From the end of November to the beginning of December, the 12-day MRS conference finally came to an end.

At the closing ceremony, Lu Zhou was invited by the organizer to present awards to the winner of the Best Poster Award (Best Poster Presentation Award).

Since a total of 63 topics were set up at this conference, and it was impossible to compare them horizontally in different directions, 63 awards were also set up.

Generally speaking, the poster presentation is attended by young scholars, and the award presentation is carried out by well-known scholars.

Lu Zhou was responsible for presenting the Best Poster Award in the Photovoltaic Materials and Photovoltaic Devices Branch, the winner was Wang Chen, a master from Shanghai University of Materials, and the supervisor was Xu Lijun.

Although this "material university" is not as famous as the other "financial university", it is quite top-notch in the field of materials science, especially in the direction of photovoltaic materials, which is its strong direction.

Under the guidance of Prof. Xu, Mr. Wang synthesized CH3NH3PbCl3 films with good crystallinity by using the hybrid continuous deposition method, and obtained the visible light blind ultraviolet detector of coplanar paper insert type CH3NH3PbCl3 films.

Although this achievement is not at the level of an oral presentation, it is undoubtedly a very good research result for a "poster presentation" for young scholars.

It is precisely because of this that her work won the favor of the jury and stood out from many achievements.

On the podium, the instructor, Professor Xu Lijun, shook Lu Zhou's hand tightly.

Taking advantage of the short time of communication, the old professor said with a smile.

"Congratulations, after this MRS Autumn Meeting, Professor Lu is the first person in the field of computational materials science!"

"I don't dare to be," Lu Zhouhui shook the old professor's hand and said with a smile, "I am just a professor of mathematics, and I need more people of insight to carry forward computational materials science to make outstanding achievements in this field." ”

After a brief exchange, the two let go of their hands.

Lu Zhou turned around and took the award certificate and souvenir from the staff, handed them to the winner Wang Chen, and shook hands with the winner.

Holding Lu Zhou's hand, the young lady said in an excited tone: "Lu Shen, don't you really plan to take a course in computational materials science at Princeton?" ”

Hearing this, Lu Zhou was slightly stunned.

I always feel that this ......

Sounds familiar?

After staring at her for a while, he finally remembered, as if he had met outside the lecture hall.

However, he did not change his intentions.

"Probably in the future, but there are no plans for that at the moment."

The young lady of the master reluctantly said: "That...... I'm going to apply to MIT. ”

Lu Zhou cast an encouraging look at her: "Well, come on!" ”

Miss Master: "......"

The award ceremony ended, and the closing ceremony of the conference finally came to an end.

With the curtain on this world-class materials science event, Lu Zhou, who had been on a business trip for almost two weeks, finally returned to the campus in Princeton.

At the same time, there was good news from the AM office.

The company in the Cayman Islands has been successfully registered, named Star Technology Co., Ltd. according to Lu Zhou's requirements, and its main business scope is intellectual property services and overseas investment, and the LOGO is three interlaced Möbius rings.

In this way, after an immature start-up, Lu Zhou finally owned a business again, and it was a multinational enterprise......

Although the company is a bit of an unusual, it doesn't even have a physical office space other than the hundreds of thousands of dollars in its accounts, and the patent management staff is still being hired, and the only business target is only an accounting firm that is responsible for the bookkeeping.

However, this situation only lasted until the second week after the MRS meeting.

Soon, Star Technology ushered in a real customer.

And it's a big project worth $400 million.

"I didn't expect you to be so fast, I thought I would have to wait at least until after Christmas," after meeting at a business hotel in Philadelphia, looking at the contract handed by Carodict, Lu Zhou simply flipped through it and asked casually, "Only one?" ”

Carrodit quipped, "Of course, Christmas presents have to be prepared before Christmas." In addition, this is a draft of the contract in your hand, and I sent the electronic file to your email just now. I don't think you can sign it without reading it, so you only typed one copy of the paper file. ”

That's of course, no one can be so stupid.

Lu Zhou flipped the contract from beginning to end, and then handed it to the lawyer dispatched by the nearby AM firm.

It's a waste of time to look at this kind of thing for as long as you want, so it's better to leave it to a professional to check. Umicore's lawyers are also here, and the parties will discuss every possible dispute in the contract.

has been carried out to the last step of the patent negotiations, Carodit naturally will not be in a hurry for a while, but it is quite boring to sit and wait like this, so he talked and laughed with Lu Zhou about the good prospects of the future of lithium batteries.

The problem of lithium dendrites has been solved, mobile phone manufacturers and new energy vehicles and other downstream industries have quickly started the research and development of new products, and the lithium battery projects of major battery manufacturers are also accelerating.

Even if you don't have to wait for the black technology of lithium-sulfur batteries to crawl out of the laboratory, even if the Li-MoS2 battery is dug out of the grave of history, the entire industry can change guns and multiply the energy density.

In addition to the Li-MoS2 battery patent that was bought at a high price, and now that the patent has expired, Nippon Electric (NEC) may cry and faint in the toilet, in the face of huge market demand, almost all battery-related companies will wake up laughing.

Also in the face of this huge market, it is imperative for chemical giants such as Umicore to obtain patent authorization as soon as possible.

It is precisely for this reason that Umiko is more anxious than Lu Zhou for this negotiation.

Whether it was for the sake of reaching an agreement as soon as possible or for the longer-term benefit of four years later, they resisted the idea of being clever and did not deliberately play tricks on the contract.

After repeated inspections by AM's team of lawyers, several potentially controversial areas were repaired, and Umicore's team confirmed the revised contract.

Although he knew that he probably couldn't see anything, Lu Zhou still took the final version of the contract and read it from beginning to end, before picking up the pen and solemnly signing his name on this piece of paper.

Effective today, Umicore will acquire a four-year exclusive license to the modified PDMS film technology from Star Technology for the global market excluding China, as well as a sub-license for the $400 million price.

In these regions, Star Technology will no longer license third parties, and all revenues obtained by Umicore through secondary licensing will be shared with Star Technology 50% of the revenue.

As for how Umicore can "blackmail" its peers with its excellent legal team after obtaining the patent agency right, it is not something that Lu Zhou needs to worry about.

A large part of the reason why he threw the pricing power of the exclusive rights and sub-licenses, as well as 50% of the proceeds, to Umicore was that he did not want to spend a lot of time in boring negotiations and lawsuits.

If someone uses his patents without authorization, I believe that whether it is motivated by suppressing competitors or extorting money, Umicore will be more aggressive than him.

And when the time comes, Lu Zhou will be able to take half of the fines issued by the court.

Looking at the two contracts on the table, Carrodit's originally tense face finally showed a comfortable smile.

With this contract, Umicore will have a greater advantage in the lithium battery industry chain.

And for him personally, this is also quite an impressive achievement.

Putting away the contract that belonged to her, Carrodit stretched out her right hand to Lu Zhou.

"It's a pleasure to work with."

Holding Carrodit's right hand and shaking it, Lu Zhou smiled and nodded.

"Happy working together!"