The large lecture hall of Anhe School of Materials can accommodate 300 people to listen to lectures at the same time. It is rarely used in normal times, but today it is open as an exception. Scientists and engineers from all over the world crowded the entire lecture hall, and some people could not be found.
Where I stood, I could only stay in the corridor, standing on tiptoes and looking into the lecture hall. When I stepped into the lecture hall, I could only hear English with various accents, including pure London accent and rough Virginia style.
It has a beautiful pronunciation, Japanese English with the flavor of salted fish from Tokyo Bay, and occasionally you can hear a few South Asian pronunciations of "Ingrishu".
This is the world's first graphene technology seminar. According to the organizer of the meeting, Anhe Institute of Materials Science, negotiations on cooperative development of graphene products will be held after the meeting. After being notified of the meeting, hundreds of universities and companies from all continents around the world have
The most capable people were dispatched and hurriedly rushed to Anhe Hongze, a little-known second-tier city in China. The reason was simply because so far, there was only one company that could produce finished graphene products, and no one else.
It was time for the meeting. Wang Xiaochen, who was forced to chair the meeting by Qin Hai, walked onto the podium with a red face, mustered up the courage to say in a clear voice to a room full of foreigners: "ladies_and_gentlemen, wele_to_hongzhe..."
Today's Wang Xiaochen is no longer the young and timid country girl worker she was when Qin Hai first met her. Since she was appointed as the assistant dean of the School of Materials a few years ago, her exposure to the world has become larger and larger, and she deals with people every day.
The top scholars in the country have gradually developed a calm and confident temperament. In order to fully communicate with the scholars and understand their needs, Wang Xiaochen always finds ways to take time to attend lectures with students, and sometimes even participates in lectures.
In the internal seminars of various laboratories, he can now be regarded as a half-baked materials science enthusiast.
With the increasing international influence of the School of Materials Science and the increasing number of foreign exchanges, Wang Xiaochen, with the encouragement of her husband Song Hongxuan, began to learn English by herself. Now she has no big problem in dealing with ordinary foreign affairs. However, hosting such an international academic conference,
It's the first time for her.
"There are people from so many countries here, what if I mess up?" When Qin Hai gave her this task, Wang Xiaochen suddenly returned to the way she was at Qingfeng Factory, waving her hands desperately to dodge.
With.
"How could you mess up the pot?" Qin Hai said with a smile, "In the School of Materials Science, you have also hosted a staff meeting with thousands of people. This time there are only a few hundred people. What are you afraid of?"
"But, the people here are all famous international scholars. If I say something wrong, people will laugh at me." Wang Xiaochen said.
"Who dares?" Qin Hai stared and said, "They don't even think about how many people are crying and wanting to cooperate with the School of Materials, but we haven't agreed. Being able to let these people come to the meeting is enough to give them face.
, If any of them dares to laugh at you, you should immediately ask the security guards to kick them out, put their names on the blacklist of the Institute of Materials Science, and never cooperate."
"Mr. Qin, you are teasing me again!" Wang Xiaochen said angrily. Of course she knew what Qin Hai said was a joke, but the joke was not unfounded. This meeting was indeed the home of the School of Materials. She dared to talk to
She, the assistant to the dean, is definitely out of her mind because she can't get through it.
"Can you let Dean Long preside over it? Or, let Professor Li preside over it." Wang Xiaochen was still making his last efforts, hoping to let Long Changsheng or Li Linguang replace him.
Qin Hai shook his head decisively and said: "No, they are all old. In the future, such things will inevitably fall on your shoulders. This is an opportunity to practice, and you must show up."
"Then...you have to help me in the audience, okay?" Wang Xiaochen knew that she couldn't defeat Qin Hai, so she could only do the next best thing and beg Qin Hai to escort her. Over the years, Wang Xiaochen was the person she admired the most.
It's Qin Hai. If Qin Hai is sitting in the audience, her courage will increase by three points.
"No problem, I will be there for the whole process." Qin Hai readily agreed.
Qin Hai would naturally attend such an important meeting in person. According to his original plan, he should be the one to preside over the meeting instead of Wang Xiaochen. The suggestion to let Wang Xiaochen preside over the meeting was made by several old people from the School of Materials, namely Fu
Wen Bin, Long Changsheng, Li Linguang and others proposed it. They watched Wang Xiaochen grow up gradually, and also intended to transfer the responsibility of the School of Materials to Wang Xiaochen, so they urged Wang Xiaochen to be the host of the meeting.
After accepting this task, Wang Xiaochen started to get busy. She first had to ask Nie Sen about the specific situation of the meeting to determine what she should say and how to say it. Then, she wrote a detailed speech, first asking Song Hongxuan
I helped her polish the content, and then asked the English teacher at the college to help translate it into English. In order to ensure that her pronunciation would not go wrong, she rehearsed it many times, and was finally identified by the English teacher as being able to work as a student at the BBC.
Now that I'm the announcer, I feel more at ease.
Facts have proved that letting Wang Xiaochen be the host is indeed a good choice. Among the scholars who came to participate in the conference this time, most were men. Even if there were some women, most of them were middle-aged and mature women, and they were somewhat dull. Wang Xiaochen just
She is in her early 30s and has the charm of a young woman. As soon as she stood on the podium, she immediately attracted everyone's attention, adding a bright color to such a serious meeting.
"I am very happy to meet colleagues from all over the world here. I also welcome everyone to participate in the graphene project cooperation of Anhe School of Materials. Now, let me first invite Professor Nie Sen, the discoverer of graphene, to give a special introduction to you." Wang Xiaochen
She calmed down, finished her opening remarks in a calm tone, and handed the stage to Nie Sen. When she walked off the stage and sat next to Qin Hai, she felt that her back was soaked with sweat.
"It's a good talk, very elegant." Qin Hai raised his thumb to Wang Xiaochen and praised in a low voice.
"I'm so nervous..." Wang Xiaochen said with a smile on her face. In fact, she was quite satisfied with her performance just now, and her self-confidence was on the rise.
"It will be good if you practice more." Qin Hai said, "Next time we go to New York to hold a press conference, we will let you host it."
"Then I have to wait until I practice my English again." Wang Xiaochen replied seriously.
The scholars in the room did not notice the exchange between Wang Xiaochen and Qin Hai. Their attention was all attracted by Nie Sen on the podium.
After publishing a short report paper in Science, Nie Sen then published a 40-page long paper in the "Nano Materials" magazine, which systematically introduced various aspects of graphene's properties.
All the scholars attending the meeting today have read this article through and conducted in-depth research on some of the contents of the article. Even so, Nie Sen's report at this time still brought countless shocks to them.
"We used first principles to conduct surface penetration treatment on graphene with aluminum, cobalt, nickel and other metal elements. The following pictures are the energy band structure diagrams of the interface structures between graphene and various metals...
"
As Nie Sen spoke, he typed huge schematic diagrams and electron microscope photos on the projection screen. The scholars sitting below were frantically taking notes with their notebooks, and some were holding expensive cameras, clicking.
Taking these precious pictures.
Nie Sen's description seems to be very detailed, but in fact there are still some trade-offs. The Anhe Institute of Materials Science and Technology has established several research groups and selected several most valuable and promising breakthrough directions for research. For these directions,
Nie Sen consciously avoided the relevant content. The scholars present could not hear this avoidance. After all, a new material has just been discovered, and it is normal for its performance to not receive attention. Who would have expected Nie
How could Sen be so sinister?
Nie Sen spoke for a full hour and a half, and then it was time for the audience to ask questions as usual. Everyone rushed to raise their hands, so that Nie Sen didn't know who to let speak first. By this time, Wang Xiaochen no longer knew what to do.
, Qin Hai had no choice but to go to the stage in person to relieve the siege.
"Everyone, I can see that everyone is very interested in Professor Nie's speech, and they also have many valuable ideas that they hope to exchange with Professor Nie. However, after a quick look, there are 70 or 80 friends who raised their hands to ask to speak.
Everyone, if everyone talks for two minutes, we will delay lunch. I wonder if we can do this, everyone puts their own questions aside, and we will arrange four special sessions in the next three days to allow everyone to fully
discuss.
Some of your questions may only need Professor Nie’s assistant to answer them, so we don’t have to bother Professor Nie to answer them in person. If we really need to communicate with Professor Nie himself, we can coordinate the time. What do you think?” Qin
Hai smiled and made arrangements for everyone.
"Very good, I think this is more appropriate!" Someone responded loudly. In fact, people who understand a little bit can also see that now is not the time for communication at all, and some people are really talking too much.
"In order to give everyone some basic understanding of the characteristics of graphene, we have prepared 100 graphene samples, each containing one gram of graphene, and each institution is limited to purchasing one. We have also freed up 20 laboratories for convenience
Everyone is doing some basic experiments here, but for the sake of fairness, everyone needs to be charged a small laboratory occupancy fee. Friends who need it in this regard can register with Ms. Wang!" Qin Hai said, pointing his finger.
Wang Xiaochen sitting in the audience.
Before she finished speaking, Wang Xiaochen felt a buzzing in her ears, and countless people suddenly appeared in front of her, shouting loudly: