Before the Spring Festival, the FASTER project team continued to dope germanium, tin, lead, as well as germanium tin, germanium lead, tin-lead, germanium-tin-lead, germanium-tin-lead, various permutations and combinations, different composition proportions have been tried, and the effective sample number has been numbered to A21.

After testing, the non-micro and nano level processability, the cerium aluminum-copper amorphous metal plastic doped with germanium and lead is the best, and the sample number is A18.

Samples with excellent micro- and nano-scale processing properties require further research and preparation.

For several months, Shen Qi has been studying various metal elements every day, leading the team to synthesize and prepare various amorphous alloys, and in the laboratory, he feels that he is 1/3 mathematician, 1/3 physicist, and 1/3 chemist.

To this end, Shen Qi spent more than 2 million points to upgrade chemistry to the master level of level 11, and consulted a large number of chemical literature during the Spring Festival, focusing on inorganic chemistry.

The ascension of chemistry to the master level seemed to have played a role, and Shen Qi repeatedly studied all the elements in the periodic table and decided to make changes in essence.

After the Spring Festival, Shen Qi sat in the office of the director of the center, and occasionally went to the laboratory to check the progress of the experiment.

The other two keys to the laboratory were handed over to Yang Dingtian and Tang Yuan for safekeeping, and these two people could be regarded as Shen Qi's right-hand men in physics.

Shen Qi called Yang Dingtian and Tang Yuan to the office, and said to his right-hand man: "Maybe it's not the problem of doping elements, but the master we choose is not suitable, after my full research, I think that gallium can be used to replace aluminum in the cerium aluminum-copper ternary system, and the new ternary system master is cerium gallium copper amorphous." I have a basis for why we should make structural adjustments. ”

Shen Qi operated his computer, and Yang and Tang each moved a chair and sat behind Shen Qi to learn and observe.

Through computer simulation, combined with the first principles and Shen Qi's four condensed matter physics theoretical elements, Shen Qi compared the electronic energy state density diagrams of Ce70Al10Cu20 and Ce70Ga10Cu20 in the computer.

"You see, the electronic energy state density of cer-4f in cerium aluminum copper is significantly higher than its energy state density in the cerium gallium copper amorphous ternary system, what does this mean?" Shen Qi asked the two capable leaders by pointing to the computer screen.

Tang Yuan replied: "This shows that the cerium-4f electron is more non-localized in the cerium-gallium-copper system. ”

"That's right. Shen Qi nodded, and controlled the mouse and keyboard to do a new operation.

The simulation software shows that the interaction between the Al-3p electron orbital and the Ce-4f and Ce-5d electron orbitals in the Ce-Al-Cu system is very weak.

On the contrary, in the Ce-Ga-Cu system, there is a strong interaction between the Ga-4p electronic orbital and the Ce-4f and Ce-5d electronic orbitals, which makes the partially localized Ce-4f1 transform into the non-localized Ce-4f0.

Shen Qi asked, "What does this mean?"

It was Tang Yuan who rushed to answer, and he patted his head suddenly: "This shows that the interaction between the chemical potential of gallium and the cerium atom leads to the appearance of cerium-4f0 in some non-localized states, so that the chemical bond between cerium-cerium is shortened." Considering the FASTER project, theoretically, the new CEG-copper ternary system will have a local atomic arrangement structure that is more in line with our requirements...... I can't explain the theoretical basis of the latter, which involves defect topology and even complexity, anyway, I probably understand what Academician Shen means. ”

"OK, he understands, what about you?" Shen Qi asked Yang Dingtian instead.

Yang Dingtian replied: "Understood." ”

"So that's the end of the A-series sample development, and the A21 is the last. Starting today, we have entered the R&D experimental stage of the B series, and the master of the B series is the cerium gallium copper ternary system. Shen Qi assigned a new task, and Yang and Tang were ordered to go to the laboratory.

Gallium is produced in low quantities and is more expensive than aluminum, and replacing aluminum with gallium means that the cost of experimentation and subsequent commercialization will increase.

In the experimental research and development stage, Shen Qi needs to consider economic benefits, but he can't be constrained by non-academic factors.

Good scientists must be highly forward-looking, and if there is a breakthrough in the application technology for extracting and preparing high-purity gallium, cost will not be a problem.

In any case, Shen Qi's elite physics team has successfully developed an excellent metal-plastic material in a short period of time according to Shen Qi's self-created condensed matter physics theoretical system, sample number A18, and the official name to be announced is Ce-Ga-Cu metal-plastic.

This metal plastic is doped with a certain proportion of germanium and lead, this conclusion can be disclosed, but the specific ratio must not be disclosed, and it is only known within the project team.

The A18 sample is the crystallization of the wisdom of Shen Qi's team's collective efforts, a scientific and technological achievement, and a patent.

Next, Shen Qi knew exactly what to do, apply for patent protection, and publish the research results of the A18 sample.

Before doing these two things, Shen Qi asked the other 11 members of the project team to sign a supplementary confidentiality agreement.

By the time they joined the project, the physics researchers had already signed a non-disclosure agreement.

At that time, no specific research results were produced, and now that there is a scientific result, the project team has certain scientific assets, so the researchers have to sign a supplementary confidentiality agreement.

Black and white letters, signed and drawn.

Everyone signed it.

Shen Qi put away the 11 supplementary confidentiality agreements: "Okay, since we have signed and pledged, then we are now grasshoppers on a rope, FASTER is a national key scientific research project, and leaking any scientific research secrets of this project is tantamount to treason." ”

Shen Qi said very seriously, and everyone listened very seriously.

"Everyone takes responsibility and takes risks, and there will naturally be reciprocal rewards. After talking about the tragic fate of the traitor, Shen Qi then talked about the benefits of being loyal to the motherland and joining the FASTER project team: "I have been in the American academic community for many years, and before the 80s, the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in the United States was as chaotic as before 2010 in China. ”

Later, the United States came out with the "Bayh-Dole Act", and now the conversion rate of scientific and technological achievements and patent achievements in the United States exceeds 80%, and the patent inventors gain fame and fortune, and the enterprises are willing to pay for it, a win-win situation. China's version of the Bayh-Dole Act was implemented in 2007, namely the Science and Technology Progress Law, and after 2010, a number of new and revised items were added and revised in the Science and Technology Progress Law. ”

"Of course, the situation in China and the United States is different, and most of the top American universities are private, and the degree of government intervention is very low. But we are glad to see that China is also making changes, at least we can walk a few steps out of the gate of Yan University, and we can exert our strength in the Zhongguancun area and reap a fair and reasonable reward. When Shen Qi said this, he found that the researchers looked excited.

Who is not happy to be rewarded with a fair and reasonable reward?

In Zhongguancun, the central public institutions, namely the top universities such as Yanda and Shuimu, have the autonomy of scientific and technological innovation.

To put it in layman's terms, Yanda and Mizuki have privileges, and their scientific patent transactions can be negotiated directly with the company and reported to the Ministry of Finance for the record.

This is a good thing for the scientific research workers of Yanda and Shuimu, as long as the scientific research results are produced, it is easier to make money, and it is more secure.

Shen Qi wanted to find a buyer for the A18 sample, and they were selling patent development rights.

This involves some professional processes, after the patent protection of the A18 sample is completed and the academic paper of the A18 sample is published, Shen Qi will arrange a professional team to contact the enterprise buyer.