Chapter 136 Oppenheimer in the New Century
"Professor Bavendi, do you have any ideas about your student Wright Chen's synthesis route for room-temperature superconductors?" It was still dim outside the office window, and there was a laptop on the table.

Professor Mongi Bawendi and the man in black sitting opposite him both had microphones in their ears, which were translating the 7 o'clock news program in China on the laptop screen into English simultaneously.

"Mr. Chen Yuanguang, a Chinese scientist, applied the Exclusion Zone water structure to the field of room-temperature superconductivity for the first time. By means of magnetic field control, copper oxides exhibit 100% anti-magnetism at room temperature and pressure."

The waiting time at the beginning was a bit long. After the half-hour regular program ended, the introduction of room-temperature superconductivity began.

Bawendi and the man in black were both feeling a bit tormented waiting ahead.

Bawendi was not in a very good mood. There was a difference of 12 hours between Yenching time and Boston time. He was woken up at six in the morning and brought to the office.

He was questioned first, and the questions mainly revolved around whether he had revealed his research on room-temperature superconductivity to Chen Yuanguang during Chen Yuanguang's doctoral education at MIT, and whether Bawendi had any superconductivity-related patents.

America knows that China dares to do this, which means that room-temperature superconductivity is 99% true.

Since you have already mastered the technology, American certainly has more ideas than just patent restrictions. Patent restrictions are a conventional measure, and at least they cannot allow China's room-temperature superconducting technology to be unimpeded around the world.

Including Korea's LK99-related patents, American intends to build a patent wall and initiate lawsuits against light armor companies, at least to prevent your products from being easily exported.

While answering the question, Bavendi realized that Washington was in a panic. Just take a look at his Google Scholar homepage and you will know that he is not working on superconductivity.

He works on perovskite. If you really want to talk about perovskite technology, it might be related, but room-temperature superconductivity? Forget room-temperature superconductivity. He has not even done research related to ordinary superconductivity.

“I’m sorry, I don’t know much about superconductivity, let alone room-temperature superconductivity. I’m mainly involved in the field of chemistry, and superconductivity, strictly speaking, belongs to condensed matter physics.

You should go to Professor Russell Hemley or Anthony Leggett instead of me.

Just because my students have made outstanding achievements in room-temperature superconductivity doesn’t mean I understand this field.”

Bawendi's words were very straightforward, but the situation was stronger than him. The men in black forced him to finish reading the Chinese news and then asked him to share his thoughts.

"The synthetic routes revealed on TV are worthless, just like he told you that we can make Spanish soup in this way, but we don't know the specific steps.

We don’t even know the ingredients, so it’s impossible to recreate this dish in a short time.

Moreover, what the Chinese said in the news may not be true. Perhaps in the entire fifteen-minute introduction, only the realization of the synthesis of room-temperature superconductors was true, and the rest was all made up to mislead other competitors.

Isn't that what we did in the Star Wars program? You don't think the country where the Art of War came from wouldn't know about these tricks." Bawendi was rude.

Bawendi felt that this was an unprovoked disaster. The man in black even wanted to change his job and let him go to Oak Ridge Laboratory. To be honest, he didn't want to go there at all. In his mind, that damn place was far inferior to MIT.

In fact, Chen Yuanguang is Bawendi's student, but their personal relationship is very ordinary, more like a colleague relationship. On the contrary, Nobel Prize winner Professor Leggett is more familiar with Chen Yuanguang, and the two of them have published more articles together than he and Chen Yuanguang have published.

Bawendi thinks that you should go to Leggett for investigation instead of him.

"Professor, if you were asked to lead the room-temperature superconductivity project, how long would it take you to build it?" asked the man in black.

Bawendi frowned, "I said, I don't understand superconductivity, I'm not familiar with condensed matter physics, I'm not even as good as a PhD in this area.

The alliance should look for more professional scholars instead of just picking someone to be Oppenheimer. "

Bavendi alluded to the movie "Oppenheimer" which was released in North America not long ago. He heard that America was planning to once again launch a large-scale scientific research program similar to the atomic bomb research in order to catch up in the field of room-temperature superconductivity.

But he didn't want to be Oppenheimer. In this era, it was not a good thing to have such a famous student, especially when this student was on the side of a competitor.

"Professor Bawendi, just because you are in charge doesn't mean you have to understand. Project management is more important than scientific research expertise." The man in black still didn't give up.

First, Bawendi’s own scientific research results are outstanding enough. If it weren’t for Chen Yuanguang’s sudden emergence, he would have won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Second, since Bawendi can bring out Wright Chen, then as the project leader, can he bring out a second Wright Chen? This is what the White House expects.

“No, I don’t accept it.

While at MIT, Wright never expressed any interest in superconductivity, nor did he show any hostility toward American.

But he was an absolute patriot, and he had an extremely keen sense of risk. Twenty years later, he resolutely left America and did not attend the day when he was awarded his doctorate degree at MIT.

Therefore, it is impossible to persuade him to join the free world, not to mention that China has become strong. Even if it is 1970 now, I think it is still impossible.

Sir, I have given you all the information I can give you, and you should go now."

"Professor Bawendi, I think we will meet again." The man in black said this before leaving.

After seeing the other person off, Bawendi sat on the sofa, staring at the laptop on the table in a daze.

He knew from the first day that Chen Yuanguang was talented, and he had always trained Chen Yuanguang according to the standards of a top genius, giving him absolute freedom. In return, Chen Yuanguang reciprocated his trust in him. During his doctoral studies, he not only published papers, but also played a key role in ending the viral epidemic.

Chen Yuanguang's performance was worthy of the name of genius. Bawendi slowly recalled his time with Chen Yuanguang in Boston.

He seemed to remember something, his face turned a little ugly, and he muttered to himself: "I should go, I should go."

Bawendi recalled that when Chen Yuanguang was still studying for his doctorate at MIT, he saw Chen Yuanguang alone during a Western holiday, so he invited Chen Yuanguang to his home for a family party. Chen Yuanguang declined and said, "Professor, in order not to cause you trouble in the future, I think I will not attend your private party."

Considering that Chen Yuanguang had always been a loner during his time at MIT, even if someone wanted to make friends with him, he always refused. Originally, Bawendi thought that it was his personality. Now, looking back, it seems that since the first day he arrived, Chen Yuanguang realized that he would make different achievements, which would bring him honor while causing trouble for his friends in America. Therefore, Chen Yuanguang simply did not make friends during his time in Boston. Levitt was only an academic partner, and they also did not have many personal relationships.

After realizing this, Bawendi couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Wright, your achievements are too amazing. Even if I am just your master and apprentice, I will be affected.

No, I have to go back to Paris."

Considering Chen Yuanguang's age, current achievements, the relationship between America and China, and Washington's emphasis on room-temperature superconductivity, Bawendi was certain that if he stayed in America, he would have countless troubles, just like Oppenheimer in the movie.

Especially since he was born in Paris of Tunisian descent, his origin was far inferior to that of Oppenheimer, who was born in America and was of Jewish descent.

Chen Yuanguang would never have thought that the butterfly effect he caused would cause Bawendi to return to the École Polytechnique to teach after many twists and turns.

"Hello, everyone. This is a special edition of CCTV's interview program "Everyone." Our guest today is the famous scientist and entrepreneur Mr. Chen Yuanguang." The female host looked very happy, and her makeup was even more refined than usual.

This column will first briefly introduce the guest's achievements, and then start the interview. In the process of introducing the achievements, it is the first time that all of Chen Yuanguang's achievements are introduced in a comprehensive manner, giving people the feeling of watching a myth.

Chen Yuanguang felt a little unnatural. After arriving at CCTV's studio in Shenhai this morning, the female host, who was about 30 years old, started giving him various suggestive signals.

Including tickling his palm with her fingers when they were rehearsing the script, and sending a lot of emoticons after adding him on WeChat, which made Chen Yuanguang surprised at his boldness.

In fact, this kind of thing is very normal. It’s just that Chen Yuanguang had too little contact with the outside world before, and he was in a relatively vacuum environment, so he didn’t come into contact with similar things.

The publicity effect brought by room-temperature superconductivity is dramatic. Chen Yuanguang himself and the people around him have been analyzed by various self-media. As the market value of Guangjia Technology exceeded 5 billion RMB, the market value of Lin Jia's % shares exceeded billion, which made many bloggers on gender relations analyze it.

You didn't expect that they could also get some attention.

After all the output, just the girlfriend can get 20 billion, not to mention if they are married, it will be a direct percentage of real damage.

Therefore, in the eyes of many self-important women, Chen Yuanguang is more delicious than Tang Monk's flesh. The female hosts of CCTV are typical representatives of this group of people.

Many of their predecessors had married wealthy men, too many cases to count.

So the female host who was specially sent to interview Chen Yuanguang naturally had unrealistic fantasies.

The other party was afraid that Chen Yuanguang would not be able to receive the signal, so he was so direct.

"Hello, everyone in the audience." Chen Yuanguang thought that women change their expressions quickly. How direct she was in private before, how serious she was now.

"Yuan Guang, since room-temperature superconductivity was just announced yesterday, it is certain that the national focus is still on it. Can you tell us how you discovered the synthesis route for room-temperature superconductivity?" asked the female host.

Chen Yuanguang said: "As Korean scientists announced a special material named LK99, which showed very special anti-magnetic properties, there were also some distortion points in the data, which attracted my attention.

Combining some knowledge of biology and chemistry, I came up with a way to solve the problem in the synthesis path of room-temperature superconductors, so I started to work on it. It took me about two months to make this room-temperature superconductor named GJ01. "

The female host didn't even want to ask how the name GJ01 came about. She just wanted to replace J with her own name.

The female host asked: "So technically speaking, it has no direct relationship with LK99, right? Is it equivalent to your original technical route?"

Although I ask this question here to avoid subsequent patent disputes.

The problems that Americans can think of, Chinese people can naturally think of as well.

Although television interviews are ineffective, they can at least strengthen the concept of originality in the minds of the local people.

Chen Yuanguang hopes to seek truth from facts: "Today, science and technology have been very advanced, and people have made too many scientific achievements.

It is difficult to say that a certain technical route is completely original. This is unrealistic. Even LK99 still refers to the achievements of other scientists.

I can only say that it is impossible to synthesize GJ99 along the technical route of LK01.

There is as much difference between them as there is between a man and a monkey."

Chen Yuanguang could imagine how his answer would be used by Chinese netizens to mock the Koreans. Some Chinese students studying in Korea would probably humiliate him on Korean forums.

"So the room-temperature superconductor you developed is not the same as the LK99 developed by the Koreans." The female host concluded.

Chen Yuanguang said: "It is absolutely not the same thing. What they developed is just a special compound, not a room-temperature superconductor."

The female host then asked: "Yuan Guang, since the news of room-temperature superconductivity was announced, there has been a lot of jubilation on the Internet. Everyone is celebrating and thinks it means the fourth industrial revolution. What do you think?"

Chen Yuanguang has not stopped since last night, including before coming to the studio today, he was holding a remote video conference with experts from Yanjing, Chang'an, Hefei, Bingcheng and other places to discuss the application scope of room-temperature superconductivity.

Many experts have provided new ideas. For example, in the field of quantum computers, a very small room-temperature superconductor will be enough.

Therefore, Chen Yuanguang also has new expectations for room-temperature superconductivity.

"I think everyone is so excited because superconductivity is really critical. It is a revolutionary breakthrough in the field of basic materials and can play a leap-forward enabling role in many fields."

　Tomorrow’s daily preview!
　　
　
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