Chapter 209 Computational Materials Science

In such a fulfilling study life, the summer vacation has passed quickly for a month, and Wu Bin's next project has basically taken shape, making him happy every day. In Lin Ziqi's words, "the smile is getting more and more perverted."

On the first day of August, Wu Bin, Lin Ziqi and Li Yan had just walked out of the library when they received a call, but the caller was from an unfamiliar number.

"Hello?" Wu Bin picked up the phone and asked.

"Hello? Is this Wu Bin?" A mature man's voice came from the other end of the phone.

‘Hmm…this voice seems a bit familiar. ’

But before Wu Bin could remember who it was, someone on the other end of the phone spoke again: "I'm Uncle Pei, can you hear me?"

"Ah!? Uncle Pei!? I can tell, I can tell, hello." Wu Bin, who was greatly surprised, replied repeatedly.

"Hahaha, did it scare you?" Uncle Pei laughed.

"Yes." Wu Bin laughed, "Uncle, what do you want from me?"

"It's nothing serious. I just want to congratulate you. You published an article in "Science" at such a young age. You have a bright future, so I immediately asked Jiamin for your number and called you."

"Huh? Uncle, do you also know about "Science"?"

Posting "Science" is not something that makes entertainment news. Usually only people in the industry will be surprised by it. However, Uncle Pei was not too surprised to know about Wu Bin. After all, he was an executive of a chip company, and it was quite normal for him to have scientific researchers who subscribed to the journal "Science" or read directly online on the official website.

"Yeah, I happened to hear two young guys from our R&D department mention your name this morning, so I asked out of curiosity and found out that it was really you." Then he paused, and Uncle Pei added: "In addition, the photo is good, a bit The grace of my youth.”

"Thank you uncle for the compliment."

"Hahaha, I said you can't be wrong, yes, yes, and the graphene you are studying is indeed being worked on by many people now. It has great prospects. Even though the market size is still very small, I believe this It’s only a matter of time before the materials are put into use, just waiting for young people like you to push it.”

After laughing a few times, Uncle Pei added: "Have you heard about the research project signed between Warwick and the National Graphene Institute of the University of Manchester in the UK a while ago?"

"Well, after hearing about it, I think it's a good decision."

Wu Bin had already learned about the news that Samsung had invested hundreds of millions of dollars in graphene. Naturally, an ambitious company like Warwick is not far behind.

Because Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, two scientists who won the Nobel Prize for graphene, both worked at the University of Manchester, the University of Manchester is also known as the hometown of graphene.

As the first place where graphene was discovered, as early as 8 years ago, the British National Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the European Regional Development Fund invested 38 million pounds and 23 million pounds respectively to establish the National Graphene Institute at the University of Manchester.

After so many years of development, it can be said to be the base camp of graphene research, with very advanced technology and equipment. Among the many documents Wu Bin has read, this laboratory's article output can be said to account for a very large proportion.

And in recent academic exchange emails, several people also made it clear that they are from the Graphene Research Institute and welcome Wu Bin to study.

"Uncle tells you, you can try to research more in the direction of LED displays. Sooner or later this area will become popular."

Listening to Uncle Pei's suddenly serious tone, Wu Bin replied: "Thank you for the reminder, uncle. I will pay attention to read more literature in this area."

"Hey, okay, okay, then I won't tell you more. The main reason for making this call is to congratulate you. Next time you come back during winter vacation, remember to come over for a meal and let me take a photo with you so that we can Those young people in the company show off and show off.”

Wu Bin: "Haha, uncle, you are joking."

"Hahaha, then I'll give up now and keep working hard. Uncle is optimistic about you."

"Okay, thank you uncle."

After hanging up the phone, Lin Ziqi on the side immediately asked curiously: "Is your family from a scholarly family for generations?"

"Ah? What do you mean?" Wu Bin was stunned by Lin Ziqi's question.

"How else could my uncle be so powerful and know that you posted "Science" without you notifying me?"

Wu Bin smiled after hearing this, "You are really serious about eavesdropping."

"What do you mean by eavesdropping? You didn't avoid it." Lin Ziqi immediately retorted.

"Can't you be more conscious and not listen~" After complaining, Wu Bin replied: "An uncle who is an executive in a chip company seems to have heard my name mentioned by his subordinates."

"Wow! The executives of the chip company are so awesome."

At this time, Li Yan answered: "Is it because I want to persuade you to join their company?"

"That's not true. They came to congratulate me on publishing "Science". By the way, they talked to me about the prospects of graphene and said that Warwick is now making a big move into it."

"Warwick, chip or screen?" Li Yan thought for a while and asked.

"I don't know. The chip is still in the theoretical stage, and the screen is relatively reliable. But before that, as I said before, we have to solve the problem of production volume first, otherwise graphene will always be just a laboratory Just a plaything."

"Awesome, it suddenly feels like you are carrying the entire human world forward." Li Yan said as he looked up, "What a majestic person."

"Exaggerated." Wu Bin shook his head and continued walking forward.

After the three of them finished eating, Li Yan continued to look for information in the library, while Wu Bin and Lin Ziqi went to the laboratory.

After a month of serious study, Wu Bin has greatly improved his computational materials science.

With the rapid development of science and technology, the research system has become increasingly complex, and the traditional analysis and overturning methods are no longer enough.

However, with the development of computer science and the continuous improvement of computer computing capabilities, computer materials science has emerged, providing new means for the study of complex systems.

As an interdisciplinary science involving materials, physics, computers, mathematics, chemistry and other disciplines, its theoretical predictions are very strong. Of course, it is also called a paper-filling artifact by many people.

This month, Wu Bin read two books called "Computational Materials" that had a high rental rate in the library several times. After he almost had his own framework, he borrowed another book called "The Theory of Embedded Atom Methods and Its Application" Applications in Materials Science" reference book.

After reading it several times, Wu Bin found that his basic knowledge of general physics and computer programming was enough to cope with this emerging subject, but quantum mechanics was not enough.

This made Wu Bin immediately make plans for the next semester. He would thoroughly understand quantum mechanics and, if possible, KO the four great powers together.

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