It is a novel idea to solve the superconductivity phenomenon from the perspective of carbon nanomaterials.

It's not like no one has done this research, but so far, I haven't heard of any particularly outstanding results.

Therefore, as to whether this idea will work or not, in fact, Lu Zhou has no bottom in his heart.

However, the vast majority of scientific research starts with speculation anyway. He decided to be like the other bigwigs, whether it would work or not, and set up a flag first.

After determining the research direction, Lu Zhou made a phone call with Salat and repeated what he had said to Zhao Xu before.

After listening to Lu Zhou's words, Sarot's eyes widened: "Superconducting materials? Why did you suddenly want to study this direction? ”

Lu Zhou: "Because I think it's interesting, can't you?" ”

Sarot: "No, I mean, the research in this direction is close to a blank slate, and we have to start from scratch. ”

Lu Zhou: "So what? ”

"So it's likely that only after many phases of results can we make a result that meets the criteria for patenting," Sarot couldn't help but persuade, "Why don't we continue to make batteries?" The industry is looking to us to continue to improve the HCS-2 material and give them more capacity batteries. ”

After hearing this, Lu Zhou smiled.

"The industry is definitely not expecting us to continue to improve the HCS-2 material, in fact, we have come up with these technologies, which are enough for the industry to digest for a while."

"As for patents, you don't have to worry about that. I'm not going to use patents as the only criterion for evaluating your performance, you just have to follow that direction. ”

"Well, since you don't care about losing money." Sarot shrugged his shoulders and stopped trying to persuade him.

Although he couldn't understand the boss's motives, he would not turn down an opportunity if someone was willing to pay him for an experiment.

After a pause, Sarot continued: "Actually, if you don't care much about patents, we can collaborate with other research teams to speed up the production of milestones. As far as I know, MIT has a research team that is also doing this, and we can work with them. ”

Lu Zhou: "Their names? ”

Sarot: "Pablo· The research group of Jarillo-Herrero is a leader in the field of graphene. ”

Lu Zhou frowned slightly, and asked, "Will this kind of big bull be willing to cooperate with us?" ”

"It depends on who proposes the collaboration, and if I send an email, he will most likely ignore me," Sarot shrugged, "but if the Hoffman Medal winner, the proposer of the theoretical model of electrochemical interface structure, and the first person in the computational materials science community to send him an email, I don't think he will refuse." ”

emmmm……

Lu Zhou suddenly felt that although this guy's statement was a bit strange, he always felt that it made sense.

"Okay then, I'll try to contact him."

Hanging up the phone, Lu Zhou opened his laptop and began to search for Pablo Brown with the help of Princeton University's database. Information from the Jarillo-Herrero group.

The circle of academia is not large, and it is easy to know what a person is researching, just investigate the big papers he has recently published.

Soon, Lu Zhou found out what he wanted.

The research on the superconductivity of graphene materials in this research group can be traced back even ten years.

In 2007, they published a paper on "bipolar overcurrent in graphene", in 2014, they also published a research paper on "quantum spin Hall states of graphene" in Nature, and the latest article in Nature is about the ferromagnetism and heterostructure of single-layer van der Waals crystals, which is also quite interesting.

After noting down the email address of the corresponding author, Lu Zhou quickly searched the personal blog of Professor Pablo Herero, the head of the research group, through Google.

Judging by his updated blog post, as Sarot says, they are working on an interesting study on the superconducting properties of graphene at low temperatures.

If they are correct, it will provide a new idea for the study of superconducting materials.

"There are so many great people in the field of materials science."

With a sigh of emotion in his heart, Lu Zhou opened the mailbox and began to edit the email.

【…… Hello, Professor Pablo Herero, I'm Lu Zhou at Princeton University. After reading your paper published in Nature, I am very interested in your research direction, and if you don't mind, I would like to collaborate with you on the study of the properties of graphene superconductivity. I don't know what you think? 】

After sending the email, Lu Zhou did not immediately close the mailbox, but leaned back in his chair and waited for a while.

In his experience, most people spend their mornings on Arxiv following their peers, checking their work mailboxes and answering emails.

If nothing else, the professor Pablo Herero should be sitting in front of the computer at this moment and has already seen his email.

In fact, Lu Zhou guessed accurately.

After waiting about five minutes, he waited for a reply.

In the email, there is only one line of words.

[I have no opinion, is there a more specific cooperation plan?] 】

Seeing this email, the corners of Lu Zhou's mouth hooked up a smile, and he began to edit the reply.

[Of course......]

……

The speed at which the cooperation agreement was reached was even smoother than Lu Zhou imagined.

For such projects with a low patent conversion rate, most professors are quite willing to cooperate with a strong team to conduct collaborative research.

According to the cooperative research agreement between the two parties, Lu Zhou will send a researcher to visit and exchange with them to guide them in his computational materials science methods, and at the same time, they will also send a researcher to exchange research ideas.

The two parties jointly conducted research on the superconducting properties of two-dimensional carbon nanomaterials, and the resulting paper was co-signed.

The next day, Lu Zhou found Connie, who was working as a postdoc at his site.

Compared to Jericho, who was still in the learning stage, it was obvious that Connie, who had been working under him for some time, was more suitable for this task.

"I need you to go to Boston." After finding Connie, Lu Zhou got straight to the point.

"Boston? What's the matter? Connie, who was doing the experiment, stopped what he was doing, looked at Lu Zhou and asked.

Lu Zhou: "Recently, I talked to Pablo · The Jarillo-Herrero group has reached an agreement to collaborate on the superconducting properties of two-dimensional carbon nanomaterials. I need you to visit there for a while, it may take a few weeks, it may take a few months, that is not to say. Of course, I will reimburse you for travel expenses and expenses, mainly depending on whether you have any problems with your schedule? ”

"I'm totally OK here, Professor," Connie said with a grin, patting his chest, "I'll leave that to me...... When to go? ”

Visiting and exchanging can be a great opportunity to broaden your horizons, especially with a generous boss without having to pay out of pocket.

Such an opportunity will not be easily let go of by any diligent student.

Seeing that Connie agreed, Lu Zhou nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile.

"You can start preparing now, and you'll be on your way in three days!"