Chapter 308

With a defeated expression on his face, Karodite sighed and said rather helplessly.

"I admire your dedication and confidence in science. If you succeed, I hope you can consider us."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "It depends on the situation. If I am satisfied with the cooperation of modified PDMS materials, I don't mind continuing to cooperate with you on new projects."

A smile finally appeared on Carlodite's face.

"Then I wish you success...By the way, I want to ask, do you think the direction of the hollow carbon sphere can really be the key to solving the shuttle effect? ​​Please don't get me wrong, I'm not asking about your research, just... "

"I did say something similar in the seminar on lithium-sulfur batteries, but I hope you don't over-interpret it," Lu Zhou replied with a headache, "I'm just optimistic, but I didn't say it will definitely work. come out."

This is already the first time someone has asked him this question.

With an academically honest attitude, Lu Zhou will definitely be responsible for every word he said. However, seeing so many people showing interest in hollow carbon spheres beyond friendship because of his few words, he still couldn't help feeling a little flustered.

What if I get slapped in the face?

Isn't it not guaranteed at the end of the festival?

He now somewhat understands why the old Scottish professor named Peter Bruce, after being slapped in the face countless times, is desperately blowing his papers away.

It's not just a matter of money.

I have pretended to be forced, and I have to continue to pretend with tears in my eyes.

It seems that I have to work harder...

Carlodite laughed and said, "I just asked casually, so don't take it to heart."

But judging by his expression, it doesn't seem like he asked casually...

Kalodite did not stay in Jinda for too long, and left after the equipment was sent to the laboratory building.

Although it is a pity that he failed to reach a cooperative research and development agreement with Lu Zhou, it is only a pity for him. Scientific research is like gambling. Even top scholars cannot guarantee that they will be able to produce results.

At most, it is the same to cooperate with him on patent issues after the results come out.

...

With the arrival of the first batch of experimental instruments, Lu Zhou's research institute in Jinling no longer has an empty experimental building.

According to Qian Zhongming's phone call from Belgium, the last batch of instruments has already departed, and he and Liu Bo will probably return to China in two days.

Hearing Qian Zhongming's tone on the phone, he already felt a little impatient.

After all, the equipment was imported for tens of millions of dollars. For a researcher, it is impossible to say that he is not tempted.

Senior Brother Qian from far away in Belgium was not the only one who was eager to see this batch of equipment. It was less than a day after the equipment was transported into the laboratory building, and Dean Li of the Chemical Institute heard the wind and came to the door.

"Good guy, this thing is worth tens of millions." Stretching out his hand to caress the clean surface of the instrument, the old man liked this thing so much.

Research in the fields of semiconductors and nanometers is inseparable from high-resolution microscopes. Images collected by ordinary electron microscopes and images collected by scanning electron microscopes can be said to be a difference between the sky and the ground.

There are many types of scanning electron microscopes.

The resolution of the high-end tungsten filament gun scanning electron microscope is about 3nm, and the resolution of the field emission gun scanning electron microscope is below 0.8nm, and the price gap between the two is also very different.

Whether it is the imaging lens on the scanning electron microscope, or the electron gun and accelerating tube, even the high-voltage generator and the low-temperature sample chamber, Lu Zhou is equipped according to the standards of top laboratories.

Although it is a bit expensive, but you get what you pay for, and from a long-term perspective, this investment is definitely not a loss.

It's not just researchers who dislike the poor and love the rich, but also major journals.

It is no exaggeration to say that if you use a powerful scanning electron microscope to do experiments, you just scan the root of your hair, and it is all an SCI. Experiments with ordinary electron microscopes, no matter how good the data are, it is difficult to get into "Nature" and "Science".

It's not that Jinda's Chemical Institute doesn't have a scanning electron microscope, but it really doesn't have such awesome equipment.

What's more, not only the School of Chemistry needs to use this thing, but also the School of Life Sciences next door. The time allocated to each professor is quite limited. As for those students writing doctoral thesis, they have to apply in advance and queue up.

Academician Li has always wanted to buy a new scanning electron microscope for the Institute of Chemistry, but he has not applied for it.

"It's not as exaggerated as ten million, it's only eight or nine million," Lu Zhou smiled embarrassedly, but soon thought of something, and added, "It's just dollars."

That's eight or nine million... US dollars.

Changed into RMB can not be more than 40 to 50 million?

After hearing Lu Zhou's words, Academician Li's eyebrows twitched fiercely.

It's a waste to say sourly, people spend their own money.

Apart from envy, he didn't have any other feelings in his heart.

"You are willing to spend money... According to your usage, I am afraid that the entire experiment will cost hundreds of millions of dollars."

Lu Zhou shook his head and said, "It can be saved in other places, but it must not be saved in equipment. Rigorous mathematical models need rigorous data as support."

In fact, it is not as exaggerated as Academician Li said, this scanning electron microscope basically accounts for the bulk of the cost, other experimental equipment such as CVD vacuum tube furnace, arc chamber, Fourier transform infrared spectrometer and so on cost the same money, but It doesn't cost much.

Of course, even if it didn't cost much, Lu Zhou never thought about saving money on these devices.

It's okay to wrong the scientific research dog in terms of salary, but you must not wrong your own people in terms of equipment.

After all, the data can’t be measured accurately, the required samples can’t be produced, and the experiments always fail. Not only do the scientific research dogs become irritable to the point of madness, but the boss himself is ultimately the one who is screwed.

Moreover, these devices are not disposable. Once used in this project, they can continue to be used in the next project.

According to Lu Zhou's plan, he will invest 50 million U.S. dollars in the first phase. After the project is over, he will consider investing another 50 million U.S. dollars to equip his research institute with a series of equipment such as atomic force microscopes and transmission electron microscopes. Build the top material science laboratory in China.

It is no exaggeration to say that many people would be willing to work on the equipment in his laboratory for nothing.

After all, with a small boss who has no money and no future, even the first work of SCI in the second district has to intrigue. Following a big boss like Lu Zhou, mixing two top journal SCIs in such a top laboratory, the whole person's worth will be different after going out.

For some poor scientific research dogs, as long as they take care of food and shelter, Bai Ganhuo will not lose no matter what they think.

Although very helpless, this is also one of the status quo in the academic circle.

Dean Li couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Your computational materials science is really not something that ordinary people can learn."

In the past, he held meetings with people every now and then to discuss whether or not to open a Department of Computational Materials at Jinda University. Now it seems that the lack of professors is not the only thing that is lacking, but the real lack of money.

"Yeah," Lu Zhou said with emotion, "Actually, I'm still planning to use a Taiwan Super Calculator."

Supercomputing is the nuclear weapon of computational materials science, just like the "Anton" of computational chemistry.

A piece of paper and a pen are enough to do qualitative calculations, but if you want to do quantitative calculations, or even use experimental data to accurately simulate the polymer space model, this stuff has nothing to do with whether mathematics is good or not. No matter how good algebra and geometry are, the amount of calculations cannot be solved by the human brain.

However, I just bought 50 million US dollars of equipment, and my assets have shrunk a lot. It is impossible to say that I don't feel distressed at all.

In order to avoid the shortage of research funds, he intends to wait until the new project produces results.

At this moment, Lu Zhou suddenly noticed that Dean Li, who was standing next to the scanning electron microscope, suddenly stopped talking, and couldn't help being slightly stunned.

"What's wrong?"

Dean Li: "..."

Lu Zhou was ignored.

At this moment, he didn't want to say a word.