206: True computational materials science

Soon, some scholars and students active on ArXiv who followed Professor Tao Zhexuan, all saw the post made by Professor Tao Zhexuan's account.

As one of the few famous scholars who liked to be active on ArXiv, many people followed Professor Tao Zhexuan.

"Amazing! To make Professor Tao so excited, I'm a bit curious, what paper is it!"

"Exactly, I'm curious, Professor Tao, what paper?"

"Speaking of JACS, I haven't heard that Professor Tao researches Chemistry, and looking at how excited Professor Tao is, could it be about Computational Materials Science?"

"Looks like it should be! Very curious about the paper's content."

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Many people left comments.

Professor Tao Zhexuan smiled slightly as he looked at the comments.

He was slightly looking forward to how everyone would view this paper when it was published.

To be fair, he thought that paper was very interesting.

The depth of the algorithms inside was decent, not the extremely complex kind, but in terms of mathematical modeling, it could be said to be exceptionally precise, and it also established a standard.

All of this greatly surprised Tao Zhezuan.

This paper was not a very powerful paper in the Mathematics sense, nor was it a very impressive paper in the Chemistry sense.

Its significance lay in completely integrating the two interdisciplinary fields of Mathematics and Materials Science to some extent.

Perhaps, this was the true Computational Materials Science!

In Tao Zhezuan's view, the appearance of this paper perhaps meant that Computational Materials Science, this discipline born from the intersection of Materials Science and Mathematics, had truly been born.

If Computational Materials Science were to achieve significant development in the future, this paper would have groundbreaking significance.

As for the concepts proposed in the paper...

Professor Tao Zhexuan, however, thought it was unlikely.

The amount of engineering was too large, and the required computing power was terrifyingly high. Professor Tao Zhexuan felt that perhaps it could be slightly simplified and placed within Computational Materials Science; many formulas and ideas within it were of extraordinary significance.

It could only be understood as painting a pie in the sky.

On the other side.

The battery experiment had been slow to progress, but this was also normal. Often, large projects like this could get stuck for various reasons.

Even though Guo Hao had processed all the materials, regarding battery energy storage, it was Guo Hao's first time truly doing it. His understanding of batteries was also very limited, and he hadn't played much of a role in it.

There was nothing he could do. What affected battery performance and energy storage efficiency was not a single material, and Guo Hao's Computational Materials Science had difficulty influencing the process significantly.

However, neither Professor Professor Wu Kai nor Academician Jiang Lei was too disappointed about this; they had somewhat anticipated it.

In mid to late August, Guo Hao received an email from JACS. His paper had been successfully accepted, and it requested Guo Hao to pay the $4000 publication fee to JACS's account.

His paper would be featured as the main article in the next issue of JACS.

The time was in mid-September.

Guo Hao wasn't surprised by this acceptance. After all, the mathematical model he built had no problems, and his Materials Science concept was also very interesting. Top journals like this loved such papers the most.

This should be considered a relatively significant academic achievement, right!

Guo Hao was very satisfied.

Adding the previous Tier 1 Mathematics paper he published – that paper was a bit weak, but it still counted as published – that makes two papers in total!

Ten Tier 1 papers, he had already completed one-fifth!

This task wasn't too difficult for him!

At least Guo Hao was still very satisfied.

One year's time, and this was just the beginning.

The days were as calm as still water.

Guo Hao's life was very peaceful. He still spent his days like before, constantly moving between the Laboratory, dormitory, and canteen.

The dormitory only had Guo Hao and Li Wei, but they basically never saw each other, at most they would meet in the evening.

This peaceful life continued until the start of the school year on September 1st.

Professor Professor Wu Kai and Academician Jiang Lei were both busy, and Zhao Yang and the others were also somewhat busy, so the Laboratory simply took a three-day holiday.

As for Li Wei... a few days ago, he had already lost his tutoring job because the students' school year started.

"Brothers of 302! I'm back!"

Ma Xin pushed open the dormitory door and shouted with excitement in his eyes.

Li Ming stood behind Ma Xin, both of them carrying large and small bags of luggage.

"Brother Xin! Ming Ge!"

Li Wei, who was reading nearby, turned around to look at Ma Xin and Li Ming, and immediately showed excitement in his eyes.

"You guys are finally back!"

"Yeah! Holy cow! Hao Ge, you're actually in the dormitory too??"

Ma Xin replied to Li Wei. At this moment, he saw Guo Hao, who was still reading with his head down nearby, and shouted in surprise.

Hearing Ma Xin's words, Guo Hao slowly raised his head at this moment.

He glanced at Ma Xin and Li Ming next to him.

"What do you mean 'I'm in the dormitory too'? What? Is this not my dormitory anymore?"

Guo Hao said to Ma Xin in a bad mood.

"Hehe..."

Ma Xin chuckled awkwardly and scratched his head.

"Didn't you say you had important experiments in Academician Jiang Lei's research group? We thought you should still be in the Laboratory at this time..."

"Academician Jiang Lei is busy, so he gave us a holiday."

Guo Hao said casually.

After Li Ming and Ma Xin entered the dormitory and put their things away.

"Hao Ge, Ah Wei, come eat! My Mom asked me to bring lots of delicious food!"

Li Ming said with a smile.

"My Mom too, she brought braised beef! The braised beef my Mom makes is super delicious! Everyone, come try it!"

Ma Xin also said quickly.

Guo Hao stopped reading. Everyone moved their chairs over together and set up a small table. Li Ming and Ma Xin put a pile of food on the small table.

Everyone ate together.

Ma Xin and Li Ming chattered endlessly about some things they encountered during the summer holiday, expressing some feelings.

Guo Hao and Li Wei listened.

After talking for a while, Ma Xin started asking about Guo Hao and Li Wei's summer holiday experiences.

"I envy Hao Ge, going to South Korea on public expense, going abroad on public expense. In all these years, I've never been abroad! Let alone attending such a big academic conference!"

"Just went out with my Mentor to see the world, I wasn't the main character or anything, just watching, it's no big deal."

Guo Hao shrugged.

"I actually think Ah Wei had a more fulfilling summer holiday."

Li Ming looked at Li Wei next to him with envy in his eyes at this moment.

"Ah Wei tutored during the summer holiday, he must have earned quite a bit! Tutoring in Beijing, I heard one or two hundred yuan an hour is very normal!"

"I did earn some! This is truly all thanks to Hao Ge, I..."

Li Wei looked at Guo Hao next to him gratefully, wanting to say something more.