“…… This is where we mainly do experiments, but a lot of the equipment is in the old campus, and I have only recently moved here, and sometimes I have to take the subway to do an experiment. But starting next year, it will be much better, and our laboratory will be relocated as a whole. ”

"Do I need to run at both ends too?" Lu Zhou asked.

"No," Senior Brother Liu said with a smile, "The FTIR spectroscopy analysis of the sample is done here, and you don't need to participate in the specific experiment, you just need to help us analyze the experimental data." I'll ask someone to make room for you in a while, and from today onwards, you will be a member of our research group! ”

As he spoke, Senior Brother Liu pushed open the door of the office.

On the left-hand side of the doorway, a man in a T-shirt with a shaved head was facing away from the laboratory door, fiddling with a device that looked a little like a printer, and didn't notice anyone coming.

Senior Brother Liu walked over with Lu Zhou, patted this person on the shoulder, and after this person turned around, he continued with a smile.

"Let me introduce you, this is Qian Zhongming, you can just call him Senior Brother Qian."

"Hello Senior Brother Qian!"

This Qian Zhongming looked a little upright, or wooden, and didn't have as many words as Senior Brother Liu.

I saw him glance Lu Zhou up and down, and said, "You are from the Shuyuan Courtyard...... Lu Zhou? ”

"Exactly." Lu Zhou said with a smile.

Qian Zhongming nodded and said, "Will MATLAB be used?" ”

"A little."

"One point is enough," Qian Zhongming nodded, picked up a USB flash drive from the table, and handed it to Lu Zhou, "The literature you need to read and some introductory tutorials are all in it, including the application form we wrote when we applied for the fund, reading these things can give you a preliminary understanding of our research...... By the way, don't upload it online. ”

Although domestic universities are mostly cooperating in the field of scientific research, the competition between them is not small. Similar scientific research projects are also being done by other universities, and everyone is secretly holding back their energy, after all, scientific research is a thing, the first to eat grapes, and the later ones to eat grape skins, if the first to come is a master who eats grapes and does not spit out the skin of grapes, the latecomer may not even be able to eat a grape skin.

The competition between laboratories is so cruel, whoever makes it first will have the result.

It is precisely for this reason that many project leaders, the first thing they do when they get up every day is to search for their own topics through various channels to see if any bastard has taken the lead.

"That's all?" Lu Zhou, who was holding a USB flash drive, asked.

"That's all for the time being, the new sample has just been delivered, and the data collection has not been done yet, it's too late today, and I'm going to do it again tomorrow." Qian Zhongming touched his nose and said.

"Where's that FTIR spectroscopy data acquisition? Old campus? ”

"Right here." Senior Brother Qian pointed to his feet.

"Here?"

Lu Zhou looked around, but didn't see any very powerful experimental equipment.

At least, it's a far cry from the labs next door.

"That's right," Qian Zhongming nodded, pointing to the instrument on the table that looked like an old-fashioned printer, "That's what I used to do." ”

"That's it?!" Lu Zhou stared at this instrument in disbelief, and he didn't feel that it could be paired with any cutting-edge instrument.

"That's right," Qian Zhongming nodded, as if he had guessed what Lu Zhou was thinking, and continued, "TENSOR-II research-grade FTIR spectrometer, this instrument was customized by our laboratory with Bruker in Germany. Built-in gold reflector, reflectivity is 6.5% higher than aluminum mirror. It has super oxidation resistance and more stable optical properties. Dual-channel digital acquisition, four external output optical path extensions......"

Lu Zhou listened to him with a confused expression.

Although he had read some reference books on materials science during the summer vacation of his freshman year, they did not involve such specific things.

"Okay, okay, don't scare our junior brother," Senior Brother Liu reached out and patted this guy's shoulder, looking at the stunned Lu Zhou and grinning, "This guy sometimes talks a little too much, don't take it to heart." Tomorrow we are going to collect FTIR spectroscopy data on the new sample, you can come and see if you are interested, but you may have to get up early. We started on time at eight o'clock. ”

"So early? Is there anything special about it? Lu Zhou asked curiously.

Brother Liu continued: "If you insist on saying that the temperature is just right in the morning, but later we found out that the air conditioner is actually the same...... Well, I can't explain it clearly, but we all agree that the success rate of doing the experiment at 8 o'clock in the morning will be higher. ”

Is it so metaphysical?

Lu Zhou was stunned.

On the importance of metaphysics in scientific experiments.

I have seen the ......

……

Yuan Liwei and Rong Hai are staring at the project of the campus assistant, and the part of the code he is responsible for has completed the BUG troubleshooting, and he does not need any help for the time being.

returned to the bedroom with the USB flash drive given by Senior Brother Qian, Lu Zhou copied the information to the computer and read it carefully line by line.

More than three months ago, when he was still on summer vacation, he had read professional books related to materials science because of the relationship between system tasks, but the things in those books mainly talked about some basic knowledge, and did not involve such in-depth content.

For example, carbon nanotubes are already a relatively cutting-edge field in the world, and the update of technology can be described as changing with each passing day.

As for the research project led by Professor Li Rongen, it can be regarded as a branch with a wide range of applications in many research fields of carbon nanotube materials.

Due to the cut single-layer carbon nanotubes, which are easily dispersed in polar solvents such as water, alcohol and DMF to form colloids, according to this property, carbon nanotubes are not only being studied by countless researchers as a next-generation electronic material, but also are more and more widely used in composite materials.

In particular, the two major categories of steelmaking and cement, which are related to the great cause of infrastructure, have even faintly become popular directions in recent years......

At least in the country yes.

After reading the application for the national fund, Lu Zhou continued to click on the folder where the paper was stored.

The papers that need to be read, Senior Brother Qian has already prepared them for him, which has saved him a lot of time.

A cursory glance at the papers shows that at least three of them are from Jinling University.

Seeing this, Lu Zhou couldn't help but sigh, the senior brothers and sisters are still amazing.

At least in the research results of carbon element cluster materials, there is indeed nothing to say, and the ones who can compete with Jin Dayi in China are Yanda and Mizuki.

Of course, although the previous research is prepared, there are still many technical problems to be solved, the most specific of which is that if carbon nanotubes, as nanoscale fillers, cannot be uniformly dispersed in the matrix or condensed into a cluster inside the matrix, then the doping will not only not enhance the strength of the matrix material, but will damage the inherent properties of the matrix material.

And the bottleneck encountered by the scientific research team led by Professor Li Rongen seems to be in this place?