Reborn I want everything

Chapter 144 Like an Einstein Story

In May 2005, Gu Zhe, who graduated from Stanford with a master's degree, returned to China and Donghai Province. He was greeted by a grand welcome from his alma mater, Donghai University.

Even if he can't make any new academic achievements in the future, his achievements in this life are enough to crush more than 99.99% of alumni.

In the first five months of 2005, his income from licensing fees for old technologies alone was 5 to [-] million yuan more—no way, who let him have a cash cow with a huge profit.

His previous patents belonged to the big killer of "you don't have to do anything in the future, just lie in bed every day, and think of looking at your bank card in a few months, and you can get hundreds of millions more for nothing".

What's more, since the beginning of this year, Tianyuan Optical has reached a comprehensive strategic cooperation with Tiankang Vision, and has become the number one supplier of its low-end lenses. The profit of this industrial manufacturing industry is as high as hundreds of dollars per lens. RMB.

In 05, surveillance camera lenses were still relatively expensive, and the low-end ones cost hundreds to thousands of yuan each, and the gross profit attributable to Tianyuan Optics could reach at least 200 yuan or more.So it is much more profitable than selling spectacle lenses.

At that time, Tiankangweishi’s annual revenue was about 20 billion yuan, and it could sell hundreds of thousands of surveillance cameras a year, including maintenance and replacement consumables.

Around 2010, Tiankang Vision's revenue reached 50 billion yuan, and in 2020 it will reach 800 billion yuan.Now with the support of Tianyuan Optical's cost-effective lens, Tiankang Vision's products are more competitive and will grow faster.The strong alliance estimates that in 2015 it will be able to reach the height of the original 2020.

Therefore, although the current order of Tiankang Vision brings Tianyuan Optical a gross profit of more than [-] million per year, it seems that the absolute value is not as good as that of the spectacle lens industry.

But considering the growth of this industry, in the next ten or eight years, when Tiankang Vision sells tens of billions a year, Tianyuan Optical's lens profits will also be several billion.

What's even more exaggerated is that, in addition to the above-mentioned mature technology licensing business, Gu Zhe also tinkered with some new gadgets in the last seven or eight months at Stanford, but they haven't yet reached the stage of production.

For example, because of his latest research on ionized film deposition materials, he has also made some early breakthroughs in 3D film deposition printing and 3D powder metallurgy printing.

These technologies are also one of the additive processing technologies that Gu Zhe has dabbled in in his previous life.It may seem complicated in principle, but in fact, it is easy to understand——

The rise of 3D printing technology began as early as 94, so there is nothing rare in itself. The key to technological progress over the years lies in what materials can be printed.If you just play plastic, clay and other junk materials, you can do it ten years ago.

However, if you want to use metal for 3D printing, it cannot be a low-melting point metal, so it is a bit troublesome. Originally, it was absolutely impossible to do it with the level of technology in 05.

At that time, most of them printed lead and tin, which melted when heated, and the print head was like a soldering iron.

Gu Zhe has developed a special membrane material because he has been engaged in the ionization film deposition method for a year. When 3D printing, this layer of film can be printed out first, and then sprayed on it to deposit and absorb powdered metal with a high melting point.
Then use high-temperature powder metallurgy to sinter and form. During the sintering process, the deposited film of ionized and adsorbed metal itself is evaporated, leaving only the metal to be printed.

And if there is no such film, the metal powder will be scattered randomly when setting the shape, resulting in a sharp drop in printing accuracy, and it cannot be used at all.

The ultimate goal of this 3D printing powder metallurgy additive process is of course to directly print high-strength titanium alloys, but Gu Zhe is not yet able to achieve such an awesome technical level, he can only explore step by step from other metals, but This has already been considered as a contribution to the advancement of human additive technology, and there will be plenty of time in the future to slowly explore higher-end materials.

And Gu Zhe's graduation thesis published in the journal "Science" was actually about this field.Anyone with a discerning eye can see that, given time, Gu Zhe is at least a tens of billions market on this track.

It is also these scientific exploration results in the field of ionized film deposition that can ensure that if Gu Zhe makes other unnatural achievements based on this idea, the global scientific community will not think that he was lucky and happened to hit it by chance. .I will only feel that God rewards hard work and came prepared.

For these scientific researches, during his year at Stanford, Gu Zhe also spent at least tens of millions of dollars on the purchase of various scientific research instruments and equipment, and also spent millions of dollars on the salaries of scientific researchers——

After all, the annual salary of Andre Geim alone has reached 50 US dollars, and it is normal for the total salary of other scientific research teams to reach several million.The salaries of researchers in the United States are very high.

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Armed with so much wealth and promising unique technology, Gu Zhe was invited by his alma mater to participate in many press conferences in the first week after returning to China.

Tunghai University also organized a grand alumni association, inviting all the former famous alumni back, drinking and socializing with Gu Zhe, and the principal took the opportunity to ask for donations.

In the end, Boss Duan, a well-known alumnus, took the lead and donated 4000 million yuan. Gu Zhe didn't want to be the first bird, so he followed suit and donated 4000 million yuan.

Boss Duan is the guy who made the Xiaobawang learning machine/game console, backgammon VCD/DVD, and the OV brother mobile phone in the future. The status of the domestic consumer electronics industry in later generations is second only to Boss Lei.

In history, Boss Duan only returned to his alma mater in 2007 to donate 4000 million yuan, which is also the largest private donation received by Tunghai University.This time, because of Gu Zhe's butterfly effect, he went back to school two years early to welcome the elementary school students, and donated in advance by the way.

After Gu Zhe donated the money, Tunghai University immediately set up a scholarship fund with Gu Zhe's money, and used the annual fund proceeds to give scholarships to the students. The amount was about the same as the "Qiu Chengtong Scholarship". "Gu Zhe Scholarship".

After completing these social activities of returning home, Gu Zhe spent the rest of May and the entire month of June intensively doing a series of personal scientific research work.

First, he tore off the tape with his own hands. After several days of trying, he tore out graphene with only a single layer of atomic thickness——

Graphene with a single layer of carbon atoms has a thickness of about 0.3 nanometers, while ordinary graphite materials, which are routinely prepared in laboratories, are tens of hundreds of microns thick, and thin graphite will not be deliberately stored.

However, since the adhesive tape is torn by the dichotomy method, the thickness is halved every time it is torn, so elementary school students can calculate that the thickness can be reduced to one tenth power of two, which is about one thousandth, after ten times of tearing.

Up to twenty times, graphene actually came out.It's just that many thin parts are torn off and there is no graphite adhesion, and the observable area becomes smaller and smaller.

These are minor problems. Gu Zhe selected the materials very well at the beginning, and finally verified them strictly with a scanning electron microscope to ensure that there is absolutely no problem with his data.

If it was Andre Geim and others in history, they would have been eager to publish papers when they observed this result.

But Gu Zhe came prepared, of course he had to do more and more solidly.

So even though the tape had been removed in late May, he still kept his discovery secret for forty days.

During these forty days, he divided himself into two phases and did two things:
The first is to write "If there is a two-dimensional material with a single layer of atomic/molecular thickness in this world, what impact will it have on the current underlying theory of physics, what inherent cognition will be overthrown, and what new physical properties will be discovered".

The second is to make a little attempt in the industry to try to prove that graphene is not a material that can only be obtained by tearing it out by accident, and that it can be mass-produced through scientific methods.

And the scientific method he chose was undoubtedly the "ionized film deposition method" that Gu Zhe had accumulated for nearly a year.

He found that with traditional film deposition equipment, as long as under specific conditions of temperature, pressure and other harsh environmental indicators,
Coupled with the gas removal of impurities in the vapor deposition environment, it is ensured that there are only methane gas and two other special protective gases and catalytic gases in the reaction gas environment.

This methane is then sprayed onto a special membrane material that produces ionized copper on the surface.When methane encounters copper ions, it will be replaced by hydrogen ions, and then the carbon atoms in the methane lose hydrogen, just enough to form graphene with a single layer of atomic thickness, which is adsorbed on the surface of the ionization membrane.

That is to say, from tearing the tape, to the analysis of physical theory, to the first generation of preparation technology, Gu Zhe at least alone did the work that would have required three groups of top scientists to complete in succession. He did it all alone.

Although the graphene production technology of this ionized film deposition method is still far behind the industrialized mass production of later generations, there is no direct commercial prospect yet.But this is at least a stable and controllable laboratory method, and the scientific research value is large enough.

Three groups of papers were delivered by Gu Zhe consecutively from the end of June to the beginning of July 2005.Among them, the article on tearing the tape and discussing the physical principles was sent to "Nature", and the subsequent article on the methane-copper ion membrane ionization deposition method was sent to "Science".

Historically, Andre Geim's article created the rapidity of "submitted in June and published on July 6", because the results were too subversive.

This time, Gu Zhe was questioned for a while because he suffered from being a Chinese, but he still created the miracle of the review speed of "Nature" and "Science".It only took one month for these two top journals in the world to publish Gu Zhe's article——

Especially when the person in charge of "Nature" and "Science" learned that Gu Zhe had written more than one article, and he had submitted research on two subdivisions to the two journals respectively.

This is not considered multiple submissions, it is completely normal operation.But this also means that the slow-publishing party will be despised by the whole world as "short-sighted and ignorant".

Therefore, even "Nature" and "Science" were rolled up, rushing to prove that "I know better than the other".

The last three articles were published at the end of July and early August respectively, and the world was shocked. The whole world knew about graphene for the first time.

For the first time, it is known that two-dimensional materials with a single layer of atomic thickness really exist in the macroscopic world.

The snowflake-like honors came one after another, and Stanford University immediately convened an emergency board meeting, and finally rushed to award Gu Zhe a doctorate before the new autumn semester started on September 9.

It means that Gu Zhe originally agreed to graduate with a master's degree on May 5st and stop studying. In the following four months of summer semester, he has already returned to China to do business and do his own scientific research.

But what was due couldn't be avoided, and four months later, once the summer semester was over, the Ph.D.

Some people at Stanford have also questioned it, but the school director directly pointed to the history book: there is a precedent for us to do this——

When Einstein wrote the special theory of relativity, he had stopped studying, but the University of Zurich gave him a doctorate in physics within a few months.

Today's operation is just like Einstein's story, nothing to be ashamed of.

As for some people making irresponsible remarks about Gu Zhe's character, thinking that he is not an upright person who focuses on scientific research, but "an unscrupulous litigator in the field of science and technology patent law", this kind of rhetoric was also scoffed at by the Stanford board of directors ——

Wasn't Einstein also a patent examiner in Bern, Switzerland when he got his PhD in physics from Zurich?Is it a problem to engage in scientific research and patent legal affairs at the same time?
The opponents were all speechless.

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Because he came prepared, after Gu Zhe researched graphene, of course he knew how to lay out the development of related technologies and transfer them to commercial applications.

When the preparation technology of graphene was immature, the early application scenarios were mainly limited to "coating the electrode material of the battery" to improve the charging and discharging performance of the electrode.

Because the required coating film is extremely thin, not much material is used, so even if the preparation cost is high, it can still be carried.

In the next few years, Gu Zhe started from the electrode coating, and has always occupied the upstream supply chain of the related electronic power industry, gradually becoming the absolute hegemony in the subdivided field.

Because of the advance breakthrough in battery technology, the development of the electronic industry and other electric energy power industries in the whole world has also been fanned by this butterfly effect, and there has been an acceleration of scientific and technological research and development.

Mobile phones with ultra-thin and large-capacity batteries appeared ahead of schedule, and the drone industry driven by advances in battery technology also developed faster. Even the follow-up electric vehicle industry developed two or three years earlier than the same period in history.

Of course, none of this has anything to do with Gu Zhe directly. He has always been in the upper reaches to produce unique raw materials, and it is enough to keep the bulk of the profits.

In addition, because the industrial policy of Ark City does not meet Gu Zhe's needs, the local area is too inclined to the Internet economy, which is not suitable for advanced manufacturing.

Therefore, Gu Zhe returned to his hometown in Mingzhou according to the local layout of "the Internet goes west, and advanced manufacturing goes east". An advanced manufacturing empire that belonged to him.

The GDP of the two prefecture-level cities of Mingzhou and Kuaiji, under the long-term pull of Gu Zhe, has experienced sustained and rapid growth. In the provincial capital of Fangzhou, only the easternmost Xiasha and Dajiangdong New District have benefited a little bit, sharing some profits. The added value of every corner of the industrial chain.

(End of this chapter)