"Hello, is this Qiao Yu from the Mathematics Research Center?"
"Ah, yes, it’s . May I ask who you are?"
"Oh, Qiao Yu, hello, I’m Liu Hao, a student of Professor Zhang and also the project leader for the new cobalt base catalyst project. The boss said that the research center recomnded you to help us correct the model. When are you available today?"
The efficiency of Director Tian was sothing Qiao Yu did not expect. The urgency from the other side was also unexpected for him.
"I’m available anyti, just based on your schedule."
"That’s great; we can do it now. I’m over here at the Basic Experint Building. Oh, have you been here before?"
"Actually, no I haven’t."
"No worries, where are you now?"
Qiao Yu instinctively turned his head to glance at the canteen he had just left, and said: "Nong Yuan."
"That’s great, we’re pretty close. Wait for a bit at the canteen entrance, I’ll co to pick you up, and I’ll be there in five minutes."
Without waiting for Qiao Yu to respond, the person on the other end hung up, as if every second counted.
This made Qiao Yu feel a bit dangerous, because for well-known reasons, Qiao Yu always felt it was best not to make friends with impulsive chemists...
Even if it’s just junior high chemistry experints, playing with potassium permanganate to produce oxygen, watching magnesium rods burn, or having encountered things like nitrobenzene, concentrated sulfuric acid, and rcuric Thiocyanate, you’d know that the most important qualities in chemistry are patience, ticulousness, care, and rigor!
You can never think the various operating manuals summarized by predecessors are troubleso...
Otherwise, people can easily end up gone.
You have to believe that the people who wrote the safety manuals are normal, so behind any outrageous rule, it often ans that even more outrageous incidents have indeed happened before. And surely, soone has paid a painful price.
Such hasty phone hang-ups and impulsive actions not only are dangerous in chemistry but being the person in charge makes Qiao Yu think it’s very risky.
Soon, a small yellow car stopped at the entrance of Nong Yuan. The person on the car, who wore glasses and looked about twenty-sothing, glanced around and then shifted his gaze away from Qiao Yu in less than 0.1 second. Then he took out his phone from his pocket to make a call.
Qiao Yu’s phone rang, but he didn’t answer. He just walked directly to the young brother still sitting on the small yellow car and waved his phone, saying: "Brother Liu Hao?"
"Huh? You’re Qiao Yu?"
"Yeah!" Qiao Yu nodded.
The brother across the way clearly fell into a crisis of disbelief and, after a while, said: "You shouldn’t be a graduate student, right?"
Qiao Yu thought for a mont and asked: "Haven’t you heard of ?"
Brother Liu shook his head blankly and replied: "Uh... sorry, I’ve been quite busy recently, and the workload is rather heavy. I’m either in the lab or in the office checking data with my project group classmates, so I’ve had little outside contact. So... not hearing about you should be normal, right?"
Qiao Yu happily nodded and said: "That’s good. I’m indeed not a graduate student. But because I like chemistry, when my ntor said you needed mathematical help, I volunteered. So Brother Liu, rest assured, any problems you have, just tell directly."
He was indeed very happy, as he was actually afraid that everyone who heard his na would recognize him.
It turns out Yanbei University is big enough. He thought he was a celebrity across the nation, but it turns out even at Yanbei University there are people who don’t know him, which is nice.
"I see. Have you done any related chemical modeling before? Like reaction kinetics modeling, molecular simulation modeling, thermodynamics modeling?" Liu Hao sized up Qiao Yu and asked, sowhat uneasy.
Qiao Yu shook his head and said: "Not yet, but I can learn quickly. Brother Liu, to be honest, I learn things really fast. And I have Professor Lu’s WeChat, so even if there’s sothing I don’t understand, I can ask him."
"Oh, are you Professor Lu’s student?"
"No, I’m Professor Tian’s student."
"Professor Tian from the International Mathematics Research Center?"
"Yes, I am."
Liu Hao fell into thought and after a mont, got out of the car and locked it.
"Then let’s just walk over. Hmm, let introduce the current situation to you. Uh... Qiao Yu, how old are you this year? Why are you Professor Tian’s student?"
"I’m sixteen this year. Uh, Brother, maybe you could just use your phone to go online? Baidu search my na to see? To save you from cursing in your mind."
"No, I didn’t curse, but are you really famous?"
"Just average I guess."
During the conversation, Liu Hao had already taken out his phone and started searching in front of Qiao Yu, putting down the phone after three minutes.
"Sixteen years old? Ann.Math? Really?" Liu Hao was stunned.
"It hasn’t been published yet. But Director Tian told the back-end shows it has been approved, but the journal still needs to arrange the layout. I guess it will be published next month. Brother, you know, foreign journals with a bit of reputation have a lot of rules, and it took three months for my paper to get published, we little people really can’t rush it!"
Liu Hao didn’t respond...
Of course he knew renowned foreign journals had many rules, but a top journal paper ’only’ taking three months to be published...
Liu Hao sincerely said: "Qiao Yu, although you are indeed impressive, when we get to the chemistry lab, please don’t speak like that. You know, those who have been in the lab for a long ti have less stable emotions, and they really can’t handle such stimulation."
Qiao Yu imdiately nodded vigorously and said: "Don’t worry, Brother Liu, I’m usually the most humble person. Just a paper, and unless soone asks, I never bring it up first, really. By the way, didn’t you say you wanted to introduce the situation at the lab earlier? What’s the problem exactly?"
"Phew..." Liu Hao took a deep breath and then began to speak: "We’re working on a catalyst study for the hydrogenation reaction of carbon dioxide and hydrogen to produce thanol. The current experintal conditions have three sets of temperatures: 300K, 400K, and 500K.
Currently, the reaction rates at 300K and 400K are quite stable, but the data at 500K fluctuates abnormally, and the fitting results are unstable. We tried several tis, and the rate constant variations were too large. So we hope you can help us optimize or redesign the model."
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