I Inherited 5,000 Years of Family Property-Chapter 714 - 712: I Will Take the Lead in Showing Off

"What did you say?"

Zhang Menglong's words seemed to have directly hit their sore spot.

It was precisely because they were famous at a young age and had received the title of Academician in their 40s, they were each destined for research that could only take root in depth and not breadth.

But they were confident within the domains of their own topics; it was impossible that anyone could outperform them, after all, these were the results of their twenty years of dedicated research.

Now someone was claiming that what they had been researching for over 20 years was just leftovers from someone else's play, how could they accept this?

"Young man, you are too arrogant. That's not a good thing."

"For someone without ability, being arrogant really isn't good, but what if I have the ability? So what if I'm arrogant?" Zhang Menglong walked to the head seat of the conference room, "Since everyone is here today, why don't you give me some time. Whether I, Zhang Menglong, am qualified to lead and participate in this conference, you will see for yourselves."

"Fine, we do want to see what you can bring to the table!" Several scholars took their seats, wearing expressions that said they were watching a show, looking at Zhang Menglong.

"Since Academician Wang Wei is so impassioned, let's start with Academician Wang's topic."

Zhang Menglong opened a PPT file, "The industrial application of high polymer materials in biomimetic cells is indeed a very nice specialty field. If it could be done well, it really could benefit many people. However, in my view, Academician Wang's biomimetic cells are still in a very rudimentary stage, not even up to a primary level."

"Big talk," said Wang Wei. "I admit that the current synthetic cells are indeed at a very early stage, but no one in the world has research that surpasses mine. The self-assembly of macromolecular structures in cell membrane vesicles has become a huge challenge. Apart from my research team, no one else has been able to make vesicles of varying sizes!"

"I know," Zhang Menglong nodded. "I have never denied Academician Wang's achievements, but in my eyes, these aren't really much. Although you can obtain vesicles of different sizes, biological cell membranes are specific, functionalized and extremely complex, while your vesicles are uniform, am I right?"

Wang Wei's expression changed, becoming somewhat ugly. It was evident that Zhang Menglong had researched his topic and knew where his current research bottleneck lay.

"Regarding how to achieve differentiation and functionalization of vesicles, you have studied for five years, but still no major breakthroughs, right?"

"What are you getting at?" Wang Wei asked. "Although what you're saying is true, if I can't do it, neither can others, and my research is still top-notch."

"Others may not be able to, but I can," Zhang Menglong flipped to the latter part of the PPT, "I have already accomplished the functionalization of vesicles with a type of nanoparticle and resolved the issue of interface compatibility. These are my research materials and the related principles!"

Zhang Menglong spoke for over 40 minutes on this topic.

Wang Wei's expression went from derision at first to surprise and then settled on admiration.

That's because during Zhang Menglong's presentation, he not only discussed the final results but also explained his process and train of thought clearly. If it were not for his personal experimentation and operation, he absolutely could not have spoken with such precision.

In other words, leaving aside the truth of the results, Zhang Menglong's understanding of this biomimetic cell research was profound, and his twenty years of research results were merely equivalent to the first 20% of Zhang Menglong's research content in scope and substance.

The things he researched were indeed leftovers played with by Zhang Menglong, this statement wasn't too far off the mark.

"As for Academician Liu, your topic is nuclear-powered rockets, isn't it?" Zhang Menglong didn't wait for others to speak and immediately turned his focus to another academician.

"My nuclear-powered rocket technology has become mature. The Shenzhou 15 rocket launched at the end of last year in our country is based on nuclear power. Its power efficiency is more than double that of other rockets of the same weight, and the payload has also been significantly increased!" freewёbnoνel.com

"Hmm, these indeed aren't problems. According to current technology levels, unless it's with another propulsion system, it almost can't be improved upon anymore."

Academician Liu showed a proud expression. You yourself have said there isn't much room for improvement, so there shouldn't be anything you can pick on, right?

"However, Academician Liu, have you ever considered that by using nuclear fuel propulsion, the amount of radiation astronauts receive daily is nearly equivalent to undergoing seven or eight full-body scans? If we were to optimize the spacesuit, that would mean increasing its weight, which would significantly diminish the advantage of nuclear power."

"Do you have any other solutions? The radiation from nuclear power is unavoidable, no matter who is involved!" Academician Liu said.

"Indeed, nuclear radiation is unavoidable, but it can be isolated," Zhang Menglong opened a new ppt, "This is an alloy I tinkered with before. Using electromagnetic effects, it can weaken nuclear radiation by more than 99.8%, virtually eliminating its drawbacks."

"But this is still a matter of materials science," Academician Liu said, "whereas I specialize in the domain of power engines. That seems quite unrelated, doesn't it?"

"Alright, then let's talk about power engines," Zhang Menglong said with a smile, "Next, I will introduce everyone to the Curvature Drive Engine!"

An experiment with a similar physical principle can make the concept of curvature drive easy to understand.

Make a small boat by folding paper, then puncture a hole in the tail of the boat, insert a piece of soap, and place it in water. You will find that the boat automatically sails forward.

This occurs because the soap dissolves in water, reducing the surface tension behind the boat, and the boat is pulled by the greater tension in front. The Curvature Drive works in a similar manner, reducing the curvature behind the spaceship, and the ship is then dragged by the larger space in front.

This theory has been explained in the science fiction work "Three-Body," but so far, the Curvature Drive remains only theoretical.

Last time Zhang Menglong provided data to the nation, it included the theory of the Curvature Drive Engine. Now, a dedicated research group has been established to study it, but due to the great difficulty, the materials and data provided by Zhang Menglong have reproduced less than 5%.

And this Professor Liu happens to be one of the heads of this research group!

"How... how could you know the principles of the curvature engine?" Liu, the Academician, was surprised to find that Zhang Menglong had such a thorough knowledge of the curvature engine's principles. What he found incomprehensible in the supplied materials became clear and understandable when spoken by Zhang Menglong; a short several minutes' introduction helped solve several practical issues for him!

"Didn't they tell you when they gave you those materials that I was the one who organized and gave them to them?"

"You are that mysterious scholar?"

Zhang Menglong just smiled and did not speak, turning to look at the third scholar, "Academician Yu's research domain is..."

"Alright, alright, don't go on," Academician Yu interrupted him even before Zhang Menglong could speak, "We've spent half our lives and only achieved so little, and you've surpassed us with just a few sentences. Leave us some dignity!"

"Each generation produces its own brilliant minds. We underestimated you just now."

"I admit you're qualified to replace Academician Qian as the head of this meeting. I have no objections now."

"Neither do I."

...

The academicians didn't really have any ill intentions; to gain their recognition, one had to prove to be stronger than them. Zhang Menglong did just that, so he naturally earned their respect.

"With you leading the team this time, I'd like to see those pompous scholars from other countries be arrogant!"

"You don't know, at the last conference, a German scholar actually ridiculed our technology as being backward. And in that project, we truly weren't comparable to them. It made me so angry at the time..."

"This time, we must take back our place!"

"Alright!" Zhang Menglong said with a laugh, "This time, I will lead the charge in showing off!"