Graphene is not a cabbage, or at least so far, it is not a cabbage. Providing 100 copies of graphene to the institutions that came to participate in the symposium for research, each copy is limited to one gram, no one will think that this is the door of the Anhe Institute of Materials, on the contrary, everyone was shocked by this kind of generosity. A full 100 grams of graphene, which is completely beyond the preparation capacity of the real room, is enough to show that Anhe Institute of Materials has been able to industrially prepare graphene.

Even if it is these 100 copies of graphene, the School of Materials is not free to provide to participating institutions, Qin Hai's words are very clear: each institution is limited to one copy, that is, this is to spend money to buy.

Immediately, someone asked Wang Xiaochen for a quote to learn about the price of graphene and the price of renting a real room. Wang Xiaochen's answer shocked everyone again: the price of each gram of graphene is $100, while renting a real room costs between $200 and $1,000 per day, depending on the equipment and reagents that need to be equipped.

In the latter item, everyone has nothing to say, everyone knows that this is a conscience price, and it is necessary to spend this price to temporarily rent a real yàn room with various analytical equipment in a foreign university. If the equipment used is more high-end, the price will be even higher.

What shocked everyone was the offer of the previous item, $100 per gram of graphene, which is really beyond everyone's imagination. However, most people think that this price is too cheap, and they think that the price is too expensive, basically they have not actually done scientific research in this area, and they are purely those institutions that come to seek commercial cooperation.

"Miss Wang, is the price of $100 a gram your public offer?" A scholar from the United States asked, one of the purposes of his visit to China this time is to purchase a batch of graphene back to make further realization, so the question of price must be asked clearly.

Wang Xiaochen smiled and replied, "This gentleman." I need to explain that the graphene price we charged this time is only a symbolic fee, and our current graphene production is still very low, and it is impossible to publicly sell graphene products at such a low price. ”

"So if I want to be able to buy 100 grams of graphene, how much will it cost?" The scholar asked earnestly.

The people next to him were also staring at Wang Xiaochen nervously. Wait to hear her answer. If you want to bring a batch of graphene back from China, this scholar is not the only one, and some companies are holding the idea of purchasing graphene as an industrial raw material.

Wang Xiaochen had been prepared for this question for a long time, she pretended to be embarrassed, and said: "Sir, if you want to buy 100 grams of graphene this time, I can only say sorry. I'm afraid we won't be able to meet your request. As I said earlier, our current graphene production is very low, which is only enough to meet our own real needs, and a little surplus can be provided to important cooperative institutions. We are now building a graphene production line, which will be ready for production in about six months, at which point we expect to be able to supply graphene products to the market in quantities of 5 kg per day. ”

"So, what do you expect to be the price of the supply?" A European material merchant asked.

"I can't answer you exactly, though. Our engineers estimate that we can expect to supply less than $20 per gram of graphene by then. Wang Xiaochen replied.

"$20!"

The crowd sighed.

The use of a new material. It is closely related to its price. For example, carbon fiber, when it first appeared, the price was surprisingly high, so only high-level fields such as aerospace and aviation could use it; Next, as the technology improved, the price of carbon fiber continued to fall. So some people use it to make cars, bicycles, fishing rods, and so on. If one day carbon fiber can be as cheap as bamboo, carbon fiber furniture, packaging boxes, and fences will naturally appear. All of this qiē is directly determined by the price.

The same is true for the application of graphene, which no one knows what its price will be since industrially produced graphene is not yet available on the market. $100 or $1,000 per gram. are all a possible outcome. Faced with different prices, manufacturers need to consider what products they will use to make them, and they need to estimate the pricing of the final product and the market space.

The $20 per gram of graphene is far lower than most people expect, and when Wang Xiaochen quoted this price, many people were quickly thinking about how to maximize the development and utilization of this new material, and how to achieve these applications is naturally a nerve-wracking thing for scientists and engineers.

"Ms. Wang, will you continue to increase the production capacity of graphene in the future?"

A strange voice came from the crowd, and everyone followed the voice, only to see that the speaker was an Asian with a lewd description, and from his English pronunciation, it could basically be guessed that this should be a guest from Dongying.

It was Yoshida Gen, the technical director of Shintsuka Chemical, who was registered as a lecturer at a university in Osaka on the guest register of the Faculty of Materials. Shintsuka Chemical is well-known for its R&D and production of carbon materials, and Yoshida is worried that his true identity will make the Daqin Group wary.

Yoshida Yuan came to Hongze naturally to explore the reality of Daqin Group, and at the same time to actually get in touch with the finished graphene, which is very important for his team to develop the industrial preparation process of graphene. When everyone was asking Wang Xiaochen questions just now, he just mixed in the crowd to listen, and seeing that Wang Xiaochen was quite naturally cute, he couldn't help but ask, wanting to find out more information from this female assistant.

Wang Xiaochen raised his eyes to look at Yoshida Yuan, nodded, and said: "Of course, we will continue to increase the production capacity of graphene, and the goal of our group is to reach more than 1,000 tons per year, and the price will drop to about 100 to 200 US dollars per kilogram, so that graphene can become a new material with a wide range of applications." ”

"$100 per kilogram?" The people around them fryed all of a sudden, and just said that it was $20 per gram, which means that it is $20,000 per kilogram, how did this become $100 per kilogram in a blink of an eye, and when converted, isn't the price per gram going to drop below 10 cents?

Wang Xiaochen hurriedly explained: "Don't get me wrong, I'm talking about the ultimate goal proposed by our group, which will not be achieved until at least after 2010. In the short term, it is unlikely that our group will expand its production capacity further, because the graphene production process is very complex and the equipment investment is beyond what we can afford. ”

"Haven't you thought about finding some partners to co-produce?" Yoshida Gen asked again.

Wang Xiaochen shook his head: "Not yet, we are not sure how much demand for graphene is, and it is not suitable to find partners at this time." Also, there are many things worth doing for our group, and graphene is just one of our products, so it is impossible for the group to invest too much money in this project. ”

"That's a shame." Yoshida Gen said pretendly, but what he thought in his heart was another sentence: So so, these Chinese are really too short-sighted.

The extent of the application of graphene has been evaluated by Yoshida several years ago, which is one of the reasons why he persuaded the company to invest heavily in graphene research and development. According to Yoshidagen's calculations, if the price of graphene can really fall to $20 per gram, the global demand for at least 20 tons a year will be at least 20 tons, which is equivalent to a market of $400 million a year. According to Wang Xiaochen, Daqin Group will form a production capacity of about 5 kilograms per day, with an annual output of less than 2 tons, accounting for only 10% of the entire market, which is strategic short-sightedness.

You must know that as an enterprise that has mastered advanced technology, it is very important to maintain a monopoly position in the market, which can not only enable the company to get as much profit as possible, but also squeeze those potential competitors and make itself stay in the leading position for more time.

Daqin Group could not correctly assess the size of the market, and even regarded graphene as an ordinary product, and was unwilling to expand production capacity just because the investment was too high, which gave Xinzuka Chemical a chance to counterattack. As long as Niizuka Chemical can develop its own preparation process in a short period of time, even if the technology is more complex and the cost is slightly higher than that of Daqin Group, it will have a chance to survive because of the huge gap in the market.

Yoshida believes that as long as Shintsuka Chemical can compete with Daqin Group, then the final winner must be Nizuka Chemical. Daqin Group has worked hard to open the door to graphene, and has also painstakingly developed two preparation processes, which will eventually become the stepping stone of Xinzuka Chemical.

In order not to show his feet, Yoshida Gen did not say anything more, but re-entered the crowd and no longer showed his head. However, he thought he was acting carefully, but he didn't know that the praying mantis was catching cicadas and the yellow finch was behind, and his every move was already being watched. After Wang Xiaochen finished answering everyone's questions, he arranged for someone to take the guests to the canteen for dinner, and when he returned to the office, he saw Xu Xiaoqi, the intelligence director of Daqin Group, waiting for her in the office with a smile.

"Xiaoqi, when did you come?" Wang Xiaochen greeted Xu Xiaoqi personally, the other party is not only a middle-level cadre of the group, but also the daughter-in-law of the general manager Ning Zhongying, like her, they both belong to the family of senior executives, and their usual relationship is very close.

Xu Xiaoqi said: "You have made such a big move, so many global scholars have come, how can I, as an intelligence person, not come to join in the fun?" When you were in the lecture hall, I was already watching from behind, but neither you nor Mr. Qin saw me. By the way, Sister Xiaochen, do you know the origin of the Japanese man who talked to you later? (To be continued......)