"What did you find?" Old Cheng asked carefully, which made Wu Tong particularly excited to tell him that Cheng Huanan had a hunch that it was not an ordinary thing.
"I've discovered that there's a special equivalent co-bonding mechanism between metal elements at the microscopic level. Making good use of this equivalent co-bond is the key to enhancing alloy performance!" Wu Tong opened the door and invited the three Cheng brothers in.
The living room was not very big, and Wu Tong didn't feel much of it when he lived alone. But with three more people coming in, he suddenly felt a little out of place. However, who cared about this at the moment? Old Cheng took the lead, and the three followed Wu Tong's guidance to the desk.
On the desk, at first glance, starting from the side bookshelf and extending to the desk surface, piles of manuscripts were truly stimulating to the three visitors. Wu Tong handed the last materialized manuscript on the desk to Cheng Lao.
The first thing that caught the three people's eyes was a series of abstract mathematical formulas on it. If people without sufficient mathematical knowledge saw it, they would be stunned instantly.
There was a math instructor here, and Li Yisheng barely noticed something familiar in the series of mathematical formulas. "What's used here is... functions, wave functions, and..."
Li Yishen scratched his head. Although he could see some of the mathematical principles used in it at a glance, he still needed to work through it carefully step by step in order to understand the mathematical reasoning here.
Although his math level is acceptable, it depends on who he is compared with. Compared with his students, he naturally makes more mistakes than not, but compared with Wu Tong, the person who has solved the three most difficult conjectures in the world, he is far behind.
In particular, just from this initial mathematical formula, Li Yishen was shocked to feel that Wu Tong's mathematical level had improved again!
Only another month had passed. Wu Tong basically stayed in the laboratory of the School of Materials Science and rarely showed up at the School of Mathematics. This caused Dean Pan and others to be deeply worried. They were worried that the jewel of their School of Mathematics might become the jewel of the academy in the future.
But now, Li Yisheng can go back and tell those big guys in no uncertain terms that they don't have to worry, because Wu Tong has never stopped improving his mathematics.
"Wu Tong, you should give me some pointers. Can you show me something I can understand?" Cheng Huanan felt once again that his recent math training seemed to be in vain. What was written on it? Aside from the occasional parameters, atomic structures, and unit cell diagrams, which he was familiar with, those formulas were a real pain in the ass.
Well, the math lessons he has been taking recently seem to never keep up with the difficulty of the math that his young apprentices are learning.
Wu Tong laughed and simply pulled out a new piece of draft paper. He picked up a pen and drew the atomic structure diagram of the T4 and T5 alloy unit cells on the draft paper. The equivalent co-bonds between the metal phases produced a magical reaction, and finally an extraordinary material was obtained.
"After completing the T4 and T5 alloys, I kept wondering if there were any reactions we couldn't see, or if there was a basis that could give the materials a basis to rely on, a trace to follow, rather than just guessing by chance.
I then researched and analyzed the data, designed and derived a mathematical model, and ultimately, through a series of validation, discovered this unique equivalent co-bonding mechanism. Why is the alloy so much harder and more ductile? It's like a single chopstick made of ordinary material easily breaking, but with this unique mechanism, ten chopsticks can be firmly bonded together, significantly improving performance.
"Through deduction from the theoretical model I designed, I found that both T4 and T5 alloys have this co-bonding effect. At the atomic and even more microscopic level, different elements co-bond to form new combinations, retaining the selected superior properties!" Wu Tong showed the three people one by one the results of her research over the past month.
"It's a shame, but I've only confirmed the existence of this special mechanism. Understanding how to master it and create more superior materials requires further research!"
"I've tried using my new theory to deduce several existing alloys, and I've been able to verify the existence of this special mechanism. Next, I'll be looking for more data to validate my theory! With this theory, I believe we'll have a more accurate basis for material calculations in the future!"
If this reaction exists and the reflected data increases, it can be judged that the material performance is superior and there is potential for further research, and the error in computational materials science will be further reduced.
After hearing Wu Tong's words, the three of them seemed to hold their foreheads in their hands. In less than a month, they had achieved such amazing results, and they were still feeling regretful? Then, those of them who followed the routine and achieved nothing in the whole year, were they not worthy of breathing air and living?
"Anything we can do for you? Just let us know. This discovery is enough to become a major paper, a milestone in the advancement of chemical materials. You could even get it published in Science or Nature!" Elder Cheng, suppressing his excitement, said to Wu Tong with a smile. Although he struggled with complex and abstract mathematical formulas, he still had a good eye for evaluating research.
Such a discovery can even be called a quasi-Nobel Prize-level achievement.
"Can this be published in a paper?" Wu Tong was a little unsure. This discovery really took up a lot of her time and energy. However, Wu Tong felt that it was because her understanding of the material was too shallow, which made it so difficult. She had not thought about how significant this achievement was.
“Of course, this discovery will definitely cause a huge shock to the world’s chemical materials community. It’s purely theoretical and doesn’t have too many limitations. You should first improve the data and produce the paper. I’ll ask the higher-ups to confirm it, and then we can publish it and try to get it published in a top journal!” There are only a few articles published in Science and Nature’s main journals in China each year.
In fact, the materials Wu Tong developed twice before were both able to be published in the world's top journals, Science and Nature. However, as the performance of these two epoch-making materials in aviation was tested in various extreme environments one by one and the data was presented, they have been classified as major national secrets and become strategic-level protection reserves. They cannot be disclosed to the outside world, and naturally Wu Tong cannot publish them publicly.
"In our school, there's a one million dollar prize for a paper on science or nature. Wu Tong, you're going to have good fortune again!" Li Yishen finally calmed down the deep shock in his heart and congratulated with a smile.
Article 28 of the Kyoto University Scholarship provides a reward of 1 million yuan for each paper published in the international academic journals Nature or Science.
According to the JCR journal division of the Chinese Academy of Sciences that year, a reward of 100,000 yuan will be given for each article published in JCR1 zone journals, 80,000 yuan for each article published in JCR2 zone journals, 60,000 yuan for each article published in JCR3 zone journals, and 30,000 yuan for each article published in JCR4 zone journals. A reward of 20,000 yuan will be given for each article published in EI-indexed journals or Shanghai University Chinese core journals.
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