Chapter 1343 Terrifyingly Strong!

early morning.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Professor Stanley, standing on the podium, was teaching with the undergraduates in the classroom as usual.

Since he lost to Lu Zhou in the "race" on the patent of lithium-sulfur battery electrode materials last time, he lost the support of ExxonMobil, left the industry in embarrassment, and returned to academia.

Perhaps, however, it was a blessing in disguise.

Because of the research on lithium batteries, he, Professor Goodenough and Professor Akira Yoshino won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together.

After receiving this honorary crown, his current academic journey can be said to be on the rise. Not only did Exxon Mobil have the intention to repair the relationship with him, but even the number of students who come to his classes on weekdays is not bad. few.

Of course, in fact, being able to win this award is largely a matter of luck.

If lithium batteries had not been used more and more widely in recent years, and even became the cornerstone of the new electrical era, the Nobel Prize Committee might not have considered their work so early.

It is precisely because of this that many people think that Lu Zhou is more qualified to win the honor for his research on lithium batteries if he has not won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alone.

Many years have passed since that incident, and so many things have happened, Professor Stanley's view of Lu Zhou has changed drastically compared to before.

Science changes the world, mathematics changes science.

He admitted that he was somewhat influenced by that man in his research philosophy.

Maybe just like what his friends commented on him, Lu Zhou's terrifying computing power left him so impressed that he has been studying computational materials all these years, hoping to use it as a breakthrough for himself. It is a breakthrough, and also serves as a breakthrough to break through the bottleneck of modern material science research...

“…discovering and exploring phenomena and summarizing and explaining principles, this is the process of creating knowledge, which is also the essence of science.”

"In the traditional material science research, the discovery of new materials is mostly derived from the accidental discovery of researchers, or the result of countless repeated attempts. Among them, it is obvious that there is a great blindness, until the modern computer With the emergence of , people have summed up various empirical models according to the experimental results, making the design of the experiment change from empirical exploration to rational design, which makes this subject truly a 'science'."

"Yes, before this, I don't think materials science is a science, but more like a 'craft' belonging to engineers. Your homework today revolves around the density functional theory I talked about in class before , write a review paper."

"get out of class is over."

After announcing the dismissal of get out of class, Professor Stanley put away his textbooks, strode away from the professor, and returned to his office. Just when he threw the lesson plans on the desk and was about to check the mailbox that he didn't have time to check this morning, the student and assistant Dr. Joens who was sitting in his office suddenly stood up and held a Stacks of printed papers walked towards him.

"Professor, I want to show you something."

Noticing the strange expression on his student's face, Professor Stanley raised his eyebrows and put on the glasses he had just taken off.

"what?"

"This thesis..." Passing the paper in his hand to the teacher, Dr. Jones continued with a strange expression, "I just saw it on arxiv..."

As if he felt that saying this was not shocking enough, he immediately added a sentence after this sentence.

"It was uploaded by Professor Lu."

Sure enough, the moment he said this sentence, the expression on Professor Stanley's face became serious in an instant.

He sat upright on the office chair, reached out and took out a ballpoint pen from the pen holder, and began to read line by line carefully from the first page of the thesis paper.

However, the moment he saw the title of the paper, he froze there.

Implicit density functional method?

His brows gradually wrinkled.

About half an hour ago, he just said in class that the implicit density functional theory is one of the major unresolved problems in the field of computational materials science.

In particular, the promotion from a simple system to a complex system is extremely difficult at the current level, whether it is for humans or computers.

This guy hasn't studied material science for so many years.

As soon as I came back now, such a big news came out.

real or fake?

Looking at Professor Stanley who was silent, Dr. Jons stood beside him and waited quietly, not daring to take a breath, for fear of disturbing the tutor's thinking.

In this way, time passed by every minute and every second.

Just as he was about to fall asleep while waiting, Professor Stanley, who had turned to the last page, suddenly took a breath and closed the paper in his hand.

Noticing the shocked expression on the teacher's face, Jons was taken aback for a moment, and then hurried forward to ask.

"How about a professor? That paper..."

"It's very well written," answered the question succinctly, but seemed to feel that it was not convincing enough, Professor Stanley couldn't help but added a sentence later, "It's hard to be so good. Imagine."

well unimaginable...

Upon hearing this sentence, Jons swallowed subconsciously.

Since worshiping under this big boss, he has never heard his mentor praise anyone so much. Not to mention that he did not do this before he won the Nobel Prize, and it is even more impossible to do it after he won the Nobel Prize.

This was probably the first time he saw the expression of shock, disbelief, and an almost impossible admiration on the old man's face.

Returning the thesis in his hand to his student, Professor Stanley was silent for a while, looking at him with a surprised face, and continued.

"Implicit functional density theory is one of the most cutting-edge researches in the field of materials science today. Due to the inability to accurately describe van der Waals interactions and fatal defects such as metals, it is difficult to be used to study solid materials...at least before today .”

"He used some special mathematical methods in his paper to supplement the implicit functional density theory. Although the modified implicit density functional theory still has some limitations, at least it has been able to control the van der Waals force. It can be accurately described, and its application range has been extended from simple systems to the research of more complex carbon composite materials."

Having said that, Professor Stanley showed a deep admiration in his eyes.

"With the current development speed of the field of computational materials science, not to mention a few years, even a few months without contact with the most cutting-edge research, may be completely left behind."

"I originally thought that he would not make any progress even if he had been away from the field of materials science for so many years, even if his strength did not regress, but I didn't expect..."

Seeing the moved expression on the professor's face, Jons swallowed again.

"……did not expect?"

Professor Stanley nodded gravely.

"Yes."

"I did not expect."

"He's still so terrifyingly strong!"