With White Sheridan's help, the patent number was quickly obtained. It was even faster than the previous firm that Lu Zhou had hired.
Just from this alone, the former head of Verizon's intellectual property department was worthy of his salary.
After the patent number was obtained, everything became a lot easier.
With a powerful and expensive team of lawyers behind them, the approval process was just a matter of time.
In fact, it wasn't uncommon for a lot of popular patents to be licensed during the patent filing stage.
However, even though superconducting materials were a hot topic in academia, they weren't very eye-catching in the industry.
This could be seen from Pablo Jarillo-Herrero's "old boss".
Before receiving US $10 million from Lu Zhou, the research team led by Professor Herrero's research on superconducting materials was funded by the Gordon and Bertie Moore Foundation and the National Science Foundation. It wasn't funded by any industrial company.
In short, with Connie's help, Lu Zhou completed the entire thesis before mid-November.
Lu Zhou gathered the other two main authors of the thesis at the Ivy Club coffee shop and had a short meeting.
"The thesis is completed. I've exchanged opinions with Professor Herrero through email. They are very interested in the theoretical explanation of the superlattice bandgap under a new perspective. The theoretical work will continue to revolve around this area."
Lu Zhou paused for a second and looked at his two partners. He then said, "If everything goes well, after this thesis, our cooperative research and development agreement with Professor Herrero will come to a successful end."
Because they were in a cafe, the three of them only lightly clinked their coffee cups together in place of applause for the successful "conclusion" of the question.
The research direction of graphene superconducting materials had been opened. In the future, the research teams of the two research institutes would definitely continue to do research in the application direction. They would improve the SG-1 material, such as increasing its superconducting transition temperature or something.
As for Professor Herrero, he seemed to be more interested in theoretical research.
Therefore, in the following research, although their work revolved around the same general direction, the research was on different problems.
Of course, even though the cooperation had ended, the US $10 million research funding that Lu Zhou promised would still support Professor Herrero's continued research.
After all, Professor Herrero's research team also helped him a lot on the SG-1 superconducting material research.
Also, Lu Zhou hoped that Professor Herrero's research team could discover more interesting things in the theoretical field, even if these things weren't necessarily valuable.
Theoretical research was the foundation of applied research. These seemingly worthless new discoveries might come in handy at critical moments.
After Lu Zhou explained the specific situation to his two partners, he paused for a second and looked at Connie.
"Like I said just now, Professor Herrero's research direction will be focused on theoretical research. You've been at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a year, so you should know more about their work than me. "
"I want to hear your opinion on what you plan to do next."
Computational materials science was a tool. Whether it was Lu Zhou's redefined "computational materials science method" or the widely used "first principles" in computational chemistry, they were all the same.
This tool could be used for research in the field of application, and it could also be used in the theoretical field. However, for Connie, it determined the future direction of development.
Connie hesitated for a long time before he finally said, "I want to do applied research."
Lu Zhou nodded.
"I'll write you a recommendation letter in a few days. You can take it to Sarrot's laboratory in Silicon Valley. The person in charge there, Professor Sarrot, will arrange a job for you. You will have your own research team, which will be mainly responsible for computational chemistry and superconducting materials research … Of course, the choice is still up to you. If you want to be a professor at another university, I can help you write another recommendation letter. "
There was nothing else Lu Zhou could teach him about computational chemistry. This recommendation letter meant that Connie could graduate as a postdoc.
If Connie was willing to continue to work under Lu Zhou, Lu Zhou would obviously welcome him. But if Connie had other plans, Lu Zhou would respect his choice.
Connie scratched his head and said, "Of course I'm more willing to work in your laboratory."
What a joke, how could doing research at a university compare to working in a Nobel Prize laureate's laboratory?
Not to mention, according to Lu Zhou's conditions, Connie would be able to become a "small boss" with funding and manpower. If he had to start from scratch, he would be at least forty years old if he could reach this step.
Even though Connie looked like a gorilla, he wasn't stupid at all.
When Lu Zhou heard Connie's response, he smiled and reached out his right hand. "Welcome aboard."
After Lu Zhou shook Connie's hand, the topic returned to the research itself.
Connie put on a serious look and said, "Oh yeah, Professor, since the thesis is already written, what should we do next? Should we submit it to a journal or an academic conference? "
Lu Zhou thought for a bit and said, "Submit to a conference. If we're fast, we might be able to make it to this year's MRS Autumn Conference."
Even though the deadline had passed, a Nobel Prize laureate always had some privileges that normal researchers couldn't imagine.
Whether it was in terms of the submission channel or the importance of the report.
Professor Chirik asked, "Do you plan on going to this year's MRS Autumn Conference?"
Lu Zhou shook his head and said, "I have to go to Stockholm in December. I'm afraid I don't have the time."
In the past, the MRS Autumn Conference was held the day after Black Friday, from the end of November to the beginning of December. The duration depended on the size of the conference.
If he really wanted to participate, it wasn't that he couldn't make it, but the schedule was a little too tight.
When Professor Chirik heard that Lu Zhou didn't plan on going, he smiled and said, "Since you don't have time, I'll go instead."
This was a good opportunity to show off … Oh no, show off in front of his peers and the industry.
Lu Zhou didn't need to show off anymore, but it was still meaningful for him.
When Lu Zhou saw Professor Chirik's eager gaze, he smiled and shook his head.
"Then I'll leave the report to you … Connie, you can go with Professor Chirik and help him out."
Connie nodded excitedly.
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