Xueba's Sea of ​​Stars

Chapter 291 Major Events
Also by the West Lake, Wu Bin, who had just finished his run, was sitting on a chair to replenish water.

"It's a good day. I was able to last 11 minutes in the first segment without stopping." Qin Simeng praised Wu Bin while wiping off his sweat.

Wu Bin: "But it's still far behind senior sister."

"It can't be compared like this. In fact, you have improved very fast. You have not done any targeted physical training and you are improving every day. But when it comes to targeted training...how about you go to the gym with me starting today? Yes. With the equipment, the training effect will be much better.”

"Gym..." Wu Bin leaned back on the seat and thought for a while, then shook his head: "Not yet, I'm busy recently."

"If it's according to your standards, then you're probably never not busy at all, right?" Qin Simeng said as he unscrewed a bottle of mineral water and took a sip, "Even if you have completed your project at this stage, won't you still immediately Move on to the next one."

"..."

Wu Bin was speechless.

Seeing that Wu Bin didn't speak, Qin Simeng continued to ask: "By the way, do you think exercise will help you?"

"Not bad, I feel that I can concentrate more normally." Wu Bin nodded.

"Then I think it's worth your time, right? Didn't Lu Xun say that scientific research requires a strong body?"

"Okay, I will go to the gym to strengthen my training when I feel that my running has reached the bottleneck." Wu Bin was just about to drink some more water when he heard the phone ring.

He took it out of his pocket and saw that it was Li Yan calling.

"Hey, what's the matter?" Wu Bin asked while drinking water.

"Remember to come to the student union at 12 o'clock, it's a big deal!" Li Yan's voice on the other end of the phone was a little excited.

"Big thing? What big deal?" Wu Bin was a little confused.

"Anyway, you'll know when you come, remember, it's 12 o'clock, hang up."

"Mysterious..." After muttering to himself, Wu Bin stuffed the phone back into his pocket.

"What's so mysterious?" Qin Simeng asked.

Wu Bin originally wanted to say nothing, but remembering that Qin Simeng was also a member of the student union, he asked, "Is there any big event at noon in the student union today?"

"Big event?" Qin Si dreamed and thought, "Guo Award is not today, other things don't seem to be a big deal, it's Li Yan who told you."

"Well, tell me to go to the student union at 12 o'clock."

"I'm also curious about what you said, why don't you count me in at noon?"

"Okay." After speaking, Wu Bin stood up, "Go, run two more laps."

……

It was noon in a flash, and both Wu Bin and Qin Simeng arrived at the student union on time.

And when Wu Bin was about to call Li Yan, he saw him walking out with a young man wearing glasses, pointing to himself and saying, "Here, I said he is the most punctual, and he has arrived."

Wu Bin was puzzled for a moment at first, but the more he looked at the person next to Li Yan, the more familiar he looked, and finally he opened his mouth in surprise and said, "You...you are...Senior Cao Yuan!?"

If you want to say which student of HKUST has been the most popular in the past two years, it is definitely Cao Yuan. This 14-year-old genius who was admitted to the junior class of HKUST published two articles in "Nature" about the strange behavior of atomic-thick carbon sheets. paper.

The article is titled "Half-filled correlated insulator behavior in graphene superlattices at the magic angle"

In fact, a few years ago, the research team of MIT Pablo Jarillo-Herrero was trying to rotate the stack of carbon sheets to different angles.

Because according to theoretical predictions, this twist will greatly change the behavior of graphene, but most physicists in academia are skeptical.

After Cao Yuan joined the team, he was responsible for investigating what would happen if one layer of the stacked bilayer graphene was rotated by a very small angle relative to the other layer.

In the end, with the addition of perseverance and talent, Cao Yuan successfully discovered that applying a weak electric field to graphene and cooling it to 1.7 degrees above absolute zero will turn graphene, which is originally conductive, into an insulator.

Not only that, but the more shocking news is yet to come. He found that as long as the electric field is slightly adjusted, the twisted double-layer graphene can become a superconductor, allowing electrons to achieve zero-resistance flow.

Of course, as a basic scientific research, this discovery cannot immediately bring about any changes in daily life, but it has opened up a whole new field of physics.

Such a major discovery directly made "Nature" rank him as the first of the top ten figures in the natural sciences of the year, which can be said to be in the limelight for a while.

"Hello, Junior Brother Wu Bin." Cao Yuan smiled and held out his hand to Wu Bin.

Wu Bin immediately reached out to shake his hand, and said pleasantly, "Aren't you supposed to be at MIT? How come..."

"The school asked me to be a guest speaker for the Guo Award." Cao Yuan replied.

At this time, Li Yan who was on the side immediately added: "Senior Cao Yuan is the winner of the 10th grade Guo Award, that's why the school made such an invitation."

After listening to Cao Yuan, he first smiled, and then said: "Actually, Professor Song told me that you are the winner this time, so I want to take this opportunity to go back to China to chat with you. I have read your paper and it is very good. .”

Wu Bin immediately shook his head: "Senior, I am so impressed, my achievements are nothing compared to yours."

"Haha, too modest, I was not as capable as you when I was a freshman."

"No, no, no, you are still a senior, your two papers are very well written."

Seeing the two bragging wildly, Qin Simeng who followed quietly walked to Li Yan's side and whispered, "Did the school actually recruit this big guy back?"

"I think the school probably wants to take this opportunity to let these two evildoers get to know each other, maybe some spark of wisdom will be sparked."

"It's good enough..." Qin Simeng looked at the eloquent Wu Bin after finishing speaking, and couldn't help saying to Li Yan: "Do you feel that Wu Bin has finally found his kind on a strange planet?"

"Pfft..." Li Yan couldn't help laughing after hearing this, "It's a bit."

Then Li Yan took the two of them to an empty conference room for them to chat openly. After all, he knew that this time Cao Yuan came two days earlier than the awards ceremony, in order to chat more with Wu Bin, his junior.

"By the way, congratulations on graduating." Cao Yuan said to Wu Bin after sitting down.

"Thank you senior." Wu Bin nodded.

"I heard from Professor Song that you plan to stay in HKUST for graduate studies?"

"Yes."

Cao Yuan nodded thoughtfully after listening, "It's a rare idea, but sometimes you can see more interesting things in a different environment."

"Well, I understand that the more literature I read, the more I understand where the scientific research center of the world is, but I also have my own ideas."

"Oh?" Cao Yuan stared in surprise, "Can you tell me?"

"Well, I can't say it clearly, but I will show it with actions."

Looking at Cao Yuan's unclear and serious eyes, Wu Bin was a little embarrassed. Actually, it's not something that he can't explain clearly. The main thing is that he can't just say "because I have an affair", right?

(End of this chapter)