<h4>Chapter 343: JACS!</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>Henyee Trantions <strong>Editor: </strong>Henyee Trantions


    A major event in the chemistry industry took ce in July.


    Well, two events.


    Two important theses were published in thetest issue of JACS.


    In particr, the “Cage-like carbon molecules and sulfur elementalposite cathode materials” thesis which was written by Stanley shocked both the materials science industry and the energy industry.


    A month ago, after the patent number was received, the materials scienceboratory of Binghamton University released a statement, and now the material science and industry finally saw the true content of the thesis.


    Even though the academicmunity doubted if Professor Stanley really solved the problem regarding lithium-sulfur battery, they were generally optimistic.


    After all, Professor Stanley was a big name in the lithium field, and he had ExxonMobil’s support, thus making his thesis very credible.


    Many research institutes were doing repeated experiments.


    Maybe soon lithium-sulfur batteries woulde out ofboratories and into people’s lives...


    As for the other important thesis, it was the highly controversial “theoretical model of the electrochemical interface structure”.


    Prior to this, the theoretical chemistrymunity did not have a theoretical model that could thoroughly rify the microscopic essence of various electrochemical processes urring on the “interface”.


    If this model proved to be effective, it would help the entire chemistrymunity on electrochemical interface research.


    However, this theory was too advanced.


    Because of this, this thesis caused widespread controversy in the theoretical chemistrymunity.


    It was no exaggeration to say that if it wasn’t because of the Crafoord Prize and the Adams Chemistry Prize, JACS would never have published this thesis so easily.


    Although mathematics could be judged by its logical self-consistency, research outside of mathematics, especially for applied sciences, couldn’t be judged by its logical self-consistency.


    The most difficult thing was that there were very few mathematicians that could understand the logical self-consistency in Lu Zhou’s mathematical model.


    It wasn’t difficult to find a schr both proficient in mathematics and in chemistry but to find a Crafoord level mathematician, that was much more difficult.


    Although testing the model through experiments sounded like a good idea, it wasn’t.


    After all, not everyboratory could afford supeputers. Especially for calctions of molecr dynamics, the price wasn’t cheap.


    The reason why “Anton” was so famous in theputational chemistry industry was that it had no worthy opponents.


    However, due to Lu Zhou’s reputation in materials science and mathematics, many people were convinced that his theory was reliable.


    Among them were schrs in theoretical chemistry and schrs in applied mathematics.


    Rumors said that the Max nck Society for the Advancement of Science in Germany had set up a task force that brought together several schrs in the fields of mathematics, chemistry, and condensed matter physics to test the model.


    Maybe soon the answer woulde out.


    But for now, it seemed that the controversy would stay.


    Lu Zhou, who was at the center of all of this, was surprisingly calm. He did his experiment without hesitation.


    Three days after the JACS publication, his second experiment with the D.E Shaw Research Institute came to an end. He had finallypleted the research on the molecr dynamics simtion of the interface between carbon-sulfur materials and organic electrolytic solutions.


    After sending these millions of dors worth of experiment data to Yang Xu, who was far away at the Jinling Institute of Computational Materials, Lu Zhou was about to turn off hisputer. Suddenly, he received a video call from Sarrot.


    Lu Zhou knew what the professor wanted and picked up the call.


    As expected, Sarrot had an awkward expression.


    He stayed silent for a while before he said, “I’m sorry... for letting you down.”


    Lu Zhou didn’t me him.


    “It’s fine, you don’t have to feel guilty. You did what I asked you to do.”


    Scientific research wasn’t gardening; just because one nted seed doesn’t mean results woulde out.


    Professor Stanley was the director of the Institute of Materials at Binghamton University; Sarrot was no match for someone like him.


    Not to mention Stanley’s financial support, it would be a miracle if Sarrot had won thepetition.


    However, just like Lu Zhou had guessed, it didn’t matter who developed the technology.


    Sarrot was confused. He then looked at Lu Zhou and said, “I don’t understand, why do you look like you don’t care? This is the lithium-sulfur battery project, you must have invested a lot of money into this?”


    Lu Zhou smiled and said, “Of course, I spent a lot of money on your lithium-sulfur batteries, and your experiment on HCS-1 was inspiring. But when did I say the key to solving lithium-sulfur batteries was the caged carbon molecule?”


    Sarrot was stunned.


    Lu Zhou told him to do everything he could to solve theboratory synthesis method of the caged carbon molecule, and the HCS-1 was only a by-product of the caged carbon molecule.


    But Lu Zhou never said the caged carbon molecule was the key to solving the lithium-sulfur battery shuttle effect...


    He suddenly realized this.


    His eyes widened. “Wait a minute, you’re saying...”


    “The caged carbon molecule is a very interesting material whether it is from the perspective of its geometry or its physical chemical properties. However, it has nothing to do with lithium-sulfur batteries.” Lu Zhou threw a sugar cube into his coffee and said, “As for its use, I will tell youter.”


    Sarrot gulped and said, “Which means the JACS thesis that Professor Stanley had published...”


    “They’re probably running around like lobsters in a pot,” Lu Zhou smiled and said, “but it’s their fault.”


    Simr things happened before.


    Professor Stanley’s thesis could be interpreted as an academic mistake.


    Lu Zhou guessed that in order to win thepetition, Stanley probably “modified” some data in order to publish sooner.


    For example, ording to the mathematical model he established for “the effect of pore size and surface area of hollow carbon spheres on the diffusion of polysulfidepounds”, the caged carbon molecule had a lesser effect on the “shuttle effect”. This was confirmed in Professor Stanley’s experiment.


    The so-called lesser effect meant a tiny effect.


    Its actual industry application value wasn’t evenparable to Lu Zhou’s HCS-1...


    Sarrot was speechless.


    <i>What is a genius?</i>


    <i>This is a genius...</i>


    <i>Stanley thought he had the upper hand. Instead, he was baited...</i>


    From Sarrot’s perspective, Lu Zhou had nned this whole thing.


    Including Ricardo stealing the data... It was all part of Lu Zhou’s scheme.


    Sarrot would still be in the dark if Lu Zhou hadn’t exined this to him.


    However, Sarrot didn’t know that the reality was much more simple.


    Even if Lu Zhou exined the high tech system missions to him, he wouldn’t believe in it...


    “Oh yeah, about the Ricardowsuit, just withdraw it.” Lu Zhou smiled and said, “He’s helped us so much, we’ll let him go.”


    Their mostpetitive opponents were destroyed; this reduced a lot of pressure on the Jinling Institute of Computational Materials.


    Lu Zhou couldn’t be bothered to go through with awsuit.


    Lu Zhou originally thought that Sarrot wouldn’t be happy to drop thewsuit. He didn’t expect Sarrot to look at him with admiration.


    “Okay, boss!”


    Sarrot couldn’t help but say, “Smart, your scheme was wonderful...”


    Lu Zhou: ...?


    <i>What scheme?</i>


    <i>What is he talking about?</i>


    <i>I’m so confused.</i>


    Lu Zhou felt like Sarrot had misunderstood something.