able to compete for the Nobel Prize in Physics next year."
Lu Yiming thought to himself that Mendeleev didn't even win the Nobel Prize, so the value of this prize was just that. But after all, Tan Hongbo was in high spirits now, and he couldn't dampen his enthusiasm, so he said tactfully: "It doesn't matter whether we win the prize or not. We don't need to take foreigners' things too seriously. Why do we have to be obsessed with getting a group of foreigners to recognize the results of our own hard work? When the time comes, we can also come up with an authoritative award of our own! It will be more awesome than the Nobel Prize."
Tan Hongbo was stunned by Lu Yiming's lofty ambitions. His biggest dream in life was just to win a Nobel Prize, but Lu Yiming was thinking of establishing a Nobel Prize himself?
Although Lu Yiming spoke with great enthusiasm, Tan Hongbo seemed a little unconfident about this matter. After all, compared with the European and American powers, the Xia Kingdom at that time was still too backward and too poor.
"Teacher Lu, your goal is too ambitious. Can we achieve it?"
Lu Yiming smiled slightly and said calmly: "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. A dream is like a tree, and the best time to plant a tree is ten years ago. The second best time is now. There are always things that need to be done by someone."
These words confused the students in the laboratory. They were all so excited that they wanted to sacrifice their lives for this lofty ideal.
But for now, the natural thing is to thoroughly implement the technological achievements of graphene first.
Lu Yiming called Wang Hongsheng.
"Principal, Happy New Year."
Wang Hongsheng was also very surprised when he suddenly received a call from Lu Yiming, and quickly said, "Happy New Year, Happy New Year."
Lu Yiming said: "President Wang, I have good news for you. We at Moxin Technology have successfully separated a single-layer graphene structure."
Wang Hongsheng was delighted when he heard this, but he was also very surprised and shocked: "It's only been a few months, and you have already achieved results?"
Lu Yiming complained, "I spent money, and Professor Yu and his colleagues worked in the lab day and night, so I think this is already slow."
Wang Hongsheng laughed and scolded: "No matter how slow it is, it is still the best in the world. I think you are taking advantage of me."
Thinking of the money, praise, awards, etc. that Moxin Technology has received for this discovery, Wang Hongsheng was puzzled again and said, "If I had known this, I should have let you put this project at Fu Ri University. This is a Nobel Prize-level technological achievement. Even if it is just a nomination, it is an extraordinary achievement, enough to make domestic schools scramble for it."
That being said, Lu Yiming is also a student of Fu Ri University, but Fu Ri University has not made much achievements in this field, so such a precious opportunity fell into the hands of the University of Transportation.
However, Wang Hongsheng couldn't help laughing when he thought about how Ding Kuilin, the president of Jiaotong University, forced Yu Kebao to suspend his position in order to please Bruno Juett, so that Yu Kebao could only join MoXin Technology as an individual.
People are afraid of comparison.
If Ding Kuilin knew what he had missed, he would probably regret it to death.
The two chatted for a while and then hung up the phone.
Afterwards, Lu Yiming called Cao Guowei.
"Hey, Senior Cao, Happy New Year."
Cao Guowei was flattered to receive Lu Yiming's New Year's greeting call on New Year's Day, and quickly said, "Happy New Year."
"Senior Cao, Moxin Technology has a big news recently. You should quickly organize a professional team to interview it. The sooner the better. Make it an exclusive report."
When Cao Guowei heard this, he couldn't help but scratch his head.
What could have happened during the New Year that would make Lu Yiming call in person?
It also has to be an exclusive report.
This is a bit scary.
However, since it was Lu Yiming's order, Cao Guowei certainly didn't dare to slack off and immediately said, "Okay, I'll lead the team there myself!"
Just two hours later, Cao Guowei led a professional team to MoXin Technology to conduct an exclusive interview with the team.
When Cao Guowei pointed out that it was Lu Yiming who asked them to come for the interview, Yu Kebao felt relieved and excitedly accepted the interview.
The news was later published on an anecdotes website, but it did not cause much of a stir and received few comments.
A few days later.
England, editorial office of Nature magazine.
At nine o'clock in the morning, Archie Haywood, the editor of the review department, walked into the office leisurely, skillfully made himself a cup of coffee, and then sat down at his workstation to start working.
His job is to review manuscripts.
As one of the oldest and most prestigious scientific journals in the world, Nature is one of the few journals that still publishes first-hand research papers from many scientific fields. In many scientific research fields, many of the most important and cutting-edge research results are published in Nature in the form of short reports.
Every day, the editorial department receives a large number of manuscripts mailed from all over the world.
"Sleep patterns can reflect a person's personality traits? Where did this idiot come from? It seems like another outlandish study."
"A team of scientists has successfully developed cold-resistant mosquitoes to make up for the lack of mosquitoes in winter. This is crazy, shit!"
Archie Haywood's face was full of disgust as he threw some obviously funny manuscripts into the trash. His daily work was more like cleaning up the garbage than reviewing manuscripts, and he would reject those papers that obviously had no scientific research value.
I read so many papers in succession that my not-so-small trash can was soon filled with all kinds of emails.
He was gradually losing his patience.
Anyone who deals with this kind of garbage every day will lose patience.
He opened another piece of mail and the label of the ancient oriental country suddenly perked him up.
"It's actually mail from Xia Country? There are postmen there? It's really strange. Aren't they said they can't even afford food? How can they do scientific research?"
At this time, both the government and the people were trying their best to exaggerate a stereotype about the Xia Kingdom - for example, the people there all had pigtails, for example, it was still a slave society, backward, barbaric and ignorant...
Archie Haywood could not imagine that in such an isolated place, there were people doing scientific research. He could not even imagine how the letter had traveled across the ocean from Xia Country to his hands.
With a bit of sarcasm and contempt, Archie Haywood opened the paper in his hand.
"The micromechanical exfoliation method can produce a single-layer graphene structure? Oh, there are at least thirty laboratories in the world researching graphene. We have the most advanced equipment and the best talents in the world, but we have never heard of anyone producing graphene. How can you, Xia Country,..."
With the intention of exposing the other party's lies, Archie Haywood continued reading with a mocking expression on his face.
Then he couldn't laugh anymore
An expression of astonishment stayed on his face for a long time. When he finally came to his senses, he immediately called his colleague Andrew Miller.
"Andrew, come here. You are from the Physics Department. Take this manuscript and have a look. I think there is something wrong with it."
Soon, a bearded man ran over. Seeing the postmark from Xia Country, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: "Xia Country?"
He picked up the manuscript and read it from beginning to end, and was immediately shocked.
This is graphene, a material that only exists in theory. Now someone has actually made it?
It's incredible!
"It's unbelievable that there is a scientific research team from Xia Country that is ahead of everyone else in the world!"
After hearing Andrew Miller's comments, Archie Haywood couldn't help but ask, "Is there nothing wrong with that?"
Andrew Miller said in a very affirmative tone: "There is absolutely no problem! This paper is too important and must be handed over to more influential experts and scholars for appraisal."
Since Andrew Miller said so, Archie Heywood chose to trust his judgment and then suggested, "How about handing it over to Professor Andre? He is the backbone of the Physics Department of Manchester University. He is ."
The University of Manchester, Department of Physics.
In the office, Professor Andre was sorting out his documents, while his assistant was cleaning the office and complaining to him: "Bruno Juett is really too much. He not only took away our laboratory, but also took away the experimental funds that should have belonged to us."
Andre sighed and said, "Bruno Juett is conducting a secret study, which has received strong support from several school directors. As for our venue and funding, we can only apply to the school again."
As a Russian scientist working in academic field in England, it is only normal to suffer some injustice occasionally.
The assistant was still unwilling to give up and wanted to continue to complain, but then a phone call came from the guard room: "Professor Andre, there is an email for you in the duty room."
Andre was a little confused: "For me? Are you sure?"
"certainly."
"Okay, I'll ask my assistant to get it."
Soon, the assistant took the mail back. Andre looked at the postmark and found that it was sent by the editorial department of Nature magazine, which made him even more surprised.
After reading the paper, Andre was so excited that he couldn't help himself: "Someone actually separated the graphene monolayer structure! And it was a scientist from Xia Country! This is simply a miracle!"
As a physicist, he is very familiar with graphene!
And precisely because he is very familiar with it, he understands the value of this paper even more.
What shocked him even more was that the paper was written by scientists from Xia country, and it was scientists from Xia country who first developed a method to peel off the graphene single-layer structure!
Technologically advanced countries such as Europe and the United States use the world's most advanced equipment, recruit the world's best talents, and conduct research on graphene materials one after another. In the end, they were overtaken by the team of scientists from Xia Country?
This is really unbelievable!
In the email sent by Nature magazine, the editor asked Andre to conduct preliminary verification of the methods in the paper to determine the authenticity of the paper.
Of course Andre would not refuse this request, and he himself could not wait to use the method in the paper to try to extract the graphene single-layer structure.
Andre immediately contacted the school, explained the request of Nature magazine, and then applied for the school's laboratory to conduct verification research.
With the endorsement of Nature magazine, the school naturally gave Andre the green light.
This incident soon alarmed the entire physics department.
That's graphene, a two-dimensional carbon material that previously existed only in theory. Countless people are curious about this imaginative material.
Bruno Juett also knew the news, of course.
He didn't even need to verify it, he knew that everything in the paper was true.
Looking at a group of people busying around in the laboratory in front of him, he suddenly felt inexplicably irritated.
In the end, it was the Xia people who came up with it first.
He had been rushing around during this period, even going to Xia Country in person to recruit people, but all of this seemed to have become meaningless in an instant.
However, he soon remembered something else.
This paper is now in Andre's hands!
It has not yet been published in Nature magazine!
In other words, no one in the world knew that anyone had isolated a single-layer graphene structure.
Then, we just need to deal with Andre and make him hold the paper in his hands...
Thinking of this, Bruno Juett turned and walked towards Andre's laboratory.
