Chapter 291 Major Events

Beside the West Lake, Wu Bin, who had just finished running, was sitting on a chair to replenish water.

"Today was good. I was able to last for 11 minutes in the first section without stopping." Qin Simeng praised Wu Bin while wiping his sweat.

Wu Bin: "But it's still far behind my senior sister."

"It can't be compared like this. In fact, you have progressed quite quickly. You are improving every day without doing any targeted physical training. But when it comes to targeted training... How about you go to the gym with me starting today? Yes. With equipment, the training effect will be much better.”

"The gym..." Wu Bin leaned back on the seat and thought for a while, then shook his head: "It's not possible for the time being. I'm quite busy recently."

"If it goes by your standards, then you're probably not busy at all, right?" Qin Simeng said, unscrewing a bottle of mineral water and taking a sip, "Even if you complete this stage of your project, won't you still be busy immediately?" Throw in the next one.”

"..."

Wu Bin was speechless.

Seeing that Wu Bin didn't speak, Qin Simeng then asked: "By the way, do you think exercise will help you?"

"Not bad, I feel like I can concentrate better." Wu Bin nodded.

"Then I think it's worth your time. Didn't Lu Xun say that scientific research requires a strong body?"

"Okay, when I feel that I have reached a bottleneck in running, I will go to the gym to strengthen my training." As Wu Bin was about to drink more water, he heard his cell phone ringing.

He took it out of his pocket and saw that it was Li Yan calling.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Wu Bin asked while drinking water.

"Remember to come to the Student Union at 12 o'clock, it's a big event!" Li Yan's voice on the other end of the phone was slightly excited.

"A big thing? What big thing?" Wu Bin was a little confused.

"Anyway, you'll know when you get here. Remember, it's 12 o'clock."

"Mysterious..." Wu Bin muttered to himself and stuffed the phone back into his pocket.

"What's so mysterious?" Qin Simeng asked.

Wu Bin originally wanted to say it was nothing, but then he remembered that Qin Simeng was also a member of the student union, so he asked: "Is there anything big happening at noon of the student union today?"

"A big event?" Qin Simeng thought for a while, "The Guo Prize is not today. There seems to be no other big events. It was Li Yan who told you."

"Well, ask me to go to the student union at 12 o'clock."

"I'm also curious after what you said. How about you count me in at noon?"

"Okay." After saying that, Wu Bin stood up, "Let's go, run two more laps."

…

It was noon in a flash, and both Wu Bin and Qin Simeng arrived at the student union on time.

Just when Wu Bin was about to call Li Yan, he saw him walking out with a young man wearing glasses, pointing at himself and saying: "Well, I said he is the most punctual and has already arrived."

Wu Bin was confused at first, but the more he looked at the person next to Li Yan, the more familiar he looked. Finally, he opened his mouth in surprise and said: "You... you are... Senior Cao Yuan!?"

If you want to say which student of HKUST has been the most popular in the past two years, it is definitely Cao Yuan. This genius who was admitted to HKUST at the age of 14 published two articles in "Nature" about the strange behavior of atomically thick carbon sheets. paper.

The article is titled "Half-Filled Correlated Insulator Behavior in Graphene Superlattices at Magic Angle"

In fact, a few years ago Pablo Jarillo-Herrero's research team at MIT was trying to rotate the stack of carbon sheets to different angles.

Because according to theoretical predictions, this distortion will greatly change the behavior of graphene, but most physicists in the academic community are skeptical about this.

After joining the team, Cao Yuan was responsible for investigating what would happen if one layer of stacked double-layer graphene was rotated at a very small angle relative to the other layer.

In the end, with the addition of perseverance and talent, Cao Yuan successfully discovered that when a weak electric field is applied to graphene and it is cooled to 1.7 degrees above absolute zero, the originally conductive graphene will become an insulator.

Not only that, but even more shocking news is yet to come. He discovered that as long as the electric field is slightly adjusted, twisted double-layer graphene can become a superconductor, allowing electrons to flow with zero resistance.

Of course, as basic scientific research, this discovery is unlikely to bring any immediate changes to daily life, but it opens up a new field of physics.

Such a major discovery directly led to "Nature" ranking him as the top ten people in the natural sciences of the year. It can be said that he was in the limelight for a while.

"Hello, Junior Brother Wu Bin." Cao Yuan smiled and extended his hand to Wu Bin.

Wu Bin immediately stretched out his hand to shake his hand and said in surprise: "Aren't you supposed to be at MIT? How come..."

"The school asked me to be a guest speaker for the Guo Prize." Cao Yuan replied.

At this time, Li Yan on the side immediately added: "Senior Cao Yuan is the winner of the 10th-level Guo Award, so the school made such an invitation."

After hearing this, Cao Yuan smiled first and then said: "Actually, it was Professor Song who told me that you were the winner this time, so I wanted to take this opportunity to come back to China and talk to you. I have read your paper, and it is very impressive. .”

Wu Bin immediately shook his head: "Senior, you are so complimentary. My achievements are nothing compared to you."

"Haha, you're so humble. I didn't have the skills you had when I was a freshman."

"No, no, no, senior, you are still awesome. Both of your papers were very well written."

Seeing the two people bragging about each other crazily, Qin Simeng, who had followed, quietly walked up to Li Yan and whispered, "Did the school actually recruit this big shot back?"

"I think the school also wants to take this opportunity to let these two monsters get to know each other. Maybe some sparks of wisdom will emerge."

"It's well-intentioned..." After Qin Simeng finished speaking, he looked at Wu Bin who was chattering a little, and couldn't help but said to Li Yan: "Do you feel that Wu Bin finally found someone of the same kind on a strange planet?"

"Pfft..." Li Yan couldn't help laughing after hearing this, "It's a bit."

Then Li Yan took the two of them to an empty conference room and let them chat openly. After all, he knew that Cao Yuan came two days earlier than the award ceremony this time in order to talk more with Wu Bin, his junior brother.

"By the way, congratulations on your graduation." Cao Yuan said to Wu Bin after sitting down.

"Thank you, senior." Wu Bin nodded.

"I heard from Professor Song that you plan to stay at HKUST for graduate school?"

"Yes."

After hearing this, Cao Yuan nodded thoughtfully, "It's a rare idea, but sometimes you will see more interesting things in a different environment."

"Well, I understand that the more documents you read, the more you will understand where the scientific research center of the world is, but I also have my own ideas."

"Oh?" Cao Yuanyou stared in surprise, "Can you tell me about it?"

"Well, I can't say it clearly, but I will express it with actions."

Looking at Cao Yuan's unclear and serious eyes, Wu Bin was a little embarrassed. In fact, it wasn't something that he couldn't explain clearly. The main thing was that he couldn't directly say "because I was wrong", right?