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

Chapter 628 Obstacles? The professor leveled the entire hilltop.

Tuesday, December 3rd, sunny. The first snow of the year seems to have come a little late.

At 10 a.m., the family had a lively breakfast together.

After checking the weather outside and quickly getting ready, I headed towards the research institute.

Xu Shouyun and his group came mainly to visit the two young people. They didn't have any travel plans. On the first day, they visited Xu Qingzhou's research institute and then toured Peking University and Tsinghua University.

Kyoto Materials Research Institute.

Standing at the entrance, you can already vaguely see the undulating buildings inside.

"Such strict security checks."

Looking at the security checkpoint at the entrance of the research institute, Song Shisong thought to himself.

Having worked as a criminal investigator for decades, he has a good eye for things. The security guard at the gate is no ordinary person; you can tell at a glance that he's trained.

Moreover, there are isolation nets on the fence around the research institute, and it appears that signal jamming equipment has also been installed.

"Qingzhou, is our visit in accordance with regulations?" Xu Shouyun, who had also figured out something, asked in a low voice.

These types of advanced research institutes typically implement strict entry and exit procedures to protect core secrets.

Having worked for so many years, he deeply understands the importance of systems and regulations.

Discipline and rules are the core guarantee for ensuring the smooth implementation of government orders. If leading cadres make exceptions for "minor matters" such as expense reimbursement signatures and official vehicle use, it will trigger the "broken window effect," leading to lower-level imitation and rendering the system ineffective.

As the head of the research institute, Xu Qingzhou's awareness of rules and regulations directly affects the political environment of the unit. If he takes the lead in breaking this rule, it will definitely have a negative impact.

"Don't worry, the institute allows researchers to bring their families to visit, and there are even special visiting days."

Xu Qingzhou noticed Xu Shouyun's worry.

Speaking of which, Zheng Xu's wife visited the research institute a while ago. As long as you follow the normal application process, there shouldn't be any problems.

Song Yao led Wang Xiaping and Zhang Junli ahead.

"Because our superconducting thin film experiment involves controlled nuclear fusion engineering, the authorities attach great importance to it and have strengthened security around the area."

Xu Qingzhou explained to everyone.

Upon hearing this, the four realized the seriousness of the situation; anything related to "nuclear" was never simple.

"This controlled nuclear fusion won't affect you, will it?" Wang Xiaping asked with concern.

Song Yao said, "The research we're working on is just one type of material in controlled nuclear fusion, namely the superconducting thin film that Xu Qingzhou developed in the United States. Moreover, controlled nuclear fusion is radiation-free."

Wang Xiaping was relieved.

Looking at the research institute's buildings, Xu Shouyun sighed with emotion: "Tsk tsk, I've only ever heard you guys talk about it before, but seeing it in person makes me realize how impressive it is."

"The land and buildings were all approved by the government; otherwise, these things alone would have taken up most of my funds."

Xu Qingzhou smiled.

"Professor Xu, President Song."

Two researchers who happened to be passing by greeted me.

The two nodded slightly in response.

"This is Experiment Base No. 1, which contains atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment, a 20 T superconducting magnet system, and so on. That is Experiment Base No. 2. This is the characterization and testing center, which contains aberration-corrected transmission electron microscope (TEM) and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES)." Two days passed in a flash.

Xu Qingzhou introduced the functions of the various buildings in the research institute to Xu Shouyun and the other three.

"Not bad."

As the four middle-aged men watched the researchers in white lab coats passing by, they really felt like they were watching a science fiction TV series.

The four of them walked around outside and then went to the open experimental area.

Looking at the people in white coats standing in front of the complex instruments, Xu Shouyun and the others were once again amazed. Of course, they didn't take out their phones to take pictures or check in.

They do have a basic sense of confidentiality.

After walking around, everyone went to Xu Qingzhou's office in the administration building.

Xu Qingzhou brewed tea, and Song Yao led everyone on a tour of the office.

"Wow, that's pretty high-end, there's even a private rest room," Wang Xiaping exclaimed.

"Often we need to stay overnight at the research institute to facilitate experiments."

Xu Qingzhou suddenly felt a pang of nostalgia for the madness of his past life and said, "When we were really doing all-night experiments, everyone slept on the floor in the lab."

Although I've stayed up all night several times, I haven't yet experienced a situation where I sleep on the floor in the lab to oversee experiments.

Firstly, this cheat code allowed him to avoid the traps in advance thanks to his previous experience, so he didn't have to repeat a lot of experiments to find the right technology. Secondly, the problems the research institute is currently facing are difficult, but they are all traceable, meaning that they haven't encountered any real problems yet.

Of course, the latter statement was also directed at himself. For Zhao Shengwen and Zheng Xu, they had already encountered several major obstacles.

However, as soon as they encountered a mountain, Professor Xu leveled it.

They were carried away by the wind.

“We understand that you young people are busy, but you still need to rest when you need to. Nothing is more important than your health.”

Zhang Junli said from the side.

They knew these two young people were under a lot of pressure, having heard that top laboratories abroad were making great progress and the competition was fierce.

Xu Qingzhou nodded and said, "We understand. With Song Yao watching over me, I usually don't dare to stay up late."

"You make it sound like I'm some kind of violent person," Song Yao muttered under her breath.

"Non-violent?"

With his parents-in-law backing him up, Xu Qingzhou was unusually assertive.

Song Yao glared at her and threatened.

"Xiao Yao~"

Sure enough, Zhang Junli spoke up to remind her. She had already realized that this girl was deliberately bullying Xu Qingzhou.

But honestly, the more I look at this kid, the more pleasing he becomes.

He will cherish his wife.

Ms. Wang had a different view: "If he deserves a beating, then punish him severely. It's only natural for a wife to discipline her husband."

Xu Shouyun and Song Shisong exchanged a glance, took a sip of their tea, and indicated that they did not want to participate in the topic.

This topic didn't continue. Zhang Junli said, "I've walked around the research institute and hardly seen anyone. How many people are there in your area now?"

"There must be close to 70 people in total, including researchers, administrators, and logistics staff."

"That much?"

"We recruited some more last month, and we plan to jointly establish an equipment research center with Peking University."

The whole family talked about the research institute, the products, and the current electric vehicles. Song Shisong then decided to switch to an electric car.

Xu Qingzhou and Song Yao's opinions.

Steady your hand first.

After spending 20 minutes in the office, while everyone was chatting about going to visit Peking University later, Xu Qingzhou's phone rang.

The caller ID showed Zheng Xu's name.

Inside the office, everyone quieted down.

"Professor, are you still at the research institute?"

"Yes, yes."

Zheng Xu's voice came through the receiver: "We've discovered something new; you might need to come over and take a look."

"Okay, I'll come over now."

Xu Qingzhou said directly, and the two didn't talk much before hanging up the phone.

"Is it urgent?" Song Yao asked.

"Yes, Zheng Xu has run into some trouble and I need to go over there."

Song Shisong said with a smile, "Qingzhou, work is more important. Why don't you go and take a look first?"

"Okay, Mom and Dad, Uncle and Aunt, please have some tea first."

Xu Qingzhou greeted them.

Everyone knows he took the day off today, and unless there's a really big problem, no one would call him specifically.

"Hurry up and go, Xiaoyao is with us."

Wang Xiaping waved her hand.

Xu Qingzhou wasted no time, picked up a white coat from the coat rack, put it on, and went out. Wang Xiaping nodded to herself, thinking that this kid was usually unreliable, but wearing a white coat, he actually looked like he was working.

Experiment Building No. 2, Electrochemistry Laboratory.

Xu Qingzhou's gaze fell on Zheng Xu, who was sitting opposite the glove box. He walked over and asked directly, "What happened?"

"We discovered this during our experiment, and I really wanted to invite you over to take a look."

Zheng Xu handed over two tubes of samples. "The one on the left is a sample of electrolyte after loading sulfides onto phosphorus-modified carbon nanotubes, and the one on the right is a sample of electrolyte for niobium-based heterostructured nanosheets."

Xu Qingzhou stared at the two samples. What was more obvious was that the pale yellow liquid remaining in the electrolyte extractor on the left was much clearer than usual.

The glove box contained freshly disassembled lithium-sulfur batteries.

The phosphorus-modified carbon nanotube-supported sulfide (P-CoS@CNT) cathode has a surface with the characteristic bluish-gray luster of metal phosphides.

"The battery management system shows that the capacity retention rate after 200 cycles is 91.2%, while the control group is only 68.5%. The coulombic efficiency is also stable at 99.3%, while the control group is only 95.1%."

Zheng Xu's voice was somewhat excited.

Xu Qingzhou received the samples and then came out of the laboratory with Zheng Xu.

"Show me the ultraviolet-visible spectral analysis," Xu Qingzhou said to the operator beside him after a moment of silence.

The spectral data appeared on the screen, showing an 83% decrease in the intensity of the LiS characteristic peak (450 nm).

After reviewing the data, Xu Qingzhou put the sample into the release machine on one side and started the in-situ Raman system, focusing the laser onto the positive electrode surface.

A strong peak (PS bond vibration) at 2100 cm⁻¹ can be clearly seen on the monitor, confirming that the phosphorus-modified layer forms a chemical bond with LiPSs.

After reviewing the XANES synchrotron radiation data, Xu Qingzhou said in a deep voice, "The L-edge absorption peak of phosphorus shifted by 0.7 eV, indicating enhanced electron transfer—this may be the key to selective catalysis."

He paused, then asked, "Did you get the results from the cryo-electron microscopy cross-section analysis?"

"It's already being done, it'll be a little while."

Xu Qingzhou nodded and sat down at his desk. "Then let's go through all the details and come up with an experimental plan as soon as possible."

Time passed by minute by minute.

Xu Qingzhou let out a long breath and said in a deep voice, "First, we will conduct a comparative experiment, replacing phosphorus with nitrogen to verify whether phosphorus is the exclusive d-band center regulator. We will also conduct DFT simulations with the computing group to calculate the adsorption energy of LiPSs on the P-CoS(001) surface. We need to determine the stability of this material first before conducting iterative experiments."

Imagine the phosphorus-modified layer as a nanoscale intelligent fishing net that can filter out large LiS/S molecules, the phosphorus active sites (-PO groups) as a barbed fishing line that anchors LiPSs through Lewis acid-base interactions, and the cobalt sulfide catalyst as an "electric winch" that accelerates LiS deposition/decomposition.

This approach significantly reduces the shuttle effect.

No wonder Zheng Xu called him over. This is definitely a major discovery. It's the first time that a material has been verified to significantly suppress the shuttle effect. Once it's confirmed that the shuttle effect can really be solved, it will be a revolutionary breakthrough.

"it is good."

Zheng Xu nodded and immediately went out to organize the members to arrange overtime work.

The plan is roughly finalized. The computing group will conduct simulations, while they will directly start a 48-hour continuous test and use 200 sets of parallel experiments to verify reproducibility.

The researchers had no objections whatsoever; in fact, they were quite excited. This new discovery was incredibly tempting for researchers, and if it weren't for needing to spend time with his parents, Xu Qingzhou would probably have plunged headlong into the experiments.

It was already 11 a.m. when Xu Qingzhou came out of the laboratory.

Song Yao sent a message saying they were at Weiming Lake.

Xu Qingzhou drove to Peking University.

In early winter, Weiming Lake has frozen over and will remain an ice rink for quite some time to come.

The bright sunlight shone from the south, filtering through the bare branches and casting swaying shadows on the wall. The sun dispelled the chill in the air, making it less cold than in the morning.

Outside the statue of Cai Yuanpei, his gaze quickly found several familiar figures.

Song Yao was holding up her phone, taking pictures of Wang Xiaping and the others.

"Tsk tsk, this is really nice."

Looking at the smiling faces of the people opposite him, Xu Qingzhou felt inexplicably at ease.

"What are you doing standing there?"

Wang Xiaping saw Xu Qingzhou first.

Xu Qingzhou walked over helplessly, inwardly complaining that his mother had two completely different faces towards him and Song Yao.

He forgot his own son after he got a daughter-in-law.

Zhang Junli greeted them with a smile, "Xu Qingzhou is here, let's take a family photo."

Song Yao asked, "Is there anything wrong?"

"It's nothing, just a small breakthrough, they asked me to go and take a look," Xu Qingzhou said with a smile.

"That's good."

Xu Shouyun and Song Shisong nodded in agreement. Seeing Xu Qingzhou leave in a hurry, they thought something had happened.

Xu Qingzhou took out his phone, stood in front, held up his phone to signal everyone to stand properly, and took two selfies.

"My face is so big."

Song Yao examined the photos and said with dissatisfaction.

She was leaning against Xu Qingzhou when she took this picture; she was closest to the camera.

"It's not small in reality either."

Xu Qingzhou pinched the girl's cool and aloof cheek.

"You're the one with a big face." Song Yao pretended to pinch her.

"Qingzhou, you mustn't bully Xiaoyao." Wang Xiaping stepped forward to defend Song Yao.

"Mom, didn't you see she was pinching me?"

"No."

"."

got used to.

Xu Qingzhou sighed, put aside his frustration, looked around, and decided to ask a passing classmate to take a couple of photos for him. He then called out to a little girl who was passing by.

"Hello, classmate."

The little girl was a little confused at first, but after recognizing the person who called her, her face immediately lit up with excitement, "You are, God Xu!"

Xu Qingzhou nodded and said, "Could you please take a picture for us?"

"No problem at all!"

The little girl was a little excited and nodded affirmatively.

"Senior Song, Professor Xu, you two move closer together, and the uncles and aunties on the left should also move closer to the middle."

The little girl gave very professional instructions.

The six people stood in line, and the little girl pressed the shutter, capturing this moment.

I took a dozen or so photos in total.

"That's professional."

"I learned a little bit about that before."

The little girl looked at the two timidly and said, "Professor Xu, Senior Song, can I take a picture with you?"

With two exam gods around, I can't possibly fail my final exams again.

Xu Qingzhou and Song Yao are now legends at Peking University.

"of course."

Xu Qingzhou nodded in agreement.

After a while, the little girl left with the photos looking very happy.

"You two are quite famous." Wang Xiaping smiled as she watched the little girl's happy figure disappear into the distance.

Song Yao said, "Many people hang his photo above their bed, especially before and after exams. I heard they all worship him."

"Worship him?"

Wang Xiaping's eyes widened; it was the first time she had ever heard of this thing.

Song Yao explained, "I don't know who started this, but people say that if you pray before the exam, you won't fail."

"There's nothing I can do, I'm a genius."

"Look at you, so capable, college genius! What are you having for lunch?"

"Hot pot lamb".

(End of this chapter)