Great Country Academician

For Xu Chuan, after spending a leisurely New Year, there are quite a lot of things to be busy with.

The cooperation between Xinghai Research Institute and NASA is just one of them, and he also has to take care of work in the field of lithium batteries.

Qixiashan New Development Zone, in the headquarters building of Chuanhai Materials Research Institute.

Xu Chuan was discussing the processing of lithium-sulfur batteries and the research and development of lithium-air batteries with master Xiong Fanpengyue.

"In terms of the production of lithium-sulfur batteries, I have contacted several domestic battery manufacturers and conducted preliminary communication."

In the office, Brother Fan took out a document from the drawer, handed it over, and continued: "Judging from the current communication results, these domestic manufacturers hope to get the production technology of lithium-sulfur batteries from us. "

"These are the initial cooperation conditions given by several domestic battery manufacturers. You should take a look first."

"If possible, I think we should identify partners as soon as possible and start the production of lithium-sulfur batteries."

Since the Chuanhai Institute of Materials has pointed out that ‘monoclinic gamma phase sulfur’ has stable polysulfide compound diffusion problems and shuttle effects in lithium-sulfur batteries, almost all research institutes have embarked on this research path.

Especially when the patent application for 'monoclinic gamma phase sulfur' is blocked, whoever can decipher the secret of lithium-sulfur batteries first will not only completely occupy this huge market, but at least be in it. Share a piece of sweet cake.

Xu Chuan took the document and asked casually while flipping through it: "As for what I mentioned before, whoever gets the cooperation will build a lithium-sulfur battery production plant in Baling. What are the conditions?"

Fan Pengyue: "There is no problem with this. The major manufacturers have basically agreed to the attached conditions. However, these manufacturers have made demands during negotiations, hoping to cooperate exclusively and monopolize the production and sales of lithium-sulfur batteries."

"If this can be achieved, both CATL and BYD are willing to increase the proportion of their share." The one that has improved the most is CATL, which has always cooperated. On the original basis, he can give 7% A share of ten. "

After a slight pause, he looked at Xu Chuan, hesitated for a moment and then said: "Honestly, I think this share is already very high. Pure technology investment can account for 70%. I am really the No. 1 in the battery industry. See you once.”

Xu Chuan smiled and said: "Normally, we currently control the production technology of lithium-sulfur batteries, and the monopoly business is the most profitable."

"As for the 70% share"

As he spoke, he paused and fell into deep thought.

Technology investment can account for 70%. It has to be said that Chairman Zeng from the CATL era did show considerable sincerity.

But to be honest, Xu Chuan is not very happy to see his technology being exclusively monopolized.

Perhaps this has something to do with his birth. After all, he was born in a rural area and came out of a poor life.

Monopoly means there is no competition, which leads to reduced market efficiency, reduced innovation, etc. The most important thing is that it will most likely affect consumer welfare.

Technology, in his opinion, serves people.

If he is poor, he can be alone, but if he is prosperous, he can help the world. If the technology he created becomes a tool for capital to squeeze ordinary people, he will not be happy.

After thinking for a while, Xu Chuan said: "Forget it about being exclusive, let's just follow the original method. If multiple companies cooperate and choose to build factories in Baling, they will be compensated within the range of a 20% increase based on the assessment conditions. ”

Senior Brother Fan nodded and said: "In this case, I will arrange for the business and legal people to connect with several major manufacturers as soon as possible to handle the production of lithium-sulfur batteries."

"Well, I can rest assured that I can leave these matters to you."

Xu Chuan smiled and continued: "Also, how are you preparing for the modeling work for the paper "Quantum Theory of Microscopic Substantial Reaction Processes of Electrochemistry"?"

Fan Pengyue thought for a while and replied: "Relevant projects have been launched. The research institute and the network technology company have jointly established a new project team. The personnel transfer has been initially completed. It is expected that the modeling work can be officially started in about a week. "

After quickly reporting the progress in his mind, he continued: "But the focus of this job is not on the research institute. You have to ask Liu Jiaxin for the specific situation. She is the core of this project."

Xu Chuan nodded and said, "Okay, let's talk about this later."

Judging from the current situation, there are a lot of things happening to the senior students this year.

Mathematical modeling of the microscopic substantive reaction process of electrochemistry, reconstruction of computational models of chemical materials, research and development of artificial intelligence AI, and development of academic intelligent assistants.

The modeling and programming of various models and AI assistants has been a very heavy task even for technology companies that now have more than four figures of programmers.

In the office, after the two chatted for a while, Fan Pengyue suddenly said: "By the way, junior brother, there will be an annual Asia-Pacific Science and Technology Investment Summit in Shanghai in a week. It is open to all countries and regions in Asia. . However, there will also be representatives from companies or countries from other states. I received an invitation. Would you like to go there and take a look?”

Hearing this, Xu Chuan asked curiously: "Asia-Pacific Science and Technology Innovation Investment Summit? What is it for?"

He really didn't know much about this aspect, but if it wasn't valuable, Senior Brother Fan probably wouldn't mention it to him.

Fan Pengyue pondered for a moment and then said: "The Asia-Pacific Science and Technology Innovation Investment Summit is an economic conference organized by the 'APEC OECD'. It is not aimed at Asian governments, but at enterprises and scientific research institutions in various countries and regions."

"The conference lasts for seven days. During these seven days, all companies and research institutions participating in the summit will bring their own R\u0026D products or concepts to seek promotion or investment at the summit."

"To put it simply, it is a 'roundtable sharing' activity organized around the industry. However, the scale of this kind of science and technology innovation summit is still very large, and a lot of interesting things can be seen at the exchange meeting."

There was a hint of interest in Xu Chuan's eyes: "Is there an invitation letter? Get one for me to see. As for whether to go or not, I'll tell you when the time comes."

If it's just a meeting for food and drinks in the business world, he has basically no interest. However, he is quite interested in this kind of 'sharing' their respective products or concepts together.

After all, the three cobblers work together to brainstorm, and sometimes the products developed by some companies may not be what they expected.

Fan Pengyue nodded and said, "Okay, I'll have someone send it to you when the time comes."

the other side.

University of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Europe.

I have to say that the power of role models is very powerful.

With an 'extremely perverted' brother, Xu Xiao's small universe is indeed powerful enough for study and research.

Although she complained that her brother sent her the paper on the first day of the new year, she had no time to rest during the new year.

But if she hadn't volunteered, even if Xu Chuan gave her the paper, she would have had every reason to put down her research work and enjoy the holiday on the first day of the new year.

After all, she already had the paper in her hands, so there was nothing wrong with it being a little earlier or a day later, not to mention it was a special day like the first day of the new year.

This alone is probably something that most people cannot do.

After a month of hard work and improvement, in early March, despite the fact that the mathematical model in the paper was still under construction and there was not enough experimental data, the entire paper was completed by her.

Meanwhile, the Institute of Life Sciences building at the University of Cambridge.

A clear knock sounded at the door of an office.

Behind the desk, Professor Elvis, who was dealing with the work at hand, shouted "Come in" without raising his head.

Immediately, when he saw the students walking into the office, his expressionless face was stunned for a moment, and then he showed an amiable smile.

"Is there a problem?"

It has to be said that the attitude towards the student in front of me is indeed different from that towards other students. After all, her background is not small.

Although biology generally has little to do with mathematics, the person behind her is good at more than just mathematics.

Cross-field research is generally a difficult task. After all, human energy is limited under normal circumstances.

But for the scholar who is young enough to be a year younger than his son, cross-field research is commonplace.

Mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, materials, aerospace. There are only a handful of scholars who span so many large fields and can make top results in each field, even if we look at the entire history.

Being able to serve as his sister's tutor, for most professors, I am afraid that everyone will take the initiative to build a good relationship with her.

Standing in the office, Xu Xiao took a deep breath and slowly said: "Professor, my graduation thesis has been initially completed."

Hearing these words, Professor Elvis seemed to be caught off guard and froze for a moment.

"What do you mean it's preliminary?"

Elvis opened his eyes wide in surprise and looked at the student.

If he remembered correctly, her graduation thesis seemed to be on the research of virtual reality technology.

To be more detailed, it seems that quantum theory is used to establish a mathematical model to solve problems such as dizziness, headaches, and motion sickness in bioelectrode chips, right?

This theory was originally proposed by him.

Although his mathematical ability is not very good, the simulation of neural signals and the conversion of electrical signals are his specialty.

If he hadn't really had the energy to study this aspect anymore, he wouldn't have told Xu Xiao this idea and idea in detail so directly.

Although ideas are worthless most of the time, sometimes an idea is enough to change a field, especially in a field where you already have some ideas and ideas.

Nodding, Xu Xiao said: "Yes, the preliminary completed paper has been sent to your email."

"Wait a moment, let me take a look."

After Elvis replied, he quickly pushed away the document in front of him, touched the mouse and clicked on the mailbox.

Sure enough, among the latest receipts, there was an email from his student.

After clicking on it and downloading the attachment, he eagerly clicked on the paper.

[Research theory of simulated neural signals and electrical signal conversion based on quantum theory]

The title of the paper is familiar to Elvis, after all, it comes from him. After quickly going through the familiar modules that had been discussed earlier, his eyes fell on the modeling at the end.

At first glance, he did not see the toolkit used to store mathematical models, but the mathematical concepts and definitions in the paper such as functional analysis, quantum many-body problems, and neural network quantum states, as well as the requirements for establishing this model Mechanical research, but it completely shocked him.

Putting aside those things that he couldn't understand, just picking up the mathematical formulas that he could barely understand, he could feel how strong the mathematicians who worked on this mechanism were.

If nothing else, her brother probably helped her complete this.

Although it is unclear whether this mechanistic study has actually established a complete mathematical model to solve this problem.

But inexplicably, Professor Elvis felt that this was the answer.

Impatient, he looked up at the student standing in front of him and asked quickly: "Where is the model? Where is the model based on the mechanism of this paper? There is also test data. Have you conducted it?"

Xu Xiao: "The model is still being worked on, and it may take some time to complete the test mathematics."

Professor Elvis took a deep breath and said, "Remember to show it to me as soon as you make it!"

Although there is no denying that it is his idea to establish mathematical models for neural signal simulation and electrical signal conversion from the perspective of quantum mathematics.

But he has never denied or said that it is too difficult to complete this idea.

Quantum theory is one of the two cornerstones of modern physics and is itself at the forefront of research.

Although mathematics based on quantum theory is now relatively complete, it is extremely difficult to complete the simulation of neural signals and the conversion of electrical signals through quantum mathematics, which is beyond imagination.

What's more, virtual technology, or VR technology's vertigo, itself is an extremely difficult problem.

The combination of the two told him directly that it might take at least several years, or even more than ten years, to solve this problem.

If this were not the case, he would not have told Xu Xiao this idea so freely.

Not only is the value low, but also because it is completely worthwhile to use a difficult problem to solve and keep Xu Xiao in your hands to study for a few more years of Ph.D. and build some relationship with her brother through this line.

However, he never expected that in just two years, the answer seemed to be right in front of him.

Even though her brother helped with the mathematical mechanism part, Xu Xiao's own research in the fields of virtual technology, simulated neural signals, and electrical signal conversion exceeded his expectations.

Originally, he thought that this student might have come here to get gold, and he was already prepared to let her graduate even if she had no academic achievements. Now, that doesn't appear to be the case.

PS: I just celebrated the Qingming Festival and I was very busy. I didn’t have time to update yesterday, and I didn’t have time to write a request for leave (it was already past 12 o’clock when I got home after working overtime, so I really couldn’t help it). Sorry, I will make up for the missed updates this week. of.