Grabbing the new issue of Science from Liu Hong's hand, Wang Haifeng spread out the journal on the table and carefully studied the lines of small print and pictures.

Although he was extremely unhappy with Lu Zhou in his mouth and heart, he also had to admit that this kid was indeed a talent.

There are many scholars who can publish papers in Science and Nature, but there are very few scholars who can publish two corresponding author papers in the same journal.

The first paper was theoretical, and he couldn't understand anything other than the conclusion, so he glanced at it and put it aside.

The second article is about HCS-1 materials, as the name suggests, it is application, and Wang Haifeng looked at this part very carefully.

However, when he first saw the first picture, his eyebrows twitched violently.

He also has SEM in his lab, but with a lanthanum hexaboride electron gun.

Although this kind of electron gun is much more high-grade than the tungsten filament electron gun, the secondary electron image resolution can reach 2nm, and the image is 5 to 10 times brighter than the tungsten filament gun.

There is no doubt that this image in the paper was taken with a field-firing electron gun, and it is a cold-field electron gun with better performance.

This kind of person is really hateful!

I didn't do anything when I came up, but I "showed off my wealth" first.

Thinking that he had been organic for more than 20 years, he was not as good as a junior who had just stepped into the material industry, Wang Haifeng's heart was almost distorted with jealousy.

But looking down at the paper, he quickly calmed down again.

After seeing the last line, Wang Haifeng snapped the journal in his hand and threw it back into Liu Hong's hand.

"It's just a phased achievement."

While making this conclusion, Wang Haifeng also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

If this HCS-1 material is made by Lu Zhou to the extent that it is as unchangeable as a modified PDMS material, not to mention that he can only be willing to gamble and lose, and it is the same for those international chemical giants and international bulls of carbon and sulfur composite materials.

However, it is clear that this HCS-1 material is not perfect.

Of course, even if it is a phased achievement, the superior performance of this HCS-1 material is quite impressive. If the problem of production process is solved, it may be used in some fields that require high battery energy density but low reuse rate.

For example, drones......

Liu Hong hesitated: "In case they only sent out the phased results, there are more important results that have not been released......

Wang Haifeng glanced at him: "Will you take off your pants and fart?" ”

Liu Hong was stunned for a while, and then said with a smile, "...... Isn't it possible to post a few more papers? ”

Amused by his own students, Wang Haifeng laughed: "Then tell me, he lacks a doctorate?" Or is it a bad job title and no evaluation? Need to worry about one or two papers? ”

Realizing that he had asked a very stupid question, Liu Hong immediately closed his mouth and stopped talking.

Indeed, the average scientific research dog needs papers to accumulate his academic capital, so that he can get a decent job in the laboratory and get through one day.

Professors also need papers to prove their academic ability and complete the school's scientific research indicators, and at the same time, when they apply for scientific research funds next time, their resumes can be written beautifully, and the tone of the staff can be polite.

But for people who have become scientific research bosses, is this a problem?

In the field of engineering, especially in cross-cutting projects where companies are taking money, patents are the most important thing.

If you can't get a patent, no matter how much work you have done before, it will only pave the way for someone else's success. For some large-scale research projects, even if they are 90% sure of the results, they will not release the phased results.

Unless there is a real shortage of money, it is necessary to stabilize the mood of investors with phased results, and at the same time bait new investors, so that they have the illusion that they will soon see the results.

Obviously, Lu Zhou does not belong to this category.

Laymen may not understand how valuable modified PDMS materials are, but Wang Haifeng, who is engaged in the material industry, does. Umicore not only paid 400 million for this patent, but also gave up a large amount of continuous profits.

Well, there is only one possibility left......

Wang Haifeng's eyes flashed with shrewdness: "This kid is not simple, I am afraid that he was already doing relevant research before he came up with the modified PDMS material paper in July last year." In the last seminar, everyone was playing dumb riddles, and he alone said it so clearly, I guessed that he might have already achieved some results. ”

Most people start writing papers after getting a patent number, and almost no one waits until all the international patents are granted before they start submitting. Considering the patent registration cycle, it would take at least twelve months for all the documents to be in place.

In other words, although the paper was published in the summer of 16, it is very likely that the real research results will be made in 15 years.

Now that he has come out with another paper so quickly, Wang Haifeng has 10,000 reasons to suspect that Lu Zhou actually began to do research on this hollow carbon ball as early as a year ago, that is, after the development of modified PDMS thin film technology.

Liu Hong vaguely thought of a possibility, but he was still not sure: "What do you mean?" ”

"His research is probably in a bottleneck," Wang Haifeng smiled thoughtfully, "The young man is still a little tender, and he can't afford to wait for this time." ”

In the case of stagnation of research progress, it is also a very common means to preemptively release phased results in order to prevent others from making major achievements on their own. Although it will be violent. Revealing one's own research progress, but relatively in exchange for greater initiative.

After all, the longer the results are in the hands, the greater the risk. Especially in some popular research fields, wait two more months, and maybe someone else will do the same.

Considering that there are so many research institutes making hollow carbon balls, this possibility is really not low. And once someone else preemptively publishes their results, it will mean that all the previous efforts have been in vain.

In Wang Haifeng's view, Lu Zhou is typically young and vigorous, although there are some city governments, but he can't hold his breath, and he can't bear this pressure.

"Our project continues," after thinking for a moment, Wang Haifeng looked at Liu Hong, and then said, "Just in case, you can help me inquire about the situation at the Jinling Institute of Computational Materials, and find someone to inquire about the progress of their research." ”

"But I don't know anyone from Jin Da," Liu Hong was in trouble, "and even if I do, do you think people will tell me?" ”

Wang Haifeng scolded: "Are you a pig? Everything is up to me to arrange for you, what use do you want! ”

Liu Hong was sprayed and closed his mouth, not daring to speak.

After a pause, Wang Haifeng's tone softened a little and continued to speak.

"Also, we have to change our proposal report."

At the beginning of the question, he only described the direction of the hollow carbon sphere made of carbon-sulfur composites in general terms. Now that Lu Zhou has released the phased results, if he still uses such a general description, it is likely that he will be beaten back because of the rule of "novelty".

It's easy to change, though.

At least for him, it's not a big deal.