Chapter 371: Let ’s set up a flag first

It is a novel idea to solve the superconducting phenomenon from the perspective of carbon nanomaterials.
Although no one has done this research, so far, I have not heard of any particularly outstanding results.
Therefore, Lu Zhou has no clue as to whether this idea is okay.
However, most scientific research starts from speculation anyway. He decided, like the other big guys, whether he could do it or not, let's talk about it first.
After determining the research direction, Lu Zhou and Salat made a phone call and repeated the words he had said to Zhao Xu again.
After listening to Lu Zhou's words, Sarote opened his eyes wide. "Superconducting materials? Why do you suddenly want to study this direction?"
Lu Zhou: "Because it's interesting, can't it?"
Salot: "No, I mean, research in this direction is close to blank, and we have to start from scratch."
Lu Zhou: "So what?"
"So it is likely that only after many phased results, we can make a result that meets the criteria for patent application," Salot could not help but persuade. "Why don't we continue to make batteries? The industry is expecting us Continue to improve the hs-2 material to bring them more batteries. "
After hearing this sentence, Lu Zhou smiled.
"The industry is definitely not expecting us to continue to improve hs-2 materials. In fact, these technologies we have developed have been enough for the industry to digest for some time."
"As for patents, you don't have to worry about them. I won't take patents as the sole criterion for your performance evaluation. You just have to follow this direction."
"Well, since you don't care about losing money." Salot shrugged and stopped persuading.
Although he couldn't understand the motivation of the boss, some people were willing to lose money to give him an experiment. Naturally, he would not refuse this opportunity.
After a pause, Sarote continued: "Actually, if you are not concerned about patent issues, we can cooperate with other research teams to accelerate the phased results. As far as I know, MIT There is a research team in this direction, and we can work with them. "
Lu Zhou: "Their names?"
Zarrot: "Pablo · jarillo-herrero's research group, the person in charge is the big cattle in the field of graphene."
Lu Zhou frowned slightly and asked, "Will this Daniel be willing to cooperate with us?"
"It depends on the person who proposed the cooperation. If I send an email to him, he will probably ignore me," Sarott shrugged. "But if the Huffman medalist, the theoretical model of the electrochemical interface structure is proposed He was the first person in the field of computational materials to send him an e-mail, and I don't think he would refuse. "
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Lu Zhou suddenly felt that although this guy's statement was a bit strange, he always felt good.
"Okay, I'll try to contact him."
Hanging up the phone, Lu Zhou opened his laptop and began to use the database of Princeton University to search for the information of the pablo · jarillo-herrero research group.
The academic circle is not large, and it is easy to know what a person is studying. It is only necessary to investigate a large paper he has recently published.
Soon, Lu Zhou found what he wanted.
This group's research on the superconductivity of graphene materials can even be traced back to ten years ago.
In 2007, they published a paper on "bipolar supercurrent in graphene" in "nature", and in 2014 also published a paper on "graphene quantum spin Hall state" in "nature". Research papers, and the recent "nature" is about the ferromagnetism and heterostructure of single-layer van der Waals crystals, which is also quite interesting.
After writing down the corresponding author's email address, Lu Zhou quickly searched the personal blog of Professor Pablo Herrero, the head of the research team, via Google.
From his updated blog, as Salot said, they are doing an interesting study on the superconducting properties of graphene at low temperatures.
If they are right, they will provide a new idea for the research on superconducting materials.
"Material science is really crowded."
With a feeling in her heart, Lu Zhou opened the mailbox and started editing the mail.
[... Hello, Professor Pablo Herrero, I'm Lu Zhou working at Princeton University. After reading your paper published in Nature, I am very interested in your research direction. If you don't mind, I hope to cooperate with you on the research of graphene superconductivity. I wonder how you like it? 】
After sending the email, Lu Zhou did not close the mailbox immediately, but leaned on a chair and waited for a while.
According to his experience, most people will use arxiv in the morning to track their peers, check their work emails, and reply to emails.
Not surprisingly, Professor Pablo Herrero should be sitting in front of the computer at this moment, and has seen his email.
In fact, Lu Zhou guessed accurately.
After waiting about five minutes, he waited for a reply.
There is only one line in the message.
[I have no opinion. Is there a more specific cooperation plan? 】
Seeing this email, Lu Zhou's mouth evoked a smile and began to edit the reply.
【of course……】
...
The speed at which the cooperation agreement was reached was smoother than Lu Zhou imagined.
For such projects with a low patent conversion rate, most professors are quite willing to cooperate with competent teams for research.
According to the cooperative research agreement between the two parties, Lu Zhou will send a researcher to conduct interviews in the past to guide them in their computational materials methods. At the same time, they will also send a researcher over to exchange information on research.
The two parties jointly researched the topic of superconducting properties of two-dimensional carbon nanomaterials, and the papers finally produced were jointly signed.
The next day, Lu Zhou found Connie as a postdoc.
Compared to Jericho, who is still in the learning stage, it is obvious that Connie, who has been working for a while, is more suitable for this task.
"I need you to go to Boston." After finding Connie, Lu Zhou opened his door to see the mountain road.
"Boston? Is there anything?" Connie, who was experimenting, stopped his work ~ EbookFREE.me ~ and asked Lu Zhou.
Lu Zhou: "I recently reached an agreement with the pablo · jarillo-herrero group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct a cooperative research on the superconducting properties of two-dimensional carbon nanomaterials. I need you to visit and exchange there for a while, This may take a few weeks or a few months, which is not good. Of course, I will reimburse you for travel expenses and expenses, mainly to see if you have any problems with the timing? "
"I'm totally ok here, professor," Connie grinned, and patted his chest. "Just leave it to me ... when do you leave?"
Visits and exchanges are a good opportunity to open up your horizons, especially if you follow a generous boss and don't have to pay for it yourself.
Such an opportunity will not be let go by any hardworking student.
Seeing Connie agreed, Lu Zhou nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile.
"You can start preparing now and leave in three days!"