Chapter 320: In academia, ideas are the least valuable

During this time, Lu Zhou has been following the trends of his peers. ★>
On the arxiv website, the papers on hollow carbon sphere and sulfur elemental composite materials have shown an upward trend as a whole.
Although biology and chemistry are biased towards engineering fields, an innovative idea is not decisively important. Therefore, the enthusiasm of scholars to submit papers to arxiv is far less than the three directions of pure mathematics, theoretical physics, and computer science. However, this trend of entry growth reflects the trend of academia.
At the same time, searching through a professional academic search engine can also clearly find that recent achievements on hollow carbon spheres are constantly emerging.
In contrast, these results are not as groundbreaking as hcs-1.
Of course, it is not to be ruled out that major research institutions have actually achieved certain results, but for greater ambitions, the staged results have been held in their hands and have not been published.
After all, companies such as Umicore and Nichia Chemical, although willing to cooperate with Lu Zhou when the cost of patent authorization is lower than the cost of illegality, are obviously more keen to hold patents in their own hands.
From the last meeting with Carlotte, Lu Zhou saw some clues. Don't even think about it, the Belgian laboratory must be fully powered and ready to grab the high ground.
If this is the case, Lu Zhou must speed up.
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In mid-March, after receiving a manuscript response from Science, Lu Zhou and Yang Xu from Jinling had an appointment and held a short video conference to discuss the next research plan.
Before the meeting, Lu Zhou sent the relevant materials of hcs-1 to Yang Xu's working mailbox, which included the data published by the journals and some that have not been made public yet.
Because of this, at the beginning of the video call, Yang Xu immediately asked: "What's in the email you and me?"
Lu Zhouyan said concisely: "The new experimental plan and related information are in the mail, and samples will be sent shortly. In short, I need you to help me try to find a method that can stably synthesize hcs-1 materials."
The method of preparing hcs-1 material in Salot's laboratory has a great chance. Even in a strict sense, hcs-1 is only a by-product of the reaction, which is obtained by centrifugation and further purification.
Even without considering the limited industrial application prospects of the hcs-1 material itself, it is difficult to achieve industrial production for this inefficient production method.
Unless someone is willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a lithium battery and spend a lot of money to dispose of piles of waste, this is obviously impossible from a continuing perspective.
There are two ways to promote hcs-1 materials. One is to improve the preparation method and reduce the production cost. The other is to improve the material itself.
With hcs-1 as a reference, continue to study along the existing ideas, and it is not difficult to find hcs-2 or even hcs-3 that is more suitable for mixing with sulfur.
To sum up these reasons, when Lu Zhou set the research direction for Jinling Institute of Computing Materials, he set two directions. One is the process improvement of hcs-1 material, and the other is the improvement of hcs-1 material itself.
His requirements for the Jinling Institute of Computational Materials were different from those of the Salot Laboratory, the latter of which was to study the topologically folded cage-like molecule for system tasks.
The former is focused on reality, that is, to solve the shuttle effect.
This is the need of the new energy industry and also the need of the national new energy strategy. Whether it is out of personal research interest or a commitment to the China Energy Bureau, Lu Zhou will work hard in this regard.
Yang Xu said with a headache: "You have given me a problem."
Lu Zhou smiled and said, "I believe you can do it."
Yang Xu: "Apart from the vague direction, is there a more specific idea?"
Lu Zhou thought for a while and said, "The idea is one point. I said that if you remember it, you will not send another email."
Yang Xu nodded seriously and took out a pen and paper.
Lu Zhou sipped and continued, "Glucose."
There was a silence for about half a minute between the two.
Yang Xu froze: "... glucose?"
Lu Zhou nodded: "Yes, at a specific point, change the precursor from a copolymer of polyaniline and polypyrrole to glucose."
This is the result of the discussion between him and Salot. As for how to discuss it, naturally after a lot of calculations and experiments and some essential "scientific intuition".
This may sound a bit unreliable, but compared to the "trial and error method", it still has at least some theoretical basis.
Although these theories have yet to be confirmed.
But in Yang Xu's ears, his brows twitched fiercely.
"Gone?"
Lu Zhou spread his hand and said in a positive tone: "No, that's all."
No wonder you don't need to send an e-mail, this is really not necessary.
Yang Xu uttered a word in her heart, and put away the pen and paper on the table.
After a pause, Lu Zhou continued: "Similar research is not just what we are doing. As far as I know, there is Umicore in Belgium and Nichia Chemical. We are competing with international chemical giants, and I know the task is Difficult, but I hope you can overcome it. "
Yang Xu couldn't help but say, "If this is really a promising direction, you shouldn't say it at the seminar."
Lu Zhou made a helpless expression: "The situation was a bit special at the time, and I didn't expect that they would so eloquently publicize the content discussed at the seminar."
There is one word Lu Zhou didn't say.
What surprised him the most was that he would be public, and there are so many people taking it seriously ...
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In addition to international chemical giants such as Umicore and Nichia, there are many research institutions doing similar research. Some of them have cooperated with enterprises, and some have taken vertical issues to get money from the country.
For example, Professor Wang Haifeng is one of them.
While Lu Zhou and Yang Xu were talking about technical issues, he was also working on the project as he was far away.
But he was not busy experimenting, but preparing for the experiment.
About two weeks ago, the laboratory's project was finally determined. The hollow carbon sphere / sulfur composite material was used as the positive electrode to solve the problem of the diffusion of polysulfide compounds from the positive electrode to the organic electrolyte. Although he did not like Lu Zhou, he had to agree that hollow carbon spheres are indeed a promising direction.
Now that the application for funding has been submitted, the opening report has been submitted. If nothing unexpected happens, you can see the results in the next few days.
As a research boss, what he needs now is to determine more specific research directions and assign research tasks to scientific research laborers.
However, at this moment, his doctoral student Liu Hong was holding a brand new journal with a constipated expression coming in from outside the laboratory.
That way, it seems like there is something to say, but I don't know if it should be said.
After looking at his students, Wang Haifeng frowned slightly and asked.
"What happened?"
Liu Hong hesitated, and finally made up his mind.
"Professor ... our subject seems to have collided with someone."
Hearing this sentence, Wang Haifeng, who was sitting on an office chair, was almost choked by his own saliva.
"What? What did you say? Crashed?"
WTF?
how can that be!
I have n’t applied for this topic yet, why did I crash?