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But while Gao Hongliang was thinking about this, Tong Chen continued:

"This idea was proposed by Ning Chen alone."

Hearing Tong Chen's words, Gao Hongliang was so surprised that he didn't know what to say.

"You mean... this is an experimental idea proposed by Ning Chen alone?"

"Yes, last week, Ning Chen said that he had some experimental ideas and wanted to try to study them by himself. I didn't pay too much attention and let him do the research first. But a week later, Ning Chen just mentioned Show me the experimental data."

Hearing what Tong Chen said, Gao Hongliang had to choose to accept this fact.

To be fair, his student Tong Chen is definitely outstanding, but among the PhD students at Yanda, Tong Chen is not particularly outstanding.

But Ning Chen is a genius that has been rare for many years. Even if you look around the world, you can't find a few students who can achieve Ning Chen's achievements at this age.

Thinking about it this way, Gao Hongliang didn't think there was anything strange about it.

After adjusting his mentality, Gao Hongliang said:

"Ning Chen, you are really amazing! In less than a month since you came to the laboratory, you not only quickly adapted to the laboratory environment, but also came up with such good experimental ideas. In the fields of biology and chemistry research, you also have There’s a lot of potential!”

Speaking of which, Gao Hongliang didn't have any expectations for Ning Chen's results in the laboratory before, thinking that Ning Chen was just here to learn. But now it seems that he underestimated Ning Chen too much.

"With such excellent teachers, senior brothers, and such a good laboratory environment, it would be difficult for me not to make progress." Ning Chen said with a smile.

"Okay, Ning Chen, don't be modest. According to what you say, all members of our laboratory can issue CNS."

After everyone joked about it, they began to seriously study the issues of subsequent experiments.

The experimental idea proposed by Ning Chen is very novel, and the experimental verification also proves the feasibility of this experimental idea.

Of course, because now Ning Chen has only done some preliminary experiments, more detailed experiments can be carried out in the future, and there is still room for improvement in the experimental process.

"Ning Chen, Tong Chen, my suggestion is that you can continue to conduct research on Ag+ addition concentration, environmental pH value, environmental temperature and other conditions to determine the most suitable leaching system conditions. In addition, you can also try In the leaching system, add pyrite, mercury, lead and other substances..."

After listening to Gao Hongliang's suggestion, Ning Chen quickly understood what Gao Hongliang meant.

The previous research experiments on Ag+, environmental pH, environmental temperature and other conditions are very normal experimental ideas, and the several additive substances that Gao Hongliang proposed later that can be tried may have the same effect on the oxidation and growth of microorganisms as Ag+. The process plays a role of promotion and catalysis.

Of course, the effects of multiple catalysts working together may be mutual promotion or mutual suppression. The specific performance needs to be verified through a large number of experiments.

After determining the next experimental idea, Ning Chen and Tong Chen prepared the follow-up experimental work together.

Because there are many experimental conditions they need to determine, the subsequent experimental tasks are still relatively heavy.

But Ning Chen and Tong Chen did not feel hard because this is a task that every scientific researcher has to face.

The most important thing is that they can be sure that they are on the right track, instead of being like headless flies and conducting various tests without direction.

In order to ensure that they could complete the experimental tasks more efficiently, Ning Chen and Tong Chen reasonably allocated all experimental tasks.

In fact, Tong Chen would not assign some major experimental work to Ning Chen before. After all, Tong Chen was in charge of this experiment, and Tong Chen still hoped that he could complete the core work of the experiment.

But this time, Tong Chen also knew that because of the new experimental ideas proposed by Ning Chen and Gao Hongliang's suggestions, the complexity and workload of the entire experiment had been greatly improved.

If Tong Chen completes the experimental work alone as before, there is no telling when the experiment will be completed.

…

In the days that followed, Ning Chen devoted more energy to this topic.

In addition to auditing a few courses, Ning Chen spent most of his time in Gao Hongliang's laboratory.

Through a lot of experimental work, Ning Chen and Tong Chen gradually found the optimal conditions for various factors.

Some of Gao Hongliang's previous suggestions did have good results.

After these improvements, the leaching system has better bacterial activity and oxidizing ability than before the improvements.

The entire leaching process also creates a very efficient virtuous cycle. Catalysts such as Ag+ in the system can also maintain good catalytic properties through continuous regeneration.

After learning about the experimental results of Ning Chen and Gao Hongliang, Gao Hongliang also felt very satisfied.

Such results are enough to publish a high-quality paper in a good SCI academic journal.

But at this time, Gao Hongliang had some new ideas.

"Ning Chen, Tong Chen, do you want to go further based on the existing research and continue to expand the scope of your research?"

After hearing Gao Hongliang's words, Ning Chen and Tong Chen immediately understood the meaning of Gao Hongliang's words.

Because their previous research was mainly limited to the field of chemical improvement in the improvement of mineral leaching microorganisms.

However, in addition to chemical improvement, methods for improving mineral leaching microorganisms include physical improvement, biological improvement, etc.

With the current capabilities of the project team, there is every opportunity to climb to a higher position.

Naturally, Ning Chen hopes to continue his research. With his confidence in his abilities, Ning Chen believes that he can continue to improve the mineral leaching microorganisms from other perspectives.

However, after all, Ning Chen joined the laboratory as an intern, not a formal member of the laboratory. Ning Chen was not sure what others were thinking.

Because of this, Ning Chen did not immediately answer Gao Hongliang's question.

At this time, Tong Chen said:

"Teacher Gao, I also hope that we can go further on this basis. I just don't know if Ning Chen still has that much time."

Ning Chen saw this and immediately said:

"Teacher Gao, it's okay for me. Although I'm not like Senior Brother Tong Chen who can stay in the laboratory all the time, I will come over as long as I have time."

Seeing that both Tong Chen and Ning Chen agreed with his idea, Gao Hongliang had nothing to worry about anymore.

Gao Hongliang called together members of the project team to discuss the follow-up experimental plan.

This time, Gao Hongliang hopes that everyone can break the boundaries of their previous research directions on improving mineral leaching microorganisms, try all possible methods, and continue research on the topic.

Of course, this does not mean that everyone’s research direction will be arbitrary in the future, but that they should expand their research directions as much as possible while retaining the previous focus.

People like Ning Chen, who had a particularly broad range of knowledge, were free to try out any ideas that might improve mineral leaching microorganisms, regardless of the restrictions on research directions.

This is the first time that the research team has conducted experiments in this way. At the beginning, everyone was more or less uncomfortable.

During lunch, Tong Chen and Ning Chen said:

"Ning Chen, I don't know what I should do now. Teacher Gao asked us to break the boundaries of previous research directions, but I don't have any good ideas in the direction of physics and biology."

Although Tong Chen has a Ph.D. in the Department of Biology, because Tong Chen majored in chemistry at the undergraduate and master levels, in the field of pure biology, Tong Chen definitely has no advantage over other biology majors.

As for the direction of physics, Tong Chen has no clue.

After hearing Tong Chen's thoughts, Ning Chen patiently explained:

"Tong Chen, actually you don't have to think so much, just carry out the experiment as usual according to the previous ideas. Your main research direction is still in the chemical improvement part, but if you have any other ideas, you can also discuss it with everyone . The most important thing is that the members can better cooperate with each other to achieve the effect of one plus one being greater than two..."

This feeling is a bit like that in a basketball game, a point guard's focus should be on ball control and organization, but he can also take care of some scoring and rebounding tasks.

After listening to Ning Chen's explanation, Tong Chen nodded and said:

"Well, Ning Chen, after hearing you say this, my thinking becomes much clearer."