Rebirth 09: Synthetic Male God

Chapter 167 Visiting the Laboratory for the First Time
At two o'clock in the afternoon, Zhou Rui met Wu Huamin outside Guanghua Building.

Teacher Wu Huamin still looks the same, he is not yet forty, but he feels very tired, just like staying up late every day.

For the troublesome matter of taking students to the laboratory, he originally wanted to dismiss it, but he felt a little better when he learned that it was Zhou Rui who was taking the students. Zhou Rui left a deep impression on him in the previous conversation.

"Let's go, I'll take you to the magnetron sputtering side."

On the way, Wu Huamin said, "I heard that you first wanted to see the battery project team?"

Zhou Rui nodded and said: "Yes, but it doesn't matter, the main thing is to see and see."

Wu Huamin covered the glare of the sun with the leather notebook in his hand, and said: "There are no battery-related project teams in the headquarters campus, some are in the Zhangjiang campus, and some are directly in various cooperative enterprises."

"How many?"

Wu Huamin said with a smile: "Of course, batteries are a hot field, and countless universities, companies, and individuals around the world are researching them. Especially in the past two years, the mobile Internet has developed rapidly and the popularity has remained high. Just according to the types of materials, there are lithium iron phosphate, lithium iron phosphate, and lithium iron phosphate. Nano-ion, ternary, etc., some project teams are even only responsible for a certain structure or a certain process.”

With that said, Wu Huamin pointed to his nose:

"Scientific research is an old scalper with two rings tied to its nose. One is called the market and the other is called policy. Wherever the ring is pulled, the cow will go."

Zhou Rui nodded: "It's a very vivid metaphor."

Saying that, the two came to the second floor of materials, which is one of the special buildings of Fuda's "Chemistry and Materials College".

Walking through the corridor, Wu Huamin first took Zhou Rui to the locker room, where he changed into a series of laboratory attire such as lab coats, dust caps, and shoe covers.

Wu Huamin: "Don't feel troublesome. I used to be a senior, because a chemical solution splashed and burned a hole in my face."

Zhou Rui smiled and said: "Understood, it's the same as a car seat belt, wearing it doesn't necessarily mean that there will be an accident, and those who do have accidents don't wear it."

The laboratory was much smaller than Zhou Rui had imagined, with only three rooms. The moment Wu Huamin opened the door, several students inside hurriedly got up to say hello.

Some of these students wearing lab coats are graduate students and some are doctors. Although Zhou Rui's face cannot be recognized, Zhou Rui can be seen to be very young. I don't know which boss opened the back door. Why do you come to the laboratory so young? .

Wu Huamin ignored the curiosity of the students below and started to introduce.

"Each metal has many unique characteristics, but we are not allowed to use conventional metal materials in some scenes, which are too expensive and too heavy. You can understand "magnetron sputtering" as a painting process, using metal particles as paint, The electromagnetic field is used as the hand to control the spray gun, and the electrons collide with the target material, so that the metal particles can be evenly distributed on a certain plane, usually a thin film, and different materials have different effects."

Having said that, Wu Huamin looked at Zhou Rui:

"Does it sound very advanced? What collisions, particles, electromagnetic fields, etc."

Zhou Rui nodded slowly, at least it sounded bluffing.

Wu Huamin said with a smile: "Don't be intimidated, this is already a very mature technology. It was launched in the 70s, but the technology has been iterating, and the application scenarios are gradually increasing."

"At present, the most high-end application is semiconductor optical film, and the most friendly application is car film. Our project team belongs to the more pragmatic one."

Pragmatic is a good word to use
Wu Huamin briefly explained the principles, but more space was devoted to explaining the various rules and regulations and operating mechanisms of the laboratory. He felt that this was what Zhou Rui should know in advance.

And Zhou Rui also listened very seriously. After roughly turning around, Zhou Rui said curiously: "It feels like there are not many devices here."

The only large-scale equipment he saw was a "magnetron sputtering coating machine", which was about the size of a mobile toilet.

Wu Huamin said: "Due to the limited space, only a small amount of necessary equipment is kept in the school for research. The rest are in the factory of the cooperative enterprise, and some basic equipment is shared by the whole building."

Zhou Rui touched his chin and said, "I remember you said that your research direction is metalloenzymes?"

"That's right, but as I said just now, the old scalper has no one to drag him away, so he can only stand there and starve to death. There is no project team in the same direction, and he can't apply for it by himself, so he can only choose first. Besides, I’m just a deputy here.”

Zhou Rui felt that Wu Huamin was quite interesting. He could see that his scientific research path was not smooth, but his words were quite funny.

After that, Wu Huamin took Zhou Rui to sort out some experimental procedures, and also popularized some laboratory instructions, and finally brought Zhou Rui to the public conference room on the second floor of the material.

"The visitor is almost finished, and the next step is the so-called assessment test. To be honest, I don't know what to test for the tasks assigned by the above, so I prepared this."

Wu Huamin used the computer and projection screen in the conference room to call up a document.

is a thesis.

"Surface Modification of Adhesion of Metallic Coatings to Organic Substrates"

"This is a thesis written by a graduate student in our group. If you read it, how much can you understand?"

In Wu Huamin's estimation, Zhou Rui is only a freshman after all, even if he "advanced on-demand", he can understand 30% and he will feel qualified. This paper is not well written, and it is not even qualified for publication, but for The undergraduate stage, especially the freshman year, is still very difficult.

But Zhou Rui was even better than he expected. In less than half an hour, he finished reading the 24-page paper, and he asked a few questions. Zhou Rui was a little weak in the part involving physics, but he was basically correct in other parts.

Especially the knowledge in the field of chemistry and mathematics is very solid, not like a freshman at all.

Wu Huamin thinks that you have too many advanced on-demand programs.
"No wonder you want to apply to enter the laboratory. With your current professional knowledge, it is no worse than juniors and seniors. It is no problem to enter the laboratory."

Zhou Rui sent a compliment: "The teacher teaches well"

Wu Huamin grinned and didn't answer. He knew best what was going on in class.

Just a textbook chanter.
Wu Huamin turned off the computer, only the hum of the fans remained in the meeting room.

"Let's do this today. I will report your situation to the academy. I don't think it's a big problem, but you have to have psychological expectations. Even if you enter the laboratory, you may be doing miscellaneous work. After all, seniority is always judged everywhere. Have you figured out the direction? I guess as long as you open your mouth and don't involve confidentiality, the academy will agree."

Zhou Rui thought for a while, then suddenly said, "What if I want to come to your side?"

　There is another chapter

　　
　
(End of this chapter)