CHAPTER 507: CHAPTER 161: THIS IS BASIC MATHEMATICS OPERATION

Everyone gets sick. To Qiao Yu, occasional minor ailments are nothing, but the biggest fear is when the mind suddenly malfunctions.

For example, there are always people who suddenly think they can succeed, developing unrealistic ideas, and start abandoning rationality, determined to execute them.

For instance, believing they don’t need to study, and can rely on gaming, fists, or many unconventional means to make a future...

Or being so overwhelmed by hormones, always thinking that a certain person, regardless of gender, will be their lifelong happiness.

For the vast majority of people, this kind of illness strikes rather frequently in the early stages of life, especially during adolescence, and the solution is a beating, a harsh one!

The ancient adage that "a filial son is born under the stick" has its truth. Using love to reform a rebellious teenager is usually the superpower of educational experts.

Qiao Yu had never experienced corporal punishment.

Because Qiao Xi never noticed Qiao Yu being irrational. In fact, for a teenager, Qiao Yu was frighteningly rational.

It’s well-known that when a person is overly rational and completely dismisses emotions, it’s difficult for them to find happiness.

This is why Qiao Xi has always been worried about Qiao Yu, not even minding in the slightest if their child started dating early.

After all, how many teenagers can be rational to such an extent? Making any choice with the instinct to maximize benefits...

This made him seem less adorable.

But as a stroke of luck, for science, this kind of rationality happens to be crucial. After all, science doesn’t believe in emotion; in fact, any mysticism in the laboratory might be concealing rules humanity hasn’t mastered yet.

The reason so many laboratories exist is to find and discover those rules hidden deep within, invisible under normal circumstances.

Qiao Yu felt he found a method that could help many laboratories quickly find those rules.

When Chen Zhuoyang told him he had sent the results of the supercomputer analysis to his email, Qiao Yu downloaded all the results onto his computer immediately.

The analyzed results filled five pages, but Qiao Yu didn’t look closely at the data reports; his attention was drawn to the final summary chart.

On the left is a two-dimensional hotspot map, representing modal density. On the right is a path map, with the blue line representing the modal path after dimensionality reduction.

If his method is correct, it means that according to the existing data, one can roughly determine that there is a performance leap near α=30min and β=23.5 kJ/mol, pointing to a critical molecular interaction turning region.

The region with the highest modal density is near α=35min, β=25 kJ/mol. In other words, based on current laboratory data, the material produced in this region has the best recovery of fracture strength.

Relating to a specific laboratory, the first step is to find the specific proportion of monomer to cross-linking agent when the β value is near 25 kJ/mol.

Another chart is the fracture strength recovery and dynamic stress change trend chart:

Although the results are somewhat troublesome, they at least show the superimposed periodic oscillation.

Dynamic stress rapidly decays to a stable state after reaching a peak initially. The strength recovery process exhibits exponential growth characteristics, reaching critical repair points around 20 and 40 minutes.

Next, it’s time to pass it over to the lab for testing. If the results can stabilize after multiple repetitions, new parameters can be introduced.

After a brief analysis, Qiao Yu directly called Liu Hao.

"Hello, Brother Liu, are you in the lab?"

"Yes, I am! Why? Do you have results?"

"Yes, I have preliminary analysis results, and I need to test them. Does your lab have ready materials, or do we need to wait for preparation?"

"Yes, yes, yes, we have plenty of prepared materials. The project is tight, do you want to come over directly or should I pick you up?"

"I’ll come directly. I’ll be there in about fifteen minutes."

"Okay, I’ll wait for you downstairs."

...

In the chemistry building, after taking the call, Liu Hao hurriedly left the lab.

Sometimes the pressure really doesn’t come from one’s own place but from the unknown.

Last week, Liu Hao had a brief meeting with his advisor, Professor Zhang Zuolin, to discuss the current progress of the project.

From his boss, he learned that although the Huairou Institute was slower initially, they’ve likely caught up by now.

Unlike their dynamic covalent bond technique, the other party uses block copolymer phase separation and nanoparticle filling to achieve the same functionality, with the difficulty largely concentrated in the early stages.

The flexible block provides flexibility and extensibility, improving the mechanical properties of the material; the rigid block provides mechanical strength and durability, ensuring the material is not easily damaged.

By adding photothermal nanoparticles to the material, they achieve temperature response control. These nanoparticles also regulate the material’s thermal conductivity, ensuring stability in high or low-temperature environments.

This means their technology is very challenging initially, concentrating on the synthesis technology and structural characterization phases.

Meanwhile, their own technology mainly faces challenges in the chemical design and optimization stage, but the synthesis and characterization process is already well-established and early experiments can proceed quickly.

It’s like everything had gone smoothly for them, but they’re currently stuck at the optimization phase.

However, if the other party overcomes the synthesis of block copolymers and quantifies the contribution of nanoparticle filling to performance, the later stages will be relatively simple.

So, upon learning that the Huairou Institute had overcome several technical difficulties, the boss’ view was to do their best and leave the rest to fate.