Chapter 306 Experiment Start

After the seminar ended, Lu Zhou also left the venue with the crowd.

However, just as he was about to walk towards the laboratory building, someone suddenly called him from behind.

"Professor Lu, long time no see."

Looking back, I saw Professor Li Rongen walking towards him with a smile on his face.

Thinking that he had just poached two generals from the old gentleman some time ago, Lu Zhou was a little embarrassed for a while, so he couldn't help but smile and say hello.

"Long time no see, how are you?"

"Everything else is good, but this heart is not very good." Looking at Lu Zhou, Professor Li smiled, but his tone was quite resentful, "It was hard to bring out two apprentices, this is all right, I will abduct them all for you Ran."

"This... how can it be called abduction." Lu Zhou coughed dryly and said, "And if you don't go to the old one, you won't come to the new one, you will definitely find a better one—"

Professor Li shook his head: "Okay, I didn't come to ask you to blame the teacher. I am relieved that they can have a good place to go. Although it is a pity that I didn't get a Ph. D., but with you, what I can learn No less than what I learned here."

It would be too exaggerated to say that he was accused of poaching two students to start a teacher. No one can say that the students he brings out must work here after graduation, even if he does have the idea of ​​absorbing them into Zhongshan New Materials for research.

Following Lu Zhou is obviously more promising. Any young man who intends to develop in this industry will make a similar choice if the salary is not bad. Regarding the choice of the two students, although Li Rongen was reluctant, he also supported it.

His research team will not be affected by the lack of two master's degrees.

After a pause, the old gentleman looked at Lu Zhou and asked earnestly, "To be honest, I don't quite understand the process you proved in the seminar. Are you serious about the conclusion of the hollow carbon sphere?"

Lu Zhou nodded: "I don't need to talk nonsense about this kind of thing."

Among carbon-sulfur composite materials, hollow carbon spheres are a relatively new idea, and have a lot of room for development.

And thanks to the breakthrough of carbon nanotechnology, the prices of materials like carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, and graphene are falling every year, and it is not without a realistic basis to apply them to industrial production.

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 vicious, it seems that what he said is right, you really have a plan."

Lu Zhou smiled embarrassedly, and said modestly: "It's an exaggeration to be confident, and I'm only 30% sure."

Of course, this 30% certainty is just a certainty of success, not a success rate. God knows how many times to do experiments.

After all, his guesses about hollow carbon spheres are all based on inferences based on common sense. Although the feasibility can be proved by mathematical methods, it is still hard to say whether such materials can be found.

"The 30% certainty is already very high. Usually, our experiments are to bet on the possibility of less than 10%." After a sentence of emotion, Professor Li looked at Lu Zhou and continued, "Then look forward to your good news. gone."

Lu Zhou asked, "Is your research team not involved?"

Professor Li shook his head and said with a smile: "You have already entered, why should I get involved? I can wait to read your paper."

After all, Zhongshan New Materials is not an industry giant and has limited funds. It is difficult to see results in the short term in the research and development of lithium-sulfur batteries. As one of the shareholders of the company, Li Rongen will naturally not invest money in it rashly.

Moreover, there is still a large market gap for domestic lithium battery anode materials. Compared with the research and development of new materials, it is far better to digest the immediate market first.

As for the big project of lithium-sulfur batteries, it is better to leave it to those industry giants to fiddle with it.

...

The summary document of the meeting will take about ten days and a half months to come down, but those things have nothing to do with Lu Zhou.

National projects are very important, and it is worthwhile to enjoy the preferential policies. However, the tasks of the system are also very important, and Lu Zhou does not intend to miss the research work on both sides.

Moreover, in the same direction of hollow carbon spheres, although the experimental tasks of the two laboratories are different, they can still play a complementary role in some research.

The next morning, after Lu Zhou finished a part of the interview via remote video, he made a video call with Professor Sarot who was far away in Silicon Valley.

The research institute on the Jinling side will probably have some time to get the equipment in place, but the laboratory on the Silicon Valley side, with the funding from Xingkong Technology, is ready to start experiments.

An annual salary of US$100,000 is not cheap, and Lu Zhou has no intention of raising a group of idlers.

After making a specific research plan, he quickly edited an email and sent it to Sarot's mailbox.

"...I have sent the specific research plan to your work mailbox, please read it first, and let me know if you have any questions."

According to Lu Zhou's topological analysis of the carbon nanosphere, its prototype can probably be disassembled into a C70 fullerene molecule and a carbon nanotube with two topological defects.

The description in chemical language is to open some π bonds of the C70 fullerene material, modify it with carbon nanotubes with topological defects, and change its molecular spatial configuration under specific conditions.

This might sound complicated, but it's actually not that hard to do.

First, the arc chamber is evacuated, and helium gas is introduced. Two high-purity graphite rods are brought close together, and an arc effect is generated by high-voltage electricity. Stable fullerene macromolecules such as C60 and C70.

The C70 molecules are screened out, mixed with carbon nanotubes produced by CVD vacuum tube furnace, and thermally reacted in a vacuum environment.

Due to the instability of the π bond and the large π bond itself, a rather complex chemical reaction occurs during heating. According to the comparison of the expected polymer model, similar products are continuously screened out from the reaction chamber, and then the physical and chemical properties of the products are analyzed.

Maybe a few milligrams of treasure can be found in a kilogram of the product. Then draw different curves according to factors such as product, time, and materials, and find out something similar to an empirical formula, and then establish a complete set of theories.

This may seem like a stupid method, but from a practical point of view, it is the most suitable choice at present.

After all, before finding a stable preparation method, the first thing that needs to be solved is the problem of creating something from scratch. In fact, many materials science experiments are done through this "stupid method".

However, even knowing that this is the only option, after reading the research plan formulated by Lu Zhou, Sarot couldn't help complaining about this experiment with no technical content: "To be honest, we can completely outsource these experiments. Let someone else do it."

Lu Zhou: "I don't worry about using other people's data, not to mention outsourcing everything, what's the use of keeping you."

Sarot, who was on the opposite side of the video camera, smiled slyly, and stopped beeping immediately.

"Obey, my boss... I'll follow your orders right away."

Seeing Professor Sarot so obedient, Lu Zhou nodded with satisfaction, and encouraged him: "Come on, work hard, have more confidence in your research, maybe it will be an article in "Nature."

Although he stopped beeping, Sarot couldn't help beeping a few words in his heart.

Just this thing on "Nature"?

nonexistent.

No matter whether he looked at it horizontally or vertically, he couldn't see any attraction in this thing.