Qian’s work is very efficient.

On the second day of Yang Xu’s report, Lu Zhou received an email from the Jinling Institute of Computational Materials. Attached to the location of the email attachment is an experimental report that summarizes all the experimental data collected during this time.

With reliable data as a support, Lu Zhou can continue to improve his theory on this basis.

Thanks to these things, he can finally start the next step.

On the early morning of the next day, Lu Zhou called Jericho to his office and told him.

"I remember the last time you told me that you are going to follow me in the direction of calculating materials. I will ask you again now, are you ready?"

Upon hearing this sentence, Jericho immediately said excitedly: "Of course! Professor, I am ready!"

When he finished his undergraduate degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he completed his degree in applied mathematics and completed his applied chemistry major. Among the five apprentices of Lu Zhou, the only one has both mathematics and chemistry.

Sitting in the desk next door, Wei Wen, who was working hard, looked at him with admiration.

Jericho, who entered the same batch with himself, has already determined the research direction.

However, it has been half a year now. He is still doing some kind of work in nature and has not participated in formal research.

I noticed the envy of Wei Wen’s eyes, Lu Zhou said.

"You don't have to envy him. The accumulation now is to fly higher. If you plan to move toward mathematics and physics, you must spend more time and sweat than him."

Mathematical physics is different from computational chemistry. The latter grows slowly in the bud, trying to explain the phenomena in the experiment with new theories. However, the former has gone far beyond the current experimental level and entered the unknown field.

An immature field and an already mature field, wanting to make breakthroughs based on previous research, the sweat that needs to be paid is completely different.

Wei Wen obviously knows this too, so it is just envy.

Nodded, he simply replied.

"I know."

Jericho raises his hand and is very motivated: "Professor, what do you need me to do?"

Lu Zhou did not answer this question directly, just smiled and said.

"This question is well asked. After a while, you will follow me to a good place. After that, you will know."

......

The first step in any research work begins with reading the literature.

This is true both in theoretical research and in applied research.

After getting the experimental data, Lu Zhou did not rush to start writing calculations, but plunged into the Rock Library.

This work was originally done by one person. Now he has two helpers, one is Jericho who is interested in calculating the direction of materials, and the other is Connie who is a postdoctoral fellow.

Sitting next to Lu Zhou and reading the literature, Jericho suddenly asked: "Professor, how did you think about using a hollow carbon ball to solve the shuttle effect of lithium-sulfur batteries?"

“Scientific intuition? In addition to the inspiration from other places,” Lu Zhou answered the question with a chattering voice while reading the documents in his hands. “In fact, there is no absolute problem with the technical thinking. The choice is only a relatively appropriate choice."

"Relatively appropriate choices..." Repeatedly chewing on this sentence, looking at the literature in his hand, Jericho thought thoughtfully.

With the help of two assistants, the literature collection did not cost the boat for too long.

A series of work such as the literature review after that was completed within a week.

But the next job is not so easy.

Things related to computing can only be done by Lu Zhou himself.

On the last day of March, Lu Zhou did not go to the office of the Institute of Advanced Studies. After getting up, he turned and walked into the study room next to the master bedroom on the second floor.

Sitting in a room less than ten square meters, he soaked himself a cup of coffee, then opened the drawer and took out the pen.

On the clean and tidy paper, Lu Zhou conceived a moment and wrote a line of headlines.

Electrochemical interface theory is an important pillar of modern electrochemistry and one of the classic problems in theoretical chemistry. To be an inappropriate analogy, its status is like the twin prime guess in mathematics, occupying a central position in a certain type of problem.

This concept can be traced back to the early 1980s, and the true interface molecular model was proposed.

It is also since then that the classical electrostatic concept of electrochemical interfaces has begun to transition to the modern concept of condensed matter physics.

With the development of technology, the molecular dynamics simulation, montecarlo simulation and other computer simulation methods were born, which made the theoretical model of the electrochemical interface more realistic.

Even so, no one can provide a theoretical model that can be relied upon for the microscopic essence of the various electrochemical processes occurring on the interface, and reasonably explain the changes.

Let's take two examples. How should the differential capacitance curve of a polycrystalline metal electrode be explained? How to explain the origin of the capacitance peak in the differential capacitance curve of the hg electrode in the electrolyte solution of different solvents?

These seemingly simple problems are not mentioned in the book.

If you answer these questions one by one, it is not a problem to win two or three Nobel Prizes in Chemistry. The Nobel Committee always pays more attention to the theory than to the application.

After all, if these questions get a valid answer, although it may not be intuitively reflected in a company's bank card account or economic data of a certain country, the impact on the civilization process is far more than "modified pdms." The significance of this single invention is much more important.

However, even Lu Zhou, it is impossible to solve all the problems.

However, just as the group construction method is based on additive number theory.

If the mathematical properties can be used to describe the interface properties, and based on this, a theoretical model of the electrochemical interface structure is established. He can build a theoretical tool that can answer all of these questions!

After writing the title of the paper on the draft paper, Lu Zhou closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

When he opened his eyes again, there was only an unprecedented concentration of calmness in his eyes.

All the paving work has been completed in this half year.

For this moment, he has collected a large amount of data.

Now, it is the time to finish all the work!

......

As time went by, the paper dice in the corner of the study gradually piled up, and the paper pieces that were thrown away were gradually invisible.

When Lu Zhou was tired, he turned back to sleep in the bedroom. After he woke up, he went back to the study and continued to think.

Unless he was eating and drinking Lazarus, he did not even go down the stairs.

As for the time to go out, it has never been since the moment he began to retreat.

I don't know how many refills were empty, and I didn't know how many drafts were written. When Lu Zhou wrote the last line on a4 paper, it suddenly stopped.

Sitting there for about an hour and so long, Lu Zhou suddenly grabbed his hair with some irritability, and lost the ballpoint pen in his hand and stood up.

He walked back and forth in the study, and he kept smashing and repeating the same sentence.

"Chemistry needs my theoretical model..."

Suddenly, Lu Zhou seems to have suddenly thought of something, and his eyes are getting brighter.

Stopped, he looked at the stack of manuscript paper on the table and said to himself.

"And I need a super..."

"A supercomputer born for computational chemistry!"