Negative Electrode Material Chapter 62

Visiting scholar

Chapter 62 Visiting Scholars

Lin Yi arrived in Munich in mid-October.

When the plane landed, it was just dawn, and a thin layer of morning light spread on the runway. It was a sunny day.It was afternoon in China, and there was still a whole day to pass here – fortunately, after sleeping for a few hours, Lin Yi wiped his face with his hands.

There were many people on this flight, mostly young and middle-aged people returning to work.As soon as the plane stopped, everyone started to get ready to move around. They turned on their mobile phones, chatted in low voices, and picked up their luggage. It was as if they were suddenly back to the various realities they had to face.

Munich Airport does not have the sense of space that unfolds in layers like the airports in major domestic cities. The airport pick-up port is like the first floor of a shopping mall, with a row of people standing here to pick up the plane.The person who came to pick up Lin Yi was a young assistant, holding a water sign in his hand. When he saw Lin Yi walking towards him, the assistant put down the sign, shook hands with a smile and introduced himself. Lin Yi thanked him for coming to pick him up early on Sunday morning.

The assistant coach was not overly enthusiastic, but he was a very considerate person. Before the two of them were about to take a step forward, he suddenly asked Lin Yi: “Do you want to buy anything? Only the supermarket at the airport is open today.” Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, yes, it is an iron rule that Europeans do not work on Sundays, and the efficiency of takeout is also much worse than that in China.So I thanked the teaching assistant, left my checked luggage in his care, turned around and went into the supermarket, and bought some simple food such as noodles and bread.

The moment he left the terminal, Lin Yi took in a breath of cool air. At that moment, he confirmed that he had arrived.

The airport is not big, but the parking building has six floors. The two of them circled around a few times before driving out.As soon as the car got onto the highway, its speed suddenly picked up.Lin Yi was still chatting, but his attention was quickly drawn to the dashboard: 180km/h, and the topic turned to the fact that there is no speed limit on German highways.It is hard for people who have never been here to imagine that when driving 180 miles, there are cars passing you from the left one after another.This got him a little excited.

He lives in an apartment not far from the school, with simple furniture and good lighting.Outside the window is a one-way street, with cars passing by during the day and very quiet at night.

Lin Yi has always been used to spending weekends alone.In China, there is no clear boundary between weekends and work. Sometimes I still deal with emails and occasionally play badminton with friends.When I first arrived in Munich, this familiar rhythm temporarily failed.After packing his luggage, he called his parents and briefly reported what he had seen along the way and his subsequent arrangements.The mother is worried when her son travels thousands of miles. Even at the age of forty, the child will still be a child.

After hanging up the phone, he still clicked on his work email.When it was close to noon, his stomach started to protest, so he looked at nearby restaurants on the map on his mobile phone, and finally just ate a pizza and drank a cup of coffee.Now that he was out, he stopped by the Englischer Garten.There are few people on the street and the park is very lively.There were twos and threes of people sitting on the grass, most of them chatting and having a picnic, while some were simply lying down and basking in the sun.Among the people walking towards him, some people naturally nodded to him or said “Hallo”.Lin Yi smiled and said “Hallo.” The default politeness between strangers is no longer common in China where the pace is getting faster and faster.

Lin Yi walked to the river. The water was not deep and flowed very slowly. A few ducks swam close to the water and dispersed.He stood there and watched for a while, then took out his cell phone and took a picture.He thought for a while that if he changed the place, he should post it on Moments, so the photo of the duck was posted with a copy – “German Little Duck”.

The identity of visiting scholars here seems very clear and limited, but it is not vague.He came to Munich not for the vague purpose of “communication”, but because of a specific result – his round of experiments on the negative electrode material binder system solved the problem of interface failure that had repeatedly occurred before.The work he was assigned also revolved around this matter.In the first few days, he did more to explain: explain the experimental conditions, explain why he chose a polymerization path that does not seem to be dominant in the same solvent system; explain what the parameters written in the appendix of the paper mean in real operations.

He spent a lot of time sitting next to the equipment with several doctoral students, watching their operating procedures, pointing out some details that in his opinion were not fatal, but would amplify errors in the long run.The discussion was not intense, but very focused. It was more about the real behavior of the material at the interface layer rather than the ideal state in the model.

Meetings usually start and end on time.The topic is clear and does not go around in circles. Sometimes a discussion only revolves around one parameter.People in the school come from all over the world, but they all follow local customs when it comes to the concept of time.

He didn’t speak frequently in discussions, but every time he intervened, he almost always hit the mark.More often than not, he is correcting the direction – which issues are worthy of further advancement, and which ones have actually been verified repeatedly, just in a different way.The information density during the day is very high, from experiment scheduling, equipment sharing, to whether it is worth doing another round of cycle testing for a certain system. Everything is not complicated, but it needs to be accurately placed in the right place.

The intensity of the work is not that high compared to that in China, but the days are very regular and time goes by very fast.There are many young people in the school, and Lin Yi is alone, so he goes out to eat once or twice with colleagues or students during the week. At other times, he goes home and cooks some noodles and vegetables. At this time, he misses the canteen of the National University.

Compared with China, the pace here is indeed lighter.No endless executive meetings or frequent extra business.He put in a lot of energy, but the rewards are equally clear.A year seems to have gone by in the blink of an eye.

Lin Yi’s return date is scheduled for early October of the next year.

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