Professor Lee Yong-eun wasn't the only one who received an invitation.
Professor Tang and Academician Lu Zhou also received an invitation.
After sending out these three invitations, Lu Zhou suddenly realized that his worries were completely unnecessary.
Including his parents, Xiao Tong, the three professors from Jin Ling University, his five students, and Chen Yushan … It seemed like he had used up most of the spots?
As for the remaining two spots, Lu Zhou couldn't think of a way to deal with them.
Professor Deligné was attending the European Mathematical Society's year-end conference in France, and Professor Fefferman was going with him.
As for Witten …
Even though he might be interested in the Nobel Prize banquet, unfortunately, he was attending an important international theoretical physics conference at CERN, so he didn't have time to attend.
It seemed like everyone was very busy in the weeks leading up to Christmas.
As for inviting his former roommates …
If he didn't have three spots, it wouldn't be good to leave anyone behind.
Lu Zhou couldn't think of a good idea, so he decided to put this problem aside.
If the spots were empty, then so be it. There was no need to have 14 people.
Instead of worrying about this, he had more important things to do.
For example, finding a suitable method for the industrial preparation of the SG-1 material.
The samples they obtained from their experiments were basically all through the chemical vapor deposition method. They used a high-temperature carbon source gas to deposit a layer of carbon atom film on the substrate, then dissolved the substrate to obtain the graphene material.
However, this alone wasn't enough. This process only obtained the initial graphene raw material. In order for it to achieve superconductivity at 101K, it had to undergo a series of processes such as N-doping.
Actually, these things should have been thought about by the industry, but Lu Zhou couldn't wait that long.
By the time an engineer like Professor Lazerson came up with an idea and set their eyes on this market with little profit but no competitors, Lazerson's mission would be over.
Currently, the most widely used superconducting materials was in scientific research.
Fortunately, Lu Zhou had read some books on industrial design before. He had attended a few lectures from an engineering professor, and with his level 2 engineering, it was not difficult for him to absorb the unfamiliar knowledge.
He might not be able to design a production line from start to finish, but it was possible to improve the preparation method in the laboratory and find a synthesis method with a lower cost.
If it really didn't work, he might as well synthesize it using laboratory methods.
Anyway, it was just burning money.
If he really built the DEMO demonstration reactor, would he still have to worry about money?
Not to mention a hundred million, even a billion would not be a loss …
As the end of the month approached, Professor Chirik flew to Boston to attend the MRS Autumn Conference.
As for Lu Zhou, in addition to the SG-1 material experiment, he also had to prepare for the Nobel Prize lecture after the award ceremony.
What was interesting was that he had received a lot of invitations to award prizes.
One of the most famous awards was the New Horizons Award, which was sponsored by a Russian billionaire and the founders of Google, Facebook, and Tencent. There were also some awards that weren't very famous, and he couldn't even find them on the internet.
After all, Lu Zhou was the youngest Nobel Prize winner. Whether it was his age or his achievements, they were all topics of discussion.
After Prague set a record of 25 years old, it took a century for it to be broken, and the record was only broken by one year. Who knew how many centuries it would take to break this new record?
Even though he didn't mind winning a few more awards, with so many invitations stuffed into his mailbox, it really gave Lu Zhou a headache.
It seemed like there were a lot of people who wanted to take advantage of his popularity.
After going to Stockholm, he had to go to Paris. Lu Zhou didn't have much time to fly around the world. In the end, he asked Xiao Ai to help him reject all the awards that had nothing to do with academia.
However, Lu Zhou later found out that the prize money for the New Horizons Award was US $3 million …
When he thought about how he missed out on US $3 million, he couldn't help but feel heartbroken.
Even though US $3 million was nothing to him, who wouldn't want more money?
Not to mention, it was free money.
However, he had already rejected it, so he had no choice but to give up.
…
On the last day of November, Lu Zhou took a long vacation from Princeton and began to prepare for his trip to Stockholm.
At the same time, Professor Chirik, who was going to Boston to attend the MRS Autumn Conference, sent him some good news.
Professor Chirik spoke in an excited tone.
"The report went very smoothly, and the people who came to listen to the report even squeezed into the hallway. You really should come to the venue!"
When Lu Zhou heard Professor Chirik's excited tone, he couldn't help but smirk.
When he reported on the modified PDMS material at the MRS Autumn Conference, the people who came to listen to the report also squeezed into the hallway.
Now that he thought about it, he really missed it.
After listening for a while, Lu Zhou asked about business.
"Are there any companies interested in our technology?"
Chirik: "There are, but … it might be different from what you expected."
Lu Zhou: "What do you mean?"
Chirik: "IBM found me. They are very interested in our technology, but not because of its superconductivity, but because of the semiconductor properties of the Mott insulator at a special angle."
Lu Zhou's heart thumped, and he immediately realized what was going on.
"They plan on using the SG-1 material to make electronic devices?"
Professor Chirik nodded and said, "I think so. They are doing research on carbon-based electronic devices, but they only asked me some technical details and if we needed funding. I told them we didn't need funding, and they left without saying anything. "
Chirik sounded a little regretful.
When the people from IBM found him, he thought they were going to buy a patent license, but unfortunately, they didn't do so.
Obviously, they still had concerns about whether or not this material was suitable for use in electronic devices, so they needed to verify it in their own laboratory.
As for the superconducting material itself, some medical device companies that were involved in the production of superconducting materials expressed interest in this technology, but they were only interested.
Seeing how his partner seemed a little disappointed, Lu Zhou comforted him and said, "There's nothing to be disappointed about, the research of superconducting materials isn't a popular direction in the industry, so it's normal that we can't attract the interest of the industry."
"I know, I just feel like this great technology hasn't been recognized by the industry …" Professor Chirik didn't know how to describe this feeling. He paused for a while and shrugged. He then said, "Anyway, it's a pity."
Lu Zhou: "A great technology won't be affected just because it can't attract the interest of the industry. I can promise you that it will be used in a great project."
Chirik: "Like what?"
Lu Zhou coughed and said, "I can't tell you right now, but you'll know what I mean in 2025."
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