Zhou Xiangnan rubbed his messy hair and found the preprinted version of the paper on GTRGD materials on arxiv. After reading it quickly, he clicked into the lively message area.
Frankly speaking, as far as the text is concerned, as he wrote under the top-rated question on Zhihu, his feeling is still...
I couldn't understand it and was greatly shocked.
What he couldn't understand was not the previous experimental report, but the theoretical explanation at the back.
The long paragraph that follows is all speculative explanation, without the rigor that a nature journal should have. It can be said that it is completely conjecture - but this is actually published, and it is also related to another paper in the medical field.
Published simultaneously back to back!
However... when he looked through the comments on the preprinted version and found that the first person to reappear was Professor Ezio, Zhou Xiangnan was suddenly startled, and a strange expression appeared on his face.
"Damn, that's so sloppy."
Materials science is an experimental science and can be proven.
The reason why Professor Ezio is able to kill everyone on the arxiv website and is known as a face-slapping expert is because he possesses the most valuable talent of an experimental physicist - he can always meet the most precise conditions and achieve ultra-high reproducibility
to repeat the experiment.
And he is also very serious. If you dare to tell me which brand is responsible for the problems with materials, reagents, etc. that do not match the results, he can really find the exact same experimental materials. If you still have excuses, he
You can even fly to your laboratory, watch you do experiments in person, and let you reproduce it yourself.
If a well-known professor has made such a serious statement, then if you can't do it, naturally it's not the problem of the paper, but the problem of the reproducer himself.
Thinking of what Professor Ezio told him before hanging up the phone, he suddenly regretted not coming to arxiv earlier to take a look.
With the expression on his face constantly changing, Zhou Xiangnan clicked into Zhihu.
His answer is still at the top of the list, and it is also ranked highest.
As a serious Dr. V with 150,000 fans, this data is very consistent with his identity.
In hesitation, he clicked on the comment.
Then he saw the latest message - "Excuse me, during the repeated experiments, did the number of electrodes or array methods strictly follow the requirements? Did you modify the frequency on your own initiative?"
He was slightly shocked!
I immediately thought that when I reappeared, I really didn’t pay much attention to the electrodes. In addition, he could guarantee accuracy regardless of the solution or the data.
After all, he subconsciously thought that this was an electrocatalysis experiment.
After thinking about it, he clicked on the account that left the message and saw that it was a small transparent account. The latest update was an ACM teammate who answered the same question and claimed to be the genius undergraduate student from the province...
After a few seconds of silence, he frowned and chose to edit the answer.
"Just for verification, I had a phone call with a Nature peer reviewer. Sorry, my conclusion that I failed to reproduce the success was a bit hasty. I will do another experiment."
"Then let the bullet fly for a while."
…
On the second floor of the small cafeteria, Qi Yumo stared, looking at Doireann's revised answer, a smile finally appeared on her eyebrows.
"This looks much more pleasing to the eye than the weird one just now." Qi Yumo said with emotion: "It seems that the respondent of this big V is also a big shot, and he can actually contact the peer reviewers directly."
Ye Ming blinked: "Well, as a Harvard Ph.D., maybe his mentor is a peer reviewer."
"That makes sense!" Qi Yumo gave the answer a thumbs up.
Ye Ming chuckled.
Although he is not a member of Zhihu, this trick of showing off... is still very familiar to him.
After laughing, he quickly sent an email back to Professor Ezio, asking politely if he had any plans to come to the country.
Then, he received another call from Professor Pan.
On the phone, although he felt that Old Tang was making a bit of a fuss... he still followed Old Tang's instructions and said that he would not be able to leave for the next two days, but he promised to be available online at any time.
So Professor Pan asked him to find a place in half an hour and take him to have a video group meeting.
Just like that, Professor Ezio also responded to the email, saying that he had an idea, but he couldn't bear it if he had to be quarantined. He also told Ye Ming that he was working on that damn WeChat... and asked Ye Ming to tell him
WeChat account.
This made Ye Ming extremely happy.
"You are so busy..." Qi and Mo kept watching Ye Ming answer the phone and reply to emails, and couldn't help but said quietly: "Professor is not as busy as you."
"And he's so busy that he's not even doing business." Ye Ming was convinced. He grabbed his phone and took a look, then looked at the small cafeteria where there were gradually more people: "Even the video here is unrealistic, I have to go back to the laboratory."
"Well, go ahead. I'll check Zhihu again and help you fight people!"
"Haha, then tell me the results tomorrow!"
…
That night, Ye Ming and a group of people from Professor Pan's laboratory had a video discussion until after 10 o'clock, but they still didn't come up with a solution - this is normal. Professor Pan's team is a top team in both theory and practice.
, they failed to do it for several days, and it was purely a matter of luck to catch Ye Ming.
There is no reason why Ye Ming should solve the problem immediately as soon as he joins the discussion, even if he is the designer of the device.
But one good thing is that Professor Pan never doubted that there was a problem with Ye Ming's design from beginning to end - even when his colleagues tentatively asked Ye Ming if there was any wrong data.
When I returned to the dormitory, it was almost eleven o'clock.
None of the roommates slept or played on the computer. All three of them were huddled in bed with their cellphones in their hands, including Peng Xiaofei, the team leader who worked hard to improve himself.
Seeing Ye Ming come in, Peng Xiaofei raised his phone at him: "Watch the Zhihu live broadcast."
"What are you doing? Is there a beautiful girl giving you benefits?"
Ye Ming smiled as he took off his shoes. He knew that these guys in the dormitory would go around the world looking for things inappropriate for children during certain periods of time when their hormones are at their strongest.
But as soon as he finished speaking, he knew it wasn't the case.
Because Peng Xiaofei pulled off the headphones.
A tired man's voice came from the phone. Hmm... it sounded a little weak.
"There are still ten minutes left before the last step of the experiment can be carried out. I am too tired today and it is time to take a rest."
"Forget it, let me take this opportunity to answer a few of your questions. Let me see..."
"Someone asked what the principle of the experiment is...well, actually I don't know what the principle is, otherwise how could it be said to be a subversive and groundbreaking experiment?"
"Will it be successful? I don't know, everything is unknown."
Ye Ming was completely confused: "What are you looking at?"
The speaker was Zhou Xiaochun, who also held up his mobile phone and shouted at Ye Ming.
"We are all watching Zhihu scientists' online experiments, and we are slapping you in the face."