Chapter 458 MRS Autumn Meeting with Rave Reviews

It was not only Professor Li Rongen who received the invitation letter.

Old Tang and Academician Lu also received the invitation letter at the same time.

After sending out the three invitation letters, Lu Zhou suddenly realized that his initial worries seemed completely unnecessary.

Counting my father and mother plus Xiaotong, three professors from Jinling University, five of my own students, and my senior sister... It seems that the quota is almost used up?

As for the remaining two places, Lu Zhou thought about it for a long time but didn't think about how to deal with it.

Professor Deligne attended the year-end meeting of the European Mathematical Society in France, and Professor Fefferman went with him.

As for old Witten...

Although his words may be full of interest in the Nobel Prize dinner, it is a pity that he is currently participating in a very important conference in the international theoretical physics community at CERN, and he also has no time to spare.

It seems that in the weeks leading up to Christmas, everyone is very busy.

As for inviting former roommates...

There are not enough three places, and it always feels bad to be left behind.

After much deliberation, he couldn't come up with a good idea, so Lu Zhou finally decided to put this issue aside.

If the quota is empty, just leave it empty, there is no need to make up fourteen people.

He has more important things to do than worry about this kind of thing.

For example, to find a suitable method for the industrial preparation of SG-1 material.

The samples they obtained in the experiment were basically by chemical vapor deposition, a layer of carbon atom film was deposited on the substrate through high-temperature carbon source gas, and then the substrate was dissolved to obtain graphene material.

However, this is not enough. This process only obtains the original graphene raw material. In order to make it superconducting at a temperature of 101K, a series of processes such as N doping are also performed on it.

In fact, these things should have been considered by the industry, but Lu Zhou couldn't wait that long.

When an engineer with a technical background like Professor Lazersson finally "opened his mind" and took a fancy to this market with meager profits but no competitors at all, his task would have been completely overwhelmed.

For now, the most widely used field of superconducting materials is scientific research itself.

Fortunately, Lu Zhou had read some idle books on industrial design before, and took a few classes with engineering professors. Combined with his LV2 engineering level, it is not too difficult to absorb these unfamiliar knowledge.

It may not be possible for him to design a production line from beginning to end, but it is still feasible to improve the laboratory preparation method and find a synthesis method with lower cost.

If it didn't work, he simply synthesized it using laboratory methods.

Anyway, isn't it just burning money.

If the demo pile is really made, then he still needs to worry about money?

Don't talk about burning 100 million into it, even if you burn 1 billion, it won't be a loss...

As the end of the month was getting closer, Professor Chiric flew to Boston by plane to attend the MRS Autumn Meeting.

As for Lu Zhou, in addition to the experiment on the SG-1 material, he has to find time to prepare for the Nobel lecture after the award ceremony.

What's more interesting is that during this time he has received many awards invitations.

Among them is the famous New Vision Award, which is said to be sponsored by a Russian billionaire and the founders of companies such as Google, Facebook, and Tencent. There are also some not so famous awards that he can't even find online.

After all, he is the oldest Nobel Prize winner in the legend, and both Lu Zhou's age and achievements are full of topics.

After Prague set the record of 25 years old, it took a century to be broken, and it only broke the record by one year. If you want to break this new record, you still have to wait several centuries.

Although he didn't mind getting a few more awards, so many invitations were stuffed into his mailbox, which really gave Lu Zhou a headache.

It seems that as soon as this Nobel Prize comes out, there are quite a few people who want to take advantage of him.

Because after going to Stockholm, he had to go to Paris. Lu Zhou really didn't have that much time to fly around the world. In the end, he simply asked Xiao Ai to help him reject all the awards that had nothing to do with academia.

However, it was only later that Lu Zhou learned that the prize money for the New Vision Award was a full US$3 million...

He couldn't help but feel a pang of heartache when he thought that he would miss $3 million.

Although three million dollars may not be much to him, who would think that money is too much?

What's more, it was picked up for nothing.

But all the pushes were rejected, even if he wanted to repent, he didn't have the chance, so he had no choice but to give up.

...

On the last day of November, Lu Zhou and Princeton took a short vacation and began to prepare for their trip to Stockholm.

At about the same time, good news came from Professor Chiric, who was going to Boston to attend the MRS Autumn Meeting.

On the phone, Professor Chiric said in an excited tone.

"The report meeting went very smoothly. People who came to listen to the report meeting even squeezed from the aisle of seats to the corridor. You really should come and see it!"

Hearing Professor Chiric's excited tone, Lu Zhou couldn't help but bend the corners of his mouth.

When he reported on the paper on modified PDMS materials at the MRS autumn meeting, the people who came to listen to the report seemed to squeeze into the corridor.

Looking back now, I really miss it.

After hearing for a while, Lu Zhou asked about the business.

"Are there companies interested in our technology?"

Chiric: "Yes, but... it may not be what you expected."

Lu Zhou: "What do you mean?"

Chiric: "It was IBM who found me. They were very interested in our technology, but not because of its superconducting properties, but because of the semiconducting properties of Mott insulators at special angles."

Lu Zhou's heart moved, and he immediately reacted.

"Are they going to use SG-1 material for electronics?"

Professor Chiric nodded: "It seems so. They are doing research on carbon-based electronic devices, but they just asked me some technical details, and asked if we need funding? I told them no, Then they left without saying anything."

Speaking of which, Chirick's voice was somewhat regretful.

When the people from IBM found him, he thought they were going to pay for patent licensing, but unfortunately they didn't.

Obviously, they still have concerns about whether this material is really suitable for use in electronic devices, and they still need to verify it in their own laboratory.

As for the superconducting material itself, although some medical device companies that involve superconducting material components in the production process have expressed interest in this technology, they are only interested.

Seeing that his partner seemed a little disappointed, Lu Zhou casually comforted him: "There is nothing to regret. The research on superconducting materials is not a hot topic in the industry itself. It is normal that it cannot arouse the interest of the industry."

"I know, I just feel that this great technology has not been recognized by the industry..." As if he didn't know how to describe this feeling, Professor Chiric paused for a while, shrugged and continued, "In short , it's a pity."

Lu Zhou: "A great technology does not hinder its greatness just because it cannot arouse the interest of the industry, and I can assure you that it will be used in a great project."

Chiric: "Like?"

Lu Zhou coughed lightly: "I can't tell you now, but by 2025, you will naturally understand what I mean."

Professor Chiric said speechlessly: "Well, it seems that I will have to wait seven years before I can reveal the answer to the mystery."