Great Country Academician

In the State Key Laboratory of Superconductivity, Institute of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

In a laboratory specially used for confidential meetings, several fully armed escorts stood quietly inside waiting.

Zhou Xingjiang hurriedly walked in from outside and quickly asked: "Where are the materials?"

In the laboratory, the middle-aged man in the lead looked at Zhou Xingjiang solemnly and said: "Excuse me, Director Zhou Xingjiang? Please show me your ID or work certificate."

Zhou Xingjiang nodded, took out his work certificate from his pocket and handed it over.

The team leader took the certificate, scanned it on a black handheld device, and then scanned it on Zhou Xingjiang's face.

"Verification passed, thank you Director Zhou for your cooperation."

After hanging the instrument in his hand on his waist and handing back the work certificate, the team leader took out the data file he brought from his chest and put it on the laboratory table, and gently pushed it over.

"Please ask Director Zhou to check and verify the transfer information."

He quickly opened the information and read it carefully. After confirming that it was correct, Zhou Xingjiang signed his name on the security agreement first, and asked again impatiently: "Where are the materials?"

The middle-aged man solemnly took the handover form, carefully confirmed and checked it, put the document in his arms, saluted and stepped aside.

In the middle of several national security escorts, there was a tightly protected box.

After taking a deep breath, Zhou Xingjiang was about to step forward, but he remembered something and said to the assistant: "Go and notify the three researchers Xu Ning, Teng Li and Guan Wenlin, and ask them to come here now."

"Okay, Director."

The assistant responded and walked out in a hurry.

After a while, three researchers with sufficient authority to know the news quickly came over after receiving the news.

"Director."

The three researchers greeted each other and looked at the several security guards standing upright by the wall, with strange expressions.

The Institute of Physics and the State Key Laboratory of Superconductivity of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology is a research institute with strict security. There are still fully armed personnel with guns here. They are probably from a big family.

It seems that something big is going to happen this time.

Zhou Xingjiang nodded and asked the escorting security guards to help move the box to the silver-white metal laboratory table.

The uniform and soft fluorescent light illuminated the entire laboratory. The box transported from Jinling was not very big. The diameter was only half a meter. The outermost layer was a thick layer of cushioning material. It was protected so tightly that you couldn't see what was inside.

After putting on his white coat and lab gloves, Zhou Xingjiang took a deep breath, looked at the researcher beside him, and said, "Xu Ning, you come and help me."

"Okay."

Xu Ning nodded, stepped forward quickly, and the two picked up the unpacking tools prepared on the table, and carefully began to unpack the box bit by bit along the outer ring of buffer materials.

Under the careful disassembly of the two, the box was quickly opened.

In the tightly protected box, a material in a high-strength tempered glass box came into the eyes of several people in the laboratory.

Silver-gray thin sheet, 8.27 cm in diameter, 1.21 cm thick

Comparing with the information on the handover form, Zhou Xingjiang carefully checked it through various equipment, and only signed his name on the handover list after confirming that there was no problem.

The middle-aged man took the last list, carefully confirmed and checked it, and put the document in his arms after confirming that there was no problem.

"The items have been delivered and the handover has been confirmed to be correct."

After a salute, the escort team turned around and walked out of the conference room without stopping.

After the people from Guoan left, only a few core researchers from the National Key Laboratory of Superconductivity were left in the laboratory.

"Director, what is this?"

Looking at the silver-gray film on the experimental table, Xu Ning finally couldn't help asking.

Zhou Xingjiang took a deep breath and said slowly: "The latest research results of Academician Xu Chuan in Jinling, 'Copper oxide-based chromium-silver system·Room temperature superconducting materials'!"

"Room temperature superconducting materials?"

Hearing this, the three people who rushed over were shocked, with a strong look of disbelief in their eyes and faces.

Late at night, the lights were bright in the National Key Laboratory of Superconductivity, Institute of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

"Director Zhou, the test results are out."

In the laboratory, Teng Li, wearing a white coat, quickly walked in with a test report in his hand.

"Let me see."

Zhou Xingjiang, who had been waiting in the laboratory for many hours, couldn't wait to "snatch" the experimental report from the other party.

"At a standard room temperature of 25 degrees Celsius and a pressure of 318.651 kPa, the resistance is zero, and it has the Meissner effect."

Staring at the test report in his hand and comparing it with the laboratory data sent from Jinling, Zhou Xingjiang's face was filled with disbelief.

"Room temperature superconductivity, has it really been achieved?"

As the director of the State Key Laboratory of Superconductivity, Institute of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Zhou Xingjiang is very clear about the importance of room temperature superconducting materials.

Energy transmission, electronic equipment, transportation, medicine, information communication, quantum computers, aerospace... countless fields can be linked to it and affected by it.

Although the material in front of him is not a true room temperature superconductor, it is still subject to the condition of three standard atmospheric pressures.

But this condition is not harsh for most fields where room temperature superconducting materials can be applied, and it can be easily achieved.

On the side, researcher Guan Wenlin, who has M-pattern hair loss and is about to turn into Mediterranean hair, also held a piece of experimental data in his hand, frowned and said:

"It has the Meissner effect, which proves that it is a superconducting material, but why is this experimental data so strange?"

"Parameters such as critical current intensity and critical magnetic field intensity are all related to the intensity of pressure, and the changing trends are completely inconsistent with previous superconducting materials."

Xu Ning nodded and said: "If this experimental data were not produced by using the materials sent by Academician Xu, I would not believe that this is the performance data of room temperature superconducting materials."

"It's so inconsistent with the common sense of superconducting effects."

The detection data of superconducting materials are very familiar to researchers like them who specialize in superconducting effects, but the experimental data in front of them completely exceeded several people's expectations.

Staring at the experimental data, Teng Li, who was wearing a white coat and was responsible for conducting the test experiments, had a thoughtful look in his eyes. After a while, he asked: "I heard that Academician Xu has made the news about room temperature superconducting materials public? "

Guan Wenlin nodded and said: "On Arxiv, Academician Xu has published various experimental data on room temperature superconducting materials, and there is also a paper on the mechanism of room temperature superconducting materials."

Xu Ning smiled and said: "With such abnormal experimental data, it seems that there is a lot of noise outside."

The experimental data of room-temperature superconducting materials are completely different from previous low-temperature/high-temperature superconducting materials. Even if that person has excellent academic credibility in the academic world, controversy will probably inevitably arise.

Teng Li shrugged and said, "If I hadn't made this data myself, I would have doubted it."

Professor Guan Wenlin said with a smile: "It is easy to confirm. Sending a sample to other laboratories and research institutes is enough to resolve these doubts."

As discussed by several core researchers at the State Key Laboratory of Superconductivity, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

After Arxiv was restored, and after the experimental data of copper oxide-based chromium-silver system room-temperature superconducting materials were downloaded by many research institutions and laboratories, related discussions surged in the academic community.

United States, Tennessee.

In the Materials Research Institute of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, almost all researchers are discussing the same thing.

The topic they discussed was undoubtedly room-temperature superconducting materials that had just been published on the arixv preprint website.

As the largest and most diverse comprehensive national laboratory affiliated with the U.S. Energy Corporation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory is world-renowned for its groundbreaking contributions in the fields of materials science, nuclear research, supercomputing and the environment.

Its predecessor was the Clinton Laboratory, part of the famous "Manhattan Project." In the research of materials science, it is undoubtedly the best in the world.

Research on room-temperature superconducting materials is also the goal of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, but now, the sudden emergence of copper oxide-based chromium-silver room-temperature superconducting materials has interrupted all arrangements.

Armed with the paper downloaded from Arxiv, officials from the U.S. Energy Registry approached Professor Tom Mason, director of the Oak Ridge Advanced Materials and National Security Laboratory and a top scholar in the field of condensed matter physics.

"Hello, Professor Mason, I am Sheridan Hall, assistant to Director of Energy Jennifer Gramm. Here is my ID."

In the office, Professor Tom Mason took the certificate, glanced at it, nodded, and said hello: "Hello, Assistant Hall."

Sheridan Hall quickly said: "It's urgent. This is a paper and experimental data on copper oxide-based chromium-silver room temperature superconducting materials downloaded from arixv. I would like to ask you to do a review on it." Preliminary evaluation, how likely it is to achieve room temperature superconductivity.”

Tom Mason glanced at the document pushed over by the other party on the table, picked it up, looked at it twice, and then put it down.

"I've seen these things."

Sheridan Hall quickly said: "That's great, what is your judgment?"

After thinking for a while, Tom Mason said: "From a personal perspective, the experimental data and related papers on room temperature superconducting materials were uploaded to Arxiv by Professor Xu Chuan."

"Based on Professor Xu's academic reputation and without any concrete evidence to prove fraud, I am willing to believe that this is real superconducting data."

Hearing this, Sheridan Hall couldn't help but frown.

Needless to say, the importance of room temperature superconducting materials. If China takes the lead in mastering it, it will not be good news for the United States and the entire world.

However, Professor Tom Mason continued. His eyes fell on the documents on the table, and he frowned and continued:

"But based on the experimental data published by Professor Xu Chuan, there are many doubts about this room temperature superconducting material."

"All its data deviate greatly from previous superconducting test data, and even violate the basic laws of thermodynamics in physics to some extent."

"You mean, this room temperature superconducting material may be fabricated false data?" Sheridan Hall quickly asked.

Tom Mason shook his head and said: "That's not what I meant. It is almost impossible for such a thing to happen to Professor Xu Chuan."

"But I don't understand why the experimental data he uploaded is so weird."

Hearing this, Sheridan Hall frowned and said, "What about all things considered?"

Tom Mason glanced at him and said, "There's no point in saying that."

“?”

Sighing, Tom Mason continued: “Science is rigorous and needs to be verified by evidence. Personal judgment is meaningless.”

“Instead of wasting your time here, you might as well go to China to find Professor Xu. If he really developed a room-temperature superconducting material, then he must have a complete preparation method, or the corresponding superconducting material. Any one of them is enough to prove it.”

Hearing this, Sheridan Hall rolled his eyes and asked: “Just like the KL-99 in South Korea last year?”

Professor Tom Mason nodded and said: “If you can get a complete preparation method, it is very easy to verify whether it is a superconducting material.”

“But.”

“But what?”

“Nothing.” Professor Tom Mason shook his head and said: “Do you have anything else to do? If not, I have a meeting in ten minutes.”

“Nothing for the time being, thank you for your judgment.”

After Sheridan Hall wrote a few words on the document, he stood up, smiled and thanked him, and left quickly.

Tom Mason stared at his back for a while, shook his head and retracted his gaze.

If Professor Xu Chuan really developed a room-temperature superconducting material, it would not be easy to obtain the complete preparation method.

Even the rough preparation method process is impossible to circulate.

If a room-temperature superconducting material, which is related to the fate of the country, is really made, how can it be possible to disclose the preparation process like the modified lead apatite KL-99 material?

Indeed, South Korea has applied for a patent for KL-99.

But patents cannot guarantee everything.

Even when applying for a patent, some preparation processes and some experimental data are modified.

If he really developed a room-temperature superconducting material, the best way would undoubtedly be to disclose the relevant information like Professor Xu Chuan, but retain the preparation method and choose manufacturers to cooperate in production.

Just like the nanophase copper material he developed a few years ago, only the experimental data was disclosed to the public.

The actual way to obtain benefits is to cooperate with manufacturers in the industry.

This is the way to maximize benefits.

This is one of the reasons why he believed from the beginning last year that South Korea's KL-99 material was most likely fake and problematic, but now believes that the copper oxide-based chromium-silver room-temperature superconducting material developed by Professor Xu Chuan is real.

Patent?

Patents really can't guarantee anything when it comes to things like national security.