Orion Crest, Series_1

Chapter 167: New students

　　On the other hand, far away in the laboratory building of Ford university, Hubery was holding a document and flipping through it carefully.

　　Since the end of the symposium, he had been waiting for the summary document, and now he finally received it.

　　For the real bulls, they could not care about the interference of external factors such as policy and market, and concentrate on their own research. However, for general professors, attention to policy news is still quite necessary. After all, this is a big issue related to research funding.

　　In this "cruel" profession, nothing can be done without funding.

　　Good experimental equipment, some experimental raw materials are more expensive than gold, plus personnel expenses, third-party testing costs, and even travelling expenses for meetings, on the way to become a great name, most professors and scholars must face the reality of these financial difficulties.

　　After reading the conference summary from the beginning to the end, Professor Hubery's eyes gradually narrowed into a slit with joy.

　　To his satisfaction, in the summary document of the symposium, the promising direction of carbon-sulfur composites was highlighted.

　　Soon, however, his brow furrowed slightly.

　　The document's argument for adding hollow carbon spheres to the anode sulphur material was exactly the same as what that certain chap had said at the seminar. Apparently, the working group had accepted Orion's opinion. 

          And that's what annoyed Hubery the most. He had always been very clear in his view that Director Lewis had given too much weight to the young man's opinion.

　　Although Orion had won the Crafoord Prize and was indeed a talented person, that was also a matter of mathematics and had little to do with materials science.

　　Even though the paper published in Nature did amaze the whole industry, Hubery preferred to interpret it as a kind of luck than capability.

　　After all, scientific research is like gambling, no matter how beautiful the theories are and how perfect the data curves are drawn, it still depends on luck whether or not the results can be achieved.

　　Anyway, after all, he himself is doing research on carbon sulphur composite materials, and which might still have some potential for hollow carbon spheres.

　　Thinking of this, Hubery nodded in satisfaction.

　　"How much funding is appropriate for the application?" Hubery thought for a moment, "Let's apply for two million first."

　　Normally, he would not be able to apply for so much for this project. But now is a very special time, the country is vigorously developing the new energy technology, the related fields, research funding will be much more. Especially when it came to those favoured R&D directions, the possibility of applying for this funding would be even greater.

　　It just so happens that he also intends to give the lab a new scanning electron microscope. It would be good to take this opportunity to get this done.

......

　　With the last of the instruments on their way, Matt and Bob both returned from Belgium.

　　Together with Toby, Orion now has three full researchers at the Institute.

　　For a formal research institute, this number was far from enough, but counting those PhDs and masters from Gordon university who had signed internship contracts with the institute, the relevant experiments could already be carried out.