Research starts with PhD students

Chapter 325: Super-sized golden diamond, extremely beautiful! Zhang Shuo: Professor Zhu has such an excellent character!

Zhu Gui submitted the experimental plan, folded his hands behind his head, half-lay on the chair and breathed a sigh of relief.

"This has nothing to do with me now."

"These were all Academician Zhang's ideas. We just helped him do the experiments."

If he participated in the experiment, it might give his superiors the impression that he was not doing his job properly, because the experiment was just like fun.

Their research is to measure the periodic gravitational barriers. Carbon is also included in the established experimental plan, but it is only one part of the measurement and does not require targeted in-depth research.

Using graphite to make diamonds?
If it is an ongoing research, it is understandable to start a special project, but if the experiment is only done once, it is just for fun.

Zhu Gui still cares a lot about his superiors' opinions. He doesn't want to leave a bad impression on them, otherwise he won't be able to do good research in the future.

Now, in the experimental plan, there is no problem at all to separate 'Zhang Shuo's experiment' from their experiment.

Of course we have to cooperate with the research proposed by Zhang Shuo.

Your superiors will definitely understand.

In the eyes of his superiors, Zhang Shuo’s research is not for fun, but for the sake of research. Success or failure is secondary, but they have no problem cooperating with Zhang Shuo in doing experiments.

When Zhang Shuo made a request, which project team would refuse?

……

The experiment officially began the next day.

Zhang Shuo woke up and had breakfast, then was depressed and taken to a special car ten kilometers away. Fortunately, the transportation nearby was very good and it only took twenty minutes to get there.

Even when he joined a brand new project team, his superiors did not allow him to participate in experiments, because experiments in new physics directions were all unimplemented explorations and always involved a slight risk.

If there is a risk, you cannot participate.

Zhang Shuo could only shake his head and sigh. He was still very much looking forward to the experiment because the mission had been accomplished. As long as there were no problems with the experimental steps, diamonds would be able to be produced.

But specifically, it is uncertain what form the manufactured diamonds will take.

“I hope it can be built better and more beautiful.”

"When the time comes, I'll find a professional laboratory to help polish it, and then I'll bring it back to Yueyue..."

"She will definitely be surprised."

Zhang Shuo thought about it and realized that he had never given Li Liu Shuangyue anything. When they got married, he gave her some basic jewelry, and nothing else.

There are never any surprises in normal times, mainly because I am too busy with work and don’t have the time to think about these things.

Now that I have the chance, it would be nice to give it as a gift.

This is an experiment I designed myself. It can also be regarded as something I made myself. Compared with a purchased gift, it has a different meaning.

Research base.

Zhu Gui, wearing a protective suit, stood outside the guardrail and looked at the "door" in the distance.

It was an invisible door.

Although you can't see it with your eyes, it's obvious that there's something when the machine pushes the prepared materials into the door.

Some materials reacted directly when they entered the door, and smoke came out.

Some materials did not release smoke, but made strange sounds, like the friction of metal, or strange crawling sounds.

According to the established plan, materials were pushed into the door one by one.

Soon, fifteen minutes passed.

In order to ensure stable operation of the equipment and for safety reasons, the equipment should not be turned on for more than half an hour at a time. After it is shut down, various tests must be carried out.

The next experiment can only be carried out after all tests are passed.

This is mainly because during the experiment, the values ​​of pipeline magnetic field, particle acceleration, temperature and pressure are too high, which may cause damage to the internal materials of the equipment.

During the experiment, a component burned out more than once.

Half an hour is already very long.

Zhu Gui picked up the experimental plan at hand and looked at the computer next to him. He checked them one by one and found that they had all been completed.

He hesitated and asked the others, "Is it finished? Why do I feel like something is missing?"

"That box!"

"Academician Zhang!"

Others immediately reminded.

Zhu Gui suddenly realized what was going on and remembered that there was a special alloy box. He looked at the experiment and quickly instructed, "Hurry up and use the machine to push the box over."

There was no one operating in the experimental site.

Because of concerns about radiation and even explosions, they use computer-operated robots to transport materials.

The staff nearby immediately operated the robot to move the alloy box to the 'door', and then another robot slowly pushed the box into the door from behind.

Zhu Gui held a document and directed, "Slow down a bit. Academician Zhang requires that the overall time should be more than five minutes."

"Don't go too fast, just give yourself enough time, 6 minutes is fine."

"It will be fine in a moment."

This process is still very time-consuming.

They had just completed experiments on more than thirty other materials in less than twenty minutes, and now each experiment took about seven minutes.

When the box was completely inside the 'door', Zhu Gui quickly announced the end of the experiment and had the equipment shut down.

If it lasts any longer, it could be dangerous.

After the experiment, everyone became busy. The biggest task was to conduct various tests on the materials inside the door.

The first thing to do is to detect radiation and other aspects, to prevent the materials passing through the door from being harmful to the human body.

The next step is to transport the materials to a specialized testing center.

Zhu Gui also worked for a while. He noticed the alloy box and asked someone to move the box to a corner. He said, "Don't open this box. Wait until Academician Zhang Shuo comes back."

"Let's go to the meeting to summarize first."

……

Twenty minutes later, Zhang Shuo returned to the experimental base.

There were not many people in the laboratory. Most of the researchers followed Zhu Gui to a meeting. Only a few engineers and other personnel were left, who were cleaning the laboratory or checking the condition of the equipment.

Zhang Shuo asked about the box and immediately asked someone to help open it.

An engineer named He Bin brought a small metal cutting machine to help.

After carefully inspecting the box, He Bin frowned and said, "The alloy material of this box is very hard. Normally, it cannot be cut, but the alloy seems to be fatigued."

"Let me try?"

He Bin gestured with the metal cutting machine and looked at Zhang Shuo inquiringly.

Zhang Shuo nodded and said, "Let's try cutting it."

He Bin turned on the cutting machine, and a lot of sparks came out from the contact point. When he picked it up, he saw a cut.

"I can cut it!"

Zhang Shuo immediately laughed and said, "Just cut it like this, little by little, but be careful not to damage the things inside."

"it is good!"

He Bin found a machine and fixed the alloy completely on the ground, then he started to work on it.

Zhu Gui's meeting didn't last long. They just summarized the problems in the experiment. The specific work still had to wait for the results of material testing.

After the meeting, he knew that Zhang Shuo had returned and took people to the laboratory.

When he arrived, he saw a large group of people surrounding a box, and there were very harsh noises coming from inside.

"Opening the box?" Zhu Gui walked over and asked.

Someone immediately laughed and said, "It feels like opening a treasure chest. It's very interesting. There must be something safe inside."

"He Bin is busy, but it's not easy. He needs to make a small hole in each position of the upper lid, and then lift the lid up."

Zhu Gui asked in confusion, "Just open one side, right? Then just pry it open. The box is useless anyway."

"No."

Zhang Shuo suddenly said, "The things inside might be damaged."

Zhu Gui pursed his lips indifferently and muttered softly, "Is it necessary?"

There is a pile of graphite blocks inside. After passing through the gravitational barrier, they will most likely turn into a pile of powder.

Damaged? There's a lot of powder, so it's okay to touch it physically, right?

"But from this perspective, studying the changes in strongly squeezed graphite passing through a gravitational barrier seems to be an experiment as well?"

Zhu Gui was also waiting nearby.

A large group of people watching made He Bin more motivated to work. He opened dozens of small gaps around the cover of the box before he finally felt it was almost done.

He put down the cutting machine, picked up the pry prepared nearby, and lifted the lid up little by little along the small gap.

A little bit, and a little bit more.

After all the gaps were pried upwards a little, and then a little force was applied on the one in the middle, the entire upper cover was lifted off.

"Clap!"

The lid fell to the ground with a sound.

Everyone's eyes were fixed on the box, and they all took a deep breath at the same time, "Hiss..."

"what?"

Before He Bin could react, he turned his head to look at the box, his eyes suddenly froze and he made the same sound.

The box did not contain the expected black powder, but transparent and shiny crystals, which flashed a yellow light under the light.

"……what's the situation!"

"What is this? Glass? It doesn't seem to be completely transparent?"

"Could it be... diamonds?"

"Square diamond?"

"Elemental carbon, it can only be diamond, right? It seems to have a bit of black on the edge, look inside..."

A lot of heads gathered around.

Only one lid of the alloy box was opened, so it was difficult to see clearly inside.

Someone found a flashlight and shone it inside for a long time, confirming that there were some regular crystals. "It must be diamonds!"

"confirmed!"

"It looks like there are two large pieces, maybe big diamonds!"

Zhu Gui was also a little excited. He immediately instructed, "He Bin, cut the sides as well and open it up to have a look."

"Xiao Li, you help too!"

He Bin and Xiao Li both held cutters, one side each, and spent half an hour cutting the box, opening the front and back sides.

The other noodles can be broken apart directly.

The contents inside finally appeared in everyone's sight. It was indeed a transparent and bright crystal, but it was not completely transparent. Most of it had a yellow tint.

There is a little black on the surface of the crystal, but it only affects the surface, and the inside is completely yellow and transparent.

When using strong light, it can be clearly seen that there are several regular crystals of different sizes inside, and based on the laws of physics, it can be determined that the crystals are diamonds.

"Knock it open and see!"

At this time, Zhang Shuo said, "Slowly, knock it open bit by bit, don't damage the things inside."

"I come!"

An engineer took a small wooden hammer and tried to knock on the surface of the crystal a few times. In fact, the crystal itself is not very tough. Some parts are very hard, but some parts are very brittle. They will break into pieces with just one hard knock.

After many places were broken, you could clearly see what was inside.

Simply put, a large collection of yellow diamonds in various regular patterns.

"Golden diamond!"

"So many... all gold and diamonds! I'm rich, I'm rich!"

"What gold diamond?"

"You don't know this? Gold diamonds are a type of colored diamonds. Any diamond that is pure yellow or golden in color is called a gold diamond!"

"Look at these, they are all yellow or golden."

"And the two big ones..."

Many people were eyeing the two huge diamonds.

At this time, some people came specifically to do tests because they were worried about possible radiation problems.

After the inspection was completed and safety was confirmed, Zhang Shuo simply took action. He took off his coat, pocketed the two diamonds, and then placed them on the table to admire them.

Both large diamonds are irregular dodecahedron-shaped.

One is over seven centimeters in diameter and golden in color, while the other is about five centimeters in diameter and slightly lighter in color.

Xue Baikun came over and sat beside Zhang Shuo to admire it. He was also very excited. "Is this a diamond? A gold diamond!"

"This big one is probably over a thousand carats."

Zhu Gui came over with a pile of diamonds.

Those were much smaller diamonds, but there were some larger ones, more than a centimeter in diameter, so it was a good harvest.

He put the diamond aside and looked at the two big diamonds. He exclaimed with admiration, "Such big gold diamonds are so beautiful!"

"It really was created, Academician Zhang..."

Zhang Shuo raised his head.

Zhu Gui raised his thumb very vigorously, but his facial expression was very complicated.

He kind of wanted to slap himself in the mouth.

In fact, when he was sure there was a diamond inside, he had already pulled it hard.

Mass production of diamonds!

Although the technology to artificially manufacture diamonds is already available, the manufacturing cost and quality of diamonds are still a problem. The vast majority of diamonds manufactured are broken diamonds, which require a high cost.

Now it can be produced quickly in large quantities using only electricity, and the quality of the diamonds is astonishingly high, even in the first experiment.

The industrial value of diamonds is not as high as that of gold, but the ability to directly manufacture them in large quantities and with high quality also represents huge economic benefits.

This kind of technology is amazing when it is spoken of anyhow. If it is the research of their team, they can brag about it for the rest of their lives.

By then, becoming an academician wouldn’t be a piece of cake, right?
In the future, I will have money, fame, and bragging rights...

Zhu Gui was very excited at the thought, because in the experimental plan he wrote for his superiors, he clearly separated the "diamond making" experiment from their research.

Everything was Zhang Shuo's idea, and they were just assisting in the experiment.

In other words, it can be understood that Zhang Shuo completed the research by borrowing their equipment, and their team only provided the equipment at most.

It's like doing a very valuable calculation, borrowed from 'the supercomputer at such and such a center'.

The latter is just using the title of "borrowing", and the research naturally cannot be attributed to the latter.

"Hey~~~"

Zhu Gui sighed, feeling like he had missed out on five million.

No, five million is too serious, it should be at least one billion!
Zhu Gui thought about it and slapped himself again, "Pa!"

"what?"

Zhang Shuo didn't know Zhu Gui's mood, so he quickly reminded him, "Professor Zhu, don't worry, this is not a dream, we really made diamonds."

“Look!”

Zhu Gui took a look and said bitterly, "You made it. It has nothing to do with us. You just used our equipment."

"We are together, so there is no need to do this." Zhang Shuo didn't mind sharing the results.

Zhu Gui reluctantly emphasized again, "You built it. It has nothing to do with us. Our team does not take any credit for the results..."

Zhang Shuo felt a little strange, and he immediately asked, "Professor Zhu, what you said before still counts, right? Can I pick a few to take away?"

"Of course, take it. We can build more."

Zhu Gui didn't care about this.

The equipment is here and the technology is already there. Can't we produce as many diamonds as we want?
However, if it were anyone else, they would definitely not be able to take it away. But it is different for Zhang Shuo. He is the one who researched the technology, so if he took away a few diamonds, the senior teachers would not say anything.

"That's fine."

Zhang Shuo let out a sigh of relief, and thought to himself that Professor Zhu was such an honest man.

With such a huge achievement, he didn't even try to take credit for it and firmly emphasized that it had nothing to do with his team. He is such an upright person with such excellent character!
(End of this chapter)