Starting from a top student and marching towards the sea of ​​stars

Chapter 282: There is great potential in this direction!

What Ning Chen said was true. When Ning Chen first started conducting experiments independently, he tried his best to publish a relatively ordinary SCI paper.

Of course, Ning Chen was just a freshman at that time, and it was already very difficult to achieve such a level.

The former commander also knew that Ning Chen was just comforting him. Of course, he could get Ning Chen's guidance, and the former commander was very satisfied.

Next, Ning Chen gave some of his own suggestions to the former commander from the perspective of experimental ideas and experimental design.

Compared with experimental operations, Ning Chen feels that these are more important things. After all, operations can be compensated for by advanced experimental equipment, but experimental ideas and experimental designs can only be led by humans.

The former commander lamented that Ning Chen had so many better experimental ideas. He listened carefully to Ning Chen's suggestions and recorded some key points.

After saying this, Ning Chen and Yuan Shuai summarized this research project together.

"Commander Yuan, your research project this time is of great significance in the field of superconductivity. This research project has opened up a new research system on superconducting materials and proved for the first time that nickel oxide may be superconducting. properties, and the superconducting critical temperature is not too low.”

After a pause, Ning Chen continued:

"In addition, this research result will also help us to study the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity more deeply, and use these theories to better design and predict superconducting materials. To be honest, Your achievement, Mr. Yuan, has also helped me further revise my superconducting material prediction model."

Ning Chen had summarized such a superconducting material prediction model before, but because there was not enough material, this model still had certain errors.

But after adding the new experimental data of Yuan Shuai, Ning Chen raised the accuracy of this prediction model to a new level.

The former commander also didn't expect that his research could be of so many uses. This seemed like an accident.

"Ning Chen, there is still a lot of luck involved in my research. Originally I just wanted to find a new superconductor, but in the end I discovered a high-temperature superconductor, and it will also provide such help in explaining the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity. A lot of help...it seems I still need to continue to improve my basic knowledge."

The former commander said this not to show off, but because there was still a gap in his abilities.

Fortunately, we had better luck this time. The difference between experiment and prediction made the final experimental result tilt in a better direction.

But if you are unlucky, not even a superconductor may be discovered this time, and the entire project will completely fail.

Ning Chen didn't think this was a problem and said with a smile:
"Commander, there is nothing to worry about, because luck is also a part of scientific research. During my previous research, there were often things where the conclusions were inconsistent with my predictions. The most important thing is to maintain a good attitude, no matter what No matter what the results are, we should not be arrogant or impetuous, and carefully summarize the experimental phenomena."

Ning Chen knew clearly that if he had not carefully studied various superconducting materials and superconducting theories, he would never have such an idea.

Luck only plays a small part in it.

After talking about the topic, Ning Chen also wanted to know the original commander's opinion on the submission of this paper.

"Commander Yuan, which academic journal do you want to publish this paper in?"

After thinking for a while, the former commander said:
"If possible, of course it should be published in "Academic Sky", even if it is a materials sub-journal, it is also acceptable."

After hearing the former commander's thoughts, Ning Chen also nodded gently.

After several years of development, "Academic Starry Sky" has become the most influential academic journal in the world's academic community.

Being able to publish an article in a major journal has become the dream of every scientific researcher in the world.

In particular, "Academic Starry Sky" is a domestic academic journal, which is the main reason why Yuan Shuai chose "Academic Starry Sky" as an ideal journal.

However, Ning Chen had different ideas from the original commander when it came to the proposal for delivering this paper.

"Commander Yuan, as far as I know, there are currently a large number of papers to be published in "Academic Starry Sky", and the journal papers in the next few months are already full. And with the standard of this paper, it has been successfully published by "Academic Starry Sky" It is possible to receive it, but I cannot accurately judge the specific possibility."

Although Ning Chen is one of the chief editors and chief reviewer of "Academic Starry Sky", Ning Chen cannot rely on his own judgment to decide whether a paper can be successfully published in the journal.

"In comparison, the possibility of this paper being accepted by the Materials Journal of "Academic Star" will naturally be much greater. However, I think your paper is more suitable to be submitted to some academic journals with higher impact factors first. Try the journal.”

After hearing Ning Chen's words, the former commander asked in surprise:

"Then... which academic journal do you think is more suitable for me to submit to?"

"Let's try submitting to the main journal of "Nature" first. Although the current "Nature" is not as good as "Academic Sky", it still has a great influence in the international academic community. Based on the quality of your paper, There is still great hope that it will be accepted by the main journal of Nature."

"But... Ning Chen, I still prefer to invest in domestic academic journals. Didn't you also say before that we should focus on developing domestic academic journals, so that our academic community in Xia can develop better and better?"

Otherwise, there would be no need for Ning Chen to put all his efforts into establishing "Academic Starry Sky", a domestic academic journal.

When he first founded this academic journal, Ning Chen even gave up submitting his papers to top journals such as "Nature" and chose to publish them in the newly established "Academic Sky" even if he could not receive any paper awards. .

"Commander Yuan, this is actually not a contradiction. Now you have just started to independently carry out your own project. You still need to accumulate enough scientific research results before you can rise to a higher level and then consider Xia Guo's academic work. world. When I first started doing scientific research, I had similar thoughts."

In fact, from the very beginning, Ning Chen had similar thoughts to the current Yuan Shuai. Even when he participated in the Qiuchengtong College Students Mathematics Competition, Ning Chen was somewhat resistant to the process of studying and answering papers in English.

But Ning Chen also knew that only in this way could he reach a higher level more quickly and have the possibility of founding "Academic Starry Sky" in the future.

After listening to Ning Chen's explanation, the former commander also understood what Ning Chen was thinking.

"Ning Chen, I understand. I will try submitting to the main journal of Nature first. But when my ability is strong enough, I will still give priority to submitting papers to domestic academic journals as I hoped before."

"Okay, I believe such a day will come soon." Ning Chen said with a smile.

...After discussing various issues on this topic with Ning Chen, Yuan Shuai compiled the research results into a paper and submitted it to the main journal of Nature.

After receiving this submitted paper from Yuan Shuai, the editor of "Nature" also attached great importance to it.

Because of the organization that submitted the paper, they were a little surprised at first to think that this would be the paper Ning Chen submitted to the journal.

Since the founding of "Academic Starry Sky", Ning Chen has not submitted papers to the main journal of "Nature". This has also affected the quality of "Nature" journal papers to a certain extent, resulting in the impact factor of "Nature" being compared with It had dropped quite a bit before.

They know that the quality of a journal's papers cannot rely on one author, but the presence or absence of Ning Chen does have a great impact on the quality of the journal's editing.

They understood Ning Chen's decision to start an academic journal on his own, but they also looked forward to the day when Ning Chen could once again choose "Nature" as the target for paper submission.

However, when they saw clearly the author of the paper submission, they realized that this was not the paper submitted by Ning Chen.

"It turns out that Ning Chen is from the same laboratory at the same school... But it seems that at least Ning Chen has read this paper and probably provided guidance."

They knew how high Ning Chen's status was at Shengzhou University, and it was unlikely that such a relatively high-quality paper would be submitted directly to Ning Chen.

However, I wonder what the editors of "Nature" would think if they were informed of the conversation between Ning Chen and the former commander.

Unsurprisingly, Yuan Shuai’s paper successfully passed the preliminary review of Nature and was judged by the editors to be a paper of focus, and reviewers were prioritized for review.

On the other hand, after Ning Chen finished following the experimental subject of the original commander, he was also thinking about the possibility of continuing to move forward in this direction.

"If my guess is not wrong... there should be more than just one type of nickel oxide superconductor."

And Ning Chen feels that if we continue to explore in this direction, we are likely to discover some superconductors with higher superconducting critical temperatures in the future.

After confirming this idea, Ning Chen began to predict the next material.

This is Ning Chen's consistent way of doing scientific research. Before officially conducting an experiment, Ning Chen will predict the process and results of the experiment in advance and make a very detailed plan.

Ning Chen would never place his scientific research results on luck. Things like the accidental discovery of a superconducting material might happen, but such a research method would be very inefficient.

Soon, Ning Chen used the superconducting model he had constructed to predict nickel oxide superconductors.

Now Ning Chen has the help of both Xiaozhi and Quantum Leap. He can construct various models and complete complex calculations in the shortest time. This has doubled Ning Chen's work efficiency.

Of course, Ning Chen will still not rely on artificial intelligence and quantum computers, but will insist on focusing on himself and ensuring that the entire research process is in accordance with his own ideas.

After a process of modeling and calculation, Xiaozhi successfully predicted multiple nickel oxides that may achieve superconducting properties, and predicted the corresponding superconducting critical temperature.

"That's right... After so many trainings, Xiaozhi, your abilities are much stronger than before." Ning Chenxin said.

It is no exaggeration to say that once Xiaozhi continues to make progress, it may really replace many human jobs and directly help humans solve some complex problems.

Xiaozhi now has a very high level of intelligence and can break through the Turing test very easily, which is far beyond the comparison of artificial intelligence with the capabilities of ChatGPT.

Even in terms of the method of material synthesis, Xiaozhi also gave Ning Chen some possible recommendations for Ning Chen to refer to.

However, Xiaozhi is still a little immature when it comes to material synthesis plans, and Ning Chen still needs to handle these tasks personally.

"In the field of materials science, there is still some gap between you and me, Xiaozhi. After all, I am also at the materials science level 3."

The subject level of Level 3 does not seem to be outstanding, but under the strict grading standards of the system, this is undoubtedly the world's top level.

After identifying several materials with high research value, Ning Chen began to study the possible synthesis methods of these materials.

Material synthesis has always been a key and difficult issue in the field of materials. Even if the structure of a material is accurately predicted, it does not mean that the material can be processed smoothly.

Ning Chen first conducted a detailed analysis of the structures of these substances, and then predicted the properties of these substances.

After that, Ning Chen used Xiaozhi to search for relevant literature and look for some possible synthesis methods.

These past synthesis methods may not be really effective, and some papers still have data deviations and even academic fraud, but they can still provide Ning Chen with a lot of ideas.

After some analysis and research, Ning Chen has determined some material synthesis methods that can be tried.

"Now it's time to select some precursors."

The so-called precursors refer to some experimental raw materials used in the process of synthesizing target substances.

This is a very important step in material synthesis experiments.

Simply put, the choice of precursor is directly related to the composition of the elements contained in the substance.

Of course, it is not enough to simply select precursors based on the elemental composition of the substance. Appropriate precursors must also be selected based on various experimental conditions in the synthesis method.

"Well... if we look at these reaction conditions, it should be more appropriate to choose these precursors."

After determining the selection of precursors, experimental synthesis methods, experimental reaction conditions, etc., the remaining work is experimental verification.

After sorting out these experimental plans, Ning Chen came to the laboratory the next day to prepare for this new experiment.

(End of this chapter)