The calculations involved in Computational Materials Science did not come out of thin air.
Even Lu Zhou could not possibly figure out what material a molecular exchange membrane for a Lithium-Air Battery should use with nothing but pen and paper.
The proper way to use Computational Materials Method to solve a problem was to identify a feasible point of entry through experimental issues, build Mathematical Models around it, and then rely on the immense computational power of computers to study the movement of molecules across multiple scales—the nanoscale, microscale, mesoscale, and more—before extrapolating the macroscopic properties of the object being studied.
Fortunately, Yang Xu and the others had already accumulated enough data.
Combined with the inspiration he had gained from Wreckage One, it was as though he already knew part of the answer. All he had to do was use the experimental data at hand to calculate the remaining seventy percent.
That made the difficulty of the problem considerably lower for him than it would have been for anyone else.
With his full attention focused on the problem before him, Lu Zhou meticulously searched through the experimental data stored in the database on his computer while translating that data into the language of Mathematics. Using the theories of Computational Materials Science, he wove those fragmented clues into a vast net.
Everything progressed smoothly.
As effortlessly as breathing.
Although he had not worked on Materials Science for some time since the Controlled Fusion Project, none of this was unfamiliar to him.
After all, the Theoretical Model of Electrochemical Interface Structure, a theory that had swept through the fields of Theoretical Chemistry and Materials Science, had been created by him.
It was also this theory that had earned him the Hoffmann Medal and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
He was not bragging,