Chapter 301: Purchase of instruments

What Jinling Institute of Computing Materials needs is research talents, and talents don't grow out of the ground. Although short-term needs can be solved by digging people with high salaries, there is no future for research institutes without the ability to create blood.
From a long-term perspective, Lu Zhou needs a group of capable researchers to help him with experiments. At the same time, he needs to use the purchased equipment and researchers to help him hatch more talents.
Although there is no guarantee that these students who come to his internship will definitely choose to work in his institute after graduation, but as long as they can stay for one-third, it is not a loss.
For the gains and losses in this regard, Lu Zhouda is not particularly concerned about it.
Unlike the purpose of an ordinary entrepreneur, he does these things not solely for money, nor for noble reasons. Even if that happens, it's just a by-product of the reaction.
His purest purpose is only to be able to carry out his own research as he wants, reveal the hidden secrets of the system, and see a more distant future.
And this alone is difficult to achieve by his own strength.
So in a conversation with Dean Li, Lu Zhou put forward a request for VIPs, saying that in addition to enrolling a group of doctoral students to participate in the research, he also intends to recruit a group of master and undergraduate students for internship Form participation in the project.
After Dean Li reflected Lu Zhou's proposal to the school, Academician Xu agreed with the clapper.
Mr. Lao himself belongs to the "reformers" with advanced thinking. No matter whether Jin Da's controversial "three-three systems" has achieved the expected results, at least it shows that the school's high-level determination to try reforms is still considerable.
According to the cooperation agreement between Jinling Institute of Computing Materials and Jinling University, 30 undergraduates, 10 master students, and 1-3 Ph.D. students are admitted to the Institute of Computing Materials for internships each year, engaging in some basic and auxiliary activities. Research tasks.
If the method proves feasible, this number will be further expanded.
These internships will not only delay students' academic studies, but also strengthen their understanding of professional knowledge in practice.
Especially for undergraduate students, access to research itself is quite limited.
It is for this reason that the school's documents have just been issued, and the students of the Chemical Academy have actively participated.
Especially for juniors and seniors who intend to move into the research field, the registration rate is so high that they have to be sorted by the professional grade points.
As for sophomores and sophomores, Lu Zhou also allocated some places.
Although the professional knowledge of the younger brothers and younger sisters still needs to be strengthened, they are all potential stocks and have a lot of room for plasticity.
Even if you do n’t understand the literature and ca n’t do the experiment, you just mix it in the laboratory to help clean up. You can recognize two more medicines and make your eyes open.
"The top students in our college are all on this list," holding a list and finding Lu Zhou, Academician Li said in a semi-joking tone, "Let's say first, talent training Talent training, don't take the baby of our college to study mathematics. "
Lu Zhou said with a smile, "Be assured of this, how many people I promise to borrow, how many people will be back when I return."
Computational materials science, as its name implies, must study mathematics, but it must still be dominated by chemistry. In frontier research, the boundaries between disciplines and disciplines are not so clear. If you plan to develop in the future, it is not bad to learn more.
"This is what you said, I can remember this sentence," said Dean Li with a smile, and solemnly handed the roster to Lu Zhou's hands. "Please, please!"
Not only the list in place, but also an idle experimental building.
This new experimental building was originally intended to be used as a material mechanics laboratory to house newly purchased dynamic mechanical analyzers, electronic tensile testing machines, quartz crystal micro-equipment and other newly purchased equipment.
As a result, the building was built, but the instrument was not yet in place, so Lu Zhou borrowed it.
After borrowing the experimental site, Lu Zhou immediately entrusted the academic staff and asked them to clean up an office for themselves as their temporary office location.
These days, he basically stays at Jinda University. Office in the school's laboratory, eat in the school's cafeteria, as for living, it is in a hotel near Jinda.
Although he rented a house in the university town, he could n’t live in it. It was too troublesome to clean up. The room was still full of Xiao Ai ’s case.
Even every time he called someone at the computer shop to help with hardware maintenance, people at the computer shop talked to him, how long has the house been unoccupied.
For the Jinling Institute of Computing Materials, Lu Zhou even sent an email to her student and assistant professor Willa, asking her to write an application for her faculty at Princeton University, extending the vacation by half a month.
Although he doesn't care about the professor's salary, the professor's work can give him research inspiration, and also allow him to reflect on the "obvious" problems from time to time, whether it is as obvious as it seems.
In this regard, he and Mr. Fermi are in agreement, and there is no conflict between learning and training students.
At the same time, watching your students grow into top scholars is a very fulfilling thing in itself.
Fortunately, his number theory class only started at the end of February. The interview for fall admission can be conducted by video, and it will have no effect.
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People are recruited, and the next step is to arrange work for these people.
Interns can leave it alone and wait until the project has officially started. However, in order not to delay the research progress, the formal researchers recruited must be arranged as soon as possible.
In the office of the experimental building, Lu Zhou had a long absence to see Brother Qian and Brother Liu.
As soon as he met, he asked the first sentence.
"Professor Li didn't scold me."
Liu looked helplessly and said, "No, just let us get off friendly."
After hearing this, Lu Zhou smiled a little embarrassedly.
Digging people from Professor Li was also a last resort. The laboratories in Silicon Valley had just been set up and could not be separated by air. On the Hua Hua side, among the people he knows, there are only two brothers who can ask for it.
In particular, Qian Zhongming, although only a master's degree, his professionalism in the field of materials science has no doubt reached the level of a doctor. Especially in research experience, he has participated in R & D projects many times, even some PhDs can't compare with him.
In fact, Professor Li valued him precisely for this reason.
"Brother, don't call it, I'm here to worship the teacher to learn the arts, I'm afraid I have to call you a master later." Maybe it's because he didn't wear a white coat.
"The master didn't dare to be a teacher. I also learned a lot from you. Let's learn from each other." Lu Zhou said with a smile.
Qian Zhongming shook his head and said earnestly: "The thing I taught you is just some fur. You can learn it with any teacher doing projects. But I can only ask you for advice on computational materials. I also hope In the future, I enlighten me ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Seeing Brother Qian so serious, Lu Zhou can only helplessly smiled.
Clearing his throat, he turned the subject to business.
"This time, our project belongs to the key scientific research project in the national new energy development plan. To be specific, it is to solve the shuttle effect in lithium-sulfur batteries. I believe you have heard of it."
Brother Qian nodded, indicating that he understood the importance of the project: "How about it, do you have any ideas?"
"It's a bit, but it's still very vague." Lu Zhou shook his head and continued. "But the problem we need to solve now is not this, but the instrument."
Qian Zhongming and Liu Bo nodded in unison.
Instrument is the key to all experiments. No experiment can be done without equipment. Even if the model of the material is calculated by mathematical methods, the correctness of the theory must be tested through experiments in the end.
After a pause, Lu Zhou continued.
"I've contacted Umicore and asked their partner to order a batch of instruments. Although I asked Xingkong Technology to hire a few experts to go to Europe for acceptance, there must be a trusted person to go there Signing is fine. So, I can only trouble you on your first day on the job.
"It's okay," Qian Zhongming said with a slight smile. "Professor Li used to buy the instrument before. This kind of valuable things really can't be sloppy. It's not just a question of money. It also relates to the reliability of the measured data."
Lu Zhou nodded and said, "Well, please take care of you."
Seeing that his brother had already made arrangements, but he had no task yet, Liu Bo could not sit still, and raised his hand to ask.
"what about me?"
"If you do, I want you to accompany Brother Qian," said Brother Lu with a look of expectation, and Lu Zhou smiled. "I'm not assured if he goes alone."