Amid a round of applause, the speech finally ended.

Putting down the chalk in his hand and looking at the audience, Lu Zhou nodded with satisfaction in his heart.

This year's audience is okay.

At least it's much better than at the MRS meeting.

Obviously, those professors who study crystal chemistry and physical chemistry still have a general understanding of his theory.

And those scholars who have done in-depth research on his papers after returning have also understood more than seventy percent here.

Such a result is quite acceptable for him.

As the Adams Prize in Chemistry ceremony came to an end, the opening ceremony also came to an end.

After the official start of the symposium on organic chemistry, Lu Zhou put aside the joy of winning the award for the time being, and participated in this academic exchange conference with a learning mentality.

As the saying goes, even if you are at the forefront of research, there are many things that you need to learn.

It's just that the form of learning here has changed compared to the learning when I was a student. For a scholar who creates knowledge, he focuses more on communicating with peers, reading literature, listening to lectures, etc., than absorbing knowledge from books.

This organic chemistry symposium provided him with such an opportunity, and he really felt that he benefited a lot.

The next afternoon, Lu Zhou, who had just finished listening to a lecture on organic chemistry, made himself a cup of coffee, went to the rest area to find a corner to sit down, and quietly sorted out the notes he had collected earlier.

In the conference just now, a researcher presented a non-fullerene organic solar cell, and presented a current-voltage curve and the maximum photoelectric conversion efficiency curve of a fluorinated binary heterojunction cell.

The data on this graph is very beautiful.

Although he does not study photovoltaic materials, he still has some research on fullerene materials. And what interests him the most is the part of the paper about mathematical analysis, and it can be seen that the author of the paper has good mathematical skills, and he plans to spend some time researching it.

However, at this moment, the sound of high heels sounded next to him, and a blonde beauty sat opposite him.

Disturbed by his train of thought, Lu Zhou raised his head and glanced at the beautiful woman sitting opposite with an inquiring gaze.

"You are?"

Pursing her lips and smiling, the blonde beauty held out her right hand to him, "My name is Roy, it's a pleasure to meet you." ”

"It's also a pleasure to meet you......" shook her hand, and after letting go, Lu Zhou asked in a puzzled tone, "Are you a student at any university?" ”

"I'm a master's degree from Harvard, but I'm not a chemistry major."

It seems that I didn't come to ask for a letter of recommendation.

Lu Zhou raised his eyebrows: "A reporter from the Department of Journalism? ”

Blinking, Roy mysteriously hooked the corners of his mouth: "In between." ”

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Could it be that you are still a writer?" ”

"That's right!" Roy snapped his fingers and winked at him, "I'm a science writer. ”

Is it really written?

Although there are still many differences between popular science works and them.

Lu Zhou smiled and asked with interest: "I didn't expect that it was not only enterprises and the media that were interested in my research, I was curious about what you were looking for me?" ”

Roy: "Actually, I signed up for this organic chemistry symposium mainly to find inspiration for writing, and I happened to run into the Adams Prize in Chemistry. ”

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "I guess you didn't understand my speech. ”

"I really didn't understand, but this doesn't prevent your speech from inspiring me a lot, especially your insights on energy and materials, which made my inspiration flow out of my mind," looking at Lu Zhou seriously, the lady said in a sincere tone, "I have a few questions I would like to ask you, I wonder if it can take up a little of your time?" ”

Glancing at the mist on the coffee cup, Lu Zhou thought about the next itinerary and said in a relaxed tone: "...... I had time before I finished my coffee. ”

"Don't worry, I won't delay you for long." Roy's face was overjoyed, and out of nowhere he conjured up a shorthand notebook and a pen, and quickly began to ask, "So, the first question ......"

Roy's questions were all very superficial, or scientific.

Lu Zhou used as much plain language as possible, what he knew, and corrected some erroneous views that had been misread by the media.

Time passed quickly.

When he finished his coffee, Roy had just finished asking all the questions and put away his shorthand book and pen.

"Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to answer my questions, and I'll give you a free copy of my book when it's published."

Lu Zhou joked: "Signed?" ”

Roy smiled: "If you need it, let me sign as many as you want." ”

After a pause, she continued, in a joking tone.

"This is my business card, I'm interested in you, maybe we can have a deeper conversation."

Leaving a business card with contact information, the blonde beauty used ambiguous. He glanced at Lu Zhou with an ambiguous look, left a wisp of incense, got up and left.

Looking at her back, Lu Zhou smiled and shook his head.

In-depth exchanges?

Forget it.

Even the professors at Cornell University can't understand my theories, and it's useless to communicate with you about things that are too difficult to understand.

Just then, an unexpected acquaintance walked over.

Glancing at Roy's back, Carrodit said in a relaxed voice.

"You're in good taste."

Lu Zhou asked casually, "Do you need me to help you ask for a phone number?" ”

"That sounds attractive," Carrodit said as she stared at Lu Zhou as she sat on the couch where Roy had sat earlier, "but I'm not here to talk to you about women." ”

Didn't you mention this stubble first?

Lu Zhou glanced at him speechlessly and put away the business card in his hand.

"So, you're here to talk to me about something?"

"Don't talk about anything, just to tell you bad news," Carrodit said. ”

Lu Zhou's eyebrows raised slightly: "Oh? ”

Carrodit said with a serious face: "Mobil Chemical intends to meddle in the production of lithium-sulfur battery materials, and not only that, they have found Professor Stanley!" ”

That's it......

Lu Zhou, who thought it was a big deal, had a speechless expression on his face,

"Oh, I already know."

Carrodit was slightly stunned, and quickly reacted vigilantly: "Woods has already looked for you?" ”

Lu Zhou nodded and replied in a relaxed tone, "That's right, just the night before yesterday, not long after I arrived in San Francisco, he and Professor Stanley came here to visit me. ”

Carrodit's eyes glanced left and right, and she asked in a low voice, "Where are they?" ”

Lu Zhou frowned slightly: "What's the step?" ”

Carrodit was stunned: "Of course it's the progress of the research...... Wait, could you be, didn't ask them anything? ”

Lu Zhou gave him a strange look: "What do I need to ask them?" ”

Carodiet: "......"

Looking at the incredulous expression on Carodiet's face, Lu Zhou sighed softly, "To be honest, I don't quite understand why you are so cautious. ”

"That's because you don't understand how terrible the market prospects for sulfur batteries are," Carodit took a deep breath, restrained her anxiety, and said in a low voice, "Listen, Mobil is also working on cathode materials for lithium-sulfur batteries, and their research and development direction is also based on carbon-sulfur composite materials based on hollow carbon balls!" And you've done them a great favor, you shouldn't have published those two papers in Science at all! ”

Even if Umicore's old rival Nichia Chemical was the first to develop this technology, it would not make Carrodit so nervous.

ExxonMobil, however, is different.

This kind of cross-domain oil giants naturally step on the upstream of the industrial chain of these chemical companies, and naturally occupy a unique advantage in the cost of raw materials.

Once ExxonMobil became interested in the cathode material for lithium-sulfur batteries, it would not be a piece of meat snatched from Umicore's mouth, but a piece of meat from all their chemical giants.

Just as there is a gap between geniuses and geniuses, there is also a gap between giants and giants.

However......

What does this have to do with Lu Zhou?

He is not a shareholder of Umicore.

"I don't agree with your point of view, the value of academia can only be sublimated through communication," Lu Zhou frowned slightly, "And my own research results, published or not, do I need to discuss with you?" ”

"No, that's not what I meant," noticing the dissatisfaction in Lu Zhou's tone, Carrodit quickly softened her tone and explained, "I admire your self-confidence, but the problem is that self-confidence also depends on the time." Know that your competitor is ExxonMobil! In order to start this battle, they have added 50 million dollars of chips to Professor Stanley! Do you understand what that means? ”

Looking at Carrodit, who looked anxious, Lu Zhou didn't know how to comfort him.

Clearly, Umicore is also working on cathode materials for lithium-sulfur batteries, and has invested a lot of money ambitiously in this project. In a sense, in the lithium-sulfur battery project, Luzhou and Umicore are also competitors, but the competition is not as strong as that of Umicore and Mobil.

If Lu Zhou researched it first, and Umicore would at most give up part of the profits, then he was researched by Nichia Chemical, and at most he would have been slaughtered by his peers. But if Mobil, an ambitious giant in the field of boasting, comes out on top, it will be a dead end.

It is precisely because of this that Lu Zhou's two papers suddenly made them panic.

Especially in the case of the race against Mobil Chemical, no one knows how many meters the other party is still from the finish line, and these two papers are like a time bomb, which makes Carrodit nervous and unable to sleep.

Thinking of this, Lu Zhou was also very unwilling.

But even if he were to choose again, he would still make the same choice as before.

After a pause, Lu Zhou tried to comfort him in a soothing tone.

"Take it easy, I've never seen you as a competitor."

Carodiet: "......"