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Chapter 547: Give Your Colleagues a Critical Hit First
Chapter 547: Give Your Colleagues a Critical Hit First
On the second day after meeting with Tesla's Frank Rivers, the $2 payment arrived, and the cash-strapped family finally had some financial comfort. That evening, the two bought a fish and went home to enjoy a feast.
Xu Qingzhou took Carson and the others to finish up the work in the laboratory, while Song Yao followed Professor Morton to Wall Street to attend a meeting of the investment company Morgan Stanley.
Ross also sent someone to contact GE to discuss the method of transferring funds, and everything was progressing in an orderly manner.
At 4 a.m. on April 21, a board meeting was being held on the top floor of the General Electric Building.
Sitting opposite Zakaria was Isaac, who was also the company's vice president.
Isaac spoke first and said, "This meeting is to discuss whether Mr. Zakaria is capable of continuing to serve as GE's vice president - rather than just satisfying his gambler mentality."
"Of course, this is everyone's right," Zakaria said calmly with a shrug.
Isaac looked at Zakaria's calm expression and suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart. This guy was too calm.
He did not expect that this mistake alone would drive Zakaria out of the management team. After all, this guy was good at investing.
But it is okay to disgust the other party and reduce his prestige among the management.
"As you all know, Mr. Zakaria spent $5 million to buy Xu Qingzhou's patents. What I want to say is that this is not my grandma buying a sandwich that is about to expire, but a transaction involving hundreds of millions of dollars."
"Isaac, if I remember correctly, you seemed to have said the same thing when Zakaria acquired the power division of France's Alstom, but the fact is that this project earned us tens of billions of dollars."
Someone sneered.
After everyone had spoken freely, Zakaria looked at the secretary on the side and said, "I recently got some experimental data, and I think everyone might be very interested."
The secretary understood what he meant and stood up to distribute the documents in his hand to the members of the board of directors.
"Huh? Impossible!"
Isaac's exclamation was heard in the office.
"I must be dazzled!"
"3.5×10 A/cm, incredible! This is the limit of commercial superconducting films on the market. If this is true, I can't imagine how much market share we will occupy!"
Staring at the materials in his hand, the person in charge of the market said in a deep voice: "But this data is too different from that a month ago, and its authenticity needs to be verified."
In the meeting room, everyone was talking about it.
"Mr. Zakaria, how authentic is this data?" Sitting in the front row was Chairman Larry Carlisle, who was looking at Zakaria in disbelief.
Zakaria smiled and said, "Yes, I have already found relevant technical experts to confirm, and took people to visit Xu Qingzhou's laboratory. Although I can't see the key technology, there is no problem. I have to add here that the laboratory is too shabby. In comparison, we invested 8000 million in the experiment in Japan, and it seems to have no effect."
Zakaria's last few words were a counterattack against Isaac.
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Isaac was speechless, as this was the part he was responsible for.
But compared to this, he now wants to curse more.
Isn't it extremely normal to invest in an experiment and get results in a few years? It's not right for someone like Xu Qingzhou to produce such a superconducting film in just 8 months!
At the end of April, it rained lightly for two days and then cleared up.
Xu Qingzhou stood on the balcony with a cup of coffee and took a sip to refresh himself. Song Yao was still on a business trip, and he was the only empty-nest old man left at home.
Behind him, Er Miao squatted on the windowsill, looking out through the cracks in the window. This silly cat watched all day long, and those who didn't know would think that he longed for life in the outside world, but every time he was taken out, he would hide in their arms with social phobia, and he couldn't be driven away.
Xu Qingzhou let out a long breath, carried the cup back to the house, sat down at the table, and took out a brand new manuscript from the side.
The experiment has officially come to an end and the contract with GE has been signed. In addition to the paper and patent response, the top priority is the equipment of the Kyoto Institute of Materials.
It's time for Ross to take people to contact European equipment manufacturers.
Unfortunately, the most advanced research and development equipment in the field of materials science is currently dominated by foreign manufacturers, especially in high-end fields such as superconducting films, atomic-level characterization, and nano-processing.
Take the atomic layer deposition (ALD) system as an example, the TFS series produced by Beneq of Finland and the FlexAL series produced by Oxford Instruments of the UK.
Xiaguo also has alternatives, such as the Primo series from SMIC, but in terms of process flexibility, such as atomic monitoring, it still lags behind Europe and the United States.
After all, they have a history of hundreds of years, and it is already amazing that Xia Kingdom can catch up in just a few decades.
Spherical aberration corrected transmission electron microscope, model Thermo Fisher Spectra, costing RMB 1.2 million, can be used for superconducting interface characterization and lithium dendrite observation.
Oxford ALD FlexAL, atomic layer deposition system, has a market price of around 1800 million.
In addition, a four-dimensional ultrafast electron microscope, model 4D-UTEM, is also required.
There are only 5-6 similar devices in the world. It can capture the atomic-level dynamic processes of superconducting quantum phase transition and lithium dendrite nucleation. The market price is about 1.8 million.
There is also a superconducting magnet system, which costs approximately 2.5 million yuan. This equipment can guide critical parameters and study the performance of fusion materials.
A supercomputing center needs to be established, and computing power support is needed most of the time. He cannot rely on sitting at his desk and doing all the calculations.
His list includes the most advanced equipment currently on the market.
Xu Qingzhou's positioning for the institute is to establish a national-level all-round big science laboratory that should at least reach the level of the top 1% of materials laboratories in the world.
While meeting the needs of conventional condensed matter physics research, it can also support breakthroughs in "bottleneck" areas such as quantum materials, superconducting electronics, and fusion reactor materials.
These devices cannot be replaced in a short period of time, so you can save on everything except the equipment.
According to his plan, the institute's equipment is enough to produce Nobel Prize-level results.
Of course, equipment is one aspect, and talent is another, and even the most important. After the equipment list is finalized, he also plans to contact Xia Guo to simultaneously recruit talent.
Before long, the manuscript was filled with the required equipment and models.
He mainly purchased research equipment for lithium-ion batteries and materials. After all, he only has a $2 million advance payment, so some of the equipment will have to be shipped slowly.
Purchasing equipment is no easier than conducting experiments. If you are not careful, you may face an embargo. To be on the safe side, he directly wrote two sets of plans and planned to give them to Ross to contact the equipment suppliers.
However, before determining the equipment needed, Xu Qingzhou had another important thing to do.
Now that the experiment is over, it is necessary to put some pressure on colleagues in the field of superconducting thin films.
So he asked Carson to update him on their research progress.
Let’s give our colleagues a critical hit first.
(End of this chapter)
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