I am devoted to scientific research, but you want to trick me into having a love relationship?

Chapter 606 We can do it too

The rest area outside the small auditorium of the new college.

As Xu Qingzhou sipped his coffee, he turned his gaze back to his notes on interface engineering and topological insulator applications from the afternoon. Two-dimensional material interface engineering and their gradient interface design were quite similar.

Domestically, the research institute is operating smoothly, with several experiments progressing steadily. No matter how complex a research institute is, it is ultimately composed of people, and Ji Yunshi is an expert in management, saving him a great deal of energy.

He had already called Ji Yunshi to discuss the cooperation with Peking University.

According to Ji Yunshi's feedback, the School of Physics and the School of Materials Science and Engineering are very welcoming, and Ji Yunshi has also begun to look for good teams in China, planning to try to poach some people first.

"Professor Xu seems quite relaxed," Chen Rongxuan said, shaking off his gloom and sitting down with a smile.

Xu Qingzhou said with a smile, "We should balance work and rest, shall we sit down and have a cup of coffee together?"

Chen Rongxuan waved to the waiter, signaling him to get him a cup of coffee.

Xu Qingzhou closed his notebook, noticed Chen Rongxuan's preoccupied look, and asked with a smile, "Professor Chen, is something on your mind?"

"It's about the battery."

Chen Rongxuan didn't hide anything and said helplessly, "The research published by the Max Planck Institute is very unfavorable to us. Over the years, we have finally broken through the technological blockade and gained an advantage. We originally thought that they would have difficulty significantly narrowing the technological and industrial gap with us in the short term, but things have not turned out as we wished."

"Actually, we don't need to be so pessimistic."

Xu Qingzhou said casually, took a sip of coffee, and then continued, "The Max Planck Institute does have some tricks up its sleeve, but we can produce this data in our lab too."

"Hmm? Cough cough~"

Chen Rongxuan stared at Xu Qingzhou in astonishment. After a long while, he finally reacted and asked, "You can produce data at the same level as the Max Planck Institute?"

Xu Qingzhou shook his head. Chen Rongxuan's heart sank. He thought to himself that he must have misheard. Xu Qingzhou and his team had only been conducting experiments for two months at most. How could it be so fast? But then he saw Xu Qingzhou smile and say, "It's probably a little better than this."

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Chen Rongxuan's pupils contracted twice as he stared at Xu Qingzhou, trying to determine if the young man in front of him was joking, but he found that Xu Qingzhou's expression was very serious.

After a long pause, he said in a deep voice, "Professor Xu, you can't make jokes like this."

"I never joke."

Xu Qingzhou nodded, took out his tablet from his bag, and pulled out a set of data. "This is data from a few days ago. The reason it wasn't brought up at the meeting is twofold: first, it was quite messy, and the data hadn't been organized yet; second, it's internal research institute data, and because it's still unstable and requires further experimentation, it's not time to release it publicly yet."

His plan was to wait until the data stabilized before making it public.

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"This this."

Chen Rongxuan stared intently at the tablet, suddenly becoming excited. "Incredible!"

A few minutes later, Chen Rongxuan finally calmed down and looked at Xu Qingzhou with a complicated expression: "Professor Xu, your confidentiality measures are excellent."

The bad news is that foreign competitors have developed ultra-high-performance products, leaving them far behind.

Good news, there are better products available domestically.

But is this something that can be made in two months?

From this perspective, it seems like CATL's billions of yuan in R&D spending went to waste. "It's not exactly a secret."

Xu Qingzhou shook his head and said with a smile, "Our institute's goal is not to improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries or solid-state batteries, but to completely solve the problems of lithium dendrites and shuttle effect. All the phased achievements before achieving our goal are not very meaningful to us and there is no need to publicize them."

Despite this, the researchers at the institute were incredibly enthusiastic, wanting to spend every day in the lab.

Salaries and benefits are all on par with the world's top laboratories. Moreover, under Xu Qingzhou's leadership, the experiment progressed like a rocket, reaching a world-leading level in just two or three months.

Salary is secondary; the joy of quietly making a fortune and the unparalleled sense of accomplishment are the most satisfying.

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Chen Rongxuan fell silent again, his feelings even more complicated than before. He felt... a little offended.

This means that something they did casually was enough to wipe them out.

Xu Qingzhou continued, "Many of the institute's technology patents are already going through the process. If you need them, you can contact Lao Ji. Although we don't specialize in lithium-ion battery experiments, you can still use some of our technologies."

"Okay, I'll go back right away."

Chen Rongxuan didn't delay and prepared to return to China immediately to discuss the matter, which made things much simpler.

First, contact domestic partners and ask them to stop wasting time at the Max Planck Institute and then go to the Kyoto Institute for Materials Science together for a site visit.

Chen Rongxuan left in a hurry, while Xu Qingzhou continued to look at his notes, and then went to the discussion group for the low-temperature strong magnetic field experiment of superconducting quantum bits next to him.

The day passed quickly, and at 5:30 pm, Xu Qingzhou declined several professors' invitations and went to Maynard's house again.

The two continued their conversation from the cocktail party, and then discussed Professor Maynard's current work on the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture.

This is a core problem in the field of Diophantine approximation in number theory. It is roughly about how to approximate irrational numbers with rational numbers and explore the infinity criterion for approximate solutions that satisfy specific precision conditions.

11 pm.

Xu Qingzhou leaned back in his chair, relaxed, and took out his phone to call Song, the school beauty, who was far away in Xia Country.

After chatting with Song Yao for half an hour, he called Ji Yunshi and asked them to summarize their research on lithium dendrites. If all went well, domestic battery companies would contact him soon.

After finishing these tasks, Xu Qingzhou's gaze fell on the manuscript on the table.

Tonight, he and Maynard attempted to transfer the sieve method from the Riemann Hypothesis to the Duffin-Schaeffer problem, trying to build a probabilistic model and graph theory tools.

"The traditional Khinchin theorem does not consider the coprimeness of the numerator and denominator, which leads to the failure of the series divergence determination. This is a major problem that urgently needs to be solved."

He and Maynard spent a full four hours calculating.

The current approach is to first construct a probabilistic graph theory model to avoid the direct analysis of coprime in traditional methods, and instead use the graph structure to ensure the infinity of solutions.

In simple terms, the probabilistic graphical model is like connecting stars with lines. Each star is randomly connected, and when the density of stars (series divergence) exceeds a critical point, it can extend into an infinite constellation chain no matter which star you start from.

"Concretizing the invisible thought process may be the key to solving this conjecture. We haven't even figured out the theory of supersymmetric functions, and now we've encountered a new conjecture."

Of course, Xu Qingzhou hadn't intended to put in the effort to study this thing; he just found it interesting, and since he had come across it, he was determined to delve deeper into it.

(End of this chapter)