After the conference ended, Lu Zhou left the venue with the crowd.
However, just as he was about to walk in the direction of the laboratory building, someone suddenly called out to him from behind.
"Professor Lu, long time no see."
He turned around and saw Professor Lee Yong-eun walking toward him with a smile on his face.
Lu Zhou remembered that he had just poached two talented students from the old man, so he couldn't help but smile and greet him.
"Long time no see, how are you doing?"
"Everything else is fine, but his heart isn't so good." Professor Li looked at Lu Zhou. Although he was smiling, his tone was still quite resentful. He said, "It wasn't easy for me to have two disciples, and now they're both stolen by you."
"Um … How can you say they're gone?" Lu Zhou coughed and said, "Also, if the old doesn't go, the new won't come. You'll definitely find someone better —"
Professor Lee shook his head and said, "Okay, I'm not here to criticize you. I'm glad that they have a good place to go. Even though it's a shame that they didn't do a PhD, they can still learn as much from you as they can from me. "
It would be a bit ridiculous to say that he was criticizing Lu Zhou for poaching two students. No one could say that his students had to work for him after they graduated. Even if he did want to recruit them into Zhongshan New Materials to do research.
Obviously, Lu Zhou had a better future. Any young person who wanted to develop in this field would make a similar choice. Even though Lee Yong-eun didn't want to let his two students go, he still supported them.
His research team wouldn't be affected by the loss of two master's students.
The old man paused for a second and looked at Lu Zhou. He then asked in a serious manner, "To be honest, I didn't really understand your proof process at the conference. Are you serious about the hollow carbon spheres? "
Lu Zhou nodded and said, "I don't need to talk nonsense about this."
Among carbon-sulfur composites, hollow carbon spheres were a relatively new idea and had a lot of room for development.
Also, thanks to the breakthrough of carbon nanotechnology, the price of materials such as carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, and graphene were falling every year.
After staring at Lu Zhou for a while, Professor Li suddenly smiled and shook his head. "That old guy Sun Hongbiao's eyes are still sharp. It seems like he's right, you're really confident."
Lu Zhou smiled and said humbly, "That's an exaggeration, I'm only 30% confident."
Of course, this 30% chance was only the probability of success, not the success rate. After all, who knew how many times an experiment would have to be done?
After all, his speculation about the hollow carbon spheres was based on common sense. Even though he could prove it mathematically, he didn't know if he could find the materials.
"A 30% chance of success is already very high. Under normal circumstances, we bet on less than a 10% chance of success in our experiments." Professor Lee looked at Lu Zhou and said, "Then I'll look forward to your good news."
Lu Zhou asked, "Is your research team not participating?"
Professor Li shook his head and said with a smile, "You have already gone in. Why should I get involved? I'll just wait for your thesis. "
After all, Zhongshan New Materials wasn't an industry giant, and they had limited funds. It was difficult to see results in the research and development of lithium-sulfur batteries in the short term. As one of the shareholders, Lee Yong-eun obviously wouldn't invest money in this field.
Also, there was a huge market gap for lithium anode materials in China. Compared to researching and developing new materials, it was better to focus on the current market first.
As for the lithium-sulfur battery project, it would be better to leave it to the industry giants.
…
The conference summary document would be released in ten to fifteen days, but it didn't have anything to do with Lu Zhou.
The national project was very important, and Lu Zhou had to put in some effort. However, the system mission was also very important, and Lu Zhou didn't plan on neglecting the research work on both sides.
Also, even though the two laboratories were working on hollow carbon spheres, even though the two laboratories had different experimental tasks, they were still able to complement each other's research.
The next morning, after Lu Zhou finished his interview, he had a video call with Professor Sarrot in Silicon Valley.
It would take a while for the equipment to arrive at the Jinling research institute. However, the Silicon Valley laboratory could already begin experiments with Star Sky Technology's funding.
A US $100,000 annual salary wasn't cheap, and Lu Zhou didn't plan on paying a bunch of useless people.
After he made a specific research plan, he quickly wrote an email and sent it to Sarrot's email.
"… I've already sent the specific research plan to your work email. Take a look and let me know if you have any questions."
According to Lu Zhou's topological analysis of the carbon nanosphere, its prototype could be disassembled into a C70 fullerene molecule and a carbon nanotube with two topological defects.
In chemical terms, part of the π bond of the C70 fullerene material was opened, then modified with a carbon nanotube with topological defects. Under certain conditions, its molecular spatial configuration was changed.
This sounded complicated, but it wasn't actually that difficult to do.
First, the arc chamber was vacuumed, then helium was injected. Two high-purity graphite rods were placed close to each other, and through high-voltage electricity, an arc effect was produced. The plasma produced by the gasification of the carbon rods collided in an inert gas environment, forming stable fullerene macromolecules such as C60 and C70.
The C70 molecules were screened out, then mixed with carbon nanotubes produced by a CVD vacuum tube furnace, and a thermal reaction occurred in a vacuum environment.
Due to the instability of the π bond and large π bond itself, a rather complex chemical reaction would occur during the heating process. Based on the expected polymer model, similar products would be screened from the reaction chamber, then the physical and chemical properties of the products would be analyzed.
Maybe in a kilogram of products, there would be a few milligrams of treasure. Then, different curves would be drawn based on factors such as product, time, and materials. Then, an empirical formula would be found, and a complete set of theories would be established.
This seemed like a stupid method, but from a practical point of view, it was the most suitable choice.
After all, before finding a stable preparation method, the first thing to do was to solve the problem of creating something from scratch. In fact, many materials science experiments were done using this "stupid" method.
However, even though Sarrot knew this was the only choice, after he saw Lu Zhou's research plan, he couldn't help but say, "Honestly, we can outsource these experiments to other people."
Lu Zhou: "I don't trust other people's data, not to mention that everything is outsourced, what's the point of keeping you?"
On the other side of the screen, Sarrot smiled awkwardly and immediately stopped talking.
"Yes, my boss … I will follow your instructions immediately."
Lu Zhou looked at how obedient Professor Sarrot was. He nodded with satisfaction and said, "Do your best, have confidence in your research. Maybe it'll be a Nature paper."
Even though Sarrot didn't say anything, he still couldn't help but complain in his mind.
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