Chapter 322 Phased Results

Snatching the new issue of "Science" from Liu Hong's hand, Wang Haifeng spread out the journal on the table, and carefully studied the lines of small characters and pictures.

Although he was extremely displeased with Lu Zhou both in his mouth and in his heart, he had to admit that this kid is indeed a talent.

There are many scholars who can publish papers in "Science" and "Nature", but there are very few scholars who can publish two corresponding author papers in the same periodical.

The first paper was theoretical. He couldn't understand anything except the conclusion even if he wanted to read it. After a glance, he put it aside.

The second one is about the HCS-1 material, as the name suggests, it is about application, and Wang Haifeng read this part very carefully.

However, when he saw the first picture, his eyebrows twitched violently.

He also has a scanning electron microscope in his lab, but with a lanthanum hexaboride electron gun.

Although this kind of electron gun is much more advanced than the tungsten filament electron gun, the resolution of the secondary electron image can reach 2nm, and the image is 5 to 10 times brighter than the tungsten filament gun, but compared with the field emission electron gun, it is still abused.

There is no doubt that this picture in the paper was taken with a field emission electron gun, and it is also a cold field emission electron gun with better performance.

This kind of person is really hateful!

I didn't do anything at the beginning, but I "show off my wealth" first.

Thinking that he has been in the organic industry for more than 20 years, and that he is not as good as a junior who just stepped into the material industry, Wang Haifeng's heart is almost distorted with jealousy.

But reading down the paper, he quickly calmed down again.

After seeing the last line, Wang Haifeng closed the journal in his hand with a snap, and threw it back into Liu Hong's hand.

"It's just a phased result."

While making this conclusion, Wang Haifeng also breathed a sigh of relief.

If this HCS-1 material is achieved by Lu Zhou to an unchangeable level like the modified PDMS material, not to mention that he can only be willing to admit defeat, it is the same for those international chemical giants and international giants of carbon-sulfur composite materials. .

But obviously, this HCS-1 material is not perfect.

Of course, even if it is a phased result, the superior performance of this HCS-1 material is quite shocking. If the problem of the production process is solved, it may be used in some fields that require high battery energy density but low requirements for reusability.

For example, drones...

Liu Hong hesitated and said: "What if they only released the staged results, and there are more important results that have not been released..."

Wang Haifeng squinted at him: "Will you take off your pants and fart?"

Liu Hong was stunned for a while, hesitated for a while, and said with a smile, "...can you post a few more papers?"

Amused by his students, Wang Haifeng laughed: "Tell me, is he short of a Ph.D.? Or short of a professional title? Need to worry about one or two papers?"

Realizing that he asked a stupid question, Liu Hong immediately shut up and stopped talking.

Indeed, ordinary scientific research dogs need papers to accumulate their academic capital, so that they can find a decent job in the laboratory and make it to the top one day.

Ordinary professors also need papers to prove their academic ability and complete the scientific research indicators of the school. At the same time, it is good to write a better resume and a more polite tone of staff when they apply for research funding next time.

But for people who have become scientific research bosses, is this a problem?

For research in the field of engineering, especially horizontal topics that take money from companies, patents are the most critical thing.

If you can't get a patent, no matter how much work you have done before, it is just paving the way for the success of others. For some large-scale research projects, even if they are 90% sure of the results, they will not release the phased results.

Unless you are really short of money, you need to use staged results to stabilize investors' emotions, and at the same time bait new investors, so that they have the illusion that they will see results soon.

Obviously, Lu Zhou does not belong to this category.

Laymen may not know how valuable modified PDMS materials are, but Wang Haifeng, who works in the material industry, does. Umicore not only paid 400 million yuan for this patent, but also gave up a large amount of continuous profits.

Then, there is only one possibility left...

Wang Haifeng's eyes shone with shrewdness: "This kid is not simple. I'm afraid he was already doing related research before he presented the paper on modified PDMS materials in July last year. Everyone was playing riddles in the last seminar, and he was the only one who spoke Knowing so well, I guessed that he might have researched some results."

Most people start writing papers after getting a patent number, and almost no one will wait until all international patent authorizations are issued before starting to submit papers. Considering the patent registration period, it will take at least twelve months for all the documents to be in place.

In other words, although the thesis was published in the summer of 2016, the real research results are likely to have been produced in 2015.

Now that another paper has been published so quickly, Wang Haifeng has 10,000 reasons to suspect that Lu Zhou actually started researching this hollow carbon sphere as early as a year ago, after the modified PDMS thin film technology was developed.

Liu Hong vaguely thought of a possibility, but he was still not sure: "What do you mean?"

"His research is probably stuck in a bottleneck," Wang Haifeng smiled schemingly, "It's safe, the young man is still a little immature, and he can't afford to wait for this time."

In the case of stagnant research progress, in order to prevent others from making major achievements by themselves, it is also a very common method to preemptively release phased results. Although it will expose one's own research progress, it can also be exchanged for greater initiative.

After all, the longer the result is held in hand, the greater the risk. Especially in some popular research fields, if you wait two more months, maybe someone else will achieve the same results.

Considering that so many research institutions are working on hollow carbon spheres, this possibility is not low. And once others publish their results first, it will mean that all previous efforts are in vain.

From Wang Haifeng's point of view, Lu Zhou is a typical young and energetic man. Although he has a few cities, he can't hold his breath and can't bear the pressure.

"Our project continues." After thinking for a while, Wang Haifeng looked at Liu Hong, and then said, "Just in case, you can help me inquire about the situation at the Jinling Institute of Computing Materials, and find a way to find someone to inquire about it." Now, what's the progress of their research?"

"But I don't know anyone from Jin University," Liu Hong said in a dilemma, "and even if I do, do you think people will tell me?"

Wang Haifeng scolded: "Are you a pig? I've arranged everything for you, so what use are you for!"

Liu Hong was so sprayed that he closed his mouth and dared not speak.

After pausing for a moment, Wang Haifeng softened his tone and continued to speak.

"In addition, our opening report needs to be changed."

When opening the topic, he just generally described the direction of hollow carbon spheres for making carbon-sulfur composite materials. Now that Lu Zhou has released the staged results, if he still uses such a general description, he may be beaten back because of the "novelty" rule.

But this thing is easy to change.

At least for him, it's not a big problem.