"A pleasure to work with."
"A pleasure to work with."
In a hotel on Fei City Science Island.
Xiao Yi stood in the middle, and then Wang Chuanfu and Zeng Yuqun stood on both sides, holding Xiao Yi's hand. Behind them, there was a huge billboard that read: Lithium-sulfur solid-state battery patent authorization ceremony for three major patents.
Subsequently, the three people faced the cameras of a large number of reporters in the audience, leaving behind photos that represented the upcoming great changes in the battery field.
According to the final agreement, Science Island New Energy Technology Company, which was established by Xiao Yi and Science Island Laboratory in accordance with the proportion of patent rights, will officially license the three patents to Diaby and Linde Era.
The patent licensing fee is a one-time payment of 500 million yuan, plus a 30% profit share.
As a high-value patent, this share ratio is relatively reasonable.
The authorization period is 5 years, and it needs to be renewed after 5 years. Of course, it is not ruled out that new material patents will be developed after 5 years.
However, no one can say for sure about this kind of thing.
This result can be regarded as being decided during the Shangjing meeting, under the guidance of national experts.
Therefore, it is equivalent to the two companies adding up to paying 1 billion yuan directly to Science Island New Energy Technology Company.
According to the share ratio of patent beneficiaries, Xiao Yi directly earned 800 million from it.
Well, let's just stick to 8 small goals.
Of course, money is not important to him now, so he decided to use 500 million of the 1 billion as Science Island Laboratory's next experimental funds. As for the 300 million that originally belonged to him, when he needs money, he can withdraw it from the subsequent profits.
However, judging from the foreseeable future, he will definitely not be in urgent need of money.
At this time, some people may ask, do you have to pay taxes on this one billion income?
There is no need to worry, because Science Island New Energy Technology Company is completely tax-free for the first three years, and also enjoys a halved tax policy for the next three years.
Compared with the jobs that this patent can bring to the entire Fei City and Hui Province, these taxes and other things are completely insufficient.
According to the requirements of Xiao Yi, all authorized companies like them need to establish a certain number of factories in Hui Province and Fei City to provide certain jobs.
After all, he has the ability, so he still needs to help develop his hometown.
The leaders in my hometown reciprocated the favor and were naturally willing to provide some preferential policies.
For this requirement, Diaby and Linde Era have no problem. It is the same for them wherever they build the factory, and Xiao Yi does not require them to build all the factories here. It doesn't matter.
After the group photo was taken, Xiao Yi shook hands with the two people again.
Wang Chuanfu said with a smile, "Professor Xiao, if you come up with any new technology in the future, don't forget us."
Zeng Yuqun also nodded. "Indeed."
Xiao Yi smiled and waved his hand, "Both of your companies are super enterprises in China. If there is a place for cooperation, we will definitely not forget it."
"Haha! That's good!"
The two big bosses laughed.
Then, Wang Chuanfu suddenly asked, "By the way, Professor Xiao, does your company, Science Island Laboratory, also have shares? I heard that of the 1 billion that Lao Zeng and I jointly paid this time, will you invest all 500 million of it in the laboratory as funding?"
Xiao Yi nodded. "Yes."
"Five hundred million." Wang Chuanfu clicked his tongue twice, but he knew that Science Island Laboratory except for the piece of land under his feet, the entire laboratory cost only 500 million.
And Xiao Yi is actually willing to directly spend 500 million to support the construction of Science Island Laboratory, and some of the money even belongs to him.
It can be seen how much Xiao Yi attaches great importance to Science Island Laboratory.
Then the boatman thought for a while and said, "Well, Professor Xiao, we at Diaby have always supported scientific institutions like Science Island Laboratory, so on behalf of Diaby, I am willing to provide your laboratory with 300 million in funding for free within five years."
Xiao Yi was stunned and looked at Wang Chuanfu in surprise, "Boss Wang, is this what you said?"
This is 300 million. Although it is paid in five years, it is completely free.
Wang Chuanfu smiled heartily and said, "Of course, this is what I said. What I, Old Wang, say will definitely not be false."
Zeng Yuqun next to him had already spoken when he saw Wang Chuanfu. Of course, he would not abandon himself to lag behind. Even though he said, "Old Wang is so generous, of course I, Old Zeng, cannot be stingy. On behalf of Linde Era, I am willing to provide Science Island Laboratory with 300 million yuan in funding for five years."
Good guy, this adds up to 600 million. How can Xiao Yi have any reason to disagree?
He immediately laughed and said, "Then on behalf of Science Island Laboratory, I would like to express my gratitude to you two."
"Haha, as long as Professor Xiao can develop more new technologies like lithium-sulfur solid-state batteries, no matter how much funding we provide for free, it will be worth it!"
Wang Chuanfu smiled.
Zeng Yuqun also nodded repeatedly. "Indeed, our company invests so much scientific research funds every year, but what is the result? There is no output, especially in lithium-sulfur batteries and solid electrolytes. The investment is hundreds of millions and billions every year. As a result, a lot of papers are published, but there is no technology that can be actually used. In the end, we have to rely on Professor Xiao."
Wang Chuanfu also nodded repeatedly.
The R&D investment of Linde Era and Diaby is also among the top 20 companies in the country. They are very aware of this matter.
Xiao Yi smiled and nodded.
Of course, he added in his heart, I hope you two will not complain in your hearts that I came up with these three patents without saying a word.
After all, these two companies have invested too much in both lithium-sulfur batteries and solid-state batteries. Now because of the three patents he has obtained, all these investments have become wasted.
Maybe he even scolded him behind his back.
Of course, there is no need to say this kind of thing.
After some celebrations, the authorization ceremony came to an end.
The two bosses were both very busy people, so they left Huizhou that night and left the remaining matters to their subordinates.
Things are not over yet for Xiao Yi, because in addition to being authorized to Diaby and Linde Era, these three patents must also be authorized to other related domestic companies.
All domestic companies with their own unique technologies in the battery field can obtain authorization from him.
As for how these companies will compete with the two giants Diaby and Linde Era, it depends on their investment in research and development.
What Xiao Yi provides is only material patents, but there is also a structure that can be explored in terms of batteries. Whether it is a power battery designed for electric vehicles or a battery designed for electronic products such as mobile phones and computers, they all have different mechanisms.
So, maybe there is a small company from the past that can rely on its excellent structural design to become a dark horse in the new era of lithium-sulfur solid-state batteries?
In this way, a month passed.
In the office of Science Island Laboratory.
"Well, almost a dozen companies have come to get authorization this month. Hey, I guess there will be another bloody storm in the next few years."
Xiao Yi sighed in his heart.
These authorizations directly allowed Science Island New Energy Technology Company to receive a one-time fee of 1.8 billion.
In addition to large companies such as Diaby and Linde Era, there is one company that impressed him the most.
It was a newly started company, founded by three Dr. Materials Science who had just graduated from USTC, named Liu Changbo, Pan Ke, and Xu Jin.
Naturally, these three people didn't have much money on hand, so they came over and said they hoped to get the patent authorization.
Logically speaking, such a company probably couldn't even afford the one-time fee, but Xiao Yi checked the past resumes of these people and the papers they had published, and finally chose to provide them with authorization and provided them with an investment of 500,000 yuan in the name of Science Island New Energy Technology Company, which was considered an angel round and occupied 15% of the shares of their start-up company.
This means that they have nothing, so they first valued their company at 3.3 million.
Faced with Xiao Yi's investment, these three people were naturally grateful. Xiao Yi himself was their idol, and now that they were able to receive such strong support, they almost knelt down and said: I have been wandering for half my life, and I have never met my master.
Then they took the patent and 500,000 yuan and started their adventure.
Recalling this incident, Xiao Yi couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "I really didn't expect that I also have such potential as an angel investor."
Angel round Angel round, since it is called "angel", is naturally because in the eyes of the investors, these investors are completely like angels to them, providing investment when they are most difficult to start.
Generally, investors and investees have a certain relationship.
The relationship between Xiao Yi and these three postdocs is that they are alumni of the same school.
"Hopefully they can come up with something."
Xiao Yi shook his head, it was only half a million, a small amount of money.
Then I didn't think much about it.
"Okay, let's do some statistics now. Science Island Laboratory has almost 1.12 billion in funds to mobilize."
Looking at this statistical result, Xiao Yi couldn't help but take a breath of air.
Excluding the 120 million yuan in the first year of free sponsorship from two companies, Diaby and Linde Era, the remaining 1 billion yuan is a one-time fee obtained through patent licensing.
1.8 billion, 80% of which originally belonged to him, but in the end he still used 1 billion of it as the next funding for Science Island Laboratory.
Of course, not all of these funds will be used for scientific research, but mainly for the expansion of Science Island Laboratory.
In addition, the provincial, municipal and national governments will provide hundreds of millions of funds...
"Yes, at least now the funding scale is on par with those of top laboratories."
Xiao Yi thought jokingly.
Science Island Laboratory is benchmarked against famous laboratories such as Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The annual funding of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is about 300 million US dollars, which is almost 2 billion. Now the two are comparable.
As for Oak Ridge National Laboratory... it's still a bit far behind. Oak Ridge National Laboratory's annual funding is more than 2 billion US dollars.
At present, even Science Island Laboratory can't catch up.
Of course, after all, Oak Ridge is a national laboratory in the United States and the largest multidisciplinary laboratory under US Department of Energy. It is normal for the funding scale to be so high.
"Can we directly expand Science Island Laboratory completely this time?"
Xiao Yi thought so in his heart.
Build all the parts that need to be built, except that the current laboratory is completely independent as a condensed matter laboratory, and then a pure materials laboratory, and a mathematics-mathematical physics laboratory will be built. In addition, staff dormitories, canteens, libraries, study rooms, etc. must be built.
Now he has the feeling of playing a management game like City Skylines. As the first leader of the laboratory, his goal is to build his laboratory into the most powerful laboratory in the world.
But, we still need to work hard now.
"Wang Hao, come in."
After calling his assistant in, Xiao Yi asked him to make an appointment with the relevant leaders and prepare to discuss Science Island Laboratory's next expansion issues with these leaders in a few days.
Wang Hao got the task and then left the office.
Xiao Yi brought a pile of scratch paper from the side.
These scratch papers record his research on Greenwald limit.
"Hmm... Judging from the calculation results, it seems that the limit has indeed been reached. However, such limits are determined based on the current fixed plasma flow trajectory."
"Could it be that the plasma flow can only move in this form?"
After groping his chin, Xiao Yi thought for a moment and wrote a few simple lines on the scratch paper.
[ρ(v/t + v·v)=-p...]
[(ρε)/t+·(ρεv)=-·q-p·v+j·E+·(Π·v)...]
"For the fluid in Tokamak device, a multi-fluid model is generally needed. Such a model can accurately describe the complex processes of plasma, such as ionization, ionization, etc. For example, in the paper mentioned by Director Zhao of the Institute of Plasma, the drift-simplified Braginskii fluid model used in it is a multi-fluid model."
"It's just that the multi-fluid model is a little inferior when it comes to turbulence and boundary layers. At the same time, there are also certain incompatibility issues in the coupling with the magnetic field process."
"On the contrary, NS equation has enough advantages in this regard."
"Hmm... maybe it would be a good choice to combine the two for research?"
Xiao Yi thought so in his heart.
I checked the relevant information online and found that there are indeed some models that combine NS equation with multi-fluid theory, such as the multi-fluid NS equation coupling model, the NS equation closure of the multi-fluid model, and the two-fluid NS equation model.
Then he searched for related research on these models, but there were no particularly outstanding results. As for whether they could help him solve this problem, it was even less likely.
But think about it too.
If other models were feasible, they would have been discovered by other scholars long ago.
"Well... in the end I have to give it a try myself."
Then, he started to take action.
[ρ(tu+uu)=p+μΔu+f...]
[ns/t+(ns·vs)=0]
[ms(tvs+vsvs)...]
In this way, time passed quickly.
An hour later.
Xiao Yi, who had been thinking uninterruptedly, suddenly frowned.
He encountered a problem.
The solution of the new model may suffer from singularities or instabilities.
According to his derivation, the energy of some local solutions may become infinite in a finite time. This phenomenon is called "explosion cracking", which means that the solution loses its smoothness and appears singularity in a finite time.
In addition, when velocity shear is present, the solution may be unstable, causing the interface to fluctuate and gradually become chaotic, which is also called Kelvin-Helmholtz instability.
"This problem... should be caused by NS equation."
He thought for a moment.
"And if you want to solve this problem, there is only one way... to prove the smoothness of the NS equation solution."
Xiao Yi fell silent.
This question also has a name, one of Millennium Prize Problems.
It is also the last question of classical physics.
NS equation solution existence and smoothness.
So, is it possible that he wants to make dumplings for this dish of vinegar?