From top student in college to scientific research powerhouse

Chapter 70 This is incredible! This is incredible!
One by one, names were signed on the draft agreement regarding the ownership of the results.

Wang Guiyuan, the administrative director, represented the Faculty of Science of Jiangzhou University and affixed the Faculty's official seal to the agreement.

Zhu Bingkun represented the Applied Electromagnetism Laboratory, and other participants included Xue Kun, Fang Huimin, and Chen Shuai.

Finally, there's Zhang Minghao, who is also very satisfied with the distribution of the profits.

Everyone was taken care of, including the laboratory staff, the school staff, and the individuals involved in the experiment.

In the view of Wang Guiyuan and Zhu Bingkun, the signing of the agreement was valuable.

If similar situations arise again in the future, the agreement can be used as a model to address the patent achievements completed by graduate and doctoral students in conjunction with laboratory projects.

After the agreement was signed, people in the lab started talking about it.

"Zhang Minghao has developed a technology that may enable the stable growth of tinene, which will create a new material for the large-scale manufacture of multilayer tinene stacks."

"The kind that's measured in laboratory studies?"

"Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Stable growth of stanene seems unlikely."

"This material can only be produced in a laboratory; large-scale manufacturing is too far off."

Most people just mention it as a topic.

They shared similar sentiments with Chen Shuai and Zhu Bingkun, believing that 'stable growth' and 'large-scale manufacturing' had absolutely no connection to 'stanene'.

Stinene, a future material that could replace graphene.

The international physics community has not even been able to manufacture 'single-atom tinene thin films'. Stable manufacturing of 'multi-layer stacked tinene thin films' sounds even more difficult than manufacturing 'single-atom tinene thin films'.

Graphene has been stuck in the 'mass manufacturing technology' for twenty years!

The difficulty of stanene will only increase!
After Zhang Minghao signed the agreement, he returned to his workroom. Liao Shuyan, Chen Lanjun, and others asked him a few questions out of curiosity.

He explained, "The technology must be different, right?"

"Single-atom tinene thin films are definitely more difficult to manufacture. The biggest technical obstacle is the substrate. Do you remember what Deng Kai said?"

"Bismuth telluride is not necessarily the most suitable shirt, or even the most suitable one. Making single-atom tinene thin films with bismuth telluride is just a matter of luck."

"The inability to manufacture single-layer tinene films does not mean that multi-layer stacked films cannot be manufactured. According to my research, we can give it a try."

Liao Shuyan and Xu Chao exchanged a glance after hearing this, clearly not quite believing it.

Chen Lanjun then leaned over and hugged Zhang Minghao's arm tightly, using her "sticky" charm. She looked up and said firmly, "Zhang Minghao, I believe in you!"

"No problem, your research will definitely succeed!"

"Thank you."

Zhang Minghao quickly pulled his arm away, rolled his eyes, and asked, "What's the matter? Just say it."

Chen Lanjun smiled nonchalantly, pointed to her computer, and said, "Come and take a look. What do you think of my analysis?"

She briefly explained, "I want to write a paper based on data work."

"I'm doing an analysis of the numerical variation in the width of the oriented channels on the substrate."

"The experiments from the past few days, the changes in the measured values, and my analysis..."

Zhang Minghao thought for a moment and gave his advice, "If it's just a regular domestic journal, this content should be enough."

"But it would be best to add some innovation, such as incorporating some mathematical elements into the allocation calculations..."

"This position contains numerical values, along with a graph, for statistical purposes..."

"And here..."

Chen Lanjun listened and quickly wrote it down, feeling as if she had suddenly understood something.

Liao Shuyan sat in his seat, scratching his head at the blank document. He glanced at Xu Chao's computer next to him and realized that the other was at the same stage as him, which made him feel a little comforted.

He looked up at the man and woman opposite him, and wanted to ask Zhang Minghao a question, but then felt a little embarrassed.

I didn't believe their research just now, but now I'm going to ask them questions?
Xu Chao also turned his head to look over, then tugged at his sleeve and whispered, "Why don't you go over there too, and like Chen Lanjun, hug his arm and act all cute?"

"Then, I'll ask how to write it, and I'll just imitate yours later."

"--roll!"

……

The next morning, Zhang Minghao presented a complete experimental plan.

He handed the proposal to Xue Kun.

After receiving the proposal, Xue Kun discussed it with Zhang Minghao, Zhu Bingkun, and Fang Huimin.

All three of them thought the plan was very interesting.

Zhang Minghao's design differed greatly from the original experiment because the design goal was to achieve stable growth of 'tinene thin layers'.

This includes two points: one is the formation of a tinene thin layer, which utilizes a magnetic field and the substrate to ensure that tin atoms are stacked in the same plane.

The second is stable growth.

When tin atoms are stacked, they do not disturb the atoms in other layers and are distributed as evenly as possible on the substrate surface.

It's like a bunch of magnets of the same shape that, under the influence of a special magnetic field, will automatically arrange themselves into a certain pattern.

The original experimental design was different; it tended to produce single-atom-layer tinene films, which resulted in some areas having a large amount of tin stacked up, while other areas formed smooth tinene films.

The two schemes have different experimental objectives and very different designs.

Zhu Bingkun, Xue Kun, and Fang Huimin couldn't understand it.

Although they did not understand the principles of the design, they had a better understanding of the experiment.

Zhang Minghao's design has many flaws, but they cannot be implemented in experiments; simply put, they are too idealistic.

Some operations can be affected by various factors.

Together, they revised the experimental plan, realizing some 'idealized aspects' in other ways.

It took a long discussion among the group before the experimental plan was finally finalized.

Once the plan was finalized, experiments began. The first part still required Xue Kun to manufacture the new substrate.

He didn't quite believe that the experiment could actually produce a stable multilayer tinene film, but out of trust in Zhang Minghao, he still held a glimmer of hope.

What if?
If a material with multilayered tinene films stacked together can be manufactured, a technology for large-scale production of new materials will be obtained.

Those are material technology achievements that can be directly applied.

According to the design scheme, the substrate construction is simpler than the original experiment, and many of the pathway structures are not complicated.

The design becomes simple, and so does the substrate manufacturing.

Xue Kun spent about six hours completing the substrate fabrication and then handed the remaining work over to Zhu Bingkun.

Zhu Bingkun's mindset was different from Xue Kun's; he simply did not believe that it was possible to manufacture 'multilayer tinene thin film materials'.

He participated in the experiment out of support for Zhang Minghao.

Zhang Minghao is a doctoral student, but his contribution to the research is the greatest. He is very capable, and we should express our support simply because we want to.

Zhu Bingkun hopes that Dr. Zhang Minghao can stay in the Applied Electromagnetism Laboratory after graduation, and of course, he will support his personal research.

He would have completely ignored the same thing if it had happened to other doctoral students.

Zhu Bingkun's work involves conducting experiments, adding special activators and elemental tin materials to experimental vessels, and then monitoring the growth of the tin layer for more than ten hours.

This job is relatively easy; it only takes about ten minutes to take a look. If any abnormalities occur, just follow the plan.

The only downside is that it's extremely time-consuming.

But Zhu Bingkun didn't care. He made an excuse to stay up all night and handed over the task of writing the report to Chen Shuai.

If the laboratory makes a significant achievement, a report on that achievement should certainly be written.

This work was originally his, but because it needed to be done in conjunction with Zhang Minghao's experiment, Chen Shuai had to write it.

I'll participate in the experiment today and stay up all night, so I can be lazy tomorrow.

It's so nice not having to write reports!

While Zhu Bingkun leisurely stared at the experiment, and others were busy writing reports and papers, Zhang Minghao became the only idle person in the laboratory.

He went out for exercise.

Since his physical assessment attributes rose to 70 points, he has been busy with research in the laboratory and hasn't exercised much.

You still need to take care of your health.

However, physical exercise is not so urgent anymore.

After completing the capability upgrade, he discovered that further upgrades were possible, but the demand had increased significantly.

The system upgrade request page displays as follows:

[Mindset: 95; Physical Fitness: 80; Academic Reputation: 10000; Wealth: 100 million.]

During the previous upgrade process, the physical assessment values ​​were the last to be achieved.

Now, physical health assessment scores have suddenly become the easiest to achieve, while intellect, academic reputation, and wealth all seem somewhat unattainable, especially wealth…

A small goal?

"Perhaps the system thinks that genius scientists can easily make money?"

"Also, if your thinking ability reaches 95, what level of IQ would you have? It shouldn't be worse than those international math geniuses, right?"

"Academic reputation, 10,000 points..."

Zhang Minghao didn't know how to comment.

After exercising, go to bed early and get up early.

The next morning, he went to the Applied Electromagnetism Laboratory and ran into Zhu Bingkun at the office door as soon as he arrived in the lobby on the first floor.

Zhu Bingkun rubbed his eyes, greeted Zhang Minghao, and then said, "I've been up all night."

"From what I've observed, the tin growth in the vessel is very stable. I just took it to the testing lab; you can go and see the results if you want."

He yawned deeply as he spoke, "I'm going upstairs to catch up on my sleep."

"Thank you for your hard work, Teacher Zhu."

Zhang Minghao politely said something and headed to the back laboratory.

Just then, He Hui walked quickly from behind, waved to the two of them as if to say hello, and continued walking out.

Zhu Bingkun immediately called out, "Xiao He, what are you rushing off to do?"

"Go to the Light Institute."

"what?"

He Hui slapped his forehead and stopped, saying, "Oh right, we just tested that material, and it's amazing!"

He said with a look of surprise, "We made simple measurements at several locations, and all of these locations showed single-atom tinene film stacking signals."

"In other words, they could all be multilayer tinene films!"

"Professor Fang asked me to go to Guangshuo in advance so that I could use their precision equipment to conduct further measurements on the materials."

He Hui left after he finished speaking.

Zhu Bingkun stood there stunned for a long time, muttering to himself, "Are there multiple layers of tinene film in several locations?"

"In other words, the whole thing is a material composed of multiple layers of tinene thin films?"

"Snapped!"

He slapped his forehead in realization and immediately strode towards the back, exclaiming, "This is incredible!"

Let's go take a look!

(End of this chapter)