Xueba's Sea of ​​Stars

Chapter 231 Metal Catalysis
"I found that all your papers are inclined towards the preparation of graphene. Do you want to challenge that problem that has caused headaches for people all over the world?"

After Professor Brad agreed, Patricia happily sat beside Wu Bin and began to ask.

"I didn't think so much, I'm just interested in this topic." Wu Bin replied.

Patricia: "I have also participated in the subject of metal catalysis before, but there are always flaws in controlling the cooling rate, and no matter how many sets of experiments I have done, I have not been able to improve it, so it has been put on hold now..."

"Is it metal catalyzed?" Wu Bin nodded, "I have also studied it before. Do you use Ni or Cu as the catalyst?"

Patricia: "Ni, isn't this the most commonly used now?"

Wu Bin: "Actually, I'm trying to find a better catalyst, and I feel it will bring new surprises."

"For example!?" Patricia's eyes lit up.

"Cough..." At this moment, Professor Brad suddenly coughed.

After hearing this, Patricia immediately shrank her neck, knowing that she had asked a question that she shouldn't have asked.

"Sorry, I seem to be a little too excited." Patricia said with some embarrassment.

"It's okay." Wu Bin waved his hand, "Previously, South Korea's Sungkyunkwan University used the roll-to-roll CVD method to prepare graphene with a size of 76.2 cm. However, graphene needs to be transferred during the preparation process, which is easy to introduce a large number of defects. , so I didn’t continue to study in depth, but I found some new ideas in their papers, and I recommend you to read them too.”

"Of course, I will!" Patricia took out her notebook and started to record as she spoke, "I thought geniuses would be weird. I'm glad you are more kind than my grandma."

"Pfft..." Wu Bin almost spit out the red wine he had just drank after hearing this, and answered after wiping his mouth a little: "As long as it is an academic question, I welcome others to discuss with me at any time."

"What about... non-academic issues?" Patricia suddenly blinked at Wu Bin.

Professor Brad, who was on the side, seemed very happy to see the two young people talking fieryly, and smiled as he forked a piece of baked potato into his mouth.

"Of course you are very welcome." Wu Bin nodded with a smile.

After hearing Wu Bin's answer, Professor Brad felt that the time had come, so he put down his knife and fork and said, "Wu Bin, Patricia is also a member of my experimental team, and she is very talented in experiments. If you set up a For the experimental group, I believe she will be able to help you a lot."

Wu Bin: "It's my honor."

However, just as the corner of Professor Brad's mouth rose after hearing this, Wu Bin said another sentence to complete the statement.

"If there is a chance in the future."

Professor Brad's expression froze after hearing this, "Isn't this a good opportunity?"

On the other side, Patricia was also a little excited when she heard that she had the opportunity to cooperate with Wu Bin, "I know you usually like to do independent research, but I will definitely try to help. I can do some basic work and I will be open-minded. Learned from you."

"Well, I believe you can." Wu Bin nodded towards Patricia, "But I just told Professor Brad that I will go back to China after participating in the competition."

Seeing the gazes of Wu Bin and Patricia at the same time, Professor Brad sighed, "Dear Wu, you are such a stubborn guy..."

Wu Bin: "Sorry, there are still many domestic matters that I need to finish, but thank you again for your kindness and suggestions."

"I really want to thank me, come to the University of California, this is a place that won't let you down." Professor Brad said and raised his goblet.

"It will definitely be one of my choices." After Wu Bin finished speaking, he raised his goblet and touched Professor Brad.

Although there is no time to go to the laboratory, two people who are full of material science knowledge can collide with many sparks even if it is just a verbal discussion.

It wasn't until the waiter came to remind them that their table was closing that their shop was going to be closed at night, and the two finally stopped talking.

"Is it already so late?" Wu Bin took out his cell phone and looked at it, and found that it was almost 10 o'clock.

Professor Brad drank the last bit of red wine in his glass and looked at Wu Bin with a smile: "It's been a long time since I had such a good chat. As expected, chatting in person is much more interesting than dry emails. I'm thinking more and more now. I want to invite you to my laboratory, do you really think about it again? I can give you more favorable conditions than I promised you before."

But before Wu Bin could speak, Professor Brad waved his hand and said, "Forget it, I don't want to be rejected by the same man several times in one day like an abandoned woman, let's stop talking for today, I have to go back I'm asleep, I'm getting older, and my mental strength is far worse than before."

Wu Bin: "I think you are very energetic, Professor."

"You can't compare to young people." Professor Brad said, stood up and put on the coat hanging on the chair, and picked up a dark brown gentleman hat and put it on his head.

"I'm going back to the hotel, how about you?" Professor Brad asked, looking at Patricia.

"Well, I'll be back a little later." Patricia replied immediately.

After listening to the professor, Brad showed a smile of an old driver, then nodded to her and said, "Okay, then I'll go first." Then he waved to Wu Bin.

"Goodbye, professor." Wu Bin also waved to him.

After seeing Professor Brad walk away, Wu Bin was also going to take a taxi back to the hotel. Although taxis in the United States were very expensive, he didn't want to study the complicated public transportation routes because he was unfamiliar with the place.

"Where are you going next?" Patricia stood in front of Wu Bin and asked him.

Wu Bin: "Go back to the hotel."

"It's so boring, the nightlife has just begun~" Patricia shrugged.

"You are right. I plan to go back to the hotel to digest what I talked with Professor Brad today. It will definitely be a fulfilling night."

"..."

Although Patricia was a little speechless, she understood Wu Bin's excited expression.

In the afternoon, when Wu Bin and Professor Brad first had an academic discussion, she could occasionally interject a few words, but then the topic became more and more biased, and more and more theories were involved, until she could only obediently be a spectators.

After listening to the entire academic discussion, her biggest feeling is that her peers have too much knowledge, and they are not only proficient in materials science as she imagined.

Especially when the two talked about string theory, she was listening to the scriptures, but seeing Professor Brad's expression of surprise and thought, she could understand that Wu Bin should have brought him many surprises.

"Want to go to the bar for a drink?" Patricia asked Wu Bin with a smile.

(End of this chapter)