Chapter 226 Cooperative R&D

In the world of the Wandering Earth, the annual output of high-purity carbon nanotubes has exceeded 100 million tons, and has been applied to all aspects of society, with a single ton cost of only a few thousand RMB, which is not the same as the real world.

However, the production method of the Wandering Earth World will definitely not be able to be completely transferred to the real world, and the cost will not be as low as the Wandering Earth World.

Not to mention anything else, the industrial base and the industrial system alone are not on the same level.

With the help of nuclear fusion technology, the energy cost of human beings is dozens of times lower than that of the real world.

In addition, there are many special equipment required in the production process, which needs to be specially manufactured.

For example, the ultra-high-power lasers, ultra-high-purity growth films, and some special catalysts required in the production process cannot be done in a short time in the real world.

Therefore, what Pang Xuelin gave Li Changqing was just a monkey version mass production method that he improved and adapted to the current domestic industrial base.

There are still many technical difficulties that need to be broken through, but with the strength of the School of Materials Engineering of Jiangxi University, the problem is not too big.

Pang Xuelin estimated that after the success of the research, the annual output could reach at least 5,000 tons, and the cost per ton would be controlled at 5 million RMB.

Whether the market can digest so much single-walled carbon nanotube production is another matter, but in terms of price, it is enough to crush all competitors in this field.

The next day, Pang Xuelin led Li Changqing and several professors from his team to Xinkai Material Technology Co., Ltd.

Pang Yongnian led a group of leaders of the company and had been waiting for a long time.

When Pang Xuelin asked Pang Yongnian for scientific research funds before, Pang Yongnian was still a little hesitant.

Even when it was discussed by the company, most of the middle and senior management, including the chief engineer, voted against.

After all, at present, the only company that can achieve industrial mass production of high-purity single-walled carbon nanotubes is OCSiAL in Russia, and the others are either in the laboratory stage or only have a small-scale output of 100 kilograms.

Although Pang Xuelin is the world's top expert in the field of mathematics, he is a new and new student in materials science.

Therefore, most people are reluctant to believe in the bright future he describes.

Fortunately, Xinkai Materials is a wholly-owned company of Pang Yongnian, and the boss insists on going his own way, and his subordinates have nothing to do.

As a result, no one expected that only a month later, the article "Preparation and Characterization of High-purity Carbon Nanotubes" signed by Pang Xuelin was actually published in Nature.

At this moment, everyone stopped talking.

You must know that Tian Yuande, chief engineer of Xinkai Materials and professor of Jiangcheng University of Technology, has only published a letter in "Nature Nanotechnology", and in the eyes of everyone, he is already a bull in the field of carbon fiber.

However, the legendary mathematical genius came up with a "Nature", and it was published directly in the form of Article.

There is no comparison between the two.

Therefore, although there are still people who have reservations about whether Pang Xuelin can really mass-produce high-purity single-walled carbon nanotubes.

But the people who say strange things in the company are basically gone.

"Dad, let me introduce to you, this is Professor Li Changqing, deputy director of our carbon nanomaterials research center, and also the general director of the high-purity single-walled carbon nanotube mass production project."

"Professor Li, hello, welcome to visit our Xinkai Material Technology Co., Ltd."

Pang Yongnian warmly shook hands with Li Changqing.

Li Changqing, of course, knows that as one of the academic leaders in the field of carbon fiber materials in China, Li Changqing also has a member of the Academic Committee of the Chinese Materials Research Society and the vice chairman of the China Carbon Fiber Material Technology Innovation Industry Alliance.

Although Pang Yongnian's Xinkai Material Technology Co., Ltd. has a certain reputation in the field of carbon fiber materials, its status in the industry is far less than that of top scholars like Li Changqing.

In the past, Pang Yongnian never thought that the company would one day be able to cooperate with a "Changjiang Scholar" level to engage in research and development.

But now that he has a son, everything seems to have changed.

Then, Pang Xuelin introduced the remaining professors to Pang Yongnian, who also have a lot of status in the industry.

In contrast, Tian Yuande, the chief engineer of Xinkai, is a little worthless.

Tian Yuande was a little embarrassed at first, but he quickly straightened his mind.

These people in front of him, both in terms of academic level and status, are above themselves.

If I can work with Li Changqing's team on behalf of the company to come up with a mass production plan for single-walled carbon nanotubes, it will be of great benefit to my future development in academia and industry.

For a while, Tian Yuande also became enthusiastic.

Under the leadership of Pang Yongnian, the group visited the factory and laboratory of Xinkai Materials, and at noon, everyone gathered in the conference room to discuss the specific work arrangements for the next cooperative research and development.

For this matter, Pang Xuelin was not involved.

He is only responsible for the role of matchmaking, and Li Changqing is still responsible for the specific R&D division of labor.

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As soon as June passed, the summer vacation officially came, and the school began to become deserted.

It's just that for Pang Xuelin, there is no such thing as a holiday or something.

The newly established Carbon Nanomaterials Research Center of Jiangcheng University has too much work to deal with.

For example, the docking of Li Changqing's team and Xinkai Material Technology Co., Ltd. took him nearly a week.

In addition, he is required to attend laboratory management, various administrative matters, and academic conferences.

Originally, he was thinking about whether to find a new subject in mathematics to study.

After all, carbon nanotubes, flying blade materials and so on, are all leftovers from his play in the wandering earth world, and there is no novelty at all.

But the strength of his team does not allow it, there are too many things that he needs to do himself.

In particular, the preparation of flying blade materials.

In China, the original laboratory preparation method of flying blade materials used molecular masonry technology, that is, through atomic force microscopy, a small segment of single-walled carbon nanotubes were connected.

But in the real world, current AFMs can't do that.

Pang Xuelin could only consider using the black box reaction method used by Wang Miao.

It is to use a catalyst to make high-purity single-walled carbon nanotubes undergo a controllable chain reaction in a high-temperature and high-pressure environment, and adjust the reaction parameters through a computer to produce meter-level carbon nanotubes.

The most difficult part of this reaction is not the manufacture of reaction black boxes and various high-precision sensors.

Whether it is a catalyst, a reaction black box or a sensor, the existing level of technology can be completely developed.

The real difficulty is the algorithm control of the reaction process, which controls different temperature and pressure conditions through the computer, so that the black box can stably produce meter-level single-walled carbon nanotubes.

In order to get this algorithm done, after entering the summer vacation, Pang Xuelin left most of the administrative affairs of the research center to Li Changqing, and handed over the work of black box manufacturing and catalyst preparation to his team, and he began to retreat at home to conduct research on related algorithms.

Fortunately, Yao Bingxia came from the capital at this time to help take care of Pang Xuelin's food, clothing, housing and transportation, so that Pang Xuelin's life would not be a mess.