"Hey, Brian, what makes you frown?"

In Liacs' laboratory, as soon as Allen entered the office, he saw Brian holding a strong cup of coffee, looking at a document with a frown.

Looking at his dazed expression and confused eyes, he seemed to be like a little Mediterranean girl who had just been ravaged by a group of Nordic men, with a bitter, sweet and sour taste on his face.

It is almost time to get off work, and the Dutch are not popular with the voluntary overtime system. Even if the employees want to work overtime, they don’t have to pay high overtime fees to workers, but also pay heavy taxes to the government. The little bit of benefits of overtime work are not worth the loss.

Generally, at this time, the staff of the Liacs Laboratory have already started to prepare for getting off work. Everyone sorted out documents and exchanged their experiences on working for one day. It was almost time. Like today, Brian was still looking at a pile of documents, but there were too few.

Brian looked up at him, couldn't help but shake the documents in his hand, and asked curiously: "Allen,?"

"Of course I know that he is a strong contender for the Nobel Prize in Physics in the next few years." Allen packed the documents on the table and said, "Aren't you already here at our Leiden University this week and ready to have an exchange visit?"

"That's right." Brian nodded, as if he wanted to confirm something: "This Zhou from China has invented the preparation method of graphene, right?"

Allen nodded subconsciously and said, "Absolutely true! Nowadays, more and more characteristics of graphene are being discovered, and many of them are believed to be able to replace silicon wafers in the future! My research direction is microelectronic materials, and these industry development directions will definitely not be mistaken."

Allen is right. With Zhou Shuo's strong investment since 1994, China's graphene research has been at the forefront of the world. Nowadays, the relatively low-cost chemical synthesis method has made breakthroughs, and the future applications of graphene have also entered people's vision. Especially its use in the electronics field, it has become a powerful factor in its ability to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.

In graphene, electrons can migrate extremely efficiently. Traditional semiconductors and conductors, such as silicon and copper, are far less good than graphene. Due to the collision of electrons and atoms, traditional semiconductors and conductors release some energy in the form of heat. Generally, computer chips waste a full 72%-81% of electrical energy in this way, but graphene is different. Its electronic energy is almost lost, which makes it have extraordinary and excellent microelectronics uses.

Just think about the need for bulky heat dissipation equipment for computers or electronic devices, or the increase in battery life caused by reducing heat loss, you can know how broad the future of graphene in the field of microelectronics. Moreover, it has almost transparent optical properties and is also an excellent material for making transparent conductive films. In the future, graphene may be present in LCD displays and touch screens.

But even so, in the European scientific community, which doesn't know much about Zhou Shuo, few people associate him with the electronics field. Some think he is a scientist specializing in materials, while some biased people simply think that he is just a lucky civil science. The scientific desert like China is really not very convinced that it can produce great scientific achievements.

Although Brian does not have much prejudice, he does not think that the research field of a person who invented graphene preparation method is not in the direction of materials science.

He frowned and said subconsciously: "That's wrong."

"Why is it wrong?" Allen walked over curiously and looked at the documents in Brian's hand.

"Look, here is his communication lecture outline."

Brian simply handed over some of the documents he had read to Allen, pointed to a location on the documents, and said: "From the content he wanted to give, it's not like he was just here to communicate about graphene materials research."

"Hey, why are there so many content in the field of microelectronics in addition to the progress of graphene?" Allen just glanced and said in disbelief: "Talking about computer technology at our Leiden University?"

After saying that, he subconsciously shook his head and said, "Are you kidding? What computer technology does Chinese people have to talk about?"

Brian nodded, as if he agreed with his opinion. However, he read a lot more content than Allen, so he didn't look down on Zhou Shuo too much. After all, this document not only lists Zhou Shuo's speech outline. It also provides a lot of the latest research progress of Fanhan Group in the electronics field.

If the name Zhou Shuo is not very well-known in the field of microelectronics in the Netherlands, then Fanhan Group is still somewhat famous in a small range.

After all, Asmay and Nikon have been competing for the lithography machine market for more than ten years. The old rival who was once evenly matched was actually defeated by an unknown Chinese company - this is really a bit legendary.

Brian opened the information in Allen's hand and explained to him: "You can't say that. I have heard of this Fanhan Group. It is very advanced in lithography machine technology! Asmay was the world's leading lithography machine technology before, but this generation of Intel production line uses Chinese products! This week, he turned out to be the president of Fanhan Group!"

"Ah!" Allen was a little surprised, and he repeatedly opened the back of the document and looked carefully.

"Intel's next-generation chip production line, the order for lithography machines is at least one billion US dollars, right?" As a scientist in the field of microelectronic materials, Allen still has this common sense. He extracted Zhou Shuo's basic personal information and quickly pointed to a number and said: "This week, I am only 27 years old this year? It's okay if the 27-year-old Nobel Prize competitor in physics is a billionaire, but he is actually a billionaire!"

Allen is in his forties this year. Although he has made achievements in science, he may be very close to billionaires...

As the saying goes, people have to die, and goods have to be thrown away. Now Alan has begun to doubt whether his life should be thrown away.

"Not only chip manufacturing technology, but also the Fanhan Group has a lot of research in the fields of software and network communications." Brian seemed to think that the blow to Allen was not enough, and then added weight to the balance: "The data compression algorithm that the Americans used on 56k modems before was also the patent provided this week. Not only that, it is said that after turning around, he cooperated with some American cable TV networks and is now promoting cable modems with higher Internet speeds. However, this news is just a rumor and has not been confirmed."

"There is also the currently popular Liuer Im, which is said to be developed by his company. The same series also includes Liuer Browser and a series of popular Internet companies. Even the birthday gift you gave to your daughter two days ago is the mp3 music player - the same patented and produced decoding chip by this Fanhan Group."

Allen was confused. Although he didn't think that Zhou Shuo was lucky, at most he was a scientist from a distant China who was relatively broad-minded and worth communicating.

But suddenly, he found that this stranger he could have looked at was suddenly becoming more and more needed to look up to him!

What's this? There are indeed many monsters in this world, but as the saying goes, he doesn't feel annoyed, and he doesn't feel that he needs to deliberately envy and jealousy. After all, the distance between the two is too far. But if such a living monster appears in his life, Allen suddenly feels a little sad.

"Even if you have money, it doesn't mean anything, right? Bill Gates is rich, but is his technical level really that good? Businessmen and scientists cannot be measured by the same standard."

"That's right." Brian nodded slightly, deeply feeling that he should have experienced the mental journey he had experienced before.

"But judging from this information, the Chinese Zhou himself has a very good technical level!"

Brian also put some of the remaining files in his hand into Allen's hands and said with a wry smile: "Sparc processor architecture, Hoffman algorithm, lz77 compression algorithm, 100g data center design plan..."

"It's hard to say how good the level is this week, but at least I'm doing research in this area. Judging from the topic he's research, it's likely that it's a direction that tends to be chips and network communications, and it's really not very close to graphene."

"this……"

Allen felt that he was not smart enough, so he looked through Zhou Shuo’s research results list. As expected, as Brian said, from the results, Zhou Shuo is really not a scientist specializing in electronic materials!

"Can he really do such a major achievement as graphene? How is this possible!"

Allen waved the documents in his hand frantically, with a look of disbelief on his face.

"I'm just like you, and I can't believe this conclusion." Brian shrugged and said helplessly: "But judging from this document, if I didn't lie this week, it should be the fact. In fact, the school is not sure about his level, so we asked the Computer Research Institute to evaluate it to see if he is allowed to speak content outside the field of graphene."
Chapter completed!