So, who is Cao Yingyuan? What outstanding contribution has he made in the scientific community?
Cao Yuan's? Open it? Life began very early. /kloc-entered the juvenile class of the University of Science and Technology of China at the age of 0/4, and/kloc-began to study for a doctorate at MIT, the world's top institution, at the age of 0/9. Cao Yuan has been interested in superconductivity since middle school. As a postdoctoral student, he studied superconducting materials in the laboratory, and he started with graphene.
Graphene is a very popular material in recent years and has been widely used in various fields. Graphene has a very special structure. It is a two-dimensional structure in which carbon atoms are arranged in a honeycomb lattice. Its thickness is one carbon atom, and carbon atoms are closely bound together by valence bonds.
The special structure of graphene makes it show many excellent properties, such as stable structure, extremely high strength, good thermal conductivity and extremely low resistivity. Considering the excellent conductivity of graphene, this material is used in superconducting research, which is also the research direction of Cao Yuan.
Through research, Cao Yuan found that if the two layers of graphene deflect and the included angle becomes 1. 1 degree, then at 1.7 Kelvin (-27 1.5 degrees Celsius), graphene will show superconducting characteristics. This strange rotation angle is called. Magic horn? .
When you see the temperature at which the magic horn graphene becomes superconducting, you may feel guilty. This superconducting temperature is less than 2 degrees higher than absolute zero and much lower than room temperature, so it has no practical value. You know, the superconducting temperature of some superconducting materials is much higher than this graphene, and the highest temperature has reached MINUS 23 degrees Celsius. So, what is the significance of magic horn graphene?
In fact, this superconducting graphene is of great significance, and its achievements are groundbreaking, which may be a major step for human beings to crack the superconducting principle. Previously, the development of superconducting materials was based on the doping principle, and magic horn graphene can produce superconductivity only by simple angular rotation, which means that the fundamental principle of superconductivity may not be so complicated.
This makes physicists feel very excited, and a brand-new research direction of high temperature superconductivity opens. If we can finally solve the mystery of superconductivity and develop room-temperature superconducting materials on this basis, the world will change dramatically.
Because of its great significance, Cao Yuan's research was quickly published in Nature, and two articles were published in one breath. Since then, Cao Yuan has continued to study magic horn graphene in order to further uncover the superconducting principle.
After two years of painstaking research, Cao Yuan made a deeper exploration of the magic horn of graphene, and the related results were published in two Nature papers. In other words, Cao Yingyuan has four articles on nature.
For people who do scientific research, Nature and Science are undoubtedly top magazines, and many people will never publish one in their lifetime. Cao Yuan is only 24 years old this year and has published four articles. According to this trend, don't say that the position of academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences has been reserved, even the Nobel Prize in Physics may be waving to him.
People smarter than you work harder than you. Which one might it be? The most terrible? Cao Yingyuan should undoubtedly be an example to the younger generation.