Hangcheng Industrial Zone, Laboratory of Material Origin.

Researchers in white coats walked around, some frowning and contemplative, others smiling with a rewarding smile.

In the whole laboratory, some people are researching the materials they are interested in, and half of them choose to study the new material graphene.

In 04, after graphene was stripped out in the simplest way, the applied research of this material became a popular discipline.

Most of the people in the lab have been in contact with it, so they are very interested in it.

Graphene materials have special properties that other materials do not have, which many laymen know.

For example, excellent electrical properties, excellent mechanical properties, extremely high thermal conductivity, large specific surface area, excellent barrier properties, etc.

These properties make it have application value that traditional materials cannot achieve in many basic science and technology fields, so it will be called the "king of new materials".

After experiments again and again, the application field of graphene has been expanded, and people have gradually found that in the most important energy, electronics, chemical, environmental and other industries in the new era, graphene can do what current materials cannot do.

Especially in the electronics industry, from battery materials, capacitors to flexible screens, organic light-emitting diodes, sensors, chips, etc., have surpassed the traditional material silicon!

This is also the reason why so many companies intend to study this universal material in the new era.

Not to be outdone, the Ministry of Material Origin must have the right to speak in the new era in this field.

The current research is limited by funding, equipment, and manpower, and although the progress is slow, it is better to be stable and move forward step by step.

Samples of various applications of graphene appeared, and they immediately went to apply for patents.

To tell the truth, this kind of basic research and development is very costly, and it is difficult to continue without huge liquidity, and the funds of Neutron Star Technology Group are at risk of breaking several times in less than a month.

After paying the wages for the first quarter of the construction of the headquarters, there is not much left inside.

If it weren't for the support of an information technology department in front, artificial intelligence began to penetrate the entire industry, and a large amount of money was remitted all the time, and the material origin department would have been unable to operate.

Fortunately, there is a positive policy of three exemptions and three halves of support issued by the state two years ago, which has allowed Neutron Star Technology Group to save a lot of money.

At the same time, a part of the subsidy for high-tech enterprises is remitted to the company's account in order to maintain the current situation.

For Zhong Zixing, eating the subsidy from the town government is the last thing he wants to face in his science and technology career.

Grants for various projects, projects, and basic design improvements, subsidies for major enterprises, investments in scientific research and development, investment in basic education, necessary military expenditures, etc.

The country is large, there are many people, and all aspects of the promotion have to be expensive, and the cost is of course greater, but now the income is too small, and it can barely keep up with the foot pot chicken.

With the pride in Zhong Zixing's heart, he is extremely unwilling to eat the subsidy from the town government.

But there is no way, the research and development of basic technology is really too expensive.

If he wasn't afraid that all the graphene patents that could be made in a few years would be preemptively registered, he would not have rushed into the real industry without accumulating sufficient capital, at least not so early.

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Professor Zhong Zixing and Professor Yang Anguo, as well as a few of his students, are doing experiments far beyond the outside in a closed laboratory.

They are personally involved in secret experiments, and the things they make are rarely patented, and most of them are retained.

Zhong Zixing believes that it is difficult for others to imitate their technology if the current level of science and technology and theoretical knowledge are not complete, so he would rather leave it for a while than apply for a patent.

The only headache is the method of obtaining graphene.

In such a simple environment where graphene is stripped, if you want to obtain a finished product, funds will naturally have to flow out on a large scale, and the quality of graphene obtained is still poor, so the output will be relatively slow.

At present, the easiest way to obtain graphene is to use physical and chemical means to weaken or peel off to obtain a single or few layers of graphene.

There are many subdivisions, in addition to the conventional mechanical stripping method, liquid phase stripping method, redox stripping method, as well as synthesis through chemical reaction, chemical vapor deposition method and so on.

Unconventional methods such as electrochemical stripping and supercritical fluid stripping will also emerge in the future.

Among so many ways to obtain graphene, to say that Zhong Zixing's inner inclination is, of course, the mechanical stripping method, so almost all the mechanical equipment bought in the entire materials laboratory.

In his vision, after the development of industry, mechanical stripping will inevitably become one of the mainstream methods to obtain graphene.

The robot takes the graphite and puts it into the fully automated machine, and it is directly processed into graphene and sent out.

Convenience and speed are only one of the reasons, and the graphene produced by the mechanical exfoliation method was selected after Zhong Zixing tested all the methods.

Even if this method is costly, yields are low, and the size cannot be controlled, it cannot overshadow the advantages of producing the highest quality graphene.

In the future, the establishment of the Extreme Precision Department will reduce the cost of this method to a minimum by upgrading high-precision industrial equipment.

"If these patents want to wait for approval, it will take at least next year to really put them into use, and I am afraid it will take a short time to find ways to reduce costs!" Professor Yang Anguo took off his gloves and said with a smile.

"If you want to popularize graphene, you can only start research and development in some irrelevant fields, and those patent applications that can be avoided by non-core can be saved, anyway, we have the trump card and don't do the market."

Zhong Zixing sat on the chair without any image, picked up the water and poured two sips: "It's understandable to review the authenticity!" ”

"However, this is also the most annoying part of me, whoever enters the field of science and technology first, who has a first-mover advantage, slowly accumulates some patents to lie down to obtain benefits, so that later generations have to repeat the invention in order to avoid patents, wasting countless resources."

"Hahaha, of course, this is not a good thing for people who only focus on research and development, but for some companies and capital that value profits, they can protect their intellectual achievements from infringement."

The core technology patent gives people like Zhong Zixing a headache.

On the one hand, if he wants to quickly improve the level of science and technology, he must deal with patents, try every means not to duplicate his patents with others, and be afraid to worry about whether the things he develops will step into the net of others.

On the other hand, it is a good thing that you can charge high licensing fees from other companies and continue to invest money in R&D, forming a cycle.

"As long as you get the hegemony in the graphene field, one of the most important basic materials in the next two or three decades will not have to be afraid of being choked by others." Zhong Zixing got up and stretched his muscles.

"Professor Yang, you are busy first, I'll go and sort out my thoughts, write a paper on the recent discoveries in our laboratory, and upload them to "Truth"!"

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