Beijing, north side of Chang'an Street.

On the small islands separated by the North Sea, the old man in a tunic carefully read the report document in his hand.

Looking up, he looked at Wu Weizhao, who had replaced Qin Anguo as a liaison officer from the Ministry of Science and Technology, and asked softly, "Professor Xu really thinks so?" ”

On the other side, Wu Weizhao, who was slightly nervous, nodded seriously and replied: "We have communicated with Professor Xu, but he insists on leaving, and he has no interest in continuing to be the head of the department. ”

The old man nodded and said, "Since that's the case, then let him be." ”

After a pause, he continued: "But please communicate with Professor Xu again, and ask him to serve for a while, at least, let us hold a celebration banquet and award ceremony before stepping down." ”

Wu Weizhao nodded: "Okay, I'll go and communicate with Professor Xu." ”

"Have you ever asked Professor Xu if he has his own research arrangements for the next time?" The old man asked.

Wu Weizhao nodded and said, "I have consulted, and I heard Professor Xu say that he seems to be preparing to return to theoretical research in mathematics and physics in the second half of the year." ”

"Including the European Atomic Energy Research Center, in the first half of the year, he didn't detect traces of dark matter, and the LHC will conduct experiments around this aspect in the second half of the year, Professor Xu said that he may focus on these aspects."

The old man pondered for a moment and said, "Then let's do it first." ”

He originally wanted to see if he could ask Professor Xu to continue his research on lithium batteries to see if there could be some breakthroughs, but since he has his own research, let's put it first.

Anyway, with the breakthrough of the lithium dendrite problem, it will take some time for the domestic industry to digest these ensuing technologies.

"By the way, how is the patent licensing of the artificial SEI film developed by Professor Xu?" The old man then asked.

Wu Weizhao quickly replied: "It is still being negotiated and in progress, and there are currently 13 shortlisted battery industry manufacturers, four domestic and nine foreign. ”

"But I heard what the Chuanhai Materials Research Institute meant that they were ready to authorize three domestic manufacturers and five foreign manufacturers, a total of eight."

The old man nodded and said: "Scientific and technological innovation is a strategic support for improving social productivity and comprehensive national strength, and must be placed at the core of the overall development of the country. ”

"You go and communicate with Minister Qin, and include the Chuanhai Materials Research Institute in the latest national support for enterprise scientific and technological innovation."

"For high-tech enterprises such as Chuanhai Materials Research Institute, the state must vigorously help and support."

Hearing this, a trace of surprise crossed Wu Weizhao's eyes.

The latest tax incentives issued by the state to support enterprise scientific and technological innovation are only for enterprises or institutions that support national and provincial science and technology business incubators and university science and technology parks.

This assistance is not only a great reduction or even exemption from taxes, but also a special scientific research fund allocated every year.

In addition, scientific research institutions can be supported by the state for scientific research and development housing, land use, equipment purchase, etc.

It has to be said that it is a surprise that a small private enterprise like Chuanhai Materials Research Institute can make an exception to enter it.

After all, the only non-state-owned enterprises that are eligible to enter this policy are Warwick, DJI, and a few other large companies that are of strategic importance to the country.

Of course, relying on the patent of artificial SEI film, the strategic significance of Chuanhai Materials Research Institute to the country is also not low.

The breakthrough in the field of lithium batteries can greatly drive the rapid growth of the global new energy vehicle market, and the growth rate of the power battery market will also be significantly improved.

According to the plan of the "White Paper on the Development of Lithium-ion Battery Industry" previously formulated in China, it was originally expected to reach the goal of 300wh/kg in the field of lithium batteries in 2020, 400wh/kg in 2025, and 500wh/kg in 2030.

But now, because of the breakthrough in the lithium dendrite problem, let alone 500wh/kg, in the second half of this year, the capacity of lithium-ion batteries can even directly exceed 1000wh/kg.

This shows the importance of that small artificial SEI film.

It is also reasonable to include enterprises with such patents in the latest preferential tax policies for state-supported enterprise scientific and technological innovation, even if its registered capital is less than 3 million.

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The other side.

After successfully completing the project of "Mechanism of Aggregation and Conversion of Nuclear Energy β Radiant Energy", Xu Chuan stayed for two days and returned to Jinling after dealing with the rest of the work arrangement.

The successful incubation of a large-scale project is undoubtedly satisfying.

Especially for him, this technology was what he wanted to bring back in his previous life.

So much so that after the completion of the project, he rarely fished for a few days, except for a few classes at NTU according to the class schedule, all scientific research and learning were left behind by him.

After a few comfortable days, the Chuanhai Materials Research Institute finally began the final patent licensing quotation.

More than half a month is enough for these battery manufacturers to do a complete test on the artificial SEI film.

Using the 'complete version' of the artificial SEI film and related electrolyte and other accessories provided by Chuanhai Materials Research Institute, these manufacturers were surprised to find that the film made by Professor Xu had an amazing effect.

The products they imitate through the information on papers and patent documents are simply rubbish in front of the genuine products.

Although those imitations can also solve the problem of lithium dendrite formation, they cannot solve the problem of lithium separation.

Severe lithium evolution problems can quickly deplete the lithium ions in the electrolyte, rapidly reducing battery capacity.

However, the use of genuine artificial SEI film provided by Chuanhai Materials Research Institute has almost no problem.

The battery capacity can be maintained at more than 90 percent after more than 500 cycles, and at about 80 percent after 1,000 charge and discharge cycles.

The effect is amazing, so good that they don't even want it anymore.

After all, the scrapping of the battery control plan is also one of the means to make money in the battery industry, especially in the mobile phone industry, and the battery life of most brands of mobile phones is generally about one to two years.

If you don't want to replace the phone, then replacing the battery is also a must, otherwise the serious decline in the power of the phone will make people want to carry the power bank and data cable with them.

1,000 charge-discharge cycles, supplemented by increased battery capacity, are enough for users to use the battery for three or four years without replacing the battery.

But in this way, how else can they make money from batteries.

Of course, raising the price of batteries is also a good means, but the benefits obtained from raising prices are less than half of the benefits from capacity renewal and planned scrapping.

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In the Chuanhai Materials Research Institute, Xu Chuan ignored these broken problems.

This was the second time he had attended such a commercial meeting at the institute, but he didn't talk much, and sat in silence almost the whole time to watch the professionals he hired communicate with the battery manufacturers.

Watching this group of people arguing, Xu Chuan felt a little bored, and reached out and waved at a hired professional beside him.

"Do you have the latest quotation statistics of these manufacturers, give me a copy."

Soon, the staff member handed him a report, Xu Chuan took it and flipped it over, these things will be counted and sent to him once a week by Fan Pengyue, but he was not very concerned before, after all, the nuclear energy research institute is the right thing.

He wasn't very interested in business and the like, and the patent licensing of artificial SEI films was as long as it met his psychological expectations.

If he can't, he doesn't mind putting it in his own hands.

Anyway, there is no other branch.

As for other countries or laboratories and research institutes to come up with substitutes in a short period of time, the probability is basically negligible.

After all, if this thing was so easy to make, it would have been made a long time ago.

The industry and laboratory research institutes have smashed on the lithium dendrite problem over the years, not to mention tens of billions of dollars, but billions of dollars.

Having lost so much money for decades has not solved this problem, it is almost impossible to find a replacement in a short period of time, even with his sample here.

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Flipping through the quotations in his hand, Xu Chuan found that the quotations of these manufacturers were almost exactly the same, and the values were very close.

The domestic BYD quoted 530 million yuan for three years of patent authorization, and CATL quoted 550 million yuan for three years of patent authorization......

Abroad, whether it is Panasonic in a small island country, or LG Chemical and other major battery manufacturers, the quotation is about 70 million meters of gold, converted into RMB, according to the current exchange rate, just about 500 million.

Obviously, these vendors are privately connected in each round of negotiations and offers.

In the face of the three domestic quotas and five international quotas he released, these battery manufacturers intend to unite the front to get this patent authorization together with the least effort.

After all, if there is no unification, no one knows who will quote how much, and in the end the price will be swept up to the sky by everyone, so it is better to sit down and have a meeting in advance to discuss.

Of course, even after discussion, the battery manufacturers will definitely secretly raise some prices behind their backs.

The number of places is limited, and there are more manufacturers participating in the competition, you honestly follow the unified quotation to do, and others may not belong to you if they lift up.

As for how much to lift secretly, it depends on your own tolerance and bottom line.

Although Xu Chuan doesn't know much about business behavior, he can still see this kind of simple and easy-to-see things.

After some thought, he tapped on the table, drawing the attention of the delegates, who were arguing and deliberating in the room.

Hearing the movement, everyone looked over curiously, and they couldn't figure out what this ultimate university scholar wanted to do.

In fact, it was not that there were no manufacturers who directly contacted Xu Chuan himself at the beginning, wanting to get patent authorization directly from him.

After all, he has the final say.

But at first, he said that they should go to the institute to deal with it, and he didn't care about it. And in the back, no one can be found directly.

There is no way, and these manufacturer representatives have also put their attention and breakthroughs here.

So even if he came to the meeting today, he didn't talk much throughout the whole process, and the representatives of the manufacturers came to listen as if he was curious.

After drawing the attention of these people, Xu Chuan spoke: "I have read your latest offer, but to be honest, I am not very satisfied. ”

"I don't bother to say how broad the market for lithium-ion batteries is, and how much is the global annual output value of lithium battery anode materials. I'm sure all of you here know these things better than I do. ”

"And, to be honest, I don't really like monopolizing the series, including you joining forces to lower prices, and while it may seem like a normal business in your eyes, I don't like it, I prefer to be sincere."

"It has been almost 20 days since the original press conference, and I believe you have all tested the artificial SEI film and electrolyte provided to you by Chuanhai Materials Research Institute."

"These two are based on the existing lithium battery made of general spare parts, and you don't need to independently manufacture a separate lithium battery production line or something."

"So here now, I'll give you two options."

"The first, patent fee + sharing, that is, after you give a relatively low patent fee, how much money will be given to me for each artificial SEI film used in the production of a lithium battery, which is a very common patent authorization in the current market."

"The second, a direct buyout. Artificial SEI film + supporting electrolyte, three-year patent authorization minimum 120 million meters of gold, based on this quotation, the price is high. ”

"That's it, I'll give you three days to go back and discuss, and I'll wait for you here in three days, and directly decide on the final authorization."

Although he put forward two conditions, for these manufacturers, there is actually only one of the two conditions, that is, buyout, divided into something, if they can buy out, these manufacturers will definitely buy out.

After all, buyouts can make more money, and I believe that these manufacturers will 100% choose buyouts at the same time.

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As soon as Xu Chuan's words fell, there was a commotion in the conference room, and there was an uproar.

"Professor Xu, your price is too high, lithium batteries are not only artificial SEI films, we also need to consider other costs."

"Impossible, 1200 million meters of gold is far beyond our results plan, this price is too exaggerated."

"If it is an exclusive international license, we can accept an offer of 200 million or even 300 million, but there are five ....... for international patent authorization."

“......”

Obviously, Xu Chuan's sudden intervention was something these people didn't expect.

However, Xu Chuan didn't want to pay attention to these people.

Indeed, the production of a lithium battery is not just an artificial SEI film; It is true that the patent grant he gave was not exclusive.

But technology is exclusive, love to do it or not.

The bottom line he had given to the professional negotiators he hired was 100 million meters of gold. These manufacturers obviously know, but they still band together to reduce the price by nearly 30%, hoping to get the patent license at a lower price.

Maybe he thinks he's just a researcher or a scholar and it's easier to bully?

In this case, it would be better to directly increase it from 100 million to 120 million.

Xu Chuan is not worried that these manufacturers will choose to give up, even if it is an offer of 120 million meters of gold, these manufacturers will definitely make money, and they still make a lot of money.

With so many manufacturers, if they all give up, he doesn't mind selling the artificial SEI film technology directly to them.

It's not that no one at the Department of Energy has approached him, hoping to get a patent grant, but he has also refused.

Standing up, Xu Chuan walked outside.

But when he was at the door, he stopped, turned his head and said, "By the way, there is one more thing." ”

"I can clearly tell you here that the bottom line I gave to the Chuanhai Materials Research Institute was 100 million, and the reason why it has been increased to 1200 million now is because you make me unhappy."

"My attitude towards partners has always been very sincere, this cooperation, if the follow-up Chuanhai Materials Research Institute has new products developed, I will give priority to the partners who have worked happily before."

"In addition, I am just a scientific researcher and a scholar, don't treat me as a businessman to use those commercial methods, it would be better for everyone to be sincere."

After speaking, Xu Chuan left the conference room directly, leaving everyone in the conference room.

Hit a stick to give a sweet date, although he doesn't know much about the strategy of both soft and hard, but it can still be used temporarily.

If these manufacturers really want to join forces and not buy the patent license of artificial SEI film, it doesn't matter, and the battery manufacturers are not only them, there are others.

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