With a defeated expression, Carrodit sighed and said helplessly.

"I admire your dedication and confidence in science. If you're successful, hope you want to consider us. ”

Lu Zhou smiled and said: "It depends on the situation, if the cooperation of modified PDMS materials makes me quite satisfied, I don't mind continuing to cooperate with you on new projects." ”

A smile finally appeared on Carodiet's face.

"Then I wish you success...... By the way, I would like to ask, do you think that hollow carbon ball direction can really be the key to solving the shuttle effect? Don't get me wrong, I'm not looking into your research, I'm just ......"

"I did say something similar at the seminar on lithium-sulfur batteries, but I hope you don't over-read it," Lu Zhou replied with a headache, "I'm just optimistic, but I didn't say that it will definitely be made." ”

This is the first time I don't know how many people have asked him this question.

In the spirit of academic honesty, Lu Zhou will definitely be responsible for every word he says. However, seeing so many people showing interest in the hollow carbon ball beyond friendship because of his few words, he couldn't help but panic a little in his heart.

What if I get a slap in the face?

Isn't it a late season?

He now understands a little why the old Scottish professor named Peter Bruce is desperately blowing up after being slapped in the face countless times.

It's not just a matter of funding.

I pretended to be too forced, and I had to continue to pretend with tears.

Looks like I'm going to have to work harder......

Carodit laughed and said, "I just asked casually, you must not take it to heart." ”

But looking at his expression, it didn't seem like he was asking casually......

Carrodit didn't stay long at Kimdae, and left after the instruments were sent to the laboratory building.

Although it is a pity that he could not reach a cooperative research and development agreement with Lu Zhou, it is only a pity for him. Research is like gambling, and even the best academics can't guarantee that they will be able to produce results.

At most, it would be the same to wait for the results to come out, and then work with him on patent issues.

……

With the arrival of the first batch of experimental instruments, Lu Zhou's research institute in Jinling is no longer just an empty experimental building.

According to Qian Zhongming's call from Belgium, the last batch of instruments has also departed, and he and Liu Bo will probably return to China in two days.

Listening to Qian Zhongming's tone on the phone, he already had some impatience.

After all, it was tens of millions of dollars of imported equipment, and it was impossible for a researcher not to be impressed.

Seeing that it was not only Senior Brother Qian who was far away in Belgium who coveted this batch of equipment, it had just been less than a day since the instruments were transported into the laboratory building, and Dean Li of the Institute of Chemical Technology smelled the wind and came to the door.

"Good guy, this thing is worth tens of millions." Reaching out and stroking the smooth surface of the instrument, the old gentleman liked this thing.

Research in semiconductors, nanometers and other fields is inseparable from high-resolution microscopes, and the images collected by ordinary electron microscopes and those collected by scanning electron microscopes can be said to be a difference between heaven and earth.

There are many types of SEMs.

The resolution of the mid-to-high-end tungsten filament gun SEM is about 3nm, and the resolution of the field emission gun SEM is below 0.8nm, and the price gap between the two is also a world of difference.

Whether it is the imaging lens on the scanning electron microscope, the electron gun and the accelerator tube, or even the high-pressure generator and the cryogenic sample chamber, Lu Zhou is equipped according to the standards of top laboratories.

Although it is a little more expensive, you get what you pay for, and from a long-term perspective, this investment is definitely not a loss.

It's not just researchers who hate the rich and the poor, but also major journals.

It is no exaggeration to say that if you use a powerful scanning electron microscope to do an experiment, you just sweep a strand of hair, and that is a SCI. Using an ordinary electron microscope to do experiments, no matter how good the data is, it is difficult to get it into "Nature" and "Science".

It's not that there is no scanning electron microscope in the Jinda Chemical Institute, but there is really no such awesome equipment.

What's more, not only the School of Chemical Engineering has to use this thing, but also the School of Life Sciences next door, and the time allocated to each professor is quite limited, and those students who write doctoral dissertations have to apply in advance and queue up.

Academician Li has always wanted to add a new scanning electron microscope to the Institute, but he has never applied for it.

"It's not as exaggerated as 10 million, it's only eight or nine million," Lu Zhou smiled embarrassedly, but quickly thought of something, and added, "It's just dollars." ”

That's eight or nine million...... Dollar.

Replace it with more than 40 or 50 million RMB?

After listening to Lu Zhou's words, Academician Li's eyebrows twitched fiercely.

Let's say it sourly, it's a waste of money, and people use their own money.

He didn't have any other feelings in his heart except envy.

"You're willing to spend money...... According to your usage, I'm afraid that after the whole experiment is done, the money invested in it will be hundreds of millions. ”

Lu Zhou shook his head and said: "Other places can be saved, but they must not be saved on equipment, rigorous mathematical models need rigorous data as support." ”

In fact, it is not as exaggerated as Academician Li said, this scanning electron microscope basically accounts for the majority of the cost, and other experimental equipment such as CVD vacuum tube furnace, arc chamber, Fourier transform infrared spectrometer and so on also cost money, but it does not cost much.

Of course, even if it didn't cost much, Lu Zhou didn't think about saving on these devices.

It's okay to be wronged on the salary, but you must not wronged your own people on the equipment.

After all, the data is not accurate, the samples needed cannot be made, and the experiment always fails, not only makes the scientific research dogs irritable to the point of madness, but also the boss himself in the end.

Moreover, these devices are not disposable, they have been used in this project and can be used in the next project.

According to Lu Zhou's plan, 50 million US dollars will be invested in the first phase, and after the completion of this project, he will consider an additional investment of 50 million US dollars to equip his research institute with an atomic force microscope to build a top materials science laboratory in China.

It is no exaggeration to say that many people are willing to work for nothing because of the equipment in his laboratory.

After all, with a small boss who has no money and no future, he has to intrigue even a work of SCI in the second district. With a big boss like Lu Zhou, mixing two top journals SCI in this kind of top laboratory, the value of the whole person is different after he goes out.

For some scientific research dogs who are not good, as long as they eat and live, they will not lose anything by working in vain.

Although it is very helpless, it is also one of the current conditions in the academic circle.

Dean Li couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Your computational materials science is really not something that ordinary people can learn. ”

In the past, he also dragged people to hold meetings every three or five to discuss whether to open a department of computational materials science in Jinda, but now it seems that the lack of not only professors, but also the lack of money is real.

"Yes," Lu Zhou sighed, "Actually, I also plan to have a supercomputer." ”

Supercomputing is the nuclear weapon of computational materials science, just like the "Anton" of computational chemistry.

A piece of paper and a pen are enough to do qualitative calculations, but if you want to do quantitative calculations, or even use experimental data to accurately simulate the polymer space model, it doesn't matter if you are good at math or not. No matter how good algebra and geometry are, the amount of computation is not something that the human brain can solve.

However, I just bought $50 million of equipment, and my assets have shrunk a lot, and it is impossible to say that I am not distressed at all.

In order to avoid a shortage of research funding, he plans to hold off until new projects come to fruition.

At this moment, Lu Zhou suddenly noticed that Dean Li, who was standing next to the scanning electron microscope, suddenly stopped talking, and couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

"What's wrong?"

Dean Li: "......"

Didn't pay attention to Lu Zhou.

At this moment, he didn't want to say a word.

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