Under the operation of White Sheridan, the patent number was obtained quickly, even a little faster than the firm that Lu Zhou had previously commissioned.

In this regard alone, the former head of the intellectual property department of Verizon Telecom is indeed worthy of his annual salary.

After getting the patent number, everything was much easier.

With a strong and expensive team of lawyers as the backing, the next approval is just a walk-through process.

In fact, it is not a new thing for many of the more sought-after patents to be granted at the stage of filing the patent number.

However, superconducting materials, although they are a hot topic in the academic world, are not eye-catching in the industrial world.

And this, from Pablo · The "old club" of the Jarillo-Herrero laboratory can be seen.

Before receiving $10 million in funding from Lu Zhou, when the research team led by Professor Herero first conducted research on superconducting materials, the research funding was supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the National Science Foundation, rather than from an industrial company.

In short, with Connie's help, Lu Zhou was able to complete the entire paper by mid-November.

In the café of the Ivy League, Lu Zhou gathered the other two main authors of the paper together for a brief meeting.

"The paper has been completed, and I have exchanged opinions with Professor Herero by email, and they are very interested in the theoretical explanation of the superlattice band gap from a new perspective, and the next theoretical work will continue to focus on this aspect."

Speaking of this, Lu Zhou paused for a moment and continued to look at the two partners, "If there is no accident, after this paper, our cooperative R&D agreement with Professor Herero will be considered a successful conclusion." ”

Because it was in a café, the three of them just touched it lightly with their coffee cups, instead of the applause of the successful "conclusion".

The research direction of graphene superconducting materials has been opened, and the research teams of the two research institutes on Lu Zhou's side will definitely continue to do research in the application direction and improve the SG-1 material, such as reducing its superconducting transition temperature or something.

As for Professor Herero, he seems to be more interested in theoretical research.

Therefore, in the following research, although their work revolves around the same general direction, they study different problems.

Of course, although the cooperation has ended, the $10 million research grant promised by Lu Zhou will still support Professor Herero to continue his research.

After all, Professor Herero's research team has also helped him a lot in the research and development of SG-1 superconducting materials.

And Lu Zhou also hopes that Professor Herero's research team can find more interesting things in the field of theory, even if they are not necessarily valuable.

Theoretical research is the foundation of applied research, and these seemingly worthless new discoveries may come in handy at a critical moment.

After explaining the specific situation to his two partners, Lu Zhou paused for a moment and looked at Connie.

"As I said earlier, Professor Herero's research will focus on theory. You've been visiting MIT for a year, so you know more about their work than I do. ”

"I'd like to hear your opinion on what you're going to do next."

The method of computational materials is a tool, whether it is the "computational materials science method" redefined by Lu Zhou or the "first principles" widely circulated in the computational chemistry community.

This tool can be used in the field of application as well as in the field of theory, but for Connie, it is the direction in which it will go in the future.

Connie hesitated for a long time about this question, and finally said in an affirmative tone: "I want to do the application piece." ”

After hearing his reply, Lu Zhou nodded.

"I'll write you a letter of recommendation in a few days, and you can take it to Silicon Valley to find the Sarot lab, and the head there, Professor Sarot, will arrange the next work for you. You'll have your own research team, mainly responsible for computational chemistry and superconducting materials...... Of course, the choice is yours. If you prefer to become a professor at a particular university, I can also help you write another letter of recommendation. ”

Lu Zhou has nothing left to teach him about the methods of computational chemistry, and this letter of recommendation means that Connie can graduate as a postdoc.

If he is willing to continue working under him, Lu Zhou is of course very welcome. But if he had other plans, Lu Zhou also respected his choice.

Connie touched the back of his head, smiled, and said, "Of course I'd prefer to work in your lab." ”

Just kidding, going to a university to do research work, where is there a future and money compared to working in the laboratory of a Nobel Prize bigwig.

What's more, according to the conditions set by Lu Zhou, he can properly be a "small boss" after he goes, and he needs funds and people. If he struggled from scratch by himself, he would have to be at least forty years old to get to this point.

Despite his appearance like a gorilla, Connico is not stupid.

After hearing Connie's answer, Lu Zhou smiled and stretched out his right hand: "You are welcome to join." ”

After shaking Connie's hand, and after letting go, the conversation returned to the study itself.

Changing into a serious look, Connie continued: "By the way, Professor, the paper has already been written, so what next? Do we submit to journals or conferences? ”

After thinking for a moment, Lu Zhou replied, "Let's vote for the meeting, if you move quickly, maybe you can catch up with this year's MRS autumn meeting." ”

Although the deadline on the official website has passed, the Nobel Prize bigwigs will always have some privileges that ordinary scientific research dogs can't imagine.

Whether it's in the channel of submission, or in the degree of importance that the report will receive.

At this time, Professor Chirick asked, "Are you planning to go to this year's MRS Autumn Meeting?" ”

Lu Zhou shook his head: "I have to go to Stockholm in December, I'm afraid I won't be able to spare time." ”

In previous years, the MRS Autumn Meeting was held the day after Black Friday and lasted from the end of November to the beginning of December, depending on the size of the meeting.

If you have to participate, you can't catch up, but the schedule is a little too tight.

Hearing that Lu Zhou didn't plan to go, Professor Chirick smiled and said, "Since you don't have time, then I will go to the MRS Autumn Meeting for you." ”

It's a pretense...... Oh no, a great opportunity to brush up on your presence in front of peers and industrial interfaces.

Lu Zhou may no longer have the need to brush up on his presence, but for him, it still has some meaning.

Seeing Professor Chirik's eager gaze, Lu Zhou smiled and shook his head.

"Then I'll leave the report to you...... Connie, you can go with Professor Chirick and help him by the way. ”

Connie nodded excitedly.

"Okay, Professor!"