Lu Zhou had to admit that Kanov's idea was quite crafty. There was no one else in the world more suitable than Professor Stanley to review this thesis.
After all, in a sense, this was the same as sending the thesis back to the author, letting the author revise his own manuscript …
Binghamton University.
Inside a chemistry department laboratory.
Professor Stanley, who had just returned from class, threw the textbook in his hand on the sofa near the door. He hummed a cheerful tune as he walked to his desk and sat down.
Ever since ExxonMobil lost the battle a few years ago, they had lost the opportunity to enter the lithium-sulfur battery market. They also lost trust in him.
This double blow to his career and self-esteem caused him to suffer from depression.
However, over the years, he gradually walked out of Lu Zhou's shadow.
Especially when he saw Lu Zhou's research results on TV, he felt like he had been completely untangled.
He wasn't the only one who lost to Lu Zhou.
Materials science itself was a science full of metaphysics. Some people might not necessarily get the results they wanted after doing experiments again and again, but some people just happened to succeed on the first try.
Even the 2008 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Martin Chalfie, said, "Sometimes, you can't trust experience. If the experiment doesn't go well, throw the sample on the ground or in the sea, and then do it again. Basically, the experiment will succeed, no matter what it is."
For a lucky person like Professor Lu, it was better to stay as far away from him as possible.
Professor Stanley was about to ask his assistant to make him a cup of coffee when his assistant suddenly spoke.
"Professor, you have a review invitation from JACS."
A review invitation from JACS?
Interesting.
Professor Stanley said, "Print out the thesis and show it to me."
"Okay, professor."
Professor Stanley looked at his assistant and suddenly remembered that he forgot to ask him to make a cup of coffee.
Sigh, I'm getting old, and my memory is getting worse.
Forget it, I'll just make it myself.
Professor Stanley sighed and shook his head. He stood up and walked to the coffee machine in the office. He then poured himself a cup.
When he returned to his desk, his student and assistant had already printed out the thesis and placed it in front of him.
Professor Stanley leaned back in his office chair and drank his coffee. He looked at the thesis title and couldn't help but laugh.
Lithium-air batteries?
Which idiot sent in this manuscript?
However, just as his gaze moved down a line, his eyebrows suddenly twitched like a beetle that had been electrocuted.
Lu Zhou!
"How unlucky …"
Professor Stanley took a sip of coffee and pretended not to see the name. He then quickly looked at the thesis abstract.
However, it did not matter.
Just as his eyes landed on the first line of the abstract, the coffee that he had just drunk sprayed all over the table like a watering can.
"This shameful thief! Liar! Thief! Shameless bastard! "
Professor Stanley coughed violently and roared. He stood up from his office chair and slammed the coffee cup on the table.
Everyone in the office was shocked by the series of angry shouts. They lowered their heads and didn't dare to breathe. They only dared to use the corner of their eyes to confirm the professor's expression.
Professor Stanley stared at the five-page thesis, and his eyes were filled with anger. He wanted to tear the thesis apart.
Caged carbon molecules!
He was too familiar with this!
Even if he burned his memories of the past 20 years to ashes, he would never forget that summer six years ago, the carbon nanospheres that caused his academic career to fail miserably!
"… When the oxygen purity on one side of the modified PDMS film is higher than 96.7%, and the other side is in an oxygen-free environment, the carbon nanospheres doped in the modified PDMS film act as a porter, transporting oxygen molecules from one side to the other.
"… This phenomenon is very strange. The oxygen concentration required by the environment decreases non-linearly with the thickness of the modified PDMS material. I speculate that there are two possibilities for this phenomenon … F * ck! This is shameful … Shameful … "
Professor Stanley's face turned red. He couldn't think of any other words to curse. It was as if his breath was stuck in his throat.
Seeing this, the assistant hurriedly came forward and handed him a glass of water.
After drinking a cup of cold water, he finally calmed down the breath that he hadn't been able to take.
"Thank you …"
Professor Stanley calmed himself down and sat back in his chair. He looked at the paper and looked at it with regret in his eyes.
He was tricked.
He wasn't the only one who was tricked.
ExxonMobil was also tricked.
Although they had been fooled once six years ago by a "double agent", they were completely confused and disoriented. However, he didn't expect that after six years, he would be tricked by this guy again …
"Damn it … Why didn't I think of this …"
Professor Stanley scratched his head in regret and muttered to himself with a pained expression.
Why didn't he try to add the caged carbon molecules to the polymer material and see what properties it would show in a pure oxygen environment?
As long as he had done this kind of experiment, with his rich experience in the field of materials science, he would definitely find something unusual about it!
However, in reality, there was no such thing as "what if".
Not to mention, most people wouldn't have the idea to add the results of lithium-sulfur battery experiments to the modified PDMS material and study the oxygen molecules on the surface of the material in a pure oxygen environment …
While he was cursing the "thief" from China, he selectively ignored the fact that the material model was originally "stolen" from Lu Zhou's Sarrot laboratory …
The students in the office looked at the furious professor and looked at each other. They didn't know what was going on, and they didn't dare to ask.
Six years ago, most of them weren't here. Some of them were still in undergrad, and some were even in high school …
The assistant standing next to the desk looked at the emotional boss and asked nervously.
"Then … Should we reject the manuscript?"
"No," said Professor Stanley, who was panting heavily. He crushed the manuscript in his hand and threw it into the wastebasket. He said, "Pass it!"
Assistant: "…?"
Students: "???"
Pass it?!
How could he swallow his anger after being angered to this extent?
The assistant looked at the boss with a muddled expression. After making sure that the boss wasn't joking, he quietly sat down at his desk and began to write a reply to the JACS email.
Even though the review process wasn't this fast, since the supervisor had already read the thesis and decided to pass it …
He could just casually write down the review opinions using a template.
Professor Stanley looked at his assistant who was working hard. He had gradually calmed down, and he muttered angrily in a voice that only he could hear.
"Such an important result … Even if the Nobel Committee isn't interested in materials science, the American Materials Research Society award committee will still consider it."
Even though he wasn't the one who discovered the caged carbon molecules in the modified PDMS material, if this thing could really open up the era of lithium-air batteries …
It would still bring him some benefits.
Even though I'm still so f * cking angry!
However, he had to swallow his anger.
Professor Stanley took a dozen deep breaths to calm his soaring blood pressure. He leaned back in his office chair and reluctantly compromised.
Since that shameful marmot added a citation mark to his thesis, Lu Zhou decided to be magnanimous and not scold him too much …
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