Tsinghua University, School of Materials Science, in a certain office.
Two old professors sat together, sipping tea and chatting.
One of the professors named Wen Yuan suddenly said, "Old Liang, how is the recent research in your laboratory? I remember you are doing condensed matter stuff?"
Professor Liang Heping named Old Liang nodded and said, "Yes, specifically speaking, it is the synthesis of superconducting materials. Since Xiao Yi's high-temperature superconducting 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 about eight months, those laboratories have already developed four new superconducting materials."
"Four kinds? So many!" Wen Yuan said in surprise, "Is there any one that is easier to use?"
"That's not the case yet." Liang Heping waved his hand. "Usable materials are not so easy to develop. Now, one out of ten materials synthesized in laboratories around the world is useful. It is considered a mercy from God, let alone a high-temperature superconductor."
He shook his head. "From the current point of view, although these newly synthesized high-temperature superconductor materials have better properties than Yttrium Barium Copper Oxide in some aspects, considering Yttrium Barium Copper Oxide's first-mover advantage, it has already iterated a lot on the synthesis method, so these new high-temperature superconductors do not have many advantages at all. It is estimated that they will have to stay in the laboratory for a long time."
Wen Yuan nodded slightly. "That's right. Yttrium Barium Copper Oxide is a material that was used 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 come out of the laboratory, it is better to hope that better materials will be discovered."
Wen Yuan said with a smile, "Maybe your laboratory can discover it?"
"Hey, don't even mention this kind of thing. I think the students in my lab have a headache."
Liang Heping waved his hand and sighed.
"Oh? What's wrong?" Wen Yuan asked slightly curiously.
"It's not about experiments yet." Liang Heping shook his head and said, "These students now, they don't know how to do experiments and analysis. They are still students of our Qinghua University. Alas, they are usually very busy. I don't know where they are."
Wen Yuan laughed and said, "That is indeed something that can't be helped. Experiments are indeed quite troublesome for those students. Forget about experiments, they have learned a lot as undergraduates and can almost teach them. But things like experimental analysis... If it is so easy to understand, we don't know how many talents will emerge from our country."
Liang Heping shook his head helplessly. "There is no way. Even teachers don't know how to teach this kind of thing. There are no good teaching materials. They all rely on experience."
"Indeed, if you want to find experience, you have to do experiments, and doing experiments requires funds." Wen Yuan also sighed, "It's difficult!"
For a time, both professors began to worry about the scientific research path of young people.
But at this moment, a voice suddenly sounded, "Maybe you can recommend this textbook to them?"
The two professors were stunned and looked up at the person.
"Professor Lan, what did you say?"
"Hey, let me show you a baby."
This Professor Lan smiled, stepped forward, and took out... a book from his pocket!
"Look at this textbook."
Professor Liang and Professor Wen glanced at the cover of this book and were startled.
""Principles of Experimental Analysis"? What kind of book is this? Why haven't I heard of it before?"
"Could it be new textbooks? Professor Lan, are you not mistaken? Some of the new textbooks now are really useful. Aren't they all based on establishing good relationships with major colleges and universities and letting students buy them?"
Professor Liang and Professor Wen both shook their heads and had no expectations for this textbook.
They are all too aware of the ins and outs of textbooks. If there are some recognized good textbooks, then the school may use these good textbooks. For other subjects, they use textbooks that cannot be found online, or are directly written by teachers in the school.
It can be regarded as a kind of income for these teachers.
After hearing what these two professors said, Professor Lan smiled and said, "Don't worry, let's see who the editor-in-chief of this book is."
"Editor-in-Chief?" Liang Heping and Wen Yuan wondered, could he be a very famous person?
Then they looked at the editor's name on the cover, and were stunned again.
"Xiao Yi?"
They immediately saw the bottom of the book cover.
[USTC Press]
In this way, it is basically confirmed that this Xiao Yi is that Xiao Yi.
Well, this is a very famous person indeed.
"Xiao Yi also started writing textbooks?"
"Does he still have this intention?"
Both of them immediately became interested and started to flip through the book.
They are all curious about what the teaching materials written by Xiao Yi will look like.
Soon, they turned to the first part.
Part one, Image Analysis.
This part is mainly about how to directly analyze various microscopic images and find out some key information from pictures that seem to have no information at all.
For example, in optical microscope images, brightfield microscopes can observe macroscopic structures and defects on the surface of materials, while darkfield microscopes can observe microstructures and particles by enhancing contrast.
Another example is Scanning Electron Microscope, which can provide high-resolution surface topography images and can observe nanoscale structures and morphology, or Transmission Electron Microscope, which can observe the internal structure of materials through electron transmission and is suitable for studying crystal structure, interfaces and defects.
In addition, there are more kinds of images, such as Scanning Tunneling Microscope, or X-ray Diffraction images, etc.
All in all, the content of this part mainly introduces how to get rid of various data, observe and analyze directly from the image, and find key issues.
The more they looked at it, the more surprised Professor Yang and Professor Wen were.
The content of this part was completely beyond their imagination. Some of the analysis methods given by Xiao Yi even brought a lot of inspiration to them, two old scholars who have studied at Materials Science for many years.
"It's... hard to believe that so much information can be seen just from these images?"
"How did Xiao Yi come up with the idea? Is this why he was able to study the high-temperature superconducting mechanism?"
"He was... providing a way to see the data directly from the image."
"..."
The more the two professors read, the more they marveled at the brilliance of the first part, especially its subversion of traditional analysis methods.
Generally speaking, the analysis of Materials Science is more focused on the data and does not pay much attention to the direct Image Analysis. The images can only be used as auxiliary analysis and cannot directly help the results.
But now, Xiao Yi's method has directly raised Image Analysis's status by several levels, allowing them to see a lot of easily overlooked information from the image.
They had no idea how Xiao Yi discovered these things.
Of course, it is impossible for them to imagine it, because this is the various experiences Xiao Yi gained by directly seeing the microscopic world with Material Mastery, and then he summarized these experiences and wrote them all in this first part.
In this way, even if others cannot see the microscopic world as intuitively as he does, they can still see something from those images.
And even if you can only see a little bit of information, it is already quite useful.
For a moment, both Professor Liang and Professor Wen felt extremely excited and wanted to go to the laboratory to try it out immediately.
However, they couldn't move their feet for the time being, so they opened the second part without stopping. This part entered the field they were familiar with, which was Data Analysis. This part mainly focused on the detailed data, but it did not include various charts, spectrums, etc., these parts will be included later.
They patiently read the content of Part 2, and soon, their eyes lit up again.
Although the content of Part 2 is not as innovative as Part 1, Xiao Yi has shown quite a lot of unique analytical perspectives and methods.
It also contains 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 explained these steps very carefully. It can be said that anyone with a little professional knowledge can understand it.
For a time, the eyes of Liang Heping and Wen Yuan became more and more eager.
This textbook has become a shining treasure in their eyes.
This book, not to mention being used as a teaching material for students, is completely worth learning for professors like them.
Until the end, Liang Heping couldn't help but raise his head, looked at Professor Lan, and asked, "How did you know about this textbook? When was it published?"
"Just the past few days." Professor Lan said with a smile, "Last week I happened to go to USTC on a business trip, and then they gave me this book and asked me to read it. Who would have thought that the writing in it is so good."
"That's it, can I buy it now?" Liang Heping asked.
"Hmm... You should be able to buy it. I don't know. You can contact the publisher of USTC. However, depending on the situation, they seem to be temporarily planning to implement it in their school to see the effect. They do not plan to sell it to outsiders for the time being."
"How is this possible!" Liang Heping slapped the table and said, "Why do they still think about eating alone? 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, where is your book, just leave it here with me first. I will go to our dean in two days, and then contact USTC and ask them to sell it to the outside world." Liang Heping said, about to stuff the book into his desk.
Professor Lan stared. "Hey, no, if you go to the dean, go to the dean. Why are you taking my book?"
"Why do you ask me to take your book? Look at what you said. I read it first and then prove to the dean what is good about this book! Old Wen, you think so?" Liang Heping explained with a serious face.
As a result, Wen Yuan said at this time, "I think it's better to leave it to me. I'll go to the dean and say, Professor Liang, aren't you still very busy with the subject in your laboratory? You might as well work on your subject."
As he spoke, he reached for the book Liang Heping had stuffed into the drawer.
Professor Lan couldn't bear it anymore. He could see at a glance that these two people just wanted this book, and he immediately reached out and grabbed it. "I said you two can do it. You don't need to worry about it. I will talk to the dean about this matter."
In this way, the three professors began to argue about this book.
In the end, because there was too much commotion on their side, their dean Lin Guowu came.
"Eh? Professor Liang, Professor Wen, and Professor Lan, what are you trying to grab?"
After stopping the three of them, Lin Guowu asked about the reason.
Professor Lan held the book and pointed at Liang Heping and Wen Yuan excitedly, becoming indignant.
"... I shouldn't have shown this book to them."
Lin Guowu After listening, he couldn't help but asked curiously, "What kind of book is yours? Let me take a look."
Professor Lan glanced hesitantly at Lin Guowu, who couldn't laugh or cry, "I'm not going to steal your book, so why should I steal your book?"
Professor Lan then hesitantly handed the book to Lin Guowu.
As a result, after Lin Guowu briefly browsed the first part, he said to Professor Lan, "In this case, I will go back and read it for a few days and study it."
Professor Lan's eyes suddenly widened, "Dean Lin, you, you, you..."
Lin Guowu had a serious look on his face. "You said that Professor Liang and Professor Wen are robbing your book. I have to first determine whether the value of the book is worth it. Do you think so? Oh, it only lasts a few days. Don't worry."
"That's it."
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 both looked at Lin Guowu with envy. Why are they not the dean?
The farce on their side was over, however, the news quickly spread throughout Qinghua School of Materials Science.
Professor Liang and Professor Wen fought over a book by Professor Lan, but were finally intercepted by Dean Lin?
What book did you grab?
A book called "Principles of Experimental Analysis"?
Or was it written by Xiao Yi?
For a time, all the professors at Qinghua University School of Materials Science became curious as to what this book was like, so that three professors and one dean were competing for it, so they all started to build relationships, hoping to get a copy from USTC.
In this way, before USTC could promote it, the fame of Xiao Yi's book first spread to Qinghua.
Not long after, all the universities around Tsinghua University knew about it.
Unable to withstand the requests of so many professors, USTC simply sent a book to each of these professors.
The result was even more out of control.
USTC Press.
"Hey, Lao Xu, how can you hide such a good thing and not share it? It's not like I don't give you money! Your students are students, but our students are not students?"
The voice coming from the phone made USTC, the vice-principal Xu Jiajie, who is also the president of USTC Press, look helpless.
"I know, I know, Academician Sun, we have already planned to expand the scale of publishing. After the first batch is completed, we will send it to you Beijing University first, okay?"
"That's fine."
Opposite Academician Sun from Beijing University said.
Xu Jiajie shook his head helplessly.
According to statistics, the demand for Xiao Yi's "Principles of Experimental Analysis" has already reached 100,000.
Moreover, the current main demand group is only graduate-level students, and has not spread to the undergraduate level. Otherwise, the demand may be even greater.
You know, this is just a textbook!
Rather than those books like best-selling novels, even if they can reach the scale of 100,000, it is already considered a lot.
However, this was not over 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 talk to you about the global publishing cooperation of "Principles of Experimental Analysis", which is edited by Professor Xiao Yi. What do you think?"