Everyone will get sick. From Qiao Yu's point of view, it's okay to have minor physical problems occasionally. The most fearful thing is a sudden illness in the brain.

For example, there are always people who suddenly feel that they can do it, have some unrealistic ideas, and begin to give up their rationality and firmly want to implement them.

For example, if you feel that you don’t need to study, you can have a world in the future by playing games, relying on fists, and relying on many unorthodox things...

Or maybe you are blinded by hormones and always feel that someone of the opposite sex or the same sex will be the happiness of your life.

For most people, this disease will appear more frequently in the early stages of life, especially when they are teenagers. The solution is to beat them hard!

The classic saying summed up by the ancients that a filial son emerges from under the stick has its own truth. Using love to influence a teenage child who is in the rebellious period is generally the superpower of education experts.

Qiao Yu has never experienced stick education.

Because Qiao Xi never noticed that Qiao Yu was irrational. Even for a teenager, Qiao Yu's rationality was too terrifying.

As we all know, it is difficult for people to achieve happiness if they are too rational and completely abandon their sensibility.

This is why Qiao Xi has always been worried about Qiao Yu and doesn't even mind her children's puppy love.

After all, whose teenage children can be so rational? When doing any multiple-choice questions, they can subconsciously maximize their interests...

This seems very unlovable.

But coincidentally, for science, this kind of reason happens to be very important. After all, science does not believe in sensibility. In fact, any metaphysics in the laboratory may hide laws that humans have not yet mastered.

The reason why many laboratories exist is to search for and discover those laws that are hidden deep in the world and cannot be seen under normal circumstances.

Qiao Yu felt that he had found a method that could help many laboratories find those patterns as soon as possible.

When Chen Zhuoyang informed him that the results of the supercomputer analysis had been sent to his mailbox, Qiao Yu immediately downloaded all the results to his computer.

The results of the analysis lasted for five pages, but Qiao Yu did not read the data reports carefully. His attention was attracted by the final summary chart.

The left side is a two-dimensional heat map, which represents the modal density. The right side is a path diagram, and the blue line represents the modal path after dimensionality reduction.

If his method is correct, it means that based on the existing data, it can be roughly judged that there is a performance jump near α=30min and β=5 kJ/mol, and points to the key molecular interaction transition area.

The area with the highest modal density is around α=35min and β=25 kJ/mol. In other words, according to the current laboratory data, the fracture strength of materials produced in this area has the best recovery.

When it comes to the specific laboratory, we must first find the specific ratio of monomer to cross-linking agent when the β value is around 25kJ/mol.

The other picture is the fracture strength recovery and dynamic stress change trend chart:

Although the results are somewhat troublesome, they at least show superimposed cyclical oscillations.

After the dynamic stress reaches its peak in the initial stage, it rapidly decays and levels off. The process of strength recovery shows exponential growth characteristics, and reaches critical repair points near 20 and 40 minutes.

The next step is to send it to the laboratory for testing. If the results repeated multiple times can be stable, new parameters can be introduced.

After a brief analysis, Qiao Yu directly called Liu Hao.

"Hey, Senior Brother Liu, are you in the laboratory?"

"Yes! What? Is there any result?"

"Well, we have preliminary analysis results. We need to test them. Do you have ready-made experimental materials in your laboratory? Or do we have to wait for you to prepare the materials first?"

"Yes, yes, yes, the materials are sufficient. We are working hard on the project now. Do you want to come directly or should I pick you up?"

"I'll just go right there. I'll be there in about fifteen minutes."

"Okay, I'll wait for you downstairs."

…

In the chemistry building, Liu Hao answered the phone and hurried out of the laboratory.

Sometimes the pressure really does not come from oneself, but from the unknown.

Last week, Liu Hao met with his supervisor, Professor Zhang Zuolin, to talk about the progress of the current project.

I learned from the boss that although the Huairou Institute was slower than them in the early stage, the progress may have caught up now.

Different from the dynamic covalent bonding technology they use, the other party uses block copolymer phase separation and nanoparticle filling to achieve the same function, but most of the difficulty is concentrated in the first half.

The flexible block can provide flexibility and stretchability and improve the mechanical properties of the material; the rigid block provides mechanical strength and durability to ensure that the material is not easily damaged.

Photothermal nanoparticles are added to the material to control the temperature response of the material. At the same time, these nanoparticles can also be used to regulate the thermal conductivity of the material so that the material maintains stability in high or low temperature environments.

This resulted in the other party's technical difficulties being very high in the early stage, mainly focusing on the synthesis technology and structural characterization stages.

The main difficulties of our own technology are concentrated in the chemical design and optimization stages, but the synthesis and characterization process are already very mature, and preliminary experiments can be quickly advanced.

It's like they had everything going well before, but are currently stuck in the optimization stage.

But if the other party once overcomes the synthesis of block copolymers and the quantification of the contribution of nanoparticle filling to performance, the later stages will be relatively simple.

So after learning that Huairou Institute had overcome several technical difficulties, the boss said that we should just do our best and let fate dictate.

If you really can't compete with each other, the project and data will be sealed first. Anyway, two different technical solutions have other advantages and disadvantages.

Even if we cannot compete with each other this time, these studies are still valuable, and there may be opportunities to restart in the future, so it cannot be regarded as a waste of resources.

To be honest, this project has not had a big impact on the mentors. The big guys are well-informed, and there are many cases where people choose important projects with different ideas and fail to compete with others.

The initial investment is all given by Party A, so it is common for the company to be unable to compete with the other party. It is just a matter of taking on other projects.

But for the members of the research team, it means that their efforts for such a long time have been in vain, and they are still somewhat unconvinced.

Although the boss is quite nice, there is definitely no reward if the research team fails to produce results. You can imagine how much of a blow to everyone's morale.

So although the instructor didn't put any pressure on him, Liu Hao felt even more pressure.

But unfortunately, the situation in these laboratories cannot be done well under pressure. Without a clear direction, you can only run around like a headless fly.

In the first few days, he would often ask Qiao Yu and Chen Zhuoyang on WeChat, but during this period, he asked less frequently.

After all, mathematicians are not omnipotent.

Maybe Qiao Yu performed amazingly last time, but that was because of the directional data support.

When reviewing the test afterwards, almost all the members of the research team exclaimed, "It's so simple, why didn't I think of it at the time?" This is proof.

The situation this time is obviously different.

Therefore, after there was no news from Qiao Yu and Chen Zhuoyang, Liu Hao did not continue to inquire, but placed his hope on the so-called "metaphysics".

Well, this is obviously not a good habit for scientific people. But many results are really a wonderful intertwining of science and luck.

There are never any shortage of such examples in the laboratory.

And to be honest, many times, pinning your hopes on "metaphysics" is even more useful than pinning your hopes on data analysis.

Really, as an experimental dog, before getting the results, you can never guess what wonderful results the data analysis software R, python and the like can produce.

The results produced by data are often so bad that people can't bear to look at them. Therefore, Liu Hao once thought that Qiao Yu's method would probably not be easy to use.

After all, the codes they use to run data have all produced results before. As for Qiao Yu's new method, although they don't know about it, since it is new, it must not have been tested in practice.

But who would have thought that just when he had given up on getting effective help from Qiao Yu, Qiao Yu called again, and from what Qiao Yu said, it seemed that he had found a solution?

No matter what, Liu Hao still had a glimmer of hope in his heart, and hurried downstairs and started pacing at the door of the Chemistry Building.

Fortunately, Qiao Yu was really punctual. He said it would take fifteen minutes, and almost missed the time by riding a small yellow car to the chemistry building.

Liu Hao rushed forward immediately, stretched out his hand to help Qiao Yu hold the front of the car, and then asked: "Um...is there really any result?"

"Well, we can't guarantee the accuracy for the time being. Please take a look at these two pictures first." Qiao Yu took out two printed charts from his bag and handed them to Liu Hao.

The color printing machine that Chen Zhuoyang prepared for Qiao Yu was indeed very useful.

Liu Hao scanned it briefly and was a little confused.

"What analysis software is this? And what does this highlight mean?"

"Hey, this needs to be kept secret. As I said before, I used a very interesting new method. As for the first two-dimensional map, the brighter the color, the denser the effective points are in that area."

"Forehead……"

"It's okay, Senior Brother Liu, you don't need to fully understand the meaning of these pictures. If you can trust me, you will do what I say in the laboratory today, and then we will talk after reading the results."

"Then I must trust you. Don't worry, I just asked everyone to stop and I'm just waiting for you to come."

In one sentence, the trust level was filled up. But in fact, there was nothing they could do. The current situation was obvious, and their luck was not that good.

There has been no breakthrough progress in recent times. At least they have not been able to find a stable optimization direction.

Of course, if the mentality was not so impatient, the current situation would actually be good.

For more than half a month, they tried many wrong methods. If they slowly used the elimination method in this way, they would definitely find a correct way.

It’s just that we don’t know how long it will take. Research on new materials is often like this, with constant trial and error, and then waiting for a miracle to appear, and then thinking of ways to make this miracle reproducible stably.

Especially when developing functional materials in complex systems, this trial-and-error experimental nature is even more significant.

Of course, even if a miracle occurs, it is very difficult to reproduce the miracle stably. As long as the non-linear relationship between variables is not fully understood, occasionally beautiful data can even make the experimental dogs more miserable.

But for Qiao Yu, these are not problems. Now it is not just a problem of this topic.

If this method really works, then what Qiao Yu wants to think about next is how to make money... Ah, no, it should be about how to benefit the major research groups in China!

Therefore, Qiao Yu is now not only the mathematical consultant of this research group, but in a sense, Liu Hao's research group is also his experimental group. In this sense, the two parties are already in a cooperative relationship.

"Okay, let's go to the laboratory first." Qiao Yu smiled, and his confident look made Liu Hao feel much more comfortable.
To be continued...