The top student must be diligent.

Chapter 187 Global Publishing
Tsinghua University, School of Materials, in an office.
The two old professors sat together, sipping tea and chatting.

One of the professors, Wen Yuan, suddenly asked, "Lao Liang, how is your laboratory's research going recently? I remember you were working on condensed matter?"

Professor Liang Heping, who was called Lao Liang, nodded and said, "Yes, to be specific, it is the synthesis of superconducting materials. Since Xiao Yi's high-temperature superconductivity mechanism came out a few months ago, a lot of laboratories around the world are now studying this."

Liang Heping shook his head and said with emotion: "If you calculate carefully, in just eight months, those laboratories have already developed four new superconducting materials."

"Four types? So many!" Wen Yuan was quite surprised and asked, "Is there any that is more useful?"

"Not yet." Liang Heping waved his hand. "It's not easy to research useful materials. Now, if one out of ten materials synthesized in laboratories around the world is useful, it's considered a great mercy from God, not to mention high-temperature superconductors."

He shook his head. “As of now, although these newly synthesized high-temperature superconductor materials have better properties than YBCO in some aspects, considering the first-mover advantage of YBCO, its synthesis method has been iterated a lot, so these new high-temperature superconductors do not have much advantage at all. It is estimated that they will have to stay in the laboratory for a long time.”

Wen Yuan nodded slightly: "That's true. Yttrium barium copper oxide is a material from more than 30 years ago. God knows how many years it will take for these new materials to be used on a large scale."

Liang Heping smiled and said, "Instead of waiting for these materials to leave the laboratory, we should hope that better materials will be discovered."

Wen Yuan smiled and said, "Maybe your laboratory can find it?"

"Well, don't mention this kind of thing. I feel a headache when I think about the students in my laboratory."

Liang Heping waved his hand and sighed.
"Oh? What's wrong?" Wen Yuan asked with a little curiosity.

"It's not about the experiment." Liang Heping shook his head and said, "These students nowadays can't do experiments or analysis. They are our Qinghua students. Sigh, they are usually very busy. I don't know where they are busy."

Wen Yuan laughed and said, "That's really something we can't help. Experiments are indeed quite troublesome for those students. Forget about experiments. They learned a lot during their undergraduate studies and can be taught almost everything. But if experimental analysis were so easy to understand, I wonder how many talented people would emerge in China."

Liang Heping shook his head helplessly: "There's nothing I can do. I don't even know how to teach this kind of thing. There aren't any good teaching materials. I just rely on experience."

"Indeed, if you want to gain experience, you have to do experiments, and doing experiments requires funding." Wen Yuan also sighed: "It's difficult!"

For a moment, both professors began to worry about the young man's scientific research path.

But at this moment, a voice suddenly sounded: "Maybe you can recommend this textbook to them?"

The two professors were startled and looked up at the person who came.

"Professor Lan, what did you say?"

"Hey, let me show you a treasure."

Professor Lan chuckled, walked forward, and took out... a book from his pocket!

"Look, this textbook."

Professor Liang and Professor Wen took a look at the cover of the book and were both stunned.

"Principles of Experimental Analysis? What kind of book is this? Why haven't I heard of it before?"

"Could it be the new textbooks? Professor Lan, are you sure? Among the new textbooks nowadays, how many are really useful? Aren't they all based on building good relationships with major universities and getting students to buy them?"

Professor Liang and Professor Wen both shook their heads and did not have any expectations for this textbook.

They are very clear about the ins and outs of textbooks. If there are some recognized good textbooks, then the school may use these good textbooks. But for other subjects, they will use some textbooks that cannot be found on the Internet, or they may be directly written by teachers in the school.

These are all considered a form of income for these teachers.

After hearing what the two professors said, Professor Lan smiled and said, "Don't worry, let's see who is the editor-in-chief of this book."

"Editor-in-chief?" Liang Heping and Wen Yuan were puzzled. Could he be a very famous person?
Then they looked at the editor-in-chief's name on the cover and were stunned again.

"Xiao Yi?"

They immediately saw the bottom of the book cover.

【China University of Science and Technology Press】

In this way, it is basically confirmed that this Xiao Yi is that Xiao Yi.

Well, this is indeed a famous person.

"Xiao Yi has also started writing textbooks?"

"He still has this idea?"

Both of them immediately became interested and started flipping through the book.

They were all very curious about what the teaching materials written by Xiao Yi would look like.

Soon, they turned to the first part.

Part I: Image analysis.

This part mainly focuses on how to directly analyze various microscopic images and find some key information from pictures that seem to have no information at all.

For example, in optical microscope images, bright-field microscopy can observe the macroscopic structure and defects on the surface of materials, while dark-field microscopy can observe tiny structures and particles by enhancing contrast.

Another example is the scanning electron microscope (SEM), which can provide high-resolution surface morphology images and observe nanoscale structures and morphologies, or the transmission electron microscope (TEM), which can observe the internal structure of materials through electron transmission and is suitable for studying crystal structures, interfaces and defects.

In addition, there are many more types of images, such as scanning electron tunneling microscopy STM, or X-ray diffraction XRD images, etc.

In summary, the content of this section mainly introduces how to get rid of various data, observe and analyze directly from the images, and find key problems.

The more they looked, the more surprised Professor Yang and Professor Wen were.

The content of this part was completely beyond their imagination. Some of the analysis methods provided by Xiao Yi even brought considerable inspiration to these two veteran scholars who had been researching materials for many years.

"It's really... hard to believe. Can we get so much information just from these images?"

"How did Xiao Yi come up with this idea? Could this be the reason why he was able to study the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity?"

"He has ... provided a method to directly see the data from the image."

"..."

The more the two professors read, the more they were amazed at the wonderful content of this first part, especially its subversive approach to traditional analytical methods.

Generally speaking, materials science analysis focuses more on data, and does not pay much attention to direct image analysis. Images can only be used as auxiliary analysis and cannot directly help with the results.

But now, Xiao Yi's method has directly raised the status of image analysis to several levels, allowing them to see a lot of easily overlooked information from the images.

They had no idea how Xiao Yi discovered these things.

Of course, they really couldn't have imagined it, because these were the various experiences Xiao Yi gained by relying on his mastery of materials and by directly seeing the microscopic world. He then summarized these experiences and wrote them all into this first part.

In this way, even if other people cannot see the microscopic world as intuitively as he does, they can still see something from those images.

Even if you can only see a little information, it is already quite useful.

For a moment, Professor Liang and Professor Wen were extremely excited and wanted to go to the laboratory to try it out immediately.

However, they could not move their feet for the time being, so they immediately opened the second part. This part entered the field they were familiar with, that is, data analysis. This part mainly focused on those detailed data, but did not include various charts, frequency spectra, etc., which would be included later. They patiently read the contents of this second part, and soon, their eyes lit up again.

Although the content of Part 2 is not as innovative as Part 1, Xiao Yi has demonstrated many unique analysis perspectives and methods.

It also includes some statistical methods that they have never seen before, which can easily process something different from the data, such as some completely different rules, or some particularly prominent signals.
In particular, Xiao Yi also gave a very detailed explanation of these steps, which can be understood by anyone with a little professional knowledge.

For a moment, Liang Heping and Wen Yuan's eyes became more and more eager.

In their eyes, this textbook has become a shining treasure.

This book is totally worth studying not only as a textbook for students, but also for professors like them.

Until the end, Liang Heping couldn't help but look up, looked at Professor Lan, and asked: "How did you know about this textbook? When was it published?"

"Just in the past few days." Professor Lan said with a smile: "I happened to be on a business trip to HKUST last week, and they gave me this book and asked me to read it. Who would have thought that it was written so well."

"Is that so? Can we buy it now?" Liang Heping asked.

"Hmm... I think it should be available now. I'm not sure. You can contact the publishing house of HKUST. But it seems that they are planning to promote it in their school first to see the effect. They don't plan to sell it to the public for the time being."

"How can this be possible!" Liang Heping slammed the table and said, "Why are they still thinking of keeping it to themselves? Shouldn't such a good thing be shared with everyone? How many students and laboratories can this help?"

"Indeed." Wen Yuan nodded in approval.

"Well, Lao Lan, just leave your book here with me for now. I will go to see our dean in a couple of days, and then contact USTC to have them sell it." Liang Heping said as he was about to stuff the book into his desk.

Professor Lan glared at him and said, "Oh, no, if you want to find the dean, just go find the dean. Why are you taking my book?"

"What do you mean by I take your book? Look at what you said. I will take a look at it first, and then prove to the dean what is good about this book! Lao Wen, don't you agree?" Liang Heping explained seriously.

Wen Yuan then said, "I think it would be better to let me take care of it. I will go to the dean and say, Professor Liang, aren't your lab projects still very busy? You might as well go and work on your project."

As he said this, he reached out to take the book that Liang Heping had already stuffed into the drawer.

Professor Lan couldn't bear it. He could tell at a glance that the two men simply wanted the book, so he reached out and grabbed it. "I say, you two, take it. Don't worry about it. I'll tell the dean about this."

And so the three professors began to argue about the book.

In the end, because they made too much noise, their dean Lin Guowu came.

"Hey, hey, hey? Professor Liang, Professor Wen, and Professor Lan, what are you fighting over?"

After stopping the three of them, Lin Guowu asked the reason.

Professor Lan held the book in his arms, pointed at Liang Heping and Wen Yuan excitedly, and became indignant.

“…I shouldn’t have given them this book.”

After listening to this, Lin Guowu couldn't help but ask curiously: "What book is this? Let me take a look."

Professor Lan glanced at Lin Guowu hesitantly, and the latter didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "I'm not stealing your book, why would I steal your book?"

Professor Lan then hesitantly handed the book to Lin Guowu.

As a result, after Lin Guowu glanced at the first part, he said to Professor Lan, "Well, I'll go back and study it for a few days."

Professor Lan's eyes suddenly widened, "Dean Lin, you you you..."

Lin Guowu's face was serious: "You said that Professor Liang and Professor Wen were trying to steal your book. I have to first determine whether the value of this book is worth it for them to steal it. What do you think? Oh, it's only a few days, don't be anxious."

"Ok, deal."

After saying that, Lin Guowu turned around and left, leaving Professor Lan with a sad face.

“They are all robbers!”

Liang Heping and Wen Yuan looked at Lin Guowu with envy. Why weren't they the deans?

……

The farce on their side was over, but the news quickly spread throughout Qinghua Institute of Materials.

Professor Liang and Professor Wen had a big fight over a book owned by Professor Lan, but in the end it was snatched away by Dean Lin?
What book was stolen?

A book called Principles of Experimental Analysis?
Or was it written by Xiao Yi?

For a moment, all the professors in Qinghua School of Materials became curious about what this book was about that would cause three professors and a dean to fight for it. So they began to use their connections to try to get a copy from USTC.

Just like that, before USTC even started promoting the book, the fame of Xiao Yi's book first spread to Tsinghua University.

Then, not long after, all the universities around Tsinghua University knew about this incident.

Unable to resist so many professors' requests, HKUST simply sent a book to each of these professors.

The result was even more out of control.

……

HKUST Press.

"Hey, Lao Xu, how can you hide such a good thing and not share it? It's not like we won't give you money! Your students are students, but our students are not students?"

The voice coming from the phone made Xu Jiajie, vice president of HKUST and president of HKUST Press, look helpless.

"Okay, okay, Academician Sun, we have already planned to expand the scale of publication. After the first batch is completed, we will send it to your Peking University first, okay?"

"That's fine."

Academician Sun from Peking University said on the other side.

Xu Jiajie shook his head helplessly.

According to statistics, the demand for Xiao Yi's "Principles of Experimental Analysis" has now reached 100,000.

Moreover, the main demand group at present is only graduate students, and has not spread to the undergraduate level. Otherwise, the demand would probably be even greater.

You know, this is just a teaching material!

Rather than those best-selling novels, even if the number of copies reaches 100,000, it is already a lot.

However, this is not the end yet. At this moment, another phone call came.

"Hello, President Xu, I am Peter Thomas, President of Springer Nature Greater China. You can call me by my Chinese name Tang Enping."

"I would like to discuss with you the global publishing cooperation of Principles of Experimental Analysis, edited by Professor Xiao Yi. What do you think?"

(End of this chapter)