Playing a grand game of chess...
Couldn't he just speak like a normal person?
It was already getting late outside.
Sitting at the desk in his study, facing a blank computer screen with a slight headache, Lu Zhou stared at the blinking cursor for a good while before shaking his head with a helpless laugh.
Without revealing any "trade secrets," and preferably without involving any specific academic details, he needed to publish an academic paper that could convey the message: "The Jinling Institute for Advanced Study has made a major breakthrough in Lithium-Air Battery technology!"
Most importantly, the journal needed to have as much influence as possible...
How the hell was he supposed to write that "casually"???
Having spent so many years in academia, this was the first time Lu Zhou had been troubled by such a bizarre request.
Letting his thoughts wander freely, he was scratching his head and nearly ready to give up when his peripheral vision suddenly landed on the test tube he had casually set at the corner of his desk.
In an instant, inspiration surged into his mind like a fountain.
Abruptly sitting up straight in his chair, Lu Zhou cried out excitedly.
"...Got it!"
Since he could not touch upon the technical details of Lithium-Air Batteries, he could focus the paper on Mathematical Models instead. Or he could simply publish a Computational Materials Science paper, using Lithium-Air Battery research as an entry point while glossing over the battery itself!
As he thought of this, his eyes grew brighter and brighter. His hands flew across the keyboard, instantly typing a title into the blank document—
<Study of the Transport Effect of a Class of Caged Carbon Molecules on Oxygen Molecules in Modified PDMS Material and Its Application Prospects in Lithium-Air Batteries>
Looking at that title,