Chapter 1342

early morning.

MIT.

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

Since he lost to Lu Zhou in the last "race" on the patent of lithium sulfur battery electrode materials, he lost the support of Exxon Mobil, left the industry and returned to the academic world.

But maybe it's a blessing in disguise.

Because of the research of lithium battery, he won the Nobel Prize in chemistry together with Professor goodnav and Professor Yosano Chang.

After winning this honor, his academic career is now progressing steadily. Not only does Exxon Mobil have the intention to repair the relationship with him, but also there are a lot of students in his regular classroom.

Of course, in fact, there are some fluke elements in winning this award.

If not for the recent years, lithium batteries have become more and more widely used, or even become the cornerstone of the new electrical era, the Nobel Committee may not consider their work so early.

It is just because of this that many people think that Lu Zhou is more qualified to win the Nobel Prize in chemistry because of the research on lithium battery.

It has been many years since that incident, and so many things have happened. Professor Stanley's view on the land boat has changed dramatically since before.

Science changes the world, mathematics changes science.

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

Perhaps as his friend commented on him, he was so impressed by the terrifying computing power of the land boat that he had been studying computational materials all these years, hoping to use it as a breakthrough to break through his own, as well as a breakthrough to break through the bottleneck of modern materials research

“…… It is the process of creating knowledge and the essence of science to discover and explore phenomena and summarize and explain principles. "

"In traditional materials research, the discovery of new materials is mostly the result of researchers' unexpected discovery or countless repeated attempts. In this, it is obvious that there is a great blindness, until the emergence of modern computers, people summed up a variety of empirical models according to the experimental results, so that the design of the experiment from the experience to the rational design, so that the subject really becomes a "science". "

"Yes, before that, I didn't think of materials science as a science, but rather as a" craft "belonging to engineers. Your assignment today is to write an overview paper around the density functional theory I talked about in class

"Class is over."

After announcing the end of class, Professor Stanley put away his textbook, left the professor with a big step and went back to his office. Just as he had left the teaching plan on his desk and was about to check the mailbox that he didn't have time to check this morning, Dr. Jones, the student assistant sitting in his office, suddenly stood up and came towards him with a stack of printed papers.

"Professor, I want to show you something."

Noticing the strange expression on his student's face, Professor Stanley raised his eyebrows and put on his glasses again.

"What?"

"This paper..." When he handed the paper to the teacher, Dr. Jones continued with a strange expression, "I just saw it on arXiv..."

It seems that it's not shocking enough to say so, and he added a sentence after that.

"It was uploaded by Professor Lu."

Sure enough, the expression on Professor Stanley's face immediately became serious.

He sat up straight in the office chair, reached out and drew a ballpoint pen from the pen barrel. Starting from the first page of the paper, he looked at it carefully line by line.

However, when he saw the title of the paper, the whole person was stunned.

Implicit density functional method?

The brow began to wrinkle.

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

Especially from simple system to complex system, it is very difficult for people and computers at present.

This guy hasn't studied materials for so many years.

Now as soon as I come back, I've made such a big news.

Really?

Looking at Professor Stanley, who was silent, Dr. joynes stood beside him and waited quietly. He did not dare to breathe. He was afraid to disturb his teacher's thinking.

In this way, time passes by minute by second.

Just as he was about to fall asleep, Professor Stanley, who turned to the last page, took a breath of cold air and closed his paper.Noticing that the teacher's face was full of shocked expressions, Jones was stunned at first, then hurriedly asked.

"How about professor? That paper... "

"It's very well written," he said briefly, but seemed to think it was not convincing enough. Professor Stanley then added, "it's too good to imagine."

Well, it's hard to imagine

When he heard this, Jones swallowed his saliva unconsciously.

He had never heard his tutor boast so much since he worshipped the big man. Not to mention that he didn't do it before he won the Nobel Prize, and it's even more impossible to do it after he won the Nobel Prize.

It was probably the first time that he saw the old man's face mixed with shock, disbelief and almost impossible admiration.

He returned the paper to his students and looked at him in surprise. Professor Stanley kept silent for a while and continued.

"Implicit functional density theory is one of the most cutting-edge researches in the field of materials science. It is difficult to be used to study solid materials due to the existence of fatal defects such as van der Waals interaction and metals At least until 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, it can at least accurately describe the van der Waals force, and its application range is also extended from simple system to more complex carbon composite research. "

At this point, Professor Stanley has a deep admiration in his face.

"At the current development speed of computational materials, let alone a few years, or months without contacting the most cutting-edge research, it is possible to get rid of the distance completely."

"I thought he would not make any progress even if his strength did not decline after so many years of leaving the material academic circle, but I didn't expect that..."

Looking at the expression on the professor's face, Jones swallowed again.

“…… Didn't think of it? "

Professor Stanley nodded heavily.

"Yes."

"I didn't expect it."

"He's still so terrible!"