Chapter 372 Set up a Flag First

It is a very novel idea to solve the superconducting phenomenon from the perspective of carbon nanomaterials.

Although it is not that no one has done this research, so far, I have not heard of any particularly outstanding results.

Therefore, Lu Zhou had no idea whether this line of thinking would work or not.

However, the vast majority of scientific research starts with speculation anyway. He decided to be like other bigwigs, regardless of whether it can be done or not, set a flag first.

After confirming the direction of research, Lu Zhou made a phone call with Zarate and repeated what he had said to Zhao Xu.

After listening to Lu Zhou's words, Sarot opened his eyes wide: "Superconducting materials? Why do you suddenly want to study this direction?"

Lu Zhou: "Because it's very interesting, isn't it?"

Sarot: "No, I mean, the research in this direction is close to blank, we have to start from scratch."

Lu Zhou: "So?"

"So it is very likely that we will be able to make a result that meets the patent application standards only after many phased results," Sarot couldn't help persuading, "Why don't we continue to make batteries? The industry is looking forward to us Continue to improve the HCS-2 material to bring them higher capacity batteries."

After hearing this sentence, Lu Zhou smiled.

"The industry is definitely not expecting us to continue to improve HCS-2 materials. In fact, the technologies we have come up with are enough for the industry to digest for a while."

"As for patents, you don't have to worry about that. I won't use patents as the sole criterion for evaluating your performance. You just need to follow this direction."

"Well, since you don't care about losing money." Sarot shrugged and said nothing more.

Although he couldn't understand the boss's motives, if someone was willing to lose money for him to do experiments, he would naturally not refuse such an opportunity.

After a pause, Sarot continued: "Actually, if you don't care much about patent issues, we can cooperate with other research teams, which can speed up the output of phased results. As far as I know, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology There is a research team that is also working in this direction, and we can cooperate with them."

Lu Zhou: "Their names?"

Sarot: "Pablo Jarillo-Herrero's research group is headed by a master in the graphene field."

Lu Zhou frowned slightly, and asked: "Will this kind of big cow be willing to cooperate with us?"

"It depends on who proposed the cooperation. If I sent an email, he would probably ignore me," Sarot shrugged, "but if the Hoffman Medal winner and the theoretical model of electrochemical interface structure The author, the first person in the field of computational materials, emailed him, and I think he probably would not refuse."

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Lu Zhou suddenly felt that although this guy's statement was a bit strange, he always felt that it made sense.

"All right, I'll try to contact him."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Zhou turned on his laptop and began searching for information about Pablo Jarillo-Herrero's research group with the help of Princeton University's database.

The circle of academia is small, and it is very simple to know what a person is researching. You only need to investigate the big papers he has published recently.

Soon, Lu Zhou found what he wanted.

This research group's research on the superconductivity of graphene materials can even be traced back to ten years ago.

In 2007, they published a paper on "Bipolar Supercurrent in Graphene" in "Nature". In 2014, they also published a paper on "Graphene Quantum Spin Hall State" in "Nature". Research papers, and the recent "Nature" is about the ferromagnetism and heterostructure of single-layer van der Waals crystals, which is also quite interesting.

After writing down the email address of the corresponding author, Lu Zhou quickly found the personal blog of Professor Pablo Herero, the head of the research group, through Google.

Judging from his updated blog content, as Sarot said, they are engaged in a very interesting research-about the superconducting properties of graphene at low temperature.

If they are right, it will provide a new way of thinking about superconducting materials.

"The field of materials science is full of talented people."

With a sigh in his heart, Lu Zhou opened the mailbox and began to edit the email.

[…Hello, Professor Pablo Herero, I am Lu Zhou who works at Princeton University. After reading your paper published on "Nature", I am very interested in your research direction. If you don't mind, I hope to cooperate with you on the research of graphene superconducting properties. What do you think? 】

After sending the email, Lu Zhou did not close the mailbox immediately, but leaned on the chair and waited for a while.

According to his experience, most people spend their mornings tracking peers on Arxiv, checking work emails, and replying to emails.

If there is no accident, that Professor Pablo Herero should be sitting in front of the computer at this moment, and has already seen his email.

In fact, Lu Zhou guessed very accurately.

After waiting for about five minutes, he waited for a reply.

In the email, there is only one line.

[I have no objection, is there a more specific cooperation plan? 】

Seeing this email, the corner of Lu Zhou's mouth curled into a smile, and he began to edit and reply.

【certainly……】

...

The speed at which the cooperation agreement was reached was even smoother than Lu Zhou imagined.

For projects with a low patent conversion rate, most professors are quite willing to conduct collaborative research with a strong team.

According to the cooperative research agreement between the two parties, Lu Zhou will send a researcher to visit and communicate with them, and guide them on their computational materials science methods. At the same time, they will also send a researcher to exchange research.

The two parties jointly conducted research on the superconducting properties of two-dimensional carbon nanomaterials, and the final papers were jointly signed.

The next day, Lu Zhou found Connie who was working as a postdoctoral fellow with him.

Compared to Jericho, who is still in the learning stage, it is obvious that Connie, who has been working under him for a while, is more suitable for this task.

"I need you to go to Boston." After finding Connie, Lu Zhou cut to the chase.

"Boston? What's the matter?" Connie, who was doing the experiment, stopped what he was doing, looked at Lu Zhou and asked.

Lu Zhou: "Recently, I have reached an agreement with Pablo Jarillo-Herrero's research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct cooperative research on the superconducting properties of two-dimensional carbon nanomaterials. I need you to visit there for a while, It may take a few weeks, or it may take a few months, which is hard to say. Of course, I will reimburse you for travel expenses and expenses, mainly to see if you have any problems with the timing?"

"I'm completely fine here, Professor," Connie said with a grin, patting his chest, "Leave this to me... When are you leaving?"

Visiting and communicating is a good opportunity to broaden your horizons, especially with a generous boss without paying out of pocket.

Such an opportunity, any diligent student will not let it go easily.

Seeing that Connie agreed, Lu Zhou nodded in satisfaction and said with a smile.

"You can start preparing now, and leave in three days!"