The Literary Life of a Science Leader

Chapter 94 Basic Research on Materials
NSR is the abbreviation of National Science Review.

It is a Chinese journal, an English version of a natural science review academic journal, translated as "National Science Review".Its impact factor was set at 8.0 when it was first included in SCI, and now it has exceeded 13.

If an article can be published on this, it can also prove that Zhang Chuyang is extraordinary.

You must know that he is only a small transparent participant in the subject of material fracture and damage, and what he can do is limited.But even so, he can find a direction and relevant data to publish papers, and he is confident that he can be listed on NSR.

"It's good that this subject is over."

The conversation between Zhang Chuyang and Mu Jingchi also allowed him to slowly express his excitement and calmed down.

"This subject is over, and I can fully concentrate on my own subject."

Having said this, Zhang Chuyang looked at Mu Jingchi with a smile, "I will definitely be able to catch up with you."

Mu Jingchi was not modest either, "Okay, I'll wait for you."

Thanks to this successful breakthrough in the subject of material fracture and damage, the entire Professor Yang's team was highly publicized and full of laughter.

Because this scientific research achievement belongs to applied research and can create benefits.

The current scientific research in the academic field of materials is actually biased towards basic research, that is, experimental or theoretical research to reveal the nature and laws of motion of objective things, and to obtain new discoveries and new theories. for a dedicated or specific application or use.

The results are generally published in the form of scientific papers and scientific books.

Don't think that it is not for application purposes, but it is actually focused on the future.As long as a part of these studies are realized in the future, it has exceeded its investment value.

Such projects are generally funded by the state and receive state support.

This kind of cutting-edge research must still be carried out. It cannot be said that doing this abroad is a follow-up, and it is completely defrauding the state funds.

It doesn't make sense.

What if one day some frontier field makes big news and makes a big breakthrough?

You can’t always think about developing real things. After other people’s breakthroughs are made, you can just read other people’s papers and imitate them. This is unrealistic.

Do you really think that other people can catch up after reading the papers that have been cultivated for many years?
A thesis is not a work written for you in detail. The thesis is just a general framework direction. Even if there is data, it is not all the data.

Therefore, this kind of basic material science research that focuses on the future cannot be given up.

As for scientific research projects that produce practical application value, they are generally horizontal projects, that is, research projects in cooperation with enterprises.For example, Mu Jingchi participated in the aluminum alloy project in cooperation with Geely Group.

Speaking of which, there are very few academics engaged in traditional materials, and they are all engaged in new materials.

The current common situation is that papers with high impact factors are mostly concentrated in the fields of materials physics and chemistry, such as functional materials, energy battery materials, graphene, nanomaterials, etc.

Although these materials are still far away from production and use, research on these is a global hot spot.

In fact, in Mu Jingchi’s view, research on materials with practical application value is partly an industry issue.

Industry cannot expect academia to be single-mindedly application-oriented.If it is applied-oriented research, it is difficult to publish articles, and the academic achievements are not so easy to measure, so how to solve the funding problem of the research group?

Either the industry will take out money and provide horizontal funds, so that relevant research groups and PhDs who intend to enter the industry will start to do application direction during their Ph.D. studies, and find a way to invite them into the industry after graduation.

This is a good cycle.

The Geely Group is a good example. Only by giving money can people bring you a team to do related projects.Otherwise, people can only apply for national funds to do basic material research.

It's getting further away, and the industry-university-research matters are hard to explain.

Although Zhang Chuyang's subject of material fracture and damage is a theoretical research, this theory can be applied to practice.

If it can be applied to practice, then it can generate benefits.

If you go one step further and convert the theory into a patent, then you can earn more benefits, and then distribute it to the entire research group, and everyone will get more benefits.

But the patent should not be considered, because the funds for this project are the national special funds applied by Professor Yang.

In other words, scientific research results belong to the state.

Zhang Chuyang's research group has no way to make money by using patents, and can only obtain national scientific research bonuses.

Overall, there should be hundreds of millions of scientific research bonuses, and it is hard to say if they are allocated to individuals.

"Envy?"

After chatting verbally with Zhang Chuyang, they agreed on a time to go out to eat and sing, and to celebrate, Mu Jingchi came to his own edge dislocation project team.

Seeing the expressions on the faces of Ai Xiaosheng and other master's students, Mu Jingchi guessed what they were thinking and asked with a smile.

Including Ai Xiaosheng, everyone nodded.

"If you are envious, just do it well, do experiments patiently and seriously, and don't let go of any subtle research, and we will succeed." Mu Jingchi said.

Although he was telling the truth, other graduate students were not as optimistic.

After all, there is no guarantee that scientific research on materials will be successful.

Including Zhang Chuyang's material fracture and damage project, they only tried in this direction at the beginning, but in the follow-up research, they gradually discovered a feasible route in this direction.

After slowly exploring and doing a little bit of experimental research, I finally made a breakthrough.

"Don't be envious, just continue to study!"

Mu Jingchi took Ai Xiaosheng and immersed himself in the research of his own project with the four master's students again.Zhang Chuyang vowed to catch up. He couldn't be left behind by Zhang Chuyang, as a person with systematic help!

Another day with little progress, Mu Jingchi packed up and went home.

To be honest, he still feels a little strange about the release of "Scenery" today.The songs and novels both came from the system, and he just moved them over. Although there were minor modifications, the sense of accomplishment was not that high.

This is also the reason why Mu Jingchi doesn't pay much attention to it. Compared with material science research, which transforms knowledge into practical results from scratch, the latter is obviously more fascinating.

However, "Scenery" can be regarded as one of his ideas, an attempt.

So look forward to it.

He didn't check it on his phone and suppressed his thoughts, he still had some control over this.

Mu Jingchi drove home, and planned to spend 10 minutes at home to understand some of the contents of "Scenery" and chat with the fans in it.

(End of this chapter)