Material Empire

Ka'an's paranoia actually came from his arrogance. Once he found that he was not as good as a man, he returned to the original rational and wise look. He understands that his academic and political circles in Brazil are too much trouble, and now he wants to go back to be a new person. I am afraid that others may not be so easy to accept himself. I might as well change the environment from the beginning and wait for some new grades. There is capital to bargain with the government and the school.

Qin Hai ’s situation is not very well understood, but he understands the two things of iron-based superconductivity and graphene. Qin Hai can master these two core technologies, which is naturally a reliable one. Mingzhu ". According to the information provided by Qin Hai, graphene is indeed an ideal material for manufacturing supercapacitors, and it is Qin Hai that currently owns a patent for graphene production. He wants to make some famous in this regard. Naturally, he invested in Qin Hai. The sea name is the most favorable.

Regarding his own treatment, Qin Hai's words were also very clear. He claimed that Kaan could get a piece of the commercial cake of supercapacitors. No matter whether this piece accounted for 5% or 10%, that was unparalleled. A fortune, Kaan has no doubt about this.

After thinking about this, Ka'an naturally has no hesitation. If he misses this village, there is no such shop. He can't help understanding.

If Kaan is going to work in China, there are still some formalities to be done. At the same time, he needs to sign an agreement with Qin Hai to clarify the relationship between the two parties. Qin Hai didn't have time to accompany Ka'an to handle these matters. He left Ka'an a phone number from the Anhe Material College. Afterwards, he made a special cross-ocean voyage to explain to Wang Xiaochen. He needs to be in charge, and someone from the School of Materials will contact Kaan.

The next time, Qin Hai continued to travel around South America with tranquility, enjoying a rare leisure. of course. Everywhere, he still inevitably visits local scholars and well-known enterprises to discuss some cooperation matters. These need not be elaborated one by one.

Turn your attention back to Japan. Yoshida Gen, technical director of Nitsuka Chemicals, lied that he was a lecturer at a university in Osaka and went to Anhe Material College to get a sample of graphene. Through the material school student Yu Yong who was temporarily assigned to him as an assistant, he obtained some experimental reports that were said to be in the laboratory of Nie Sen. After spending a few days in Hongze, after completing some routine tests, he returned to Japan with graphene samples and information, and began to lead his staff to develop new graphene preparation processes day and night.

Graphene, like steel, is just a general term for a class of materials. Steel can be divided into carbon steel and alloy steel, and alloy steel includes manganese steel, chromium steel, nickel steel, etc., to change the content of an element. Even adjusting the smelting process can produce different types of steel. The patents for steel are for various specific models, and it is impossible for anyone to monopolize all the steels in one patent.

The same is true for graphene. Through oxidation and hydrogenation, adding fluorine-containing functional groups, doping boron, nitrogen and other elements, different types of graphene can be produced. Each type has its own unique physical and chemical characteristics, so it belongs to different products. Although Daqin Group is the first company to produce graphene, it can only own a few patents for some products and cannot monopolize all products. Yoshida source to do. It is to seize the time with Daqin Group and compete for more product patents, especially in the preparation process.

Before the official announcement of the graphene discovery to the international materials community. Qin Hai has asked Nie Sen to complete two researches on the preparation process, namely the vapor deposition method and the redox method. When Yoshida Yuan saw this news, he groaned secretly, because with the experience of Xinzuo Chemical in the field of carbon materials, he knew that these two preparation processes were the most efficient and the lowest cost. Other patents are not only difficult, but the newly developed process also has disadvantages in efficiency.

But this is the end, and Yoshida Yuan knows that there are difficulties. Still have to face difficulties. Otherwise, Xinzuo Chemical either simply does not enter the field of graphene, or it can only purchase patents from Daqin Group for production. The latter method is unacceptable to Niigata Chemical. No matter from the consideration of face, or from the cost of patent grant. Niigata Chemical cannot do this, but must develop new processes with independent intellectual property rights.

The data that Yu Yong took from Nie Sen's laboratory shows that Nie Sen's team has tried other preparation methods, including organic synthesis and solvothermal methods. Judging from the data, the reason why the Nie Sen team did not continue is that they lacked suitable polymer materials and solvents. In this respect, Nitsuka Chemical has some advantages, so Yoshida Yuan locked his research focus on organic synthesis.

"Yoshida Jun, do you think that the cost of graphene can be reduced to a level comparable to that of the Chinese people by using organic synthesis?" Chairman Saburo Hanaya has asked this question more than once.

"In theory, the organic synthesis process is not as efficient as the vapor deposition process, so at the same technical level, the cost of the vapor deposition process owned by the Chinese should be lower ... probably can be more than 30% lower than ours. "Yoshida Yuan answered honestly.

"30% ..." Saburo Hanaya frowned, "how can we ensure that our products are competitive?"

Source Yoshida said: "Production cost and production scale are related. What I just said is a comparison under the same scale and the same technical equipment. From what I learned last time in China, Daqin Group has no plans to mass produce Graphene. They only have a capacity of 5 kg per day. Under such small batch production conditions, the cost is very considerable, so they expect the price of graphene provided in batches to reach $ 20 per gram. "

"What about us? If the organic synthesis process is successfully developed, what level can you control the cost?" Saburo Hanaya asked.

"Within 5 dollars per gram," Yoshida said. "This is calculated on a scale of 200 kilograms or more per day."

"Yoshi ..." Saburo Hanaya nodded with satisfaction. "If so, then we can form an absolute advantage over the Chinese, no matter whether it is capacity or price, they can give them no fight back. Yoshida-kun, please Speed ​​up your work with your team, and squeeze out the Chinese completely before they occupy this market. "

"Understand!" Yoshida Yuan agreed with pride.

It is no wonder that Saburo Hanaya is in a hurry. Daqin Group has adopted an open approach to provide graphene samples to scientists and enterprises around the world. In just a few months, scientists and engineers have proposed hundreds of product application designs. Some are used to make solar cells, some are used to make LED light emitting devices, and some are made of chemically doped modified graphene to make high-strength thin film materials. All of these applications have been validated in the laboratory and can only be put into production as long as there is an adequate supply of graphene raw materials. Once these new products come out, it will inevitably cause a sensation in the market, which will trigger a graphene application *.

At the onset of such a *, if Nitsuka Chemical does not have the ability to mass-produce graphene, it means that this market will be handed over to Daqin Group. Losing a large amount of profit is the second problem. What Sanguo Huagu is most reluctant to see is that the opponent of Daqin Group has made great progress because of this. This will be a long-term threat to Xinzuo Chemical.

Fortunately, according to Yoshida Yuan, the Daqin Group is extremely lacking in vision in the application of graphene. It is obviously holding a patent for large-scale production, but is unwilling to assume high equipment investment. In the initial stage, it only planned to produce 5 kg per day Capacity. Such a capacity is certainly sufficient to meet the current market demand, but after a few months, the market's demand for graphene will rapidly increase to the level of hundreds of kilograms or even tons per day. By then, Daqin Group should regret it. .

"How could the Chinese understand the potential of the Western market?" Sales Minister Kaji Mori said to Saburo Hanaya. "According to what I learned from the side, several executives of Daqin Group have stated that the price of graphene products It is too high for ordinary people to bear, so the market prospects for such products are not optimistic. "

Saburo Hanaya laughed: "This is understandable ~ www.novelmtl.com ~ Monitors and home solar panels are luxury goods in China, and they don't know how big these products will be in the Western world."

Morioka Kaji said: "Yes, some manufacturers in the United States, Britain, and Germany are contacting us to understand when we can provide graphene raw materials in batches. The quantities they need are calculated based on dozens of kilograms per day. China People simply cannot meet their needs. "

"Mr. Morioka, you must keep in touch with these companies and tell them that we can provide graphene after three months at the latest, and the price will be more than 30% cheaper than the Chinese. If we can sign a contract with them, it will be even more Okay, "Saburo Hanaya said.

"Three months?" Morioka Kaji hesitated. "Three months later, can we really provide mass-produced graphene? Does Yoshida have such confidence?"

"We have to say this, otherwise they will turn to the Chinese to seek supply, and this will send a signal to the Chinese to start paying attention to the production of graphene." Saburo Hanaya said, "Although the Chinese are They were the first to invent, but they made a mistake in judging the prospects of the graphene market. Now that they are asleep, all we have to do is not to wake them up in order to give them a headache at a critical time. " (To be continued)