Kaan's paranoia actually comes from his arrogance, and once he realizes that his skills are not as good as others, he returns to his original rational and wise appearance. He understands that he has made too much trouble in the academic and political circles in Brazil, and now he wants to go back and be a new person, I am afraid that others will not be so easy to accept him, it is better to start from scratch in a different environment, and when he makes some new achievements, he will have the capital to bargain with the government and the school.

Ka'an doesn't know much about the situation on Qin Hai's side, but he understands the two things of iron-based superconductivity and graphene, and if Qin Hai can master the core technologies of these two aspects, he is naturally a "master" who can take refuge. Judging from the information provided by Qin Hai, graphene is indeed an ideal material for making supercapacitors, and Qin Hai currently has a patent for graphene production.

Regarding his own treatment, Qin Hai's words are also very clear, he claims that Ka'an can get a piece of the commercial cake of supercapacitors, whether this piece accounts for 5% or 10%, it is an unparalleled wealth, which Ka'an has no doubt.

Thinking about this, Ka'an naturally has nothing to hesitate about, if he misses this village, there will be no such shop, he can't help but know what to do.

Ka'an has to go to China to work, there are still some formalities to be done, and at the same time, he also needs to sign an agreement with Qin Hai to clarify the responsibilities and rights of both parties. Qin Hai didn't have time to accompany Ka'an to handle these things, he left Ka'an with the phone number of the Anhe Materials Institute, and afterwards made a special long-distance call to Wang Xiaochen to explain the rest, and he didn't need to take care of the rest of the things, and there would be special people in the Materials Institute to contact Ka'an.

In the following time, Qin Hai continued to travel around South America with tranquility, enjoying a rare leisure. Of course. Everywhere he went, he inevitably visited local scholars and well-known companies to discuss some cooperation matters, which needless to say.

Then turn your attention back to Japan. Yoshida Gen, the technical director of Niizuka Chemical, falsely claimed to be a lecturer at a university in Osaka, went to the Anhe Institute of Materials to get a sample of graphene, and obtained some reports from the Institute of Materials that Guò had temporarily assigned to him as an assistant. If you get a treasure. After a few days in Hongze and some routine tests, he returned to Japan with graphene samples and materials, and began to lead his subordinates to develop a new graphene preparation process day and night.

Graphene, like steel, is just a general term for a class of materials. Steel can be divided into carbon steel, alloy steel, and alloy steel includes manganese steel, chromium steel, nickel steel, etc., changing the content of an element, and even adjusting the smelting process, can produce different types of steel. Patents for steel are specific to each model. It is impossible for someone to monopolize all steel in one patent in general.

The same is true for graphene, through oxidation, hydrogenation, increasing fluorine-containing functional groups, doping boron, nitrogen and other elements, different types of graphene can be produced, each type has its own unique physical and chemical characteristics, so it belongs to different products. Although Daqin Group is the first company to prepare graphene, it can only own the patent rights of a few products and cannot monopolize all the products. Gen Yoshida is going to do it. It is to compete with Daqin Group for more product patents. Especially in the preparation process of patents.

Before officially releasing the news of graphene discovery to the international materials community, Qin Hai had already asked Nie Sen to complete the research of two preparation processes, namely vapor deposition and redox method. When Yoshida Gen saw this news, he secretly complained to himself, because with the experience of Shintsuka Chemical in the field of carbon materials, he knew that these two preparation processes were the most efficient and the lowest cost. If you want to bypass these two patents and develop other patents, it is not only difficult, but the newly developed process will also have efficiency disadvantages.

But the matter has come to this point, Yoshida Gen knows that there are difficulties, but he still has to rise to the difficulties. Otherwise, Shintsuka Chemical will either not enter the field of graphene at all. Either you can only buy patents from Daqin Group for production. The latter method is unacceptable for Niizuka Chemical, whether it is for the sake of face or the cost of patent licensing, Niizuka Chemical cannot do this, but must develop a new process with independent intellectual property rights.

According to the information that Yu Yong took out from Nie Sen's room, Nie Sen's team had tried some other preparation methods, including organic synthesis and solvothermal methods. Judging from the data, the reason why the Neessen team did not continue to do it was because they lacked suitable polymer materials and solvents. In this regard, Shintsuka Chemical has some advantages, so Yoshida has locked his research direction on organic synthesis.

"Yoshida-kun, do you think that with organic synthesis, the cost of graphene can be reduced to a level comparable to that of the Chinese?" Chairman Saburo Hanaya asked this question to Gen Yoshida more than once.

"Theoretically, the organic synthesis process is not as efficient as the vapor deposition process, so the cost of the vapor deposition process that Chinese has should be lower at the same level of technology...... Probably more than 30% lower than us. Gen Yoshida replied honestly.

"30%......" Saburo Hanaya said with a frown, "With such a big difference, how can we guarantee that our products are competitive?" ”

Yoshida Gen said: "Production costs and production scale are related, and what I just said is a comparison between the same scale and the same technical equipment. From what I learned from my last trip to China, Daqin Group does not plan to produce graphene on a large scale, they only have a capacity of 5 kilograms per day, and the cost is very considerable under such small batch production conditions, so they expect the price of graphene to be supplied in bulk to reach $20 per gram. ”

"What about us? If the organic synthesis process is successfully developed, how far can you control the cost? Saburo Hanaya asked.

"Under $5 per gram." "This is based on a daily production of more than 200 kilograms. ”

"Yo Sai ......" Saburo Hanaya nodded with satisfaction, "If that's the case, then we can form an absolute advantage over Chinese, whether it is production capacity or price, they can not fight back." Yoshida-kun, please you and your team speed up the work and completely squeeze out the Chinese before they take over this market. ”

"Understood!" Yoshida agreed proudly.

In just a few months, scientists and engineers have proposed hundreds of product application designs, some for solar cells, some for LED light-emitting devices, and for chemically doped graphene to make high-strength thin film materials. All of these applications have been validated in the real room, just waiting for enough supply of graphene raw materials to be put into production. Once these new products come out, they will inevitably cause a sensation in the market, thus setting off a climax of graphene application.

At such a climax, if Shintsuka Chemical fails to form the ability to mass-produce graphene, it means that this market will be ceded to Daqin Group. The loss of a large amount of profits is still the second problem, and what Saburo Hanaya does not want to see is that the opponent of Daqin Group has made great strides in development, which will be a long-term threat to Shintsuka Chemical.

Fortunately, according to Yoshida Yuan, Daqin Group is extremely lacking in vision in the application of graphene, obviously holding the patent for large-scale production, but unwilling to bear a high investment in equipment, and only planned a daily production capacity of 5 kg in the initial stage. Such a little production capacity is of course enough to meet the current market demand, but in a few months, the market demand for graphene will grow rapidly to the level of hundreds of kilograms or even tons per day, and Daqin Group will regret it.

"How can the Chinese understand the potential of the Western market?" Yoshiki Morioka, the head of sales, said to Saburo Hanaya, "According to what I learned from the side, several executives of Daqin Group have said that the price of graphene products is too high for ordinary people to bear, so the market prospects for such products are not optimistic." ”

Saburo Hanaya laughs: "It's also understandable that LED displays and home solar panels are luxury goods in China, and they don't know how big a market these products will be in the Western world." ”

Yoshiki Morioka said: "Yes, some manufacturers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany are contacting us to find out when we will be able to supply graphene raw materials in batches, and the quantities they need are calculated in tens of kilograms per day, and the Chinese are completely unable to meet their needs." ”

"Morioka-kun, you must keep in touch with these companies and tell them that we can provide graphene in three months at the latest, and the price will be more than 30% cheaper than that of the Chinese." It would be nice to be able to sign a contract with them. Saburo Hanaya said.

"Three months?" Yoshiki Morioka hesitated, "In three months, will we really be able to provide mass-produced graphene?" Yoshida-kun: Are they so sure? ”

"We have to say that, otherwise they will turn to the Chinese for supplies, and that will send a signal to the Chinese to start paying attention to graphene production." "Although the Chinese have taken the lead in the invention of graphene, they have made mistakes in judging the prospects of the graphene market. Now that they are asleep, what we have to do is not to wake them up, so that we can give them a head on at the critical moment. (To be continued......)