Chapter 536 Not Enough Time, Manpower to Make Up

After working as a scientific research laborer for so long, it was the first time for Hou Jinli to experience the thrill of being a boss.

Although he is just a small boss who follows the big boss, his thigh is a Nobel prize winner after all. Thinking about it this way, even a small boss is worthy enough.

Excitement is excitement, but Hou Jinli is not ambiguous at work.

According to the list given to him by Lu Zhou, he searched the names one by one in the professional database, where the number of SCIs, citations, academic background and other information are clear at a glance.

Those who have worked on ceramic matrix composite materials and graphene materials are preferred, and those with a large number of papers in the first area are given priority.

And Yu Junda, who was working on this project with him, naturally he will not forget.

Considering that not everyone has the time to participate in this project, he finally checked a total of 20 names, and then handed the list to Lu Zhou's office.

Originally, he was worried that there might be too many people asking for it, but after receiving the list, Professor Lu just glanced at it and approved it without blinking an eye.

"Tomorrow these people will go to your laboratory to report. The requirements are still what I said. Is there anything else you need here?"

Hou Jinli shook his head quickly.

"there is none left."

Lu Zhou nodded.

"Okay then, I'll leave this to you."

...

The Institute for Computational Materials works efficiently.

In other words, Professor Lu's personal prestige in the institute is very high.

Although Lu Zhou told him that the personnel would be in place tomorrow, in fact the personnel had already arrived before evening.

What surprised Hou Jinli the most was that all the twenty people he hooked up were here.

Originally, in his expectation, it would be great if half of these people could come over.

In order to speed up the progress, he immediately went to the relevant department to apply for a conference room, put the PPT that he made in a hurry in the afternoon, and then called the researchers over to hold a simple meeting.

"I believe you should have seen the experimental process in the report, but I will briefly explain it here in PPT. According to my research, the key to adjusting the pore size of this graphene porous network airgel is the main idea. Concentrate on temperature control during the process of adding the reducing agent..."

"There is also the most critical part of freeze-drying. This part of the operation is the key to not destroying the three-dimensional network structure in the process of obtaining graphene airgel. In the specific operation, this part is also relatively error-prone. ..."

"I hope that in the experiment, you will pay attention to these points."

He is not usually a person who will come to trouble, and he has never been a leader before. It is naturally impossible for Hou Jinli to talk about mobilization work. After briefly explaining the main points of the experiment, he said straight to the point.

"The task is very difficult. Professor Lu hopes that we can get five sets of samples within a week. I hope everyone will work hard!"

Hearing the one-week deadline, the conference room was filled with whispers.

"One week..." One of the researchers wearing glasses pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, showing embarrassment, "Such a short period of time may not be enough."

It will take two days to go through all the relevant literature, right?

And to understand all the steps in the entire experiment report, one day is necessary, right?

Considering the failure rate, the experiment of this kind of composite material is unlikely to take a week.

If it's half a month, you can give it a try.

Although Hou Jinli knew that this task would not be easy to complete, he still said it bravely.

"The samples from our side have to be sent to Daya Bay for testing. According to their schedule, if we can't catch up with the one at the beginning of next month, we have to wait another month."

"If we delay it for one day, the STAR-2 project will have to wait for one day."

"I know it's not easy, but there's only one week left, the question now is not whether it can be done, but must be done!"

Hearing this embarrassing request, the researchers in the conference room looked at each other in blank dismay.

The researcher wearing glasses originally wanted to say something, but when he met Hou Jinli's begging gaze, he scratched his head and finally sighed.

To be honest, this was the first time he had seen such a temperless person in charge.

But for Professor Lu's sake...

"Forget it, anyway, it's not the first time I've laid a floor in the laboratory..."

After the other researchers exchanged glances, they also nodded.

Although everyone was a bit confused when they were transferred here, especially the project leader who was usually a person who had no sense of presence, but for the sake of Professor Lu, they still had to cheer up their spirits.

What's more, on a larger scale, this is also for the future of the country's controllable fusion business.

With a sigh of relief, Hou Jinli showed a grateful look on his face.

"thanks!"

...

The experiment started that evening.

Twenty researchers were divided into five groups of four, each responsible for different samples.

Among them, three groups belonged to Hou Jinli, and the other two groups belonged to Jun Da.

Although scientific research is not about fighting in groups, and most of the research results cannot be piled up by manpower, but when the funds are sufficient and there is already a clear way to solve the problem, the advantages of more people and more strength can still be reflected.

But now, the first two problems have been solved by Lu Zhou, relatively speaking, the pressure Hou Jinli faces is relatively small.

Less than 20% success rate?

Just do it five or six times.

At most, it's just laying a floor in the laboratory for a few days.

For them, liver explosion is just a common occurrence.

It was already late at night, and Yu Junda, who took the samples for XRD testing, returned to the laboratory, looked at Hou Jinli, who was about to start the next group, and exchanged a few words in a low voice: "Speaking of which, we are considered to be participating in the national Confidential project?"

Hou Jinli thought for a while and said, "Yes, and no."

Yu Junda: "What do you mean by yes or no?"

Hou Jinli: "The controllable fusion technology has not yet been finalized in China. The detailed documents are expected to wait until the demonstration reactor is actually produced. However, the United States seems to be planning to kick us out of the ITER organization recently, and the country is getting more and more concerned about this area. Paying more and more attention to it... let's keep it a secret now, right?"

For inventions or utility model technologies that involve national security or major interests and need to be kept secret, such research results will probably be applied for in the form of confidential patents.

Under normal circumstances, non-military enterprises (including private enterprises) are not qualified to apply for confidential patents, but considering that the STAR-2 project is currently a national key scientific research project, after explaining the importance of the technology, the examiners of the Patent Office should grant it pass.

But originally, this kind of thing can't be used in other places except for the reactor.

The only possible civilian prospect is probably medical equipment, but considering the defects of ceramic-based graphene composites in toughness relative to alloy materials, it is probably unlikely to be used in small devices.

Of course, these things are not things that researchers like them need to worry about.

"Controllable nuclear fusion," Yu Junda sighed, and said with some fascination, "To be honest, I never thought that I would one day participate in a scientific research project of this level."

"I didn't think about it either."

Stuffed the newly released samples into the freezer, and set the time for 4 hours, Hou Jinli rubbed some sore eye bags, "However, whether it is a national project or an unimportant subject, we just need to do it well. Just do your job.”