Great Country Academician

After New Year's Day, the time officially entered 2025.

For Xu Chuan, his life was not greatly affected.

His daily work and research were still the same, including the performance optimization of room temperature superconducting materials, the advancement of work in the aerospace field, mathematical research, etc.

On the third day after Gu Bing got married, Jinling in the deep winter finally ushered in the first snow in 25 years.

After getting off the Hongqi car, Xu Chuan patted the snowflakes falling on his shoulders and walked into the Sichuan-Hai Materials Research Institute.

At this moment, in the core laboratory, Academician Zhang Pingxiang, wearing a white coat, frowned and stared at the experimental data in his hand.

This old academician who had previously participated in the optimization of high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials joined the optimization work of room temperature superconductors again, and there was not much ripples for the institute.

After Fan Pengyue arranged some researchers to assist, he quickly entered the research state. He was thinking about how to solve the problem of excessive brittleness of copper oxide-based chromium-silver system room temperature superconducting materials.

"Come?"

Xu Chuan pushed the door open and came in. Zhang Pingxiang, who heard the noise, turned his head and looked at it and greeted him.

"Is this the experimental data after whisker (fiber) toughening?"

Xu Chuan walked over, curiously picked up a copy of the inspection data from the experimental table, looked at it, and asked with a smile.

Academician Zhang Pingxiang nodded and said, "Although you told me before that copper oxide-based chromium-silver superconducting materials are different from previous high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite materials, the previous whisker (fiber) toughening technology is unlikely to work, but I still tried it."

"After all, this is a method that has been successful before."

Sighing, he continued, "The results are not ideal. Not only does it not increase much toughness and strength, it also destroys the structure of local electron delocalization to a certain extent, resulting in a decrease in superconducting performance."

The problems faced by room-temperature superconducting materials and previous high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials are actually the same. The properties of both are more like ceramics and their physical properties are relatively fragile.

So even though Xu Chuan told him that this toughening method is unlikely to work on room-temperature superconducting materials, he still tried it through experiments.

The results confirmed that Xu Chuan was right. Whisker (fiber) toughening technology does not work for room temperature superconductors.

Xu Chuan smiled without any surprise and explained, "This is normal."

"The preparation method of room temperature superconducting materials is completely different from that of high temperature superconducting materials. Its superconducting performance depends on the electron localization structure on the surface of the base material."

"This is the core of room temperature superconducting materials. It not only gives the material superconductivity at room temperature, but also solidifies the physical properties of the material to a certain extent."

"Whisker fiber toughening will destroy the fixed electron localization structure of the material itself, and if this structure fails, the superconducting performance will also fail."

"So for bulk ceramic materials, phase change, microcracks, dispersion, whisker (fiber) toughening and other methods are most likely not feasible."

If the shortcomings of copper oxide-based chromium-silver room temperature superconducting materials were so easy to solve, he would not say that this is a huge problem.

The characteristics of the electron localization structure enrich its room temperature superconducting performance, but also lock the physical properties of the material to a great extent.

Superconductivity depends on the structure of the substrate surface. External interference will directly destroy its superconductivity, and internal changes will also affect the localization of electrons.

In other words, it is extremely difficult to solve its brittleness and fragility problems, whether starting from the outside or from the inside.

Academician Zhang Pingxiang nodded. Xu Chuan had told him about these things a few days ago, but people always have some luck.

There is nothing wrong with giving it a try. It doesn't cost much and it doesn't take long.

After thinking for a while, he asked, "Do you have any good research direction?"

Xu Chuan shook his head and said, "I don't have any good research direction at present, but in essence, the electron delocalization effect is the reorganization of chemical bonds in chemical reactions. This process is often accompanied by electron transfer. Maybe you can consider this direction?"

"Physical chemistry?"

Academician Zhang Pingxiang thought for a while and shook his head and said, "I am not familiar with this aspect."

"However, I have a student who is researching in the field of physical chemistry. If you allow me, I will call him to study together?"

Perhaps he felt that this was a bit presumptuous, after all, it was a strictly confidential technology, so he added, "His name is Zhong An, and he is currently working at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. You can ask someone to check his situation first."

Xu Chuan thought for a while and said, "Okay, I'll ask someone."

Although he was recommended by Zhang Pingxiang, he did not agree immediately. After all, it involved room temperature superconducting materials. Let Zheng Hai help check the foundation first.

After chatting with Academician Zhang Pingxiang about the optimization of copper oxide-based chromium-silver room temperature superconducting materials, Xu Chuan got up and left the laboratory, heading towards Fan Pengyue's office.

In the office, Brother Fan hung up the phone in his hand. Seeing Xu Chuan coming, he quickly said, "You came just in time. I was just about to find you."

"What's wrong?" Xu Chuan asked.

"I wanted to ask you."

As he said that, he looked over with a strange expression and asked, "Did you sell the copper oxide-based chromium-silver room temperature superconducting materials?"

"Huh? No, why do you say that?" Xu Chuan looked over in surprise, somewhat puzzled.

How could he easily sell room-temperature superconducting materials that could affect the entire world pattern and development?

Hearing this, Fan Pengyue's expression became even more strange: "Then what's the matter with the 2 billion?"

"I just received a message from the finance department that the institute has just received a sum of money, and the fee is written as the use authorization fee for copper oxide-based chromium-silver room-temperature superconducting materials."

"2 billion?" Xu Chuan was a little confused, and it took him a while to react and know what it might be.

He smiled and explained, "I roughly know what it is. It should be related to what I agreed with Yuan Di from the Science and Technology Department a few days ago."

After a pause, he continued, "Didn't I ask you to prepare a detailed method for preparing room-temperature superconducting materials and the required instruments and equipment? This is it."

"Room-temperature superconducting materials are needed for military and cutting-edge scientific research, but the industrialization of room-temperature superconducting materials still faces difficulties. So Yuan Di took the authorization for the laboratory preparation method, which will last until industrialization is completed."

"This should be the authorization fee. I forgot to tell you."

He has been busy with other things these days, and he forgot to tell Fan Pengyue about the authorization that Yuan Zhouli had mentioned before.

He didn't expect the action above to be so fast. It's only been a few days, and the authorization fee has been paid.

While chatting, the landline in the office suddenly rang.

Fan Pengyue walked back behind his desk and answered the phone.

"Yes, I am."

"Okay, okay, I got it. Thank you for your help."

"Well, the finance department has received it."

"Okay, I'll take a look at the documents later. If there are any problems, I will communicate with you in time."

After a few short chats, Fan Pengyue hung up the phone, took a long breath and relaxed, and said: "The higher-ups called and told me what you just said. The authorization email was sent to my mailbox. I'll take a look later."

After a pause, he looked at Xu Chuan and said with a smile: "I thought you sold the authorization of room-temperature superconducting materials. I was almost scared to death."

He just received the news and had not had time to understand the details of the situation. He almost scared to death when he heard that the finance department said there was an authorization transaction with room-temperature superconducting materials.

To be honest, it is not impossible that Xu Chuan sold the authorization of room-temperature superconducting materials, especially if the transaction object is the country.

This is a bit of a scam. Xu Chuan didn't say anything, but the higher-ups were a bit unclear. They had transferred the money but didn't inform him of the details. They called him now, which made him worry for nothing.

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "How is that possible? If I really want to sell the license, I will definitely tell you. This license is nothing. I originally planned to give it to Science and Technology."

"After all, industrial mass production is the real way to make money. This kind of laboratory preparation requires too much investment, and the production quantity is relatively small, so it doesn't have much value."

Hearing this, Fan Pengyue's mouth twitched, and he opened his mouth to speak, but he couldn't help but complain.

"Not much value? Then you sold it for 2 billion?"

Xu Chuan shook his head and said, "I just told Yuan Di to give a little licensing fee, and I didn't expect him to get so much."

The licensing method for preparing room-temperature superconducting materials in the laboratory is not worth that much money. The initial investment is large, and it requires various top equipment, and the production scale is also small.

And more importantly, this is only a phased authorization, not a permanent one.

The agreement will be automatically invalidated when the room temperature superconducting material is industrialized. Although it is difficult to find an industrialized method, Xu Chuan estimates that it may take about four or five years, and the domestic industry should have a way.

If it is short, they may find a method for mass production in two or three years or one or two years.

After all, the development of the domestic industry today is not comparable to that of the United States.

It may not be very good to do research and development, but with the complete process of laboratory preparation, it is a strong point for China to find a method of replicating production. No country can compare, not even the United States.

2 billion, to buy a relatively short-term laboratory preparation method license, not the kind of industrialization, this price, Xu Chuan did not expect.

He thought it would be great to have tens of millions or a small goal, but it turned out to be dozens of times higher.

PS: I ask for monthly tickets for the second update. It’s the beginning of the month. I’m begging for the guaranteed monthly tickets in the hands of the big guys. I will continue to add more tomorrow!