Chapter 353 Interview with Time Magazine

"HCS-2 Materials: The Terminator of the Shuttle Effect"

The papers with highlights are often the most outstanding research results in this issue of journals.

Regarding Lu Zhou's thesis, not only the title was selected on the cover in the summary section, but also the reviewer Professor Bavundi's evaluation of his thesis was included in the technology review section.

Although this evaluation is only a short line of words——

[Frankly speaking, I didn't believe the data in the paper until I did it myself according to his experiment report. 】

It was this short comment that made someone blush with shame after seeing it...

Binghamton University in New York State.

The latest issue of "Science" is being spread out on the table together with an experiment report.

And the one sitting at the desk was Professor Stanley who was blown away by Wang Haifeng.

It's just that at this moment, there is no anger left on his face, only disbelief and bewilderment.

Looking at the experiment report, Woods sighed softly, with a hint of depression in his voice: "We lost."

Professor Stanley's Adam's apple moved, and he wanted to say something, but he didn't say a word for a long time.

Three days ago, when he got this journal, he felt like a bolt from the blue.

He couldn't believe that Lu Zhou was able to continuously make such important research results in such a short period of time.

Especially the data in that lab report was so beautiful that it seemed to be made up.

He did not believe in evil, just like Professor Bawandi, he repeated the experiment on the contents of the experiment report.

However, the final result was so perfect that it made him despair.

Although there are some fluctuations in the collected data due to the differences in the drugs and equipment used, they are still basically consistent with the results obtained in Lu Zhou's paper...

What is the premise of science?

is repeatable.

What are the prerequisites for industrialization?

The output can be stable under the premise that it can be repeated.

Undoubtedly, this technology already has these two elements, coupled with the superior performance of the HCS-2 material, it is almost self-evident who the market will choose.

Thinking of this, Professor Stanley couldn't help showing a bit of bitterness on his face.

The inability to repeat the experiment is precisely his weakness.

While he has been trying to remedy it, the patience of academia and industry clearly cannot be unlimited. In particular, the HCS-2 material was born, and major new energy companies have begun to design lithium-sulfur battery products in accordance with the HCS-2 material standard.

Even if he tried to save it, it was too late...

However, Professor Stanley still couldn't bear to just watch his hard work in the past six months go to waste.

Finally unable to hold back, he spoke.

"Give me another half a year! I will definitely be able to come up with a plan that you are satisfied with—"

"It doesn't make any sense, my dear Professor Stanley." Interrupting him, Woods sighed, his voice was a bit lonely, "Unless you can do better than him, what's the use of words? What's more... ..."

After a pause, Woods changed into a rather helpless tone, and continued: "What's more, maybe by the time your research comes to fruition, their HCS-3 and even HCS-4 have already been researched."

Professor Stanley opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word.

Woods didn't say anything more, didn't even scold him, just patted him on the shoulder, then turned and walked away.

Contrary to Professor Stanley's despair, the birth of HCS-2 material caused an earthquake in the entire new energy industry.

After the lithium dendrite problem was solved, the industry embraced traditional lithium batteries again, and people used mobile phones and laptops with stronger battery life.

Since then, many people have begun to look forward to the bright future brought by the next generation of black technology lithium-sulfur batteries.

But now it seems that this dream is still brewing, and it has become a reality.

Many factories that help 3c electronic manufacturers to manufacture batteries have just completed the transformation of their production lines and adjusted the production capacity of lithium-ion batteries to lithium batteries. Now they have to continue to design new production capacity adjustment plans and start preparing to embrace lithium batteries. A new era for sulfur batteries...

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Since the publication of the paper, one of the things that Lu Zhou is most grateful for is that he established Xingkong Technology, and he handed over a series of issues such as patent licensing and pricing to his manager and the legal department.

Otherwise, not to mention the rest time, just dealing with all kinds of patent licensing calls would be enough to annoy him to death...

On a sunny morning, on Carnegie Lake on the campus of Princeton University, a small quadrotor drone roared past the head of the kayaking team in training.

Amidst the whistles and exclamations of kayakers and cheerleaders, the little guy with the camera circled around Lake Carnegie, then flew back to the park beside Lake Carnegie, slowly landed on the lawn.

At the same time, a few students sitting on the benches in the nearby park looked at the photos on the computer screen and made strange noises.

"Oh my god, look what I got?"

"Chris didn't even wear a bra!"

"This is big news..."

"Hey, give me a copy of the photo."

Apparently, the guys caught something bad with their drone while circling Lake Carnegie just now.

Lu Zhou, who was standing next to him, coughed lightly and warned the restless boys.

"Jimmy, I agreed to serve as your technical advisor to help you win the game, not to watch how you violate other people's privacy rights."

"Sorry, professor, I will delete the photos." The boy with freckles lowered his head in shame, and silently deleted all the photos in front of Lu Zhou.

While it's cool to post pictures of this kind on social media to show off, it's not a very kind thing for the victims and their clubs.

As the leader of this group of technical geeks, he must be responsible to his friends.

After confirming that Jimmy deleted all the photos, Lu Zhou glanced at the silver watch in his hand, "The flight time is 30 minutes, check the remaining power."

Putting the notebook aside, Jimmy stood up from the bench,

"Okay, Professor, I'll go right away."

Lu Zhou corrected him very much: "Call me coach."

"Yes, coach!"

Jimmy immediately straightened his back, shouted vigorously, and then trotted towards the drone parked on the lawn amidst the cheerful laughter of his friends.

It's the end of summer, and it's not just fall and the Ivy League games that are coming, but all kinds of colorful discipline competitions.

For example, the drone design competition is one of them. As a popular competition event for engineering majors in American universities, its popularity in recent years is no less than that of robot competitions and artificial intelligence.

Although engineering majors are not Princeton's strong point, these top students in Princeton still have strong hands-on skills. This drone was DIYed by themselves, and the materials used were either purchased online or bought on credit from other professors' laboratories.

As their consultant, Lu Zhou also participated in the production of this drone.

As for how Lu Zhou became the advisor of these students, it is actually quite a coincidence.

These students originally went to consult Professor Chiric on how to improve the battery of the drone and increase its battery life, and Professor Chiric immediately recommended them to Lu Zhou.

After finishing the experiment, there were still a lot of samples that could not be processed in time, so Lu Zhou used the equipment in Frick's laboratory to help them replace the positive electrode material and electrolyte in the battery.

Although this kind of shoddy DIY product is definitely not as good as the standardized industrial product, it is still an out-and-out black technology for the students' competition.

Directly more than doubled the battery life of the original drone.

This work is very interesting, especially when seeing his own research results fly into the sky, it is like opening the door to a new world for Lu Zhou.

Compared with competitive sports such as rugby and football, he thinks this slightly technical hobby is more suitable for him.

Later, because they chatted very well during the exchange of technical issues, Lu Zhou also gained a lot of inspiration from the views of these students, so he accepted their invitation and served as their club consultant.

Ever since, behind his many titles, there is a new title-Chief Advisor of the Princeton University Drone Club.

Of course, as a consultant, there are not many things that need him to do. These students know that he is very busy, so they usually don't bother him.

At most, it’s only on weekends, taking an afternoon or a few hours to get together to discuss some technical issues, or like now, watching them test drones.

While Lu Zhou was watching the group of students continue to fly the drones, a lady with long blond hair in business attire came to the park.

Behind her, there was an assistant and a photographer carrying a video camera. This lineup obviously didn't look like people from a school.

Noticing that the lady was walking towards him, Lu Zhou looked away from the sky, looked at her and asked.

"You are?"

The lady smiled at him and handed out her business card.

"Hello, Professor Lu, I'm a reporter from Time Magazine, do you have time now?"