I just want to be a quiet scholar

Chapter 426 FASTER
"Actually, unification is not that important anymore. The important thing is to enjoy life." Wei Teng sat down by the Weiming Lake and took a deep breath of the sweet autumn air in the capital.

"Edward, you have changed." Shen Qi wanted to chat with Wei Teng about physics with great interest, but Wei Teng lost interest in chatting.

"This is my sixth visit to China. Every time I come, I find that China is undergoing new changes."

"How long are you going to stay this time?"

"A few days, a few weeks, or a few months, who knows." Wei Teng is now a Buddhist, and he is more willing to travel around the world and enjoy life comfortably.

Men in their twenties like Shen Qi, or men in their 40s and [-]s like Figali and Linden-Strauss, are at the peak of their careers. .

At Wei Teng’s age, he no longer has the desire to be king. The old man quickly learned to scan codes to share bicycles. He rode around the campus of Yanda University. He saw young beauties and asked for directions. He asked them to go to Shuimu University next door. up.

A few days later, Shen Qi and Ouye went to Europe for their honeymoon and returned to China until early December.

After Shen Qi came back, the director of the Mathematical Physics Department of the Academy of Sciences approached him to discuss major issues.

Zhan was born as a director of materials, mainly studying the physical properties and microscopic mechanisms of materials. When he was young, he was also a scientific researcher and won numerous awards. Now he is old and his academic peak has passed, but he has a high strategic awareness.

"There is a new material company in the United States called Liquid Metal Company. Have you heard of it?" Director Zhan asked Shen Qi.

Shen Qi flipped through the materials Director Zhan gave him, and said while reading: "Of course, this is a listed company in the United States, specializing in amorphous materials. It is very mysterious and famous."

Director Zhan said with some regret: "In fact, the copper-zirconium binary system amorphous material was first developed by the Institute of Physics of our institute, and it was reported in the American Journal of Physics PRF, which attracted widespread attention in the industry at that time."

"In the second year after that article was published, physicist Johnson of California Institute of Technology successfully developed zirconium-titanium-copper-nickel bulk amorphous. The founder of the American Liquid Metal Company was Professor Johnson. Be the boss of the business.” Director Zhan is not convinced, the team of their institute provided inspiration and ideas, and completed the experimental preparation of new materials for the first time, but no one remembers the name of any Chinese physics researcher in that team, and the success is American technology Pie Trader Johnson.

"Professor Johnson's business is doing well, and he has become the world's number one in this field. Of course, in the high-tech field of amorphous materials, there are not many companies in the world that are capable of competing with the US Liquid Metal Company. This field is determined by technology. market, and technology monopolizes the market.” Even Shen Qi didn’t know who the original Chinese physics researchers were, but he had heard of Johnson who quit teaching and went into business.

Director Zhan added: "It is worth noting that the shares of Liquid Metal have been bought by a Hong Kong company in the past few years. Their largest shareholder and behind-the-scenes boss is actually a Hong Kong businessman."

Shen Qi became interested: "The boss in Hong Kong really has vision, but the question is, does the U.S. government allow foreigners to be the largest shareholders of this high-tech enterprise whose lifeblood is cutting-edge technology?"

Director Zhan shook his head helplessly: "It is not allowed. The US government has declared very strongly that Liquid Metal Company must not be acquired by foreign companies. The latest news is that the largest shareholder of Liquid Metal Company is now the US government."

"The Hong Kong boss was forcibly driven away?" Shen Qi asked.

Director Zhan said: "Then I don't know. We only know that the Hong Kong boss established a similar company in China when he controlled the US Liquid Metal Company. The headquarters of this company is in Zhongguancun. The current boss, you He should be no stranger, his surname is Kuang."

"That director Kuang from the Morningside Mathematics Center, the Hong Kong boss who started his career in real estate?" Shen Qi understood, but also had some small doubts.

The general idea of ​​this story is that a professor of physics at Caltech resigned from his university position and founded a new material company, Liquid Metal Corporation, which was successfully listed on NASDAQ.

Later, a discerning Hong Kong businessman acquired the shares of the US liquid metal company in batches within a few years through capital operations, and eventually became the largest shareholder and behind-the-scenes boss of the US company.

At the same time, this Hong Kong businessman also registered a new material company of a similar nature in Zhongguancun, all of which are Chinese-funded and have no foreign capital.

The U.S. government can't stand it anymore, and they can't tolerate the existence of this situation, so the U.S. liquid metal company returned to the arms of the Americans, and the Hong Kong businessman disappeared.

The U.S. government has nothing to do with this Chinese high-tech materials company located in Zhongguancun. The current boss of this company is Mr. Kuang.

Director Kwong is not the same person as the Hong Kong businessman who went to the United States to acquire Liquid Metal.

Shen Qi's doubt is: "What is the relationship between Director Kuang and that Hong Kong businessman?"

Director Zhan: "It should be somewhat related. The specific situation is not very clear. This is not the focus of our attention. The focus of our attention is to achieve a breakthrough in the application technology of amorphous materials and realize commercialization through Kuang Dong's company. You can’t count on anyone else. In the field of high-tech amorphous materials, this is the only company in China that has the strength to do mass production and market, and everything else is nonsense.”

"Shen Qi, the case of Professor Johnson has given us a profound inspiration. Obviously, we were the first to achieve technological breakthroughs in the laboratory, but now it is the Americans who are at the forefront of the world." Director Zhan said.

"Scale, commercialization, and marketization are very important. I admit this. This needs to be done by businessmen. Then Director Zhan, what do you need me to do?" Shen Qi asked.

"You are now an academician of our Department of Mathematical Physics. You are the best expert in condensed matter physics, especially amorphous physics. There is a metal plastic project that I would like to ask you to promote. This is a national key project. Are you interested?" Director Zhan handed Shen Qi a USB flash drive and said, "Funding is not a problem, you can think about it after you go back."

The birth of metal plastic is only a dozen years old, and it belongs to the field of cutting-edge technology. Shen Qi is a little interested: "Then I will consider it."

Back at the Yanda office, Shen Qi carefully checked the data in the USB flash drive.

In 2005, a team from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported a new metal material on PRL. This material has the same room temperature strength as aluminum-magnesium alloys, but when the temperature rises to the temperature of boiling water, it exhibits Surprising stretching, compression, bending, embossing and other processing deformation behavior.

In the same year, the British "Nature" magazine reported this new type of metal material in the "Research Highlights" column under the title "softening", and called it "metal plastic".

The copper-zirconium binary system amorphous material was made by Chinese scientists in the laboratory for the first time, and the market operation was completed by American companies.

In terms of theoretical research and application of metal-plastics, Chinese scientists have not allowed Professor Johnson of the United States or Professor Jackson of the United Kingdom to take the lead. Research on metal-plastics worldwide is still in the laboratory stage.
No one, including Bell Labs and Liquid Metal, can develop and commercialize a mature metal-plastic product.

Shen Qi understands that the scientific research task entrusted by the state is to develop a metal plastic material in the laboratory. This new type of material can be formed into a new product as soon as possible, so as to be commercialized and marketed. occupy a place.

The next day, Shen Qi replied to Director Zhan: "I took this job, and I thought of a project code name, FASTER."

(End of this chapter)