Overtaking in corners is a common term in motorsports that means to use the gap in a corner to overtake an opponent.

However, the term has now been given a new meaning and is widely used in all spheres of political, economic and social life, where "bends" are understood as certain changes in the social process or some key nodes on the path of life.

In terms of science and technology, corner overtaking has always been the most effective way for countries with relatively backward science and technology to catch up with and surpass advanced countries.

This is especially true for Huaguo!

For the backward basic industries in China, Liu Feng does not think that they can really only catch up step by step and follow the rhythm of developed countries abroad, after all, for a long time, they can only follow the ass of Europe and the United States to eat dust, and in some cases, overtaking in corners is not impossible.

For example, superconductor materials.

In fact, in terms of superconductor materials, China has been in a state of catching up with the world's advanced level, and a large part of the reason why Liu Feng wants Siemens to buy supercollider parts is because the domestic production of low-temperature superconducting electromagnetic stone can not meet the needs of the supercollider......

Therefore, after systematic study of superconducting materials, Liu Feng combined his own 'unique' advantages and believed that superconductors at room temperature would become a possible point for Huaguo to achieve corner overtaking on superconductor materials.

Room-temperature superconductors, that is, conductors with zero resistance at room temperature, also known as room-temperature superconductors, refer to superconductors that can operate at a temperature of about 300K.

For a long time, the academic community has believed that room-temperature superconductors are an idealized concept, and it is almost impossible to exist at room temperature in reality.

However, in December last year, an international group of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in country D reported on their work in the journal Nature, making room-temperature superconductivity a possibility.

The principle is that laser pulses cause transient changes in individual atoms in the crystal lattice, resulting in the creation of superconductivity.

Although this superconducting state only exists for a few picoseconds, this may be the beginning of a real breakthrough.

The significance of this achievement is that how to find room temperature superconducting materials in the past has become - how to make room temperature superconducting materials persist a little longer!

Although China's research in this area is still in a blank state compared with Europe and the United States, the fact is that all countries in the world are basically on the same technological level, and no one is much ahead of the other.

At least, compared with the generation gap formed by 'low-temperature' superconducting materials to China, Europe and the United States are only one step ahead of normal temperature superconducting materials.

If the magnetic confinement device for controlled nuclear fusion and the electromagnetic accelerator of the supercollider can use room-temperature superconducting materials, to a large extent, the working effect of these instruments can be improved by a level, which is also a major reason why Liu Feng wants to use room-temperature superconductor materials.

However, for Liu Feng's 'whimsical' idea, material experts represented by Academician Cui Kun and others are not optimistic at all.

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At the Ningbo Institute of Materials Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Liu Feng has been here for several days.

He has already reported the specific research plan to Zhang Qin.

The basic industries involved in the super collider, which China needs to make up, include two key directions.

One is the research of materials, and the other is the research of precision machining of materials.

Among them, precision machining is not Liu Feng's director, so he handed it over to the finishing branch of the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Huaguo Academy of Engineering, headed by Academician Chen Xuedong.

To be honest, precision machining is a matter of opinion.

As long as you don't care about the cost, in a short period of time, you can find a replacement, which is completely satisfying.

For example, in Huaguo's manned space project, at the beginning, the accuracy of the return capsule processed by the machine could not meet the requirements, and those people relied on the manual work of the legendary ninth-level fitter - knife splitting axe, chopping file and knife to create it!

Of course, the cost and price inside are indeed a little high, after all, just a top fitter already belongs to the national treasure level, looking at the world, such a top master, that is also a handful!

After all, there are not many finished products that need to be manufactured through precision machining in large array monitors, even if it is 100 super colliders, with the efforts of these 'great craftsmen', I believe they can also be satisfied.

Therefore, materials research has become the key of the key.

The new materials that need to be tackled by the super collider include superconducting electromagnetic stone materials and various special materials in large array monitors.

Therefore, this is the scene where Liu Feng went to the Ningbo Institute of Materials of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to learn from experience.

"Professor Liu, even in foreign countries, room temperature superconductor materials are only a conceptual thing, and no one can prove what their prospects are. If we rashly launch normal temperature superconductor materials, it is good that we succeed, but if we fail, then the gap between us and Europe and the United States in low-temperature superconductors will become wider and wider! Therefore, I think it is better for us to be safe, or to study low-temperature superconductors step by step!"

In fact, this is already a way for the old man to give Liu Feng a lot of face.

If it weren't for his old man's good temper, if he hadn't witnessed Liu Feng's research on metal materials, from a rookie who knew nothing about it, through a few days of study, he would have been able to have in-depth communication with him and become a "great Confucian", he would even jump up and give Liu Feng two slaps!

It doesn't matter how much this guy is favored by the people above!

In 5 years, this guy wants to build a room temperature superconducting material that can be applied to the supercollider from scratch in 5 years!

Do you think material research is what, growing Chinese cabbage?

The cowhide is blowing too much!

Liu Feng didn't know that Cui Lao even had the heart to beat him up now, but he really didn't brag.

Don't you see, how long did it take for his more than 200 papers on water treatment super materials to be studied?

3 months? or half a year?

Moreover, haven't you also witnessed our learning ability?

To be honest, there really isn't anything difficult about material research for him!

The reason why it is said to be a basic industry is because the subject is very 'easy'!

However, the more 'easy' the subject, the more complex the manpower and material resources required.

Because this thing is often not coincidental, it can only rely on stupid methods - experiments to try their luck!

As far as water treatment super reverse osmosis materials are concerned, Liu Feng has carried out an average of 3,000 experiments for each new material developed!

If it weren't for him, he could have simulated various experimental paths of materials by controlling the particles of the microscopic world, and he didn't know how long it would have taken to design and record the experiments artificially!

This kind of basic project is completely built up by manpower and material resources!

Therefore, Cui Lao's distrust is completely understandable.

It's just that understanding is understanding, but Liu Feng can't tell these people that he's hanging, right?

He can complete an experiment that takes you years to complete, and he can do it in a few days......

In short, he opened the hanging, not to mention that he can research a new material in minutes, but it is very easy to test the research path of a new material in minutes.

One person can reach one country, it's really not just talking, his confidence is very sufficient.

Of course, Liu Feng also knew that these people might have objections, and he had always respected these seniors.

Moreover, the old man behaved very amiably, not like Academician Li Zhengwu's temper, so his attitude was also very correct, and he patiently tried to persuade him:

"Elder Cui, how long do you think we will be able to study the superconducting electromagnets needed by the supercollider in low-temperature superconductors?"

"Probably, it will take more than 10 years if it goes well!" Academician Cui's answer was not confident at all.

You must know that the super collider needs to use as many as tens of thousands of superconducting electromagnets, and there are dozens of types.

At the rate at which one superconducting electromagnet can be developed every year, only a dozen or so can be studied at most in more than ten years......

But can they really develop a superconducting electromagnet material every year?

Even if everyone from the Institute of Materials Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is studied together, I am afraid that they do not dare to be so confident.

Liu Feng smiled noncommittally: "Okay, Elder Cui, let's take 10 years, but can we wait 10 years for antimatter engineering? Once the various projects are fully rolled out, the demand for antimatter will show a blowout trend, and if the torrent of opening the floodgates wants to be retracted, it will be difficult! At that time, if our domestic super collider has not yet been localized, it is very likely that it will be stuck by others." ”

Academician Cui shook his head: "Professor Liu, we are just seeking truth from facts. If you had known that you wanted to complete the antimatter project in 5 years, I would have said that I would not have joined it. ”

Liu Feng: "......"

It's a big truth!

It seems that we have been underestimated again!

Liu Feng sighed.

Sometimes, age is really a burden, even if he is now famous all over the world, but the short beard on his mouth cannot make people feel the slightest sense of trust in him; otherwise, with his current fame, if he is replaced by an old man in his seventies and eighties, I am afraid that one sentence will be able to speak the law, and no one will dare to refute it!

It's a pity that he still hasn't given up.

Because

If he can't convince this old man, I'm afraid that on the side of the materials laboratory, he won't be able to get support for anything:

With room temperature superconducting materials, dozens of superconducting electromagnetic stones of the Super Collider can all be replaced by a room temperature superconducting material. ”

"What you said is not unreasonable, but let me pin my hopes on a completely untested route, I dare not agree!" Academician Cui is still stubborn, "The research on room temperature superconductors can be carried out, but the general direction should still be placed in the direction of low-temperature superconductors, after all, this route has been tested and is completely feasible." Therefore, in the spirit of being responsible for the project, even if I take it to the above, I have this attitude!"

Liu Feng really didn't expect that an old man who seemed to be very good at talking would be so stubborn!

After thinking about it, finally, he still sighed, it seems that in the end, he still has to rely on his ability to speak!

"Elder Cui, let's do it. Three months, you give me three months, and I will prove the feasibility of the realization of superconductors at room temperature! If I can't come up with satisfactory results during this time, you can carry out research on low-temperature superconductors, and I won't interfere anymore, how about that?"

"Three months?"

Cui Lao didn't expect that Liu Feng would be so confident!

It's just that after all, the antimatter materials engineering project is in charge of Liu Feng, this guy is in charge of the project and the allocation of resources, if he doesn't agree, even if he is the director of the materials research institute, and the above does not allocate money, he will not be able to carry out the project independently.

After thinking for a while, Cui Lao still nodded: "Okay, that's it, we can still afford to wait for three months." ”

Liu Feng: "That's good, it's a word! It's just that in the past three months, the research institute must unconditionally cooperate with my work, how about it?"

Academician Cui: "No problem!"

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In this way, Liu Feng and Academician Cui reached a gentleman's agreement.

On the side of the Materials Research Institute, Liu Feng can finally use various resources without restrictions.

In fact, to be honest, it is undoubtedly a fantasy for Liu Feng to develop a room-temperature superconducting material that can be used to replace superconducting electromagnets within three months.

After all

Unlike water treatment reverse osmosis materials, even the concept of room temperature superconductivity has only been proven by scientists for a short time, let alone the production of a material that can be put into real-world applications.

If you want to replace low temperature with room temperature, you must replace it in other directions, such as unconventional conditions, ultra-high pressure, super molecular properties of materials, etc......

These conditions can be made in the laboratory, but in specific applications, if the conditions are too extreme, I am afraid that they are not as reliable as low-temperature superconducting materials.

Therefore, in the past three months, Liu Feng just wanted to prove the feasibility of this road.

As for the final result, whether it can be put into application or not is not important for the time being, as long as it can convince Academician Cui and others, it will be a success.

Academician Cui also knows this.

Moreover, in order to convince Liu Feng to lose, whenever Liu Feng has any requests, Academician Cui will meet them one by one, and even himself, at the beginning, personally came to Liu Feng to fight!

On the one hand, he wanted to guide and help Liu Feng in the use of some precious instruments in the laboratory, and on the other hand, he didn't have a glimmer of hope for this matter, what if this guy really succeeded?

In this respect, the old man is really a very interesting person, and he is very kind.

……

On this day, Liu Feng was doing a superconductivity experiment on materials under ultra-high pressure conditions, and Academician Cui led two apprentices to personally help Liu Feng.

His two apprentices, who are also top students of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, are already in their fifth year this year, and they also have a certain reputation in the institute, but they have always been very muttering about Liu Feng's 'arrogance'.

No, taking advantage of Liu Feng's interval between going to the toilet, the two doctors also discussed.

"Teacher, do you really believe that he can make room temperature superconducting materials within three months?"

"Yes, teacher, although Professor Liu is powerful, he is not an expert in metal materials......

"Shut up!" Academician Cui scolded, "What do you two know? Professor Liu, can you also put your beak in it? Do your experiments seriously!"

Although Cui Lao himself felt that this matter was unreliable, since he had given others three months, and he himself was kind enough to help, he had to do his best to make it impossible for people to find fault.

"Although he is not an expert in metal materials, his knowledge of materials science is much more profound than that of you two guys, and he has learned a little!"

Seeing his two unsuccessful disciples, and then looking at Liu Feng, Academician Cui suddenly had a trace of the urge to strangle these two guys.

is the same person, and Liu Feng is still several years younger than them, why can people master the familiarity of metal materials science to the level of an old professor who has been engaged in this research for decades in a few days!

And these two guys, who have not yet graduated, still have to take refuge in his wings......

Thinking of this, Academician Cui sighed with emotion.

This is probably the gap between geniuses and ordinary people!

The two doctoral students shrank their heads, not daring to complain anymore, but pursed their lips again, revealing unconvinced looks.

After all, when Liu Feng first came, he also had contact with him, and they had instructed him many times about the knowledge of metal materials!

In their opinion, Liu Feng is not as knowledgeable as them in this regard!

However, just because that guy bragged about it, now he wants to let them do it, if it's okay in other ways, they can't wait to kneel and lick at Liu Feng's feet, but in this regard...... Alas, what is that? Tiger fell in Pingyang and was bullied by dogs? Ah!

In short, the two of them felt very unhappy.

I have to say that they can work in the Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the mentor is also an academician-level master, and the two of them have their own pride.

Even if Liu Feng is famous all over the world, in the field they are good at, they can't be impressed.

After a while, Liu Feng returned from the toilet with a tangled face.

Academician Cui said with concern: "Professor Liu is not feeling well?"

Shaking his head, Liu Feng sighed: "No." It's just that someone called me just now and asked me to collect two awards. I kept thinking about the experiment in my head, so I just refused. ”

Academician Cui patted his arm and comforted him in the tone of an elder: "With your current achievements, there is no shortage of such two small awards, not to mention that you are still so young, even the dynamite award is not hopeless." By the way, what's the award?"

Liu Feng smiled bitterly: "It seems that it is the Dynamite Chemistry Award and the Physics Award, I didn't hear it too clearly......

Academician Cui: "???"

What?

Explosives, dynamite awards?

And there are two prizes in physics and chemistry!

Academician Cui looked confused, and the arm raised on Liu Feng's shoulder also froze.

Next to them, the two big doctors were also obviously stunned.

Refused, refused?!