I have to say that Karnov's idea is indeed tricky, and there is really no better place in the world to review this manuscript than Professor Stanley.

After all, in a sense, this is no different from turning the paper around and sending it back to the contributor, so that the contributor can save his own manuscript......

Binghamton University.

In a laboratory in the Department of Chemistry.

Professor Stanley, who had just returned from class outside, threw his textbook on the sofa by the door, hummed a cheerful ditique, and walked to his desk and sat down.

Since losing the battle a few years ago, ExxonMobil has lost the opportunity to enter the lithium-sulfur battery market, and has also lost trust in him.

This double blow from his career and self-esteem once made him suffer from depression.

But over the years, he has gradually come out of the shadow of that person.

Especially when he was on TV, watching the research results that Lu Zhou had achieved one after another, his heart knot had almost been completely untied.

Lose to that person alone?

Materials science itself is a science full of metaphysics, some people may not be able to get the desired results after doing experiments, but some people can succeed so coincidentally.

Even Martin Chardie, the Nobel Prize winner in chemistry in '08, said, "Sometimes you can't trust your experience too much, and if the experiment doesn't go well, you throw the sample on the ground or on the table or in the seawater, and do it again, and it will basically succeed, no matter what the experiment."

For a lucky person like Professor Lu, who is obviously favored by God, it is better to hide as far as he can.

Just as Professor Stanley was about to summon his assistant to make him a cup of coffee, the assistant sitting at his desk suddenly spoke.

"Professor, you have an invitation to review JACS."

Invitation to review JACS?

It's kind of interesting.

Professor Stanley replied casually, "Print out the paper and show it to me." ”

"Okay, Professor."

Looking at the busy assistant, Professor Stanley suddenly remembered that he seemed to have forgotten to ask him to make a cup of coffee.

Hey, it's really getting old, and my memory is getting worse and worse.

Forget it, go and soak it yourself.

Sighing and shaking his head, Professor Stanley stood up with his armrest, walked over to the coffee machine in his office, took the cup and poured himself a cup.

Just as he was back at his desk, his student-assistant had already brought the printed paper and placed it in front of him.

Leaning back in his office chair, sipping his coffee and glancing at the title of the paper, Professor Stanley couldn't help but sneer.

Lithium-air batteries?

This is another manuscript submitted by a fool who didn't wake up.

However, his gaze had barely moved down a line, and his eyebrows twitched like an electrocuted beetle.

Lu Zhou!

"It's really unlucky......

Muttering quietly, Professor Stanley took a sip of his coffee, pretended not to see the name, and quickly looked at the abstract of the paper.

But it doesn't matter.

At the moment when his gaze touched the first line of the summary, the coffee he had just drunk in his mouth suddenly sprayed the table like a watering can for watering flowers.

"This shameful thief! Swindler! Thief! Shameless! ”

Coughing violently, Professor Stanley roared angrily, ignoring the hot coffee that had been spilled on his clothes, and slammed his coffee cup from his office chair and slammed his coffee cup on the table.

Startled by this series of angry shouts, everyone in the office was stunned, and they didn't dare to bury their heads in a pant, and only dared to use their spare eyes to confirm the expression on the professor's face.

Clutching the five-page paper with both hands, Professor Stanley's eyes were filled with rage, and he wanted to tear it all apart.

This cage-like carbon molecule!

He's all too familiar!

Even if he burned the memories of the past twenty years to ashes, he could not forget the summer six years ago, the carbon nanosphere that made his academic path to the top of the mountain was tragically Waterloo!

“…… When the oxygen purity on one side of the modified PDMS film is higher than 96.7%, and one side is in an almost oxygen-free environment, the carbon nanospheres doped in the modified PDMS film will act as a porter, transporting oxygen molecules from one side to the other. ”

“…… This phenomenon is very peculiar, and the environment requires a nonlinear decrease in oxygen concentration as the thickness of the modified PDMS material decreases, and I speculate that there are two possibilities for this peculiar phenomenon...... Fack! This shameful ...... Shameful ......"

Professor Stanley, whose face was flushed red, and he couldn't think of any words to continue cursing again, didn't catch up as if he was stuck in his throat in one breath.

Seeing this, the assistant hurriedly stepped forward, brought a glass of water and handed it to him.

Drinking a glass of cold water, the breath that didn't come up finally went down.

"Thank you......"

Calmly breathing back in his chair, he looked at the paper that he had folded out again, and Professor Stanley's eyes were full of remorse.

He was tricked.

It's not just that he's been tricked.

ExxonMobil was also tricked.

Although they were tricked once six years ago, they were deceived by a "double agent". But what he didn't expect was that now, after six years, he was teased by this guy again......

"Damn...... I didn't think of ......"

Grabbing his hair in remorse, Professor Stanley muttered to himself with a pained expression.

Why didn't he try to add that cage-like carbon molecule to the polymer material to see what properties it would exhibit in a pure oxygen environment?

But if he has done experiments in this area, with his rich experience in the field of materials science, he will definitely find something unusual!

However, the reality does not exist if this statement.

Moreover, ordinary people will not add the research results in the experiment of lithium-sulfur batteries to the modified PDMS material without reason, so as to study its transport properties of oxygen molecules on the surface of the material in a pure oxygen environment......

At the same time, while cursing the "thief" from Huaguo, he also selectively ignored that the model of the material was originally "stolen" by him from Lu Zhou's Salrot Laboratory......

Looking at the thunderous professor, the students in the office looked at each other one by one, not knowing what was going on, and they didn't dare to ask.

Six years ago, most of them weren't here, some were still undergraduates, and some were even in high school altogether......

Looking at the emotional boss, the assistant standing next to the desk asked tremblingly.

"That'...... We reject the manuscript? ”

"No," Professor Stanley, panting, crumpled the manuscript in his hand and threw it into the wastepaper basket next to him, "It's been for him!" ”

Assistant: "......?" ”

Students: "??? ”

Manuscript?!

If you are angry like this, can you still swallow this breath?

After looking at his boss in confusion and making sure he wasn't joking, the assistant silently returned to his desk and sat down and began editing the email replying to JACS.

Although the review process is usually not so fast, since the supervisor has read the paper and decided to approve the paper......

Reviewers' comments or something, just use the template to write casually.

Looking at the assistant who was working hard, Professor Stanley, whose mood had gradually calmed down, muttered angrily in a voice that he could only hear.

"Such an important achievement...... Even if the Nobel Committee is not interested in materials science, the judges of the American Society for Materials Research award should still consider it. ”

Even if the properties of this cage-like carbon molecule in modified PDMS materials were not discovered by him, if this thing can really open the curtain on the era of lithium-air batteries......

It can still bring him some benefits.

It's still so angry!

But this breath had to be swallowed again.

After taking a dozen deep breaths to calm his soaring blood pressure, Professor Stanley, leaning back in his office chair, reluctantly compromised.

For the sake of the shameful groundhog who added a citation mark to his paper, I might as well be magnanimous and scold him a few sentences......