Chapter 547: Give the peers a critical hit first

On the 2nd day after meeting Tesla's Fur Rivers, the 500,000 US dollar payment arrived, and the tight family was finally well-off. That night, the two bought a fish to have a treat.

Xu Qingzhou led Carson and them to finish the work in the laboratory, while Song Yao went to Wall Street with Professor Morton to attend a meeting of the investment company Morgan Stanley.

Ross also sent people to dock with GE, discussing the transit method of funds, everything is advancing in an orderly manner.

April 21st, 9 AM, the top floor of the General Electric Building is holding a board meeting.

Opposite Zakaria sat Isaac, also a vice president of the company.

Isaac spoke first, saying: "This meeting is to discuss whether Mr. Zakaria has the ability to continue to serve as the vice president of GE—rather than just being satisfied with his gambler psychology."

"Of course, this is everyone's right." Zakaria was calm and composed, shrugged and said.

Isaac looked at Zakaria's calm expression, and a bad hunch suddenly appeared in his heart. This guy was too calm.

He didn't expect to drive Zakaria out of the management layer just by this mistake. After all, this person still has a set in investment.

But disgusting the other party, reducing the other party's prestige in the management layer is possible.

"Everyone knows, Mr. Zakaria spent 500 million US dollars to buy Professor Xu's patent. What I want to say is, this is not my grandma buying a sandwich that is about to expire, but involves a transaction of hundreds of millions of dollars."

"Isaac, if I remember correctly, when Zakaria acquired the power department of Alstom in France, you seemed to say the same thing, but the fact is, this project earned us tens of billions of dollars."

Someone sneered.

After everyone spoke freely, Zakaria's gaze looked at the secretary on one side: "I recently obtained a set of experimental data, I think everyone might be very interested."

The secretary understood, got up and distributed the documents in his hand to the members of the board of directors.

"Hmm? Impossible!"

Isaac's exclamation sounded in the office.

"This... I must have seen it wrong!"

"3.5×10⁴ A/cm², incredible, this is already the limit of commercial superconducting thin film on the market. If it is true, I cannot imagine how much market we will occupy!"

Staring at the materials in his hand, the person in charge of the market said in a deep voice: "But this data is too different from a month ago, the authenticity remains to be verified."

In the conference room, everyone was discussing.

"Mr. Zakaria, what is the authenticity of this data?" Sitting at the very front is Chairman Larry Carlisle, who was also looking at Zakaria in disbelief at this time.

Zakaria said with a smile: "That's right, I have already asked relevant technical experts to confirm, and took people to visit Professor Xu's laboratory. Although I couldn't see the key technology, there was no problem. Here I have to add a sentence, that laboratory is too dilapidated. In contrast, our investment of 80 million in the experiment in Japan seems... to have no effect."

Zakaria's last few sentences were a counterattack against Isaac.

"..."

Isaac was speechless, this part was the content he was responsible for.

But compared to this, he wants to scold his mother more now.

Investing in an experiment, it is extremely normal to produce results in a few years, right? It's not right for someone like Xu Qingzhou to produce this kind of superconducting thin film in 8 months!

Late April, after two days of light rain, it cleared up.

Xu Qingzhou stood on the balcony with a cup of coffee, sipped coffee to refresh himself. Song Yao was still on a business trip, and the house was left with him, this empty-nest old man.

Behind him, Er Miao squatted on the windowsill, looking outside through the cracks in the window.

This silly cat watched all day, don't know if it was so eager for life in the outside world, but every time it was taken out, it would hide in their arms with social phobia, the kind that couldn't be driven away.

Xu Qingzhou let out a long breath, returned to the room with the cup, sat down at the table, and took out a brand new manuscript from one side.

The experiment officially came to an end, and the contract with GE was also signed. Next, besides the thesis and patent response, the top priority is the equipment for the Kyoto Materials Research Institute.

It's time to let Ross take people to contact European equipment manufacturers.

It is a pity that the most advanced R&D equipment in the field of materials science is indeed mainly dominated by foreign manufacturers, especially in high-end fields such as superconducting thin films, atomic-level characterization, and nano-processing.

Take the Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) system, Finland's Beneq company's TFS series, UK's Oxford Instruments company's FlexAL series.

Xia Nation also has substitutes, can choose AMEC's Primo series, but in terms of process flexibility, such as atomic monitoring, it still lags behind Europe and the United States.

After all, people have a history of hundreds of years, and it is already very awesome for Xia Nation to catch up in just a few decades.

Spherical aberration-corrected transmission electron microscope, model ThermoFisher Spectra, 120 million RMB, can be used for superconducting interface characterization and lithium dendrite observation.

Oxford ALD FlexAL, atomic layer deposition system, market price is around 18 million.

Additionally, need a four-dimensional ultrafast electron microscope with model 4D-UTEM.

This thing has only 5-6 similar equipment globally, can capture the atomic-level dynamic process of superconducting quantum phase transition, lithium dendrite nucleation, market price is about 180 million.

Additionally, need a superconducting magnet system, roughly 250 million yuan, this equipment can guide critical parameters, research fusion material performance.

Also need to establish a supercomputing center, most of the time need computing power support, cannot rely on him sitting at the desk and calculating hard.

The list he has is the most advanced equipment on the market.

Xu Qingzhou's positioning for the research institute is to establish a national-level laboratory for all-around big science, at least to reach the level of the top 1% of materials laboratories globally.

While satisfying conventional condensed matter physics research, it can also support breakthroughs in "choke" fields such as quantum materials, superconducting electronics, fusion reactor materials, etc.

These equipment cannot be replaced in a short time, so everything can be saved, but cannot be saved on equipment.

According to the plan he laid out, the research institute's equipment is enough to catalyze Nobel-level results.

Of course, equipment is one aspect, talent is another aspect, and it is even the top priority. After the equipment list is settled, he also plans to contact Xia Nation to synchronize talent recruitment work.

Not long after, the manuscript was already filled with the required equipment and models.

He mainly bought equipment for lithium-ion batteries and materials research. Now there is only 200 million US dollars in advance payment, so some equipment still has to be slowed down.

Buying equipment is not simpler than doing experiments. Once careless, one faces embargoes. For the sake of insurance, he directly wrote two sets of plans, intending to hand them to Ross to contact equipment manufacturers.

However, before determining the required equipment, Xu Qingzhou has another major event here.

The experiment is over, so it is very necessary to give peers in the superconducting thin film field some pressure.

So, he asked Carson to synchronize their research progress.

Give the peers a critical hit first.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 548 =====