"Actually, unification is not so important, the important thing is to enjoy life. Witten sat down by the unnamed lake, took a deep breath of the sweet autumn air of the capital, and felt bad after breathing, or Princeton's high content of negative ions.

"Edward, you've changed. Shen Qi wanted to talk to Witten about physics with great interest, but who knew that Witten was chatting and chatting about Yixing.

"This is my sixth visit to China, and every time I arrive, I find that new changes are taking place in China. ”

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

"Days, weeks, or months, who knows. "Witten is a good Buddhist now, and he is more willing to travel around the world comfortably and enjoy life.

Shen Qi, a man in his twenties, or a man in his thirties and forties like Figari and Lyndon Strauss, is at the peak of his career, and they have the strength to go to the next level and dominate.

Witten has no desire to be the king at this age, the old man quickly learned to scan the code to share the bicycle, ride around the Yan University campus, see the young beauty and ask for directions, ask and ask, ask to go to the Mizuki University next door.

Shen Qi and Ou Ye went to Europe for their honeymoon a few days later, and played until they returned to China in early December.

After Shen Qi returned, the director of the Department of Mathematical Physics of the Academy of Sciences found him to discuss important matters.

Director Zhan studied materials, mainly studying the physical properties and microscopic mechanism of materials, he was also a scientific research general when he was young, won numerous awards, and now he is old, the academic peak has passed, but he has a high strategic awareness.

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

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

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

The year after the article was published, Johnson, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology, successfully developed a zirconium-titanium-copper-nickel bulk amorphous. Director Zhan was not convinced, the team of their institute provided inspiration and creativity, and completed the experimental preparation of new materials for the first time, but no one remembered the name of any Chinese physics researcher in that team, and it was Johnson, an American technologist, who became a god.

"Professor Johnson is doing a good job and is the number one in the world in this field. Of course, in the high-tech field of amorphous materials, there are few companies in the world that have the strength to compete with the American liquid metal company. This field is that technology determines the market, and technology monopolizes the market. Even Shen Qi didn't know who the Chinese physics researchers were back then, but he had heard of Johnson, who had abandoned religion and entered business.

"It is worth noting that the shares of Liquid Metal have been bought in large quantities by a Hong Kong company in the past few years, and their largest shareholder and the boss behind it is actually a Hong Kong businessman. ”

Shen Qi became interested: "The Hong Kong boss really has a vision, but the problem is, this kind of high-tech enterprise with cutting-edge technology as its lifeblood, the US government allows foreigners to become the largest shareholder?"

Director Zhan shook his head helplessly: "No, the U.S. government has very strongly declared that liquid metal companies must not be acquired by foreign companies." The latest news is that the largest shareholder of Liquid Metal is now the U.S. government. ”

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

Director Zhan said: "Then we don't know, we only know that the Hong Kong boss set up a similar company in China when he controlled the American liquid metal company, and the headquarters of this company is in Zhongguancun. ”

"That Kwong Dong from the Morningside Math Center, the Hong Kong boss who started in real estate?" Shen Qi understood, and also had some small doubts.

The gist of the story is that a physics professor at Caltech resigned from his university position and founded a new materials company, Liquid Metals, which was successfully listed on the NASDAQ.

Later, a discerning Hong Kong businessman acquired the shares of the American Liquid Metal Company in batches within a few years through the means of capital operation, and eventually became the largest shareholder and behind-the-scenes boss of the American company.

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

The U.S. government couldn't stand it anymore, and they couldn't tolerate it, so the U.S. Liquid Metal Company returned to the arms of the Americans, and the Hong Kong businessman was nowhere to be found.

The U.S. government has nothing to do with this Chinese high-tech materials company in Zhongguancun, and the current owner of this company is Kuang Dong.

Kwong Tung and the Hong Kong businessman who went to the United States to buy the liquid metal company are not the same person.

Shen Qi's doubts were: "What is the relationship between Kwong Dong and that Hong Kong businessman?"

Director Zhan: "It should be a little related, the specific situation is not too clear, and this is not the focus of our attention." Our focus is on achieving breakthroughs in the application of amorphous materials and commercializing them through the company Kwong Dong. I can't count on others, in the field of high-tech amorphous materials, the only company in China that has the strength to do mass production and market, only this one, and the others are nonsense. ”

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

"It's important to scale, commercialize, marketize, I admit it, and it needs to be done by businessmen. So Director Zhan, after all that, what do you need me to do?" Shen Qi asked.

"You are now an academician of our Department of Mathematical Physics, and you are the best expert in condensed matter physics, especially amorphous physics, and you have a metal and plastic project that I want 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 consider it after you go back." ”

The birth of metal plastics has only been more than ten years and belongs to the field of cutting-edge science and technology, Shen Qi is a little interested: "Then I'll consider it." ”

Back in Yanda's office, Shen Qi carefully checked the information in the USB flash drive.

In 2005, the team of the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported a new metal material in PRL, which has the same room temperature strength as aluminum-magnesium alloys, but when the temperature rises to the temperature of boiling water, it shows surprising processing deformation behaviors such as tensile, compression, bending, and imprinting like plastics.

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

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

In terms of theoretical research and application of metal plastics, Chinese scientists have not let Professor Johnson of the United States or Professor Jackson of the United Kingdom take the lead, and the research of metal plastics in the world has stayed in the laboratory stage

No one, including Bell Labs or Liquid Metal, could develop and commercialize a full-fledged metal-plastic product.

Shen Qi understood that the scientific research task entrusted by the state to promote himself was to develop a metal-plastic material in the laboratory, which could form a new product as soon as possible, so as to commercialize and marketize it and occupy a place in the international high-end field.

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