The two men then engaged in detailed deliberations on how to proceed with the union. However, these are some small details, and both Professor Wenge and Junxin are deeply impatient with this. So after only making a general decision, Professor Unger handed over the question of union to Steve. And Junxin was naturally impatient to spend too much time on these problems that wasted his scientific research time, so he followed Professor Wengge's example and handed over the details to his laboratory assistant, Associate Professor Xu Jiang of Mizuki University.

It's just that Associate Professor Xu Jiang is still in China, so Junxin just told Steve that he would let his lab assistant take over the details of the planning, and would call back to discuss relevant matters with his school leaders in the near future, and in the near future, Associate Professor Xu Jiang would find him directly, and then he fell into a heated academic discussion with Professor Wenger.

After eating, it was only five o'clock in the afternoon, and it was only about five o'clock in the morning for BJ, so Junxin did not immediately call back at this time to discuss related issues, but returned to the laboratory with Professor Wenger, and only returned to his dormitory after staying in the laboratory for a while.

Originally, there was no telephone in the dormitory room, but because of Junxin's outstanding performance in this exchange meeting, the school also asked the logistics department to help him install a telephone in the room for his business considerations. In this way, Junxin's dormitory has also become a meeting and communication place for this group of exchange students who came to Princeton University together, and it has also become a place for them to call home or return to school. Junxin also no longer needs to borrow the phone from the professors' offices to communicate with the outside world.

After the phone was connected, the exchange student who answered the phone was still Professor Cheng.

"Xiaojun, it's rare for you to call me!" Professor Cheng said with a hearty smile.

Junxin also smiled slightly: "It takes half an hour to make a phone call for all kinds of transfers, if there is nothing to do, to be honest, I am really too lazy to call back, isn't it a waste of time?" ”

"Tell me, what's the matter with calling back this time?" Professor Cheng didn't care, and asked straight to the point.

Jun Xin sorted out his thoughts and said, "Do you know Professor Wenger of the Department of Chemistry at Princeton University?" ”

"I don't know, after all, it's not a scholar in my field. All I know is that he seems to be an expert in the study of the microstructure of crystals. Maybe Lao Chen will be clearer, if you want to know his news, I will go back to you and ask, what's wrong? ”

"I didn't want to ask about him, after all, wouldn't it be more convenient for me to inquire about him in Princeton? Anyway, he's also a professor at Princeton. Junxin hurriedly said, "I'm going to say something else. ”

Professor Cheng was right to think about it, so he revealed it and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"After I met Professor Wenger at the International Union of Crystallography Congress, he was very interested in the law of valence electron distribution in quasicrystals in my report, and after asking me about my opinions, he collaborated with Professor Claude, a famous physical chemist at Harvard University, to conduct related research. Today he invited me to visit his lab and discussed some of the issues with me. ”

"I was intrigued by his theoretical model and learned that it was a model he had developed in collaboration with Professor Claude's lab. This led me to the idea that I thought it was worth trying, and that was to establish a shared joint laboratory with Professor Unger's experiments. What do you think of my idea? ”

Professor Cheng did not answer immediately, but after being silent for a long time, he cautiously asked, "What kind of research collaboration do you take?" ”

Junxin naturally knew what Professor Cheng meant, and said: "My laboratory and Professor Wenge's laboratory adopt a joint model, resource sharing, and data sharing. However, the cooperation with him should be based only on basic research, and my side is only cooperating with his laboratory on the general topic of the law and principle of the formation of quasicrystalline matter. And his is also a joint project on the topic of the microstructure and principle of quasicrystalline matter. ”

"Tell me about the situation!" Professor Cheng said.

So Junxin began to talk about the general situation of the cooperation model, scale, funding, cooperation methods, exchanges and so on with Professor Wenge's laboratory.

"That's the case in general, but there are too many details to do, and I don't have that much time to think about these things, so although the general situation has been decided, there is still a period of time before I want to really join the alliance, and I plan to involve Professor Xu Jiang in the joint laboratory, what do you think?" Junxin asked.

Professor Cheng did not relent, but replied, "This is a big question, and I need to have a meeting to discuss it." However, in principle, if your proposal passes, Xu Jiang is indeed the most suitable candidate compared to Zhang Yang. I'll hold an impromptu meeting later, and I estimate that there is a good chance of passing, so I guess I can give you the results in the evening. ”

"Alright, I'll call tomorrow morning!" Junxin agreed.

"But you kid is really good, you can cooperate with the laboratories of famous foreign universities quietly, which really surprises me!" Professor Cheng said jokingly.

"Why!" Junxin denied, "Actually, you and I both know that the reason why Professor Wenge agreed to conduct research in the joint laboratory is that although our two laboratories are both studying quasicrystals, the research directions are intersecting but not the same, which means that there is no conflict of academic interests." The second point is also to save money, after all, after the experiment is crossed, there are some experiments that can be repeated once, and there is no need to explore the conditions many times, which saves a lot of money. For a person who does experimental research, the funds are never enough. ”

"Hehe, that's what I said!" Professor Cheng obviously agrees with Junxin's words.

After a pause, Professor Cheng suddenly said: "I have no objection to the establishment of a joint laboratory, but cats teach tigers lessons, so don't give him the ability to climb trees!" ”

Junxin shook his head and said, "I naturally know this, so I limited the field of cooperative research to basic research, and I didn't mention the problem of application." By the way, how is Professor Zhang's research progressing? ”

"The progress is okay, and now it has begun to increase in size by an order of magnitude, and it is estimated that when you come back from Princeton, you will probably be able to make the first batch of results!"

"That's good!" Junxin then asked some other questions from the laboratory, and after Professor Cheng answered them one by one, the conversation came to an end.

"Xiaojun, there is a situation in China that I want to tell you, so that you can be mentally prepared." Professor Cheng said in a solemn tone.