Chapter 326: Take it easy

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The applause finally came to an end.
Putting down the chalk in his hand, looking at the audience, Lu Zhou nodded with satisfaction in his heart.
The audience this year is okay.
Much stronger than at the mrs conference.
Obviously, those professors who study crystal chemistry and physical chemistry still understand his theory.
And those scholars who have conducted in-depth research on his thesis after going back have understood more than 70% here.
This result was acceptable to him.
As the awards ceremony for the Adams Chemistry Award came to an end, the opening ceremony came to an end.
After the organic chemistry symposium officially started, Lu Zhou put aside the joy of winning for the time being, and participated in this academic exchange conference with a learning attitude.
As the saying goes, living to learn from old, even standing on the frontier of research, there is a lot to learn.
It's just that the learning here has changed in form compared to the study in the school days. For a knowledge-creating scholar, instead of drawing knowledge from books, he focuses more on communicating with colleagues, reading literature, listening to reports, and so on.
And this seminar on organic chemistry provided him with such an opportunity and it really benefited him a lot.
The next day, Lu Zhou, who had just finished a lecture on organic chemistry, made himself a cup of coffee, went to the corner of the rest area, sat down, and quietly arranged the notes collected earlier.
In the previous meeting, a researcher showed a non-fullerene organic solar cell, and gave a fluorinated binary heterojunction cell current-voltage curve and the highest photoelectric conversion efficiency curve. .
The data on this graph is very beautiful.
Although he did not study photovoltaic materials, he did some research on fullerene materials. And what interests him most is the part of the thesis on mathematical analysis. It can be seen that the author's mathematical skills are good, and he intends to spend some time studying it.
But at this moment, the sound of high heels rang next to it, and a beautiful blond woman sat opposite him.
Disturbed, Lu Zhou looked up and glanced at the beauty sitting opposite with a questioning look.
"you are?"
Pouting and smiling, the blond beauty extended his right hand to him. "My name is Roy. I'm glad to meet you."
"It's also nice to meet you ..." After shaking hands with her, Lu Zhou asked doubtfully, "Which university are you from?"
"I'm a master's at Harvard, but I'm not a chemistry major."
It doesn't seem to be a letter of recommendation.
Lu Zhou raised an eyebrow: "A reporter from the journalism department?"
Blinking, Roy mysteriously twitched his mouth: "Between the two."
Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Will you still be a writer?"
"Right!" Roy snapped his fingers and blinked at him. "I'm a science writer."
Really writing a novel?
Although there are many differences between popular science works and novels.
Lu Zhou smiled and asked with interest: "I didn't expect that it wasn't just companies and media that were interested in my research. I was curious about what you were looking for?"
Roy: "In fact, I signed up for this seminar on organic chemistry, mainly to find inspiration for writing. I didn't expect to hit the Adams Chemistry Awards site."
Lu Zhou smiled and said, "I guess you didn't understand my speech."
"I did not understand, but this did not prevent your speech from being very enlightening to me, especially your insights on energy and materials, which kept my inspiration flowing from my mind," looked seriously at Lu Zhou The lady said in a sincere tone, "I have a few questions and I would like to ask you questions. I wonder if I can take your time?"
Looking at the mist on the coffee cup, Lu Zhou thought about the next schedule and said in a relaxed tone: "... I have time before I finish drinking coffee."
"Rest assured, I won't delay you for a long time." Roy turned cheerful, and somehow changed the shorthand notebook and a pen, and quickly began to ask, "So, the first question ..."
Roy asks some superficial questions, or science in nature.
Lu Zhou used as much popular language as possible to understand what he understood, and corrected some misconceptions misunderstood by the media.
Time passed quickly.
When he finished his coffee, Roy had just asked all the questions, and put away the shorthand notebook and pen.
"Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to answer my questions. After my work is published successfully, I will send you a free copy."
Lu Zhou joked, "Are you signed?"
Roy smiled: "If you need it, let me sign as much as I want."
After a pause, she continued in a joke tone.
"This is my business card. I'm interested in you. Maybe we can communicate in depth."
A business card with contact information was left. The blonde beauty looked at Lu Zhou with ambiguous eyes, leaving a scent of incense, got up and walked away.
Looking at her back, Lu Zhou smiled and shook her head.
In-depth communication?
forget it.
Even a professor at Cornell University can't understand my theory. If something is too difficult to communicate with you, it's white communication.
Just then, an unexpected acquaintance came over.
Glancing at Roy's back, Carlodite said easily.
"Your taste is good."
Lu Zhou asked casually: "May I help you with the phone?"
"It sounds very attractive," Carlodit said, staring at the landing boat when he sat down on the sofa Roy had sat on before. "But I'm not here to talk to you about women."
Did n’t you mention it first?
Lu Zhou glanced at him silently, and put away the business card in his hand.
"So, are you here to talk to me?"
"Nothing to talk about," Carlodit said, "is to tell you bad news."
Lu Zhou's eyebrows were raised slightly: "Oh?"
Carodit said with a serious face: "Mobil Chemical intends to get involved in the production of lithium-sulfur battery materials. Not only that, they have found Professor Stanley!"
That's it ...
Lu Zhou, who thought it was a major event, had a speechless expression,
"Oh, I already know."
Carlotte staggered slightly, and quickly reacted alertly: "Already Woods has found you?"
Lu Zhou nodded and replied in a light tone: "Yes, the night before, when I arrived in San Francisco not long ago, he and I visited here with Professor Stanley."
Carlotte's eyes narrowed to the left and down and asked, "Which step have they taken?"
Lu Zhou frowned slightly: "Which step did you take?"
Carlotte stunned: "Of course it's the research progress ... wait, you shouldn't be, asking them nothing?"
Lu Zhou gave him a strange look: "What do I need to ask them?"
Carlotte: "..."
Looking at the incredible expression on Carodit's face, Lu Zhou sighed softly, "To be honest, I don't quite understand why you are so careful."
"That's because you don't understand how terrible the market prospect of sulfur batteries is," Carlotte took a deep breath, restrained his anxiety, and said with a low voice. "Listen, Mobil is also studying lithium-sulfur battery Materials, and their research and development direction is also carbon-sulfur composites based on hollow carbon spheres! And you do them a favor, you should not publish those two papers in Science! "
Even if Uriah's old rival Nichia developed the technology first, it would not make Carlotte so nervous.
However, ExxonMobil is different.
This cross-domain oil giant naturally has one foot in the upstream of the industrial chain of these chemical companies, and naturally has a unique advantage in the cost of raw materials.
Once ExxonMobil became interested in cathode materials for lithium-sulfur batteries, it wasn't about stealing a piece of meat from Umicore's mouth, but cutting a piece of meat from all their chemical giants.
Just as there is a gap between genius and genius, there is also a gap between giants and giants.
however……
What does this have to do with Lu Zhou?
He is not a shareholder of Umicore.
"I don't agree with you. The academic value can only be sublimated in communication ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Lu Zhou frowned slightly." And my own research results, published or not published, need to discuss with you? ? "
"No, I don't mean that," noticing the dissatisfaction in Lu Zhou's tone, Carlotte quickly calmed down his tone of voice, explaining, "I admire your confidence, but the problem is that it depends on the time You know, your competitor is Exxon Mobil! They have added $ 50 million to Professor Stanley in order to start the battle! Do you understand what this means? "
Looking at Carlotte in anxiety, Lu Zhou didn't know how to comfort him.
Obviously, Umicore must also be researching cathode materials for lithium-sulfur batteries, and ambitiously invested a lot of money in preparation for this project. In a sense, Lu Zhou and Umicore are also competitors in lithium-sulfur battery projects, but the competitive relationship is not as strong as Umicore and Mobil.
If Lu Zhou researches it first, Umicore will at most give up part of the profit, then he is a researcher of Nichia Chemicals, and it will only be slaughtered by his peers. But if Mobil, the ambitious giant in the field of arrogance, comes out on top, it will be dead.
It is for this reason that Lu Zhou's two papers immediately made them panic.
Especially in the case of racing with Mobil Chemical, no one knows how many meters the other party is far from the finish line. These two papers are like time bombs, making Carlotte nervously sleepless.
Thinking of this, Lu Zhou also survived.
But even if he were to make another choice, he would still make the same choice as before.
After a pause, Lu Zhou tried to comfort the sentence in a soothing tone.
"Relax, I never treat you as competitors."
Carlotte: "..."
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