Solving the superconductivity phenomenon from the perspective of carbon nanomaterials was a very novel idea.
Even though other people had done this research before, they hadn't heard of any particularly outstanding results so far.
Therefore, Lu Zhou wasn't sure if this idea would work or not.
However, the vast majority of scientific research began with speculation. He decided that he would be like the other big names. Regardless of whether it would work or not, he would make a flag first.
After confirming the research direction, Lu Zhou called Sarrot and repeated what he said to Zhao Xu.
Sarrot's eyes widened when he heard Lu Zhou's words. "Superconducting materials? Why do you suddenly want to research in this direction? "
Lu Zhou: "Because I think it's interesting, can't I?"
Sarrot: "No, what I mean is, there's no research in this direction. We have to start from scratch."
Lu Zhou: "So?"
"So it's very likely that we will only be able to make a patent after many in-progress results." Sarrot couldn't help but say, "Why don't we continue to make batteries? The industry is expecting us to continue to improve the HCS-2 material and give them a battery with a larger capacity. "
When Lu Zhou heard this, he smiled.
"The industry definitely isn't expecting us to continue to improve the HCS-2 material. In fact, our technology is enough for the industry to digest for a while.
"As for the patent, you don't have to worry about that. I won't use the patent as the only way to evaluate your performance. You just have to follow this direction. "
"Okay then, if you don't care about losing money." Sarrot shrugged and didn't try to persuade him anymore.
Even though he didn't understand his boss's motives, he obviously wouldn't refuse someone who was willing to pay him to do experiments.
Sarrot paused for a second before he said, "Actually, if you don't care about the patent issue, we can cooperate with other research teams. This way, we can speed up the in-progress results. As far as I know, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a research team in this direction. We can cooperate with them. "
Lu Zhou: "What's their name?"
Sarrot: "Pablo Jarillo-Herrero's research group. The person in charge is a big name in the graphene field."
Lu Zhou frowned slightly and asked, "Will such a big shot be willing to cooperate with us?"
"It depends on who proposed the cooperation. If I send an email, he probably won't respond." Sarrot shrugged and said, "But if the Hoffman Medal winner, the inventor of the Theoretical Model of Electrochemical Interface Structure, and the first person in the field of computational materials, I think he probably won't refuse."
Emmmm …
Lu Zhou suddenly felt that although this guy's words were a little strange, he felt that it made sense.
"Alright then, I will try to contact him."
Lu Zhou hung up the phone and opened his laptop. He began to use the Princeton University database to search for information on the Pablo Jarillo-Herrero research project.
The academic circle wasn't big, so it was easy to find out what a person was researching. All one had to do was investigate the major theses that the person had published recently.
Soon, Lu Zhou found what he was looking for.
This research group's research on the superconductivity of graphene materials could be traced back to ten years ago.
In 2007, they published a paper on "Bipolar Supercurrent in Graphene" in Nature. In 2014, they also published a research paper on "Graphene Quantum Spin Hall State" in Nature. The most recent Nature paper was on the ferromagnetism and heterostructure of monolayer van der Waals crystals. It was also quite interesting.
After Lu Zhou wrote down the email address of the corresponding author, he quickly found the personal blog of Professor Pablo Herrero through Google.
From the content of his updated blog, just like Sarrot said, they were doing very interesting research on the superconductivity of graphene at low temperatures.
If they were right, it would provide a new idea for the research of superconducting materials.
"The materials science world is really full of big names."
Lu Zhou opened his email and began to edit it.
[Hello, Professor Pablo Herrero, I am Lu Zhou working at Princeton University. After reading your paper in Nature, I'm very interested in your research direction. If you don't mind, I hope to cooperate with you on the superconductivity of graphene. What do you think?]
After sending the email, Lu Zhou didn't immediately close his email. Instead, he leaned back in his chair and waited for a while.
Based on his experience, most people would spend the morning tracking their peers on arXiv, checking their work emails, and replying to emails.
Professor Pablo Herrero should be sitting in front of his computer at this moment, and he should have already seen his email.
In fact, Lu Zhou's guess was correct.
After waiting for around five minutes, he received a reply.
There was only one line in the email.
[I'm fine with it, do you have a more specific cooperation plan?]
When Lu Zhou saw this email, he smirked and began to write a reply.
[Of course …]
…
The cooperation agreement was completed more smoothly than Lu Zhou had expected.
Most professors were quite willing to cooperate with a strong research team for projects with low patent conversion rates.
According to the cooperative research agreement between the two sides, Lu Zhou would send a researcher over to visit and exchange his computational materials science methods. At the same time, the other side would also send a researcher over to exchange their research.
Both parties would jointly research the superconductivity of two-dimensional carbon nanomaterials and jointly sign their papers.
The next day, Lu Zhou found Connie, who was doing his postdoc.
Compared to Jerick, who was still in the learning stage, Connie, who had been working under Lu Zhou for a while, was more suitable for this task.
"I need you to go to Boston," Lu Zhou said straightforwardly.
"Boston? What's up? "Connie, who was doing an experiment, stopped his work and looked at Lu Zhou.
Lu Zhou: "Recently, I reached an agreement with the Pablo Jarillo-Herrero research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology University to conduct cooperative research on the superconductivity of two-dimensional carbon nanomaterials. I need you to go there for a visit for a period of time. It might take a few weeks, it might take a few months, it's hard to say. Of course, I'll reimburse you for your travel expenses, mainly if you have any problems with your schedule? "
"I'm completely fine, Professor." Connie grinned and patted his chest as he said, "Don't worry, leave this to me … When do we leave?"
A visit was a good opportunity to broaden one's horizons, especially with a generous boss who didn't have to pay out of his own pocket.
Any diligent student wouldn't let go of an opportunity like this.
Seeing that Connie agreed, Lu Zhou nodded with satisfaction and spoke with a smile.
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