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After all, Xu Zhou's qualifications are still a bit shallow. Even now, Xu Zhou is only a master's tutor and is not officially qualified to supervise doctoral students.

But in recent project research, Ning Chen and Xu Zhou have made outstanding results together.

Presumably Ning Chen got along very well with Xu Zhou, so he wanted to choose Xu Zhou as his mentor.

Liu Xu thought for a while and suddenly thought of a compromise plan.

"Ning Chen, because Mr. Xu Zhou is only a tutor for master's students now, in principle, he cannot mentor PhD students. If you don't mind, you can put it under my name, and then Mr. Xu Zhou will guide you."

Liu Xu is an academic dean. He is a professor of materials science and a doctoral supervisor.

Although Liu Xu has now focused on management, he is still qualified to teach doctoral students.

Hearing Liu Xu's proposal, Ning Chen also felt very much in agreement.

"Of course, it is my honor to study with Dean Liu."

Ning Chen thought that if he could bear Liu Xu's name, it would be of great help to him in his future scientific research.

"As for the corresponding author, we need to seek the consent of Teacher Xu Zhou. As long as Teacher Xu Zhou has no objection, then there will be no problem in this matter."

Hearing what Liu Xu said, Ning Chen felt a lot more confident.

With Ning Chen's understanding of Xu Zhou, Xu Zhou should not refuse this.

Liu Xu took out his mobile phone and dialed Xu Zhou's number.

At this time, Xu Zhou had just finished receiving the award and had not yet left the backstage. After receiving Liu Xu's call, Xu Zhou rushed over immediately.

"Dean Liu, please look for me."

"Well, there are some things I want to discuss with you."

Next, Liu Xu told Xu Zhou what he and Ning Chen had just studied. Xu Zhou was a little surprised after hearing this.

"You want me to be a doctoral supervisor? Am I not qualified now?"

"In terms of ability alone, you are definitely enough. It's just that some hard indicators need to be accumulated. It's just a matter of time. Before that, I will be a nominal supervisor. After you reach the indicators of doctoral supervisor, I will move to the position of supervisor. I’ll just pass it on to you.”

Xu Zhou naturally wanted to continue doing experiments with Ning Chen. When Liu Xu said this, Xu Zhou did not refuse.

"Teacher Xu, what do you think about the corresponding author? Ning Chen means that if it is an experiment he leads, he hopes that he can be the corresponding author."

"Of course there is no problem. In fact, Ning Chen should be the corresponding author of the last Nature article. Just because there is no such precedent before, I can't give Ning Chen the corresponding author."

After all, the instructor needs to be responsible for a project. If a student is used as the corresponding author for no reason, some difficult problems may arise in the future.

Seeing that Xu Zhou had made his position clear, Liu Xu finally nodded happily.

"Okay! That's it! Ning Chen, I wish you in advance to achieve more brilliant research results during your PhD!"

Ning Chen was also very satisfied with the result. Unexpectedly, Liu Xu had no objection to the somewhat harsh conditions he proposed.

These conditions are likely to be unable to be met by other schools, which is one of the reasons why Ning Chen chose to stay at Shengzhou University.

Even if he goes to a better school, Ning Chen cannot guarantee that he will be able to enjoy the best resources of the school.

Of course, as the alma mater of two generations of Ning Chen, Shengzhou University will still gain a lot of extra points in Ning Chen's heart.

After chatting about issues after graduation, Ning Chen and Xu Zhou left the auditorium together.

"Ning Chen, do you really want to choose me as your mentor?"

"Of course, Teacher Xu, the two projects we did before were very successful, and I want to continue this good feeling. What, Teacher Xu, don't you have confidence in yourself?"

Seeing Ning Chen say this, Xu Zhou also smiled and said:

"How could I not have confidence? To be honest, ordinary teachers really can't help you."

"Then you should be promoted to doctoral supervisor as soon as possible. You should not be short of a few achievements now."

"No problem, give me another two years... No, one year should be enough. Let me tell you first, the corresponding author cannot give you the project that I am responsible for."

"Teacher Xu, do I seem to be such an unreasonable person?"

"Haha, no kidding. You agreed to treat me to dinner tonight, so don't forget."

Ning Chen liked the way he got along with Xu Zhou very much. The two had a teacher-student relationship in the laboratory, but in private they were like friends.

Ning Chen believes that the two of them will achieve more excellent research results in the future.

…

Shenzhen City, Piatti R\u0026D Center.

After a large number of previous tests, the Piati R\u0026D Department has determined that the new silicon-based lithium battery anode material developed by the Materials Laboratory of Shengzhou University has great application value.

After the project entered the application stage, the performance of the entire lithium battery was also very good.

Not only does it have a very fast charging speed, but the energy density of the battery is also very high, allowing new energy vehicles to have a longer range.

Although there are many technologies involved in a car, for new energy vehicles, the most important technologies are only batteries, motors and electronic controls.

Among these three technologies, battery is undoubtedly the one that needs to be solved most urgently.

With this new silicon-based lithium battery anode material, Piati has seen hope for the launch of the next new energy vehicle.

However, at this time, Piati's crisis has not yet been resolved.

Even if they develop a new energy vehicle with better performance, it does not mean that the sales of this car will be very good.

Due to some drawbacks of new energy vehicles, no matter how good electric vehicles are, many people will give priority to gasoline vehicles.

The first is the issue of charging. If you go to public charging piles to charge, not only will you need a longer waiting time, but there are not enough charging piles in many places and it is difficult to find them.

If you buy the charging pile yourself, you will have to pay an additional fee.

In addition, new energy vehicles are not suitable for high-speed driving, because when driving on the high-speed, sometimes there will be unstable power outages, which may cause some battery life problems.

Only users who often travel in the city are more suitable to choose to buy new energy vehicles.

Just when this new car entered the late stages of development, a new piece of news made Piati see an opportunity again.

"Mr. Wang, Shenzhen City is conducting an open bidding for a new batch of taxis. I think our new model is very suitable!"

Wang Fu was also very excited when he heard the news.

"Yes! If used as a taxi, our new new energy vehicles have great advantages! Although the cost of the car is higher, the cost of electricity consumption is much lower than the fuel consumption. After long-term use, The cost of the tram is a huge advantage!”

"Yes, the problem of charging piles can be solved in this way. And with the new silicon-based lithium battery, we have an absolute advantage even compared with other new energy car companies!"

At this time, Wang Fu was a little lucky that Xu Shou was able to find the Materials Laboratory of Shengzhou University for cooperation.

This tens of millions of R\u0026D expenses may completely change Piati's destiny.