CHAPTER 499: CHAPTER 159: REMAIN TRUE TO OUR ORIGINAL ASPIRATION TO ACHIEVE ULTIMATE SUCCESS_2

After saying that, perhaps feeling too harsh, Liu Hao added: "Of course, if it were my mistake, I wouldn’t ask anyone else for help; I’d jump down myself."

Qiao Yu thought about it; this should be the fifth floor, and each floor of the chemistry building seemed to be higher than normal buildings. He estimated the distance to the ground to be nearly twenty meters.

Plus, below the window was a hardened pavement, and the chances of survival from a fall from such height seemed slim.

Well... if those studying mathematics only have a bit of a dirty mind, then those studying chemistry are just too brutal!

Throwing people out the window at a moment’s notice, this seems very unprofessional. If all else fails, just feed them sulfuric acid? After all, randomly throwing people off could hit someone below...

"Hey, I’m calling you Junior Qiao, you have no idea how tough it is staying in the lab. Let me put it this way: for this project, I’ve gone a whole half year without rest.

Really, can you believe it? Not a single day of rest in the past half-year. You might not believe it, but in all this time I’ve had only three good nights of sleep, and that was when I went on a trip with the boss for a conference.

It’s not just me—everyone in the research group is almost the same. The average sleep time is less than six hours a day. What is 996? We are truly 007!

So in this situation, if we got good results, but they weren’t recorded due to human error, even if I spared them, could anyone else let them off?"

Liu Hao switched to full-on rant mode.

Qiao Yu nodded, then became deeply worried. There was a reason this chemistry building wasn’t on the main campus.

Not to mention the inherent dangers of the lab building itself, being cooped up like this long-term in the lab, he’d likely develop some psychological issues. This building should be equipped with a psychologist.

Honestly, he thought he and Senior Brother Chen were already working hard enough, but now it seemed Senior Brother Chen had a lot more potential to tap into.

This made Qiao Yu get serious and asked, "Let’s not talk about that for now. I’ve noticed that every time you need to use the SEM to observe the pore structure and network uniformity of the gel, this directly affects the material’s reparability, right?"

"It’s more than that. You see, it directly affects the key functional groups, and only if the network structure is uniform, does it indicate the formation of dynamic covalent bonds and hydrogen bonds. You can verify that with infrared spectroscopy."

...

In this manner, one question and one answer, Qiao Yu quickly got a pretty good understanding of the whole process and the relevance of the test results.

Due to time constraints, Qiao Yu also had dinner in the lab, with Liu Hao asking Chen Jiang to bring it from the cafeteria for everyone again.

Everyone had the same thing: a boxed meal, a bottle of mineral water, sorted in ten minutes.

Of course, this was only viable because Yanbei University’s cafeteria was cheap enough. Otherwise, eating like this every day could easily lead whoever’s treating to go broke.

During this afternoon in the lab, a batch of new materials underwent various tests again, collecting and recording data. In short, everyone in the lab was quite busy.

Even Chen Jiang was the same; as Qiao Yu observed, because every synthesis needed solution preparation, dirty bottles were continuously appearing.

The whole lab, to be frank, was like a more advanced and professional assembly line, not lofty at all.

"I’ve almost got it figured out, but this time I need to think carefully about how to handle it. I must take these data back; as you know, last time the problem was straightforward, but this time it seems a bit tricky, I need to think of another solution."

Having understood everything he needed to, Qiao Yu frankly told Liu Hao.

It’s not that he was withholding anything; this problem was indeed more complex than last time.

And just as Professor Lu said, the lab data was insufficient. Actually, it wasn’t just insufficient; there was no clear direction, which made both modeling and designing simulation models extremely difficult.

Even if a model were designed, it wouldn’t have generalization capability. Even if forced to design, in the end, it might still be unclear what the experimental direction should be, with the biggest likelihood being repeatedly reporting errors.

Last time, the situation was under three different temperatures, with enough data for the other two temperatures. A comparison made the issue easy to pinpoint.

Just by reading other papers and finding different chemical reactions that might occur at 500K and the other two temperatures was enough for a general judgment.

Honestly, Liu Hao was somewhat disappointed.

But thinking about it, this was actually the normal case. After all, Qiao Yu was not a god...

If truth be told, his experience in this area might not be as rich as Professor Lu’s.

It was just that last time, Qiao Yu solved the problem in one day, which gave him unrealistic fantasies.

But then again, at least Qiao Yu didn’t speak as conclusively as Professor Lu did, there was still some hope.

So Liu Hao immediately said, "No problem, take it back for analysis. If you need it, we have new data coming out every week, and I’ll have Chen Jiang send it to you then."

"That works. By the way, I feel Senior Chen Jiang’s memory is particularly good, just washing bottles seems a bit wasted. After all, good memory might help in the situations I just mentioned. Tossing people downstairs seems too scary."

Before leaving, Qiao Yu joked.

"Haha, actually during our first year of research we all got through like this, but you’re right. It might be time to let Chen Jiang do other things as well. Just right, we’re feeling short-handed for this project, I’ll tell the boss and get another grad student over."