Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

In the morning.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Professor Stanley, standing on the podium, as usual, lectures with undergraduates in the classroom.

Since his last loss to the Ark in that "race” over the patent for lithium-sulfur battery electrode materials, he has lost ExxonMobil's support and left the industry to return to academia.

Perhaps it's a blessing, though.

Because of his research on lithium batteries, he, along with Professor Goodnaff and Professor Yoshino, won the later Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

After winning this prestigious hanging crown, his academic journey is now called Pingbu Qingyun. Not only did ExxonMobil have the intention to repair his relationship, but even many more students came to class on weekdays.

And, of course, in fact, there are some lucky ingredients in this award.

The Nobel Prize Committee might not have considered their work so early if lithium electricity applications had not become more widespread in recent years and had even become a cornerstone in laying the groundwork for a new electrical era.

It is precisely for this reason that, had it not been for a single Nobel Prize in Chemistry, many people would have thought that the Ark would have been better qualified to receive the honor for its lithium battery research.

It's been many years, so many things have happened, and Professor Stanley's view of the Ark has changed dramatically since before.

Science changes the world, mathematics changes science.

He admitted that he was somewhat influenced by the man in his research philosophy.

Perhaps, as his friend evaluated him, he was so impressed by the horrible computing power of the Ark that he had been drilling in computational materials for years, hoping to use it as a breakthrough for himself, but also as a breakthrough for breaking through the bottlenecks of modern materials research...

“… discovering, exploring phenomena and summarizing and explaining principles are processes of knowledge creation and the essence of science. ”

“In traditional material studies, the discoveries of new materials are mostly the result of unexpected discoveries by researchers or of countless repeated attempts. In this case, it is obvious that there is great blindness, until the emergence of modern computers, people have summarized a variety of empirical models based on the results of the experiment, and the design of the experiment has changed from empirical exploration to rational design, so that the discipline becomes a ‘science’ in the real sense. ”

“Yes, until then, I did not consider materialism to be a science, but more like a ‘craft’ belonging to an engineer. Your homework today revolves around the density generalization theory that I talked about earlier in my class, writing a comprehensive paper. ”

“Classes are closed. ”

After announcing the end of the class, Professor Stanley closed the textbooks and left the professor on a meteorological basis, returning to his office. Just as he threw the curriculum on his desk and was about to check the mailbox he couldn't check this morning, Dr. Jones, a student and assistant sitting in his office, suddenly stood up and walked towards him with a stack of printed papers.

“Professor, I want to show you something. ”

Noting the strange look on his student's face, Professor Stanley lifted his eyebrows and put on the glasses he had just removed.

“What is it? ”

“This paper…” handed the paper in hand to the teacher, Dr. Jones continued with an odd expression, “I just saw it on arxiv…”

It did not seem shocking enough to say so, and he added the following sentence immediately after it.

“It was uploaded by Professor Lu. ”

Indeed, as soon as this phrase was spoken, Professor Stanley's expression on his face instantly became more serious.

He sat upright in the office chair and reached out and pulled a ballpoint pen from the pen holder, starting from the first page of the paper, and looked at it carefully in a row.

However, the moment he saw the title of the paper, the whole person was stunned there.

Implicit density general function method?

The eyebrows grew wrinkly.

About a half-hour ago, he had just spoken in class about the implicit density of general correspondence theory as one of the major unresolved challenges in the field of computational materials.

Especially from simple to complex systems, for both people and computers, it is extremely difficult at the current level.

This guy hasn't studied material in years.

Now as soon as I got back, I got this big news out.

Are you serious?

Looking at Professor Stanley without a word, Dr. Jones next to him stood quietly waiting, breathing heavily and afraid to disturb the mentor's thinking.

Time goes by.

Just as he was about to fall asleep, Professor Stanley turned to the last page and suddenly sucked in a cold breath and closed the paper in his hand.

Noticed the shocking look on the teacher's face, Jones first slightly stunned, then rushed forward to ask.

“What do you say, Professor? That paper..."

“Very well written," he answered the question succinctly, but seemed to find it not convincing enough, and Professor Stanley went on to add, "Well, it's hard to imagine. ”

Okay, it's hard to imagine...

When he heard it, Jones subconsciously swallowed his mouth.

He has never heard his mentor so praise anyone since he worshipped under this big man's door. And not to mention that he didn't do it before he won the Nobel Prize, which is even more unlikely after he won the Nobel Prize.

This is probably the first time he's seen a mixed, shocking, incredible, and almost impossible admiration on the face of this old man.

Returning the thesis in hand to his students, he looked surprised and Professor Stanley remained silent for a while and continued.

“The implicit ubiquitous letter density theory is one of the foremost studies in the material sciences today, and its inability to accurately describe deadly defects such as van der Waals interactions and metals makes it difficult for it to be used to study solid materials… at least until today. ”

“In his thesis, he applied a number of special mathematical methods to complement the implicit general correspondence density theory. The modified implicit density general letter theory, while still having some limitations, has at least been able to accurately describe van der Waals, and its scope of application extends from simple systems to more complex carbon composite studies. ”

Speaking of which, Professor Stanley had a deep admiration in his face.

“At the current rate of development of the material science community, not to mention a few years, months without touching the cutting-edge research, there is a risk that the distance will be completely diverted. ”

“I thought he had left the material academy for so many years. Even if his strength did not regress, he would certainly not have made any progress, but I didn't think...”

Looking at the face of the professor, Jones swallowed his mouth again.

“… unexpected? ”

Professor Stanley nodded heavily.

“Yes.”

“I didn't think so. ”

“He's still so terrible! ”