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Chapter 190 The Era of High-Temperature Superconductivity
In a materials laboratory at ETH Zurich.

Professor Andreas Schilling held a printed paper in his hand, his eyes full of surprise.

This paper is the one that Xiao Yi and his team published on arxiv. Although this paper has been submitted to Nature, it will take some time to be reviewed, so for now people can only find it on arxiv.

"How is this possible? FeSe can have such amazing properties? Even its ductility is so good?"

“HCP structure… I’ve never heard of HCP structure having such plastic deformation capability!”

"Besides...how did FeSe synthesize the HCP structure?"

"Impossible?"

Schilling couldn't help but look at another professor standing next to him, "Professor Epley, don't you think this is nonsense?"

This paper was brought by Professor Gabriel Epley, who was one of the first people in the academic community to know the news.

As a top scholar in the field of condensed matter physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, he took this paper to discuss the issue with Professor Andreas Schilling, who also had many achievements in condensed matter physics at their school.

In response to Schilling's question, April just shrugged and said, "I also think it's impossible, but the author is Xiao Yi, he is not the kind of person like Langa Dias."

Ranga Dias is the person who "created" a room-temperature superconductor. The big news this guy made in 2020-2021 shocked many people at the time. As a result, some time ago, in July 2023, his paper on room-temperature superconductors published in Physical Review Letters had been retracted.

Basically, this guy's reputation in academia is ruined.

But Xiao Yi is different!

She is still so young, there is no need to create such big news to tarnish her reputation.

Schilling was silent for a while about what April said, then he took the paper, flipped through it, and finally pointed at it and said, "He didn't even explain the preparation process, how can we believe it?"
April spread his hands and said, "There's really no other way. If I could really come up with something like this, I probably wouldn't announce it. This would make me at least several billion!"

Xilin thought for a moment, then said, "Oh, I remember Professor Ople went to China some time ago. I heard that he met Xiao Yi because Xiao Yi wrote a book. Why not ask him?"

April nodded and said, "Okay, I'll contact him now."

Soon, Professor Oplai came to their laboratory, but there was another person who came with him, an editor from Nature.

"Professor James, why are you here too?"

James is the editor of Nature. He said, "Professor Opry is our special consultant for Nature. This time I came to consult him about some questions about a book."

Oplai smiled and explained to Ai Puli and the others: "It's the book "Principles of Experimental Analysis" written by Xiao Yi that I told you about before."

"Since this book is signed by Springer, I also hope to promote it through Nature. I want to write a few comments or something."

"Oh?"

April and Schilling both showed surprised expressions.

"Do you take it that seriously?"

Although Nature is a journal under Springer, it must be very difficult for a book to be advertised in Nature by Springer.

At least, this book is indeed worthy of such publicity.

"Of course." Ople said, and then he praised the book again. Whether it was from the bottom of his heart or because he recommended the book to Springer, he highly praised the book.

Professor James beside him also nodded with a smile: "I have also read this book. The content inside is indeed worthy of the publicity of Nature. I even believe that this book has the potential to become a basic textbook for all natural science majors in the world."

James is an editor, albeit a journal editor rather than a book editor, but his opinion is certainly not groundless.

At that moment, April said to Oplai, "In that case, please help me find a book, Professor Oplai, and I will study it later."

"And me." Xilin also said.

Ople smiled and nodded: "Of course that's no problem! I just happen to have a few more copies, I'll bring them over to you when the time comes."

April and Schilling thanked him profusely.

After talking about the book, April also explained the purpose of inviting them over.

"If you ask me that, I'm not really sure."

Oplai shook his head and said, "But one thing that can be explained is that in the book Principles of Experimental Analysis, many of Xiao Yi's examples are from condensed matter experiments. Perhaps the experiments he did while writing this book were also preparations for the synthesis of this new superconductor."

Epley and Schilling's eyes lit up: "What this means is that if we study this book, maybe we can find out how this new type of FeSe high-temperature superconductor is synthesized?"

"Uh..." Ople was stunned and said, "I didn't say that. Did you misunderstand something?"

But the more Epley and Schilling thought about it, the more they felt this way. They immediately decided to go back and make a few more copies of the book, and then find someone to study the experiments in it to see if they could dig out the secret of the new FeSe.

Ople and James looked at each other, feeling that there was something misunderstanding between the two.

But it seems to be beneficial to the sales of this book?

James returned to the previous topic: "Let's talk about Xiao Yi's paper. He has submitted it to us now. It is still a question whether it will be accepted."

"After all, this paper does not contain the specific preparation process, so it cannot be considered a rigorous article. It can only be considered a letter, and it is not even close."

"Xiao Yi also sent a statement, saying that this new superconductor is a confidential technology, so the key technology will be retained. Such a paper also exists, but he agreed to provide samples, which will then be verified by our designated laboratory."

"We have already sent people to collect samples from him and sent them to some designated laboratories. The results may be confirmed within a week."

April and Schilling immediately said in unison: "Can we have one for our lab, too?"

James smiled awkwardly and said, "For this, we have already designated a laboratory, and the samples are limited, so..."

April and Schilling couldn't help but show disappointed expressions.

This is their closest chance to get to this new superconductor!

I missed the opportunity just like that.

"If there is a chance next time, please remember us!" April begged.

"Next time, definitely next time!"

James said helplessly.

joke.

Now, which laboratory in the world does not want this sample? Even the laboratories of those Nobel Prize winners are reaching out for it.

They almost got into a fight when they held an internal meeting to decide which laboratories to designate.

You two, please step back a little.

But no matter what, since there is a laboratory that is going to verify it, both Epley and Schilling are looking forward to the result.

By the way, they also asked Oplet for a few more copies of "Principles of Experimental Analysis". Oplet was helpless, why did they eat and take them at the same time?
He didn't have many copies himself, and finally said that Springer was printing the first batch of books, and when it was printed, he would help the two of them contact the printing factory and order a few copies first.

Both April and Schilling knew that it would be embarrassing to ask for more, so they expressed their gratitude and looked forward to the first batch of books being printed.

And no matter what, at least both of them have received a book, which they can study first.

……

Just like that, a few days passed in the blink of an eye.

The news that Nature had designated a laboratory to verify Xiao Yi's new FeSe soon spread, and immediately attracted the attention of many people in the academic community. Although Xiao Yi relied on his credibility in the academic community, even though his paper did not include the preparation method, he still gained a certain degree of trust from the academic community.

However, it is obviously not enough to rely solely on credit. These verification results can play a decisive role.

Just as people were waiting for the results, news came from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology that Xiao Yi's recent book "Principles of Experimental Analysis" might contain important experience or processes in developing this new type of FeSe.

This news made many people skeptical. Is it true or false?
For a while, there were some people who wanted to buy this book, but later we got the news that the book was still in the printing process and it would take some time for the first batch to be officially put on the shelves. However, as more and more people asked about it, Springer said it would expedite the printing of the first batch.
Of course, there are still quite a lot of people who remain on the sidelines. At least, whether this new type of FeSe has the performance described in Xiao Yi's paper needs to wait until the verification results come out.

And just like that, a few more days passed.

Finally, the major laboratories that received the samples gradually came up with results.

And these results are still from those world-renowned laboratories.

The first university to come out with the results was Tsinghua University. After all, since it is located in China, it became one of the clients of Nature and was also the first to get the samples.

Although Tsinghua University had conducted experiments before, this time it was an official commission from Nature, so the laboratory at Tsinghua University conducted another complete experiment on the new FeSe.

The final result, of course, is completely consistent with the data released by Professor Xiao Yi's team.

This result once again shocked the entire academic community.

But after all, Qinghua Laboratory is also a Chinese laboratory, and it has communicated with Xiao Yi before, so some people still remain on the sidelines, waiting for more laboratory verification results to come out.

Soon, verification results from other laboratories gradually came out.

"Nature" commissioned 7 laboratories in 10 countries, including Qinghua Laboratory in China, as well as laboratories in Russia, Singapore, Japan, the United States, France and Sweden.
The first to confirm the news came from laboratories in Russia, Singapore and Japan, which are relatively close to China.

The laboratories in these three countries have all stated that Xiao Yi's new FeSe high-temperature superconductor does have the outstanding performance described in the paper, whether in the three basic properties of superconductivity, or in mechanical strength, environmental resistance and processability, it has reached the level of industrial production.

The results of these three countries finally convinced those who were still on the sidelines.

Later, experimental results from the United States, France, and Sweden once again verified the same results.

So far, the results from a total of 10 laboratories have all recognized the properties of the new FeSe. At the same time, it also declares that humans have truly mastered high-temperature superconductivity!
All of a sudden, all major media outlets published related articles and spread the news around the world.

"From low-temperature superconductivity to high-temperature superconductivity, today's human beings are no longer far away from true room-temperature superconductivity!"

《Welcome to the era of high-temperature superconductivity! 》

《Join the glorious superconducting evolution! 》

《High-temperature superconductivity! We are only half a step away from the future! 》

"Xiao Yi's high-temperature superconductor leads the way for mankind!"

《Shock! This thing developed by Xiao Yi actually changed the era! 》

……

In addition to news from major media outlets, the incident has also sparked various discussions on various platforms around the world.

For example, in China.

[Wow! High-temperature superconductors have really been developed? How was this done? ]

[It is not that a high-temperature superconductor has actually been developed, but that a nearly perfect high-temperature superconductor has been developed! ]

[Almost perfect? ​​What does perfection look like? ]

[Then it must be at least a room temperature superconductor]

[What is the difference between room temperature superconductors and high temperature superconductors? Aren’t high temperature superconductors enough? Didn’t the news say that this new type of superconductor can be superconducting as long as the temperature is below 92 degrees? ]

[Wow, you really don't know anything? What do you mean below 92 degrees? That's 92K, the Kelvin temperature, which is -181 degrees Celsius when converted to Celsius. This high temperature is relative to absolute zero. Any superconducting transition temperature higher than the 77K temperature of liquid nitrogen is a high-temperature superconductor, so the temperature of a room-temperature superconductor is higher than that of a high-temperature superconductor.]

[Okay, okay, room temperature is higher than high temperature]

[By the way, if we give samples to foreign laboratories for research, will it lead to the disclosure of the preparation method? ]

[Haha, good question. But actually, there is no need to worry about this problem at all. The reverse engineering of materials can be said to be one of the most troublesome problems in the world. Even if it is an ordinary material, it is already quite troublesome to reverse it, not to mention superconductors, which are one of the most complex materials among all materials. Just ensuring its superconductivity is a problem.

Moreover, the new type of FeSe developed by Xiao Shen is called HCP silver-doped FeSe. You should know that ordinary FeSe is a PbO-type tetragonal structure, while the HCP type is translated as the closest hexagonal structure. The two completely different structures are enough to show that the preparation process, whether it is temperature, pressure, chemical environment and other aspects, are completely different from the normal preparation process!
Based on this point, it is basically impossible to reverse engineer this new type of FeSe, not to mention that it also needs to be doped with silver! Once doping elements are involved, I tell you, even a general-purpose quantum computer will be at a loss.

So don't worry, what's more, the current samples are nothing, and sooner or later, some products will be exported to foreign countries. If others really want to reverse engineer, they can do it at that time. In short, don't worry. 】

[Don't worry, Xiao Shen must have considered more than you, otherwise guess why Xiao Shen did not publish the preparation process in the paper? ]

[That's good. I feel relieved now.]

[Damn, is Xiao Shen really cheating? ]

……

The direction of foreign platforms is different.

[So what are our scientists doing? Others have created such a practical high-temperature superconductor, but what are our scientists still doing? ]

[Our scientists have all gone to an island for fun! ]

[Why didn't Xiao Yi publish the preparation process? How could he be so selfish? ]

[How about you let us sell the lithography machines first? ]

[You think they are stupid? For a truly useful result like this, they would not be stupid enough to publish the preparation process, just like the atomic bomb. ]

[This thing is worth several billion dollars, why would they announce it? ]

[How many hundreds of millions? Hundreds of billions! ]

[Let me come up with a plan. Tell Xiao Yi that as long as he is willing to publish the preparation process, he will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.]

【good idea! 】

[Laugh, do you really think Xiao Yi cares about the Nobel Prize? ]

[I think it would be better to send the Black Widow to sneak into China and capture Xiao Yi. If that doesn't work, we can seduce him. I heard that Xiao Yi is not married yet.]

[You already have Black Widow, why not just ask Tony Stark to hand over his Ark reactor? Since you already have nuclear fusion, why do you still need to care about high-temperature superconductors? ]

[Please don't send out Black Widow, I love Scarlett very much, I kneel down for you! ]

[They are already married, you loser! ]

【waste! 】

[I heard that Xiao Yi recently published a book called "Principles of Experimental Analysis", which may contain the preparation method of this new type of FeSe. ]

[Is it true? Then I will buy one. ]

【I want to buy one too! 】

……

(End of this chapter)