You say you have an iron will, are you serious?

Chapter 367 Nickel-based superconductor?

Small notebook, University of Tokyo!

"Tokura-kun, do you know that America has achieved room temperature superconductivity in the first experiment?"

On this day, Watanabe Shinichi looked at the newspaper in his hand and immediately came to find Tokura Yoshihide.

Yoshihide Tokura is researching superconducting materials. He has recently been helping to help Yoshihide Tokura solve mathematical problems.

The pursuit of room temperature superconducting materials is the lifelong dream of every scientist studying superconducting materials in the world. Whoever can realize this dream will be a "great god" level scientist who changes the world, comparable to Einstein. Winning the Nobel Prize is easy and not difficult at all.

Einstein, Einstein.

Now seeing room temperature superconducting material emerging from America, Watanabe Shinichi was immediately shocked.

Although the conditions include a pressure of 200 million atmospheres, achieving superconducting properties at room temperature is still an astonishing achievement, if it is really the case.

You know, according to the latest research results, even if atmospheric pressure is added, the temperature must be close to the liquid nitrogen temperature zone.

After speaking, he pointed to a stack of manuscript paper on the table next to him.

Twenty minutes later, Watanabe Shinichi wrote the last number and stopped writing.

"I know~"

Watanabe Shinichi was startled for a moment. Although he was very confused, he quickly looked over, then picked it up and read it.

Watanabe Shinichi: "..."

Tokura Yoshihide's voice suddenly sounded from his left side. The voice was full of surprise. At the same time, his left index finger was placed on the manuscript paper and pointed at one of the formulas.

He only said a few words as soon as the words came to his lips. He didn't have time to explain the formula here. Tokura Yoshihide couldn't wait to say: "Shinichi, you really helped me a lot, thank you so much", and then He trotted away in a hurry.

Room temperature?

Watanabe Shinichi smiled slightly and said, "Here, it's like this..."

Watanabe Shinichi laughed and shook his head, then sat aside, picked up a pen and started calculating.

"fake?"

Listening to his question, Tokura Yoshihide, who was doing experiments in the laboratory, said without looking back, and then said: "Don't pay attention to that paper, I think it is most likely false. Now, you still Come and help me solve this calculation problem~"

Watanabe Shinichi was curious, so he did not leave immediately. Instead, he watched from the side, handing things to Tokura Yoshihide from time to time, and cooperated with him in experiments.

I was busy until the afternoon, and the sintering on Tokura Yoshihide's hand was finally completed. A small thing was sintered, but it was only about the size of a fingernail, and Watanabe Shinichi couldn't tell what it was.

Afterwards, Tokura Yoshihide stopped talking to him and became even busier than before, starting to mix materials and proceed with sintering.

Five minutes later, he finished reading the math problems on the manuscript paper.

That is unthinkable!

"Okay, I'll do it myself~"

Hey guys, what's going on?

Inspiration has come, are you about to make a breakthrough?

"Oh, it turns out there is a problem here~"

Watanabe Shinichi raised his head, and when he was thinking about having a good communication with Tokura Yoshihide, he saw Tokura Yoshihide immersed in the experiment, walking back and forth in the laboratory, and mumbling some data, obviously I don't have time to communicate with him.

"Let's go and test this crystal. I have a hunch that this will be the most important product in the field of materials and superconductivity, bar none!"

Tokura Yoshihide said excitedly, then picked up this small sintered object and walked towards the testing place.

Watanabe Shinichi hurriedly followed, feeling excited for no reason.

The testing process is very complex.

Until the evening, Shicang Haoying designed the test platform and steps, and then started the instrument for testing.

The temperature continues to decrease and the pressure continues to increase, and the materials are tested in two aspects.

At first, when he saw that the sintered crystal did not show superconducting properties under normal temperature and pressure, Tokura Yoshihide was not surprised and continued the test with a calm face. Only Watanabe Shinichi's expression changed a little, and he felt it was a pity that he had not developed room temperature superconductivity.

However, as the temperature continued to decrease and the pressure continued to increase, the sintered crystal still did not show superconducting properties. Although Tokura Yoshihide's face was still calm, he was already a little anxious in his heart: "It shouldn't be ah?"

"Continue to pressurize to 14 MPa and the temperature will continue to decrease~"

Tokura Yoshihide did not stop the testing steps and continued to adjust the parameters.

After increasing the pressure to 14 MPa, Shicang Haoying tested it one by one in different temperature ranges.

150k temperature?

no change!

100K temperature?

Still no change!

90K temperature?

Still no change~

K is the Kelvin temperature, the standard is 273.15°C, and the room temperature is about 300K.

The smaller the number, the lower the temperature in degrees Celsius. Many of the current superconducting materials have temperatures that fluctuate between a few K and a dozen K. The temperature is extremely low, and the manufacturing and maintenance costs are astronomically high. This is also the fundamental reason why it is difficult to develop superconducting applications at present.

Soon, Tokura Yoshihide adjusted the temperature to 85K and tested again.

"Ok?"

The next moment, Tokura Yoshihide suddenly opened his eyes. The resistance of the crystal plummeted to zero at this moment!

Watanabe Shinichi on the side also opened his eyes suddenly, looked straight at the value displayed on the instrument, and murmured to himself: "85K, this temperature breaks through the liquid nitrogen temperature zone, right?"

"Hahaha……"

Tokura Yoshihide suddenly burst into laughter and shouted with excitement: "Yes, Shinichi, we have broken through the liquid nitrogen temperature zone. This is the nickel-based superconducting material we discovered. This is the first time in the world. Not only Not only was it the first time to discover nickel-based superconducting materials, but it was also the first time to push the temperature of nickel-based superconducting materials to the liquid nitrogen temperature range. We made history! We made double history!"

"awesome!"

Watanabe Shinichi clapped his hands and applauded, and Tokura Yoshihide couldn't let go of his excitement.

Subsequently, Tokura Yoshihide suppressed his excitement and began testing other properties, including diamagnetism (Meissner effect), quantum tunneling effect, etc.

He was busy until late at night. When all the properties were tested and it was finally confirmed that they perfectly met all the above superconducting properties, Tokura Haoying finally stopped and finally cheered.

Together with Shinichi Watanabe, the two yelled, danced, and sang songs, as if it were a major festival.

The next day, a paper was submitted to "Nature". In a very short period of time, it appeared in the latest issue of "Nature" and was the cover article. It was the same as America Diaz's article on the discovery of room temperature superconducting materials. The treatment is almost the same.

Suddenly, the University of Tokyo became a sensation!

The whole little book was a sensation!

There was also a huge response across the world!

In Japan, Tokura Yoshihide became famous in one fell swoop and became the most popular star. He received a large number of interviews and exclusive interviews. Many media shouted that the success of room temperature superconductivity is in the hands of their brothers and Tokura Yoshihide. In the hands of the British, he is expected to win the Nobel Prize, and he has the demeanor of a scientific master.

At the same time, there was also Shinichi Watanabe.

Watanabe Shinichi made an important contribution here, which Tokura Yoshihide said in an interview.

Of course, Watanabe Shinichi is not as popular as Tokura Yoshihide, but it is not much different, because in addition to this incident, the media also revealed his alien theater theory and began to defend him, saying that he The unfair treatment I received was due to the suppression by those in the mathematics community, especially the deliberate targeting of Zhao Mo from China.

Zhao Mo proved the ABC conjecture in advance, and then criticized Watanabe Shinichi's extraterrestrial theater theory for proving the ABC conjecture. He also had the top mathematics journal reject the manuscript. What is this not aimed at?

Suddenly, the public sentiment spread across the ocean to China, especially on Weibo, triggering another wave of craze.

……

Luzhou, Artificial Sun Research Institute.

"XCMG, this is the latest issue of "Nature"~"

As soon as Xu Wei, who had just arrived at work, entered the office, his team assistant came in with a stack of magazines and newspapers, and they started talking one by one. Xu Wei got the "Nature" he ordered.

"Okay, thank you~"

Xu Wei thanked him, took it and sat down in his seat, then started reading while eating the steamed bun breakfast he had brought.

"Hmm? Nickel-based superconductor breaks through the liquid nitrogen temperature zone?"

As soon as he saw the cover, Xu Wei was shocked. The body that was leaning on the chair subconsciously sat up straight. He stopped eating the buns in his hands and put them aside. He started to hold "Nature" in both hands and read it carefully. .

The paper is not very long, but the relevant theories, experimental processes and data in it require a very high academic level to fully understand, so Xu Wei read it very carefully, so naturally he read it slowly.

After reading for more than half an hour, he came back to his senses from the paper when Kuang Xiantao came to him.

"What do you think?"

Kuang Xiantao raised the magazine in his hand, which was also "Nature". He was obviously asking about his paper on superconducting materials.

Xu Wei glanced at him, with a look of emotion and regret on his face, and said slowly: "The place where I lived well in my childhood is still very strong in the field of superconducting materials. I didn't expect that this time I discovered the nickel-based superconducting material." guide material.”

Kuang Xiantao couldn't help but said with some jealousy: "Yes, and the temperature has been raised to the liquid nitrogen temperature zone. This is really amazing!"

It has been raised to the liquid nitrogen temperature zone, which means it can be used on a large scale.

It is difficult to lower the temperature of superconducting materials when the temperature is too low, and the investment cost and engineering volume are unimaginably huge.

But it's different when it comes to the liquid nitrogen temperature zone. Liquid nitrogen can be used directly for cooling. The cost and engineering volume can be said to plummet, and it can be commercialized.

How could this not surprise the two of them?

As he spoke, Kuang Xiantao also talked about America's last paper on room-temperature superconductivity: "Nature also issued a statement and retracted the paper. It was indeed a fraud."

Xu Wei said disdainfully: "There are people like this everywhere. They are not worth mentioning."

Kuang Xiantao nodded, and then asked: "Xiaobenzi has brought such big news to the world, so XCMG, do you think we need to follow up?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Wei's face immediately showed a look of helplessness, but after thinking for a while, he still said firmly: "Let's continue with our iron-based superconductor, which is more cost-effective."

"I agree with you~"

Kuang Xiantao breathed a sigh of relief.

Xu Wei nodded and said: "However, we still need to study the nickel-based superconducting material. I will discuss this part with my mentor and Academician Zhao Xian's team when the time comes~"

"Alright~"

Kuang Xiantao felt more relieved.

(End of this chapter)