Chapter 858: The little thoughts of the United States
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Superconductivity.
In a laboratory specially used for confidential meetings, several heavily armed escorts stood quietly waiting inside.
Walking in from the outside in a hurry, Zhou Xingjiang quickly asked: "Where are the materials?"
In the laboratory, the middle-aged man who took the lead looked at Zhou Xingjiang with a solemn expression and said, "Are you Director Zhou Xingjiang? Please show me your identity certificate or work ID."
Zhou Xingjiang nodded, took out his work ID card from his pocket, and handed it over.
The team leader who led the team took the certificate, scanned it on a black handheld device, and then scanned it on Zhou Xingjiang's face.
"Verification passed, thank you Director Zhou for your cooperation."
After hanging the instrument in his hand on his waist and handing back his work permit, the team leader took out the documents he had brought from his chest and placed them on the experimental table, then gently pushed them over.
"Director Zhou, please check and verify the transfer information."
He quickly opened the information and read it carefully. After confirming that it was correct, Zhou Xingjiang signed his name on the security and other agreements, and couldn't wait to ask again: "Where are the materials?"
The middle-aged man took the handover form solemnly, checked it carefully, put the document in his arms, saluted and stepped aside.
In the middle of several national security escorts, there was a tightly protected box.
Taking a deep breath, Zhou Xingjiang was about to step forward when he remembered something again and ordered to his assistant: "Go and notify the three researchers Xu Ning, Teng Li and Guan Wenlin, and ask them to come over now."
"Okay, Director."
The assistant responded and hurriedly walked outside.
After a while, three scientific researchers with sufficient authority and knowledge rushed over after receiving the news.
"director."
The three researchers said hello, and their eyes fell on several security personnel standing upright and fully armed standing by the wall, looking a little strange.
The Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the State Key Laboratory of Superconductivity is a closely guarded research institute. There are also fully armed personnel with firearms here, so the background is probably quite high.
It looks like something big is happening this time.
Zhou Xingjiang nodded and asked the escorting security guards to help move the box to the silver-white metal laboratory table.
Uniform and soft fluorescent lights illuminated the entire laboratory. The box transported from Jinling was not very big, with a diameter of only half a meter. The outermost layer was covered with a thick layer of buffer material, which was so tightly protected that it could not be seen.
the things inside.
After putting on his white coat and laboratory gloves, Zhou Xingjiang took a deep breath, looked at the researcher beside him, and said, "Xu Ning, come and assist me."
"good."
Xu Ning nodded and stepped forward quickly. The two picked up the unpacking tools prepared on the table and carefully started to unpack the box bit by bit along the cushioning material on the outer ring.
After the two people carefully dismantled it, the box was quickly opened.
In a tightly protected box, a piece of material contained in a high-strength tempered glass box caught the eyes of several people in the laboratory.
Silver gray flakes, 8.27 cm in diameter, 1.21 cm thick...
Against the information on the handover form, Zhou Xingjiang checked it carefully through various devices. After confirming that there were no problems, he signed his name on the handover list.
The middle-aged man took the final list and checked it carefully. After confirming that there were no problems, he put the documents in his arms.
"The items have been delivered and the handover has been confirmed."
After saluting, the escort team turned around and walked outside the conference room without any pause.
The National People's Government left, and only a few core researchers from the State Key Laboratory of Superconductivity were left in the laboratory.
"Director, what is this?"
Looking at the silver-gray film on the experimental table, Xu Ning finally couldn't help but ask.
Zhou Xingjiang took a deep breath and said slowly: "The latest research results of Academician Xu Chuan from Jinling, 'Copper oxide-based chromium-silver system room temperature superconducting material'!"
"Room temperature superconducting material?"
Hearing this, the three people who rushed over were shocked, with disbelief in their eyes and faces.
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Late at night, the lights are brightly lit in the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the State Key Laboratory of Superconductivity.
"Director Zhou, the test results have come out."
In the laboratory, Teng Li, wearing a white coat, quickly walked in with a test report in his hand.
"Let me see."
Zhou Xingjiang, who had been waiting in the laboratory for many hours, couldn't wait to 'snatch' the experimental report from the other party's hand.
"...At a standard room temperature of 25 degrees Celsius and a pressure of 318.651kPa, the resistance is zero and has the Meissner effect..."
Staring at the test report in his hand and comparing it with the laboratory data sent from Jinling, Zhou Xingjiang had a hint of disbelief on his face.
“Room temperature superconductivity is actually achieved?”
As director of the State Key Laboratory of Superconductivity at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhou Xingjiang is very aware of the importance of room temperature superconducting materials.
Energy transmission, electronic equipment, transportation, medicine, information communications, quantum computers, aerospace... countless fields can be linked to and affected by it.
Although the material in front of us is not a true room temperature superconductor, it is still subject to three standard atmospheric pressure conditions.
However, this condition is not stringent for most fields where room temperature superconducting materials can be applied, and can be easily achieved.
On the side, researcher Guan Wenlin, who has M-pattern hair loss and is about to turn into Mediterranean hair, also held a piece of experimental data in his hand, frowned and said:
"It has the Meissner effect, which proves that it is a superconducting material, but why is this experimental data so strange?"
"Parameters such as critical current intensity and critical magnetic field intensity are all related to the intensity of pressure, and the changing trends are completely inconsistent with previous superconducting materials."
Xu Ning nodded and said: "If this experimental data were not produced by using the materials sent by Academician Xu, I can't believe that this is the performance data of room temperature superconducting materials."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "It is so inconsistent with the common sense of superconducting effect."
The detection data of superconducting materials are very familiar to researchers like them who specialize in superconducting effects, but the experimental data in front of them completely exceeded several people's expectations.
Staring at the experimental data, Teng Li, who was wearing a white coat and was responsible for conducting test experiments, had a thoughtful look in his eyes. After a while, he asked: "I heard that Academician Xu has made the news about room temperature superconducting materials public?
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Guan Wenlin nodded and said: "On Arxiv, Academician Xu has published various experimental data on room temperature superconducting materials, and there is also a paper on the mechanism of room temperature superconducting materials."
Xu Ning smiled and said: "With such abnormal experimental data, it seems that there is a lot of noise outside."
The experimental data of room-temperature superconducting materials are completely different from previous low-temperature/high-temperature superconducting materials. Even if that person has excellent academic reputation in the academic world, controversy will probably inevitably arise.
Teng Li shrugged and said, "If I hadn't made this data myself, I would have doubted it."
Professor Guan Wenlin said with a smile: "It is easy to confirm. Sending a sample to other laboratories and research institutes is enough to resolve these doubts."
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As discussed by several core researchers at the State Key Laboratory of Superconductivity, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
After Arxiv was restored, and after the experimental data of copper oxide-based chromium-silver system room-temperature superconducting materials were downloaded by many research institutions and laboratories, related discussions surged in the academic community.
United States, Tennessee.
In the Materials Research Institute of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, almost all researchers are discussing the same thing.
The topic they discussed was undoubtedly the room-temperature superconducting material that was recently published on the arixv preprint website.
As the largest and most diverse comprehensive national laboratory affiliated with the U.S. Energy Corporation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory is world-renowned for its groundbreaking contributions in the fields of materials science, nuclear research, supercomputing and the environment.
Its predecessor was the Clinton Laboratory, part of the famous "Manhattan Project." It is undoubtedly the world's top laboratory in materials science research.
Research on room-temperature superconducting materials is also the goal of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, but now, the sudden emergence of copper oxide-based chromium-silver room-temperature superconducting materials has interrupted all arrangements.
Armed with the paper downloaded from Arxiv, officials from the U.S. energy industry approached Professor Tom Mason, director of the Oak Ridge Advanced Materials and National Security Laboratory and a top scholar in the field of condensed matter physics.
"Hello, Professor Mason, I am Sheridan Hall, assistant to Director of Energy Jennifer Gramm. Here is my ID."
In the office, Professor Tom Mason took the certificate, glanced at it, nodded, and said hello: "Hello, Assistant Hall."
Sheridan Hall quickly said: "It's urgent. This is a paper and experimental data on copper oxide-based chromium-silver room temperature superconducting materials downloaded from arixv. I would like to ask you to do a review on it."
Preliminary evaluation, how likely is it to achieve room temperature superconductivity?"
Tom Mason glanced at the document pushed over by the other party on the table, picked it up, opened it, looked at it twice, and then put it down.
"I've already seen these things."
Sheridan Hall quickly said: "That's great, what is your judgment?"
After thinking for a while, Tom Mason said: "From a personal perspective, the experimental data and related papers on room temperature superconducting materials were uploaded to Arxiv by Professor Xu Chuan."
"Based on Professor Xu's academic reputation and without any concrete evidence to prove fraud, I am willing to believe that this is real superconducting data."
Hearing this, Sheridan Hall couldn't help but frown.
Needless to say, the importance of room temperature superconducting materials. If China takes the lead in mastering it, it will not be good news for the United States and the entire world.
But Professor Tom Mason continued, his eyes fell on the documents on the table, and he frowned and continued:
"But based on the experimental data published by Professor Xu Chuan, there are many doubts about this room temperature superconducting material."
"All its data deviate greatly from previous superconducting test data, and even violate the basic laws of thermodynamics in physics to some extent."
"You mean, this room temperature superconducting material may be fabricated false data?" Sheridan Hall quickly asked.
Tom Mason shook his head and said: "That's not what I meant. It is almost impossible for such a thing to happen to Professor Xu Chuan."
"But I don't understand why the experimental data he uploaded is so weird."
Hearing this, Sheridan Hall frowned and said, "What about all things considered?"
Tom Mason glanced at him and said, "There's no point in saying this."
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After sighing, Tom Mason continued: "Science is rigorous and needs to be confirmed by evidence. Personal judgment is meaningless at all."
"Instead of wasting your time with me, you should go to China to find Professor Xu. If he really develops room temperature superconducting materials, then he must have a complete preparation method, or corresponding superconducting materials, whatever
Obtaining the same is enough to confirm."
Hearing this, Sheridan Hall rolled his eyes and asked: "Just like the KL-99 in South Korea last year?"
Professor Tom Mason nodded and said: "If the complete preparation method can be obtained, it will be very easy to verify whether it is a superconducting material."
"but....."
"But what?"
"Nothing." Professor Tom Mason shook his head and said, "Do you have anything else to do? If not, I have a meeting in ten minutes."
"No more for now, thank you for your judgment."
After Sheridan Hall made a few notes on the document, he stood up, thanked him with a smile, and left quickly.
Tom Mason stared at his back for a while, shook his head and looked away.
If Professor Xu Chuan really develops room temperature superconducting materials, it will not be easy to obtain a complete preparation method.
Even the rough preparation method and process cannot be circulated.
If a room-temperature superconducting material, which is related to the national destiny, is really achieved, how can it be possible to make the preparation process public like the modified lead apatite KL-99 material?
Indeed, South Korea has applied for a patent for KL-99.
But patents don’t guarantee everything.
Even when applying for a patent, some preparation processes and some experimental data must be modified.
If it were him who really wanted to develop room-temperature superconducting materials, the best way would undoubtedly be to disclose the relevant information like Professor Xu Chuan did, but retain the preparation method and choose manufacturers to cooperate in production.
Just like the nano-phase copper material he developed a few years ago, only experimental data has been disclosed to the public.
The actual way to obtain benefits is to cooperate with manufacturers in the industry.
This is the way to maximize profits.
This is why he believed from the beginning last year that South Korea's KL-99 material was most likely fake and had problems, but now he believes that the copper oxide-based chromium-silver room temperature superconducting material developed by Professor Xu Chuan is genuine.
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patent?
Patents really can't guarantee anything when it comes to matters involving national security.
