Chapter 456 A Good Opportunity to Show Your Face in Front of Your Colleagues

Under the operation of White Sheridan, the patent number was obtained very quickly, even faster than the firm that Lu Zhou entrusted before.

From this point of view alone, the former director of Verizon Telecom's intellectual property department is indeed worthy of his annual salary.

After getting the patent number, everything is much easier.

With the backing of a strong and expensive team of lawyers, the subsequent approval is just a process.

In fact, it is nothing new for many sought-after patents to be authorized during the filing stage of the patent number.

However, although superconducting materials are considered a hot topic in academia, they are not eye-catching in industry.

And this can be seen from the "old club" of Pablo Jarillo-Herrero's laboratory.

Before receiving the $10 million funding support from Lu Zhou, when the research team led by Professor Herero initially researched superconducting materials, the research funding was supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the National Science Foundation of the United States. , rather than from a certain enterprise in the industry.

In short, with Connie's help, Lu Zhou completed the entire thesis before mid-November.

In the coffee shop of the Ivy Club, Lu Zhou gathered the other two main authors of the paper together for a brief meeting.

"The thesis has been completed. I exchanged opinions with Professor Herrero via email. They are very interested in the theoretical explanation of the superlattice bandgap width from a new perspective. The next theoretical work will continue around this aspect. conduct."

Speaking of this, Lu Zhou paused for a moment, then continued to look at the two partners, "If there is no accident, after this paper, the cooperative research and development agreement between us and Professor Herero has come to a successful conclusion."

Because it was in a coffee shop, the three of them just touched each other lightly with coffee cups instead of the applause of the successful "end of the question".

The research direction of graphene superconducting materials has been opened. In the future, the research teams of Lu Zhou's two research institutes will definitely continue to do research on the application direction, and improve the SG-1 material, such as increasing its superconducting transition temperature. What.

As for Professor Herero, it seems that he is more interested in theoretical research.

Therefore, in the following research, although their work revolves around the same general direction, they study different issues.

Of course, although the cooperation is over, the $10 million research funding promised by Lu Zhou will still support Professor Herero to continue his research.

After all, Professor Herrero's research team has also helped him a lot in the research and development of SG-1 superconducting materials.

And Lu Zhou also hopes that Professor Herero's research team can find more interesting things in the theoretical field, even if these things are not necessarily valuable.

Theoretical research is the basis of applied research, and these seemingly worthless new discoveries may come in handy at critical moments.

After explaining the specific situation to his two partners, Lu Zhou paused for a moment and looked at Connie.

"As I said just now, Professor Herero's research direction will focus on theory. You have been visiting and exchanged at MIT for a year, so you should know more about their work than I do."

"As for your next plan, I want to hear your opinion."

The method of calculating materials is a tool, whether it is the "computational materials method" redefined by Lu Zhou or the "first principles" widely circulated in the computational chemistry community.

This tool can be used for research in applied fields as well as in theoretical fields, but for Konney, it is what determines its future development direction.

Regarding this question, Connie hesitated for a long time, and finally said in a positive tone: "I want to do the application."

After hearing his reply, Lu Zhou nodded.

"I will write you a letter of recommendation in a few days, and you take it to Silicon Valley to find Sarot Laboratory, where the person in charge, Professor Sarot, will arrange the next job for you. Then you will have your own The research team is mainly responsible for the research of computational chemistry and superconducting materials...Of course, the choice is still up to you. If you prefer to become a professor in a certain university, I can also help you write another letter of recommendation."

Regarding computational chemistry methods, Lu Zhou has nothing to teach him, and this letter of recommendation also means that Connie can graduate as a postdoctoral fellow.

If he is willing to continue working under him, Lu Zhou is of course very welcome. But if he has other plans, Lu Zhou also respects his choice.

Connie touched the back of his head, smiled and said, "Of course I'd rather work in your laboratory."

Just kidding, going to a university to do research work is not as promising as working in the laboratory of a Nobel laureate.

What's more, according to the conditions offered by Lu Zhou, he will be able to be a "little boss" after he goes there. He needs funds and people. If he started to fight from scratch, he would at least be forty years old if he could get to this point.

Although his body looks like a gorilla, Connie is not stupid at all.

After hearing Connie's answer, Lu Zhou smiled and stretched out his right hand: "You are welcome to join."

After shaking hands with Connie and letting go, the topic continued back to the research itself.

Putting on a serious look, Connie continued: "By the way, professor, the paper has been written, so what's next? Should we submit to journals or academic conferences?"

After thinking for a while, Lu Zhou answered, "Let's vote for the meeting. If we move quickly, we might be able to catch up with this year's MRS autumn meeting."

Although the deadline on the official website has passed, the Nobel laureates always have some privileges that ordinary scientific research dogs can't imagine.

Whether it is in the channel of submission, or in the degree of attention that the report will receive.

At this time, Professor Chiric asked, "Are you planning to go to the MRS autumn meeting this year?"

Lu Zhou shook his head: "I have to go to Stockholm in December, I'm afraid I won't have the time."

In previous years, the MRS Autumn Conference was held the day after Black Friday, from the end of November to the beginning of December, and the duration depends on the scale of the conference.

If you have to participate, it is not too late, but the schedule is a bit too tight.

Hearing that Lu Zhou didn't plan to go, Professor Chiric laughed and said, "Since you don't have time, I'll go for you at the MRS Autumn Meeting."

This is a good opportunity to pretend... oh no, to gain a sense of presence in front of peers and industry.

Lu Zhou may no longer have the need to gain a sense of presence, but for him, it still has some meaning.

Seeing Professor Chiric's eager gaze, Lu Zhou smiled and shook his head.

"The report will be handed over to you... Connie, you can go with Professor Chiric and help him by the way."

Connie nodded excitedly.

"Okay, Professor!"

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