Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

It was not just Professor Lee Rong-eun who received the invitation.

At the same time, there are also old Tang and Lu Academicians.

After sending these three invitations, the Ark suddenly discovered that its initial fears seemed entirely redundant.

Counting old ladies and fathers plus Xiaotong, three professors at Jinling University, five students of their own, as well as their sisters... seems to have used almost enough seats?

As for the remaining two seats, the Ark had thought about it for half a day and didn't want to do much about it.

Professor Deligne attended the year-end conference of the European Mathematical Institute in France, and Professor Feverman went with him.

As for old Witten...

While his remarks may be of interest to the Nobel Prize dinner, it is unfortunate that he is attending an important meeting of the international theoretical physics community at CERN at this time, and will not be able to spare time.

Looks like everyone's been busy these weeks before Christmas.

As for inviting former roommates...

Couldn't get enough for three seats, and it always felt bad to leave no one behind.

Thinking about it and not coming up with a good note, the Ark finally decided to set the issue aside.

Vacant seats, there's no need to have enough for 14 people.

He has more important things to do than worry about it.

For example, find a suitable method for the industrial preparation of SG-1 materials.

The samples they obtained in the experiment were essentially obtained by chemical vapor deposition, depositing a layer of carbon atomic membrane on the substrate by high-temperature carbon source gas, and re-dissolving the substrate to obtain graphene material.

It is not enough, however, that this process yields only the original graphene raw materials. To enable it to achieve superconducting at 101K temperature, it is also subjected to a series of processes such as N doping.

In fact, these things were supposed to be considered by industry, but the ark couldn't wait that long.

Until finally, engineers from Professor Razelson's kind of technology “blew their brains out” and saw this marginal but non-existent market for competitors, fearing that his mission would be long overdue.

For the time being, the most widely used field for superconducting materials is scientific research itself.

Luckily, however, he had read some spare books on industrial design before the ark, and went to the engineering professor to rub a few classes, combined with his LV2 engineering grade, it was not very difficult to absorb this strange knowledge.

It may not be possible for him to design a production line from beginning to end, but it would be feasible to improve the laboratory preparation method to find a less costly synthetic method.

It didn't work, he simply synthesized it using a laboratory method.

It's just burning money anyway.

If he did make the DEMO demo, would he still have to worry about the money?

Don't say burn 100 million into it, even burn 1 billion without losing...

As we got closer to the end of the month, Professor Chirick flew to Boston to attend the MRS Fall Club.

On the ark side, in addition to experiments on SG-1 materials, time is needed to prepare for the Nobel lecture after the awards ceremony.

Interestingly enough, he received a number of invitations to present awards during this period.

Among them are the New Horizon Award, reportedly sponsored by a Russian billionaire and the founders of Google, Facebook, Tencent and other businesses. There are other awards that are not very famous and he can't even find online.

After all, he was the oldest Nobel laureate in the legend, and his age and achievements on the ark were topical.

When Prague set his 25-year-old record, it took him a century to break it, and he just refreshed it for a year. To break this new record, we do not know that we will have to wait centuries.

I don't mind winning a few more awards, but so many invitations stuck in his mailbox really gave the ship a headache.

Looks like once this Nobel Prize comes out, he really wants to rub his heat.

Because after going to Stockholm, I had to go to Paris, and the ark really didn't have that much time to fly around the world, so I simply let Ai help herself throw away all the awards that had nothing to do with academia.

However, only later did Ark learn that the prize money for the New Horizon Award amounted to US $3 million...

He couldn't help but feel heartbroken when he thought about rubbing his shoulder with $3 million.

Though $3 million may have been nothing to him, who would have liked too much money?

Not to mention picked it up for nothing.

But he pushed it away, even if he wanted to regret it without that chance, he could only do it.

……

On the last day of November, Ark and Princeton took a short holiday and started preparing their own trip to Stockholm.

At about the same time, good news came from Professor Chirick, who traveled to Boston for the MRS Fall Club.

On the phone, Professor Chirick said in an exciting tone.

“The debriefing will go very well, and the people who came to hear the debriefing will even be squeezing into the hallway from the aisle of their seats, you really should come and check it out! ”

Hearing Professor Chirick's excitement, the ark couldn't help but bend its corner.

When he reported his paper on the modified PDMS material at the MRS Fall Meeting, it seemed that those who came to the meeting were also crowded into the corridor.

I really miss it now.

A moment later, the ark asked about business.

“Are there businesses interested in our technology? ”

Chirique: “Yes, but… may not be what you expected. ”

Ark: “What do you mean? ”

Chirick: "It was IBM that found me, and they were interested in our technology, but not because of its superconducting properties, but because of the semiconductor properties that Mott insulators exhibited in a special way. ”

When the heart of the ark moved, it immediately reacted.

“Are they going to make electronics out of SG-1 material? ”

Professor Chirick nodded: "It seems so, they're doing research on the direction of carbon-based electronics, but they just asked me some technical details and if we needed funding. I told them I didn't need it, and then they left without saying anything. ”

Speaking of which, Chirick's voice is a little unfortunate.

When IBM people found him, he thought they were going to pay for patent licensing, but unfortunately they didn't.

Obviously, they still have concerns about whether this material is really suitable for use in electronics and need to be verified in their own laboratories.

As far as superconducting materials themselves are concerned, some medical device companies involved in the production of components of superconducting materials, while expressing an interest in the technology, are merely interested.

Seeing his partner seemed a little lost, the Ark casually comforted itself: “Nothing to be regretted, the study of superconducting materials is not a very popular direction in industry itself and does not attract the interest of industry very normally. ”

“I know, I just feel that this great technology is not recognized by industry…" It seems that I don't know how to describe this feeling, Professor Chirick paused for a while, shrugged his shoulders and continued, “In short, a bit unfortunate. ”

Ark: “A great technology does not hinder industry's greatness by not being able to attract interest, and I can assure you that it will be used in a great project. ”

Chirique: “Like what? ”

The ark coughed softly: "I can't tell you yet, by 2025, you will naturally understand what I mean. ”

Professor Chirick was speechless: "Well, I guess I'll have to wait seven years before I can reveal the mystery. ”