Great Country Academician

Beijing, north side of Chang'an Street.

On a small island separated by the North Sea, an old man in a Chinese tunic carefully read the report in his hand.

Looking up, he looked at Wu Weizhao, who replaced Qin Anguo as the liaison officer at the science and technology department, and asked softly, "Professor Xu really thinks so?"

On the opposite side, Wu Weizhao, who was a little nervous, nodded seriously, and replied: "We have already communicated with Professor Xu, but he insists on leaving and has no interest in continuing to be the chief executive."

The old man nodded and said, "If that's the case, let him go."

After a pause, he continued: "However, please communicate with Professor Xu again and ask him to serve for a period of time. At least, let us hold the celebration banquet and awards ceremony before resigning."

Wu Weizhao nodded: "Okay, I will communicate with Professor Xu."

"Have you asked Professor Xu if he has any scientific research arrangements for the next time?" the old man asked.

Wu Weizhao nodded and said: "I have consulted, and I heard from Professor Xu that he seems to be planning to return to theoretical research in mathematics and physics in the second half of the year."

"Including the European Atomic Energy Research Center. Didn't he detect the trace of dark matter in the first half of the year? The LHC will conduct experiments on this aspect in the second half of the year. Professor Xu said that he may focus on these aspects."

The old man pondered for a moment, then said, "Then let's do this first."

He originally wanted to see if he could ask Professor Xu to continue his research on lithium batteries and see if he could make some breakthroughs, but since he has his own research, let's put it aside for now.

Anyway, with the breakthrough of the lithium dendrite problem, it will take some time for the domestic industry to digest these changing technologies.

"By the way, how is the patent authorization of the artificial SEI film developed by Professor Xu going?" the old man continued to ask.

Wu Weizhao quickly replied: "It is still under negotiation and progress. There are currently 13 shortlisted battery manufacturers, four domestic and nine foreign."

"However, according to Chuanhai Materials Research Institute, they intend to authorize three domestic manufacturers and five foreign manufacturers, making a total of eight."

The old man nodded and said: "Science and technology innovation is the strategic support for improving social productivity and comprehensive national strength, and it must be placed at the core of the country's overall development."

"Go and communicate with Mr. Qin, and include the Chuanhai Materials Research Institute in the latest tax incentives issued by the state to support scientific and technological innovation of enterprises to support enterprises."

"For high-tech enterprises like Chuanhai Materials Research Institute, the state must give great help and support."

Hearing this, Wu Weizhao's eyes flashed with surprise.

The latest preferential tax policy issued by the state to support technological innovation of enterprises is only aimed at supporting enterprises or institutions such as national and provincial technology business incubators and university science parks.

This support policy is not only a great degree of tax reduction or even exemption, but also special scientific research funds allocated every year.

In addition, the housing, land use, and equipment purchase of scientific research institutions can all be supported by the state.

It has to be said that it was a surprise that a small private enterprise such as the Chuanhai Materials Research Institute made an exception to enter it.

After all, the only non-state-owned enterprises that are eligible to enter this policy are Warwick, DJI, and several other large companies that have strategic significance for the country.

Of course, relying on the patent of the artificial SEI film, Chuanhai Materials Research Institute is also of great strategic significance to the country.

Breakthroughs in the field of lithium batteries can greatly drive the rapid growth of the global new energy vehicle market, and the growth rate of the power battery market will also increase significantly.

According to the plan of the "White Paper on the Development of Lithium-ion Battery Industry" previously formulated in China, it was originally expected to reach the goal of 300Wh/kg in the field of lithium batteries in 2020, 400Wh/kg in 2025, and 500Wh/kg in 2030. The goal.

But now, because of the breakthrough of the lithium dendrite problem, let alone 500Wh/kg, in the second half of this year, the capacity of lithium-ion batteries can even directly exceed 1000Wh/kg.

From this, we can fully see the importance of that small artificial SEI film.

It is also reasonable and reasonable to include an enterprise with such a patent in the state's latest preferential tax policy for supporting technological innovation of enterprises, even if its registered capital is less than three million.

the other side.

After successfully completing the "Nuclear Beta Radiation Energy Concentration and Transformation Mechanism" project, Xu Chuan stayed for two days to deal with the subsequent work arrangements and then returned to Jinling.

The successful incubation of a large-scale project is undoubtedly satisfying.

Especially for him, this technology was originally what he wanted to bring back from his previous life.

So much so that after the completion of the project, he seldom had salted fish for a few days. Apart from going to Nantah University to attend a few classes according to the schedule, he left behind any scientific research and study.

After a few days of comfort, Chuanhai Materials Research Institute finally started the final quotation for patent authorization.

More than half a month is enough for manufacturers in the battery industry to do a complete test on the artificial SEI film.

Using the "full version" artificial SEI film and related electrolyte and other accessories provided by Chuanhai Materials Research Institute, these manufacturers were surprised to find that the film produced by Professor Xu has an amazing effect.

The products they imitate through the information on the papers and patent documents are simply rubbish in front of the genuine products.

Although those imitations can also solve the problem of lithium dendrite formation, they cannot solve the problem of lithium analysis.

Serious lithium analysis problems will quickly consume lithium ions in the electrolyte, thereby rapidly reducing battery capacity.

However, using the genuine artificial SEI film provided by Chuanhai Institute of Materials, there is almost no such problem.

The battery capacity can be maintained at more than 90% after more than 500 cycles, and about 80% after 1,000 charge-discharge cycles.

It works so amazingly well that they don't even want it anymore.

After all, the battery control plan is also one of the means for the battery industry to make money. Especially in the mobile phone industry, the service life of most brands of mobile phone batteries is generally only about one to two years.

If you don't want to change your mobile phone, then you must replace the battery, otherwise the severely reduced power of your mobile phone will make you want to carry a power bank and data cable with you.

One thousand charge and discharge cycles, supplemented by the increased battery capacity, are enough for users to use it for three or four years without replacing the battery.

But in this way, how can they make money from batteries.

Of course, raising the price of batteries is also a good way. Compared with the income from capacity renewal and planned scrapping, the benefits obtained by increasing the price are less than half.

In Chuanhai Materials Research Institute, Xu Chuan didn't pay attention to these stupid problems.

This was the second time he participated in such a commercial meeting at the research institute, but he didn't speak much, and almost sat silently watching the professionals he hired communicate with the battery manufacturers.

Seeing this group of people arguing, Xu Chuan felt a little bored, so he reached out and waved to a hired professional beside him.

"Do you have the latest quotation statistics of these manufacturers, give me a copy."

Soon, the staff member handed him a report, and Xu Chuan took it and flipped through it. Fan Pengyue would count and send these things to him once a week, but he didn't pay much attention to it before. After all, nuclear energy The research institute is the real business.

He is not very interested in things like business, and the patent authorization of the artificial SEI film, as long as it can meet his psychological expectations.

If he can't reach it, he doesn't mind leaving it in his own hands.

Anyway, this is the only one, there are no other branches.

As for other countries or laboratory research institutes to come up with substitutes in a short period of time, the probability is basically so small that it can be ignored.

After all, if this thing is really that easy to make, it would have been done long ago.

Institutions such as industry and laboratory research institutes have spent tens of billions on the lithium dendrite problem over the years, but there must be billions.

So much money has been thrown into it for decades, but this problem has not been solved. It is almost impossible to find a replacement in a short period of time, even with his sample here.

Looking through the quotations in his hand, Xu Chuan found that the quotations of these manufacturers were almost exactly the same, and the values ​​were very close.

Domestic BYD quoted 530 million three-year patent authorization, CATL quoted 550 million three-year patent authorization

In foreign countries, whether it is Panasonic in a small island country or a major battery manufacturer such as LG Chem, the quotations are about 70 million meters gold. Converted into RMB, according to the current exchange rate, it is just about 500 million yuan.

Obviously, these manufacturers are privately connected in every round of negotiations and quotations.

Faced with the three domestic quotas and five international quotas he released, these battery manufacturers intend to unite the front to obtain this patent authorization with the minimum effort.

After all, if there is no uniformity, no one knows who will quote how much, and in the end the price will be swept up by everyone. Instead of doing this, it is better to sit down and hold a meeting to discuss it in advance.

Of course, even after the negotiation, each battery manufacturer will definitely raise some prices secretly.

The number of places is limited, and there are many manufacturers participating in the competition. If you honestly follow the unified quotation, if someone raises it up, the number may not belong to you.

As for how much to lift secretly, it depends on one's ability to bear and the bottom line.

Although Xu Chuan doesn't understand business behavior very well, he can still see such obvious things.

After pondering for a while, he knocked on the table and drew the attention of the representatives in the meeting room who were arguing and negotiating.

Hearing the movement, everyone looked over curiously, a little confused as to what this ultimate university student wanted to do.

In fact, it was not that no manufacturer contacted Xu Chuan directly at the beginning, wanting to obtain a patent license directly from him.

After all, he has the final decision.

But at the beginning, this guy said to let them go to the research institute to deal with it, and he didn't care about it. And after that, no one could be found directly.

No way, the representatives of these manufacturers put their attention and breakthroughs here.

So even if this guy came to attend the meeting today, he didn't say much during the whole process, and the representatives of the manufacturer thought he was curious and came to listen.

After drawing the attention of these people, Xu Chuan said, "I have read your latest quotation, but to be honest, I am not very satisfied."

"I'm too lazy to say how broad the lithium-ion battery market is, and how much the global annual output value of lithium-ion battery anode materials is. I believe everyone here knows these things better than me."

"And, to be honest, I don't like the behavior of the monopoly series very much, including your joint efforts to lower prices. Although this may be a normal business practice in your eyes, I don't like it. I prefer to be more sincere. "

"It has been almost 20 days since the press conference at the beginning. I believe you have all tested the artificial SEI film and electrolyte provided by the Chuanhai Materials Research Institute."

"These two are general-purpose spare parts based on existing lithium batteries, and you don't need to independently manufacture a separate lithium battery production line or something."

"So here now, I give you two choices."

"The first one, patent fee + share, that is, after you give a relatively low patent fee, how much will you give me for each lithium battery produced using an artificial SEI film, which is very common in the current market for patent licensing kind of."

"The second one is direct buyout. The artificial SEI film + supporting electrolyte, the minimum three-year patent authorization is 120 million meters of gold, and the quotation is based on this, and the price is very high."

"That's it. I'll give you three days to go back and discuss. After three days, I'll wait for you here and decide the final authorization in one round."

Although he put forward two conditions, for these manufacturers, there is actually only one of the two conditions, and that is buyout, what kind of share, if they can buy out, these manufacturers will definitely buy out.

After all, buying out can make more money. I believe that these manufacturers will choose to buy out 100% at the same time.

As soon as Xu Chuan's words fell, there was a commotion in the conference room, and there was an uproar.

"Professor Xu, your price is too high. Lithium batteries do not only have artificial SEI films. We also need to consider other costs."

"Impossible, 120 million meters gold is far beyond our achievement plan, this price is too exaggerated."

"If it is an exclusive international license, we can accept a quotation of 200 million or even 300 million yuan, but there are five international patent licenses."

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Obviously, Xu Chuan's sudden intervention was unexpected to these people.

But Xu Chuan didn't want to pay attention to these people.

Indeed, the production of a lithium battery is not just an artificial SEI film; indeed, the patent authorization he gave is not exclusive.

But technology is exclusive, whether you want it or not.

The bottom line for the professional negotiators he hired before was one hundred million meters of gold. These manufacturers obviously knew it, but they still joined forces to lower the price by nearly 30%, hoping to obtain patent authorization at a lower price.

Maybe it is because he is just a scientific researcher or a scholar who is easier to bully?

In this case, let's directly increase from 100 million to 120 million.

Xu Chuan is not worried that these manufacturers will choose to give up. Even if the quotation is 120 million meters gold, these manufacturers will definitely make some money, and they still make a lot of money.

If so many manufacturers give up all of them, he doesn't mind selling the artificial SEI thin film technology directly to them.

It's not that no one in the energy industry has approached him, hoping to get a patent authorization, but he also rejected it.

Standing up, Xu Chuan walked outside.

But when he was at the door, he stopped, turned his head and said, "By the way, there is one more thing."

"I can tell you clearly here that the bottom line I gave to the Chuanhai Materials Research Institute was 100 million. The reason why it has been raised to 120 million is because you make me unhappy."

"My attitude towards partners has always been very sincere. For this cooperation, if all new products of Chuanhai Material Research Institute are developed in the future, I will give priority to partners who have had a good cooperation before."

"Besides, I'm just a researcher and a scholar. Don't use those business methods as a businessman. It would be better for everyone to be sincere."

After finishing speaking, Xu Chuan left the conference room directly, leaving everyone in the conference room behind.

Give a sweet date with a stick, although he doesn't know much about the strategy of playing hard and soft, but it can still be used temporarily.

It doesn't matter to him if these manufacturers really want to unite and not purchase the patent authorization of artificial SEI thin film, battery manufacturers are not limited to them, there are others.