It had to be said that Karnov's idea was indeed crafty. There was truly no one in the world more suitable than Professor Stanley to review this manuscript.
In a sense, it was no different from sending the paper around in a circle and back into the submitter's own hands, letting the submitter review his own manuscript...
Binghamton University.
Inside a laboratory in the Department of Chemistry.
Professor Stanley had just returned from teaching a class. He casually tossed his textbooks onto the sofa by the door, hummed a cheerful tune, then walked over and sat down at his desk.
Since his defeat several years ago, ExxonMobil had lost its chance to enter the Lithium-Sulfur Battery market, as well as its trust in him.
That double blow to both his career and self-esteem had once driven him into depression.
However, over the years, he had gradually emerged from that person's shadow.
Especially when he saw Lu Zhou's research achievements one after another on television, the knot in his heart had more or less completely unraveled.
He was hardly the only one who had lost to that person.
Materials Science itself was a field full of mysteries. Some people could repeat experiments again and again without getting the results they wanted, while others somehow succeeded on their very first try.
Even Martin Chalfie, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, had said, "Sometimes you can't put too much faith in established experience. If an experiment isn't going well, throw the sample on the floor, or the table, or into the sea, then do it again. It'll basically work, no matter what kind of experiment it is."
When it came to someone like Professor Lu, a lucky man clearly favored by heaven, it was better for him to stay as far