Chapter 280

In the blink of an eye, from the end of November to the beginning of December, the 12-day MRS meeting finally came to an end.

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

Since a total of 63 topics were set up in this conference, different directions cannot be compared horizontally, so there are also 63 awards.

Generally speaking, young scholars participate in the poster presentation, and well-known scholars are responsible for awarding the awards.

Lu Zhou was in charge of presenting the Best Poster Award in the sub-venue of Photovoltaic Materials and Photovoltaic Devices. The winner was Master Wang Chen from Shanghai University of Materials Science and Technology, and his 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 Professor Xu, Wang synthesized a CH3NH3PbCl3 film with good crystallinity by using the hybrid continuous deposition method, and obtained a coplanar paper-inserted CH3NH3PbCl3 film visible light-blind UV detector.

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

It is precisely because of this that her work has won the favor of the judges and stands out from many achievements.

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

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

"Congratulations, after this MRS autumn meeting, Professor Lu is the number one person in the field of computational materials!"

"I dare not," Lu Zhou said with a smile while holding the old professor's hand, "I'm just a professor of mathematics. I want to develop computational materials science, and I need more insightful people to make outstanding achievements in this field." results."

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 it to the winner Wang Chen, and shook hands with the winner.

Holding Lu Zhou's hand, the master's lady said excitedly, "Lu Shen, are you really not going to teach the course of Computational Materials Science at Princeton?"

Hearing this sentence, Lu Zhou was slightly taken aback.

always feel this...

Looks familiar?

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

However, he did not change his plan.

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

The lady with a master's degree said reluctantly, "Then... I'll apply to MIT."

Lu Zhou gave her an encouraging look: "Well, come on!"

Ms. Master: "..."

The award ceremony is over, and the closing ceremony of the conference is finally drawing to a close.

With the conclusion of this world-class material science event, Lu Zhou, who was on a business trip for almost two weeks, finally returned to the Princeton campus.

At the same time, good news came from AM Office.

The company in the Cayman Islands has been successfully registered. According to Lu Zhou's request, it was named Xingkong Technology Co., Ltd. Its main business scope is intellectual property services and overseas investment. The logo is three interlaced Mobius rings.

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

Although this company is really different, apart from the hundreds of thousands of dollars in the account, it doesn't even have an actual office space, and the staff for patent management is still being recruited, and the only business object is a company responsible for accounting accounting firm.

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

Soon, Xingkong Technology ushered in a real customer.

And it's a $400 million project.

"I didn't expect you to be so fast, I thought I had to wait until after Christmas at least," Lu Zhou asked casually after looking at the contract handed over by Kalodite after meeting at a business hotel in Philadelphia. , "Only one copy?"

Kalodite joked: "Of course, the Christmas gifts have to be prepared before Christmas. In addition, you have a draft contract, and I sent the electronic file to your email just now. I don't think you will I signed it without reading it, so I only typed a copy of the paper file.”

Of course, no one is that stupid.

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

It's a waste of time to look at this kind of thing by yourself, it's better to have it checked by professionals. Umicore's lawyers are also here, and the two parties will discuss every possible dispute in the contract.

Having reached the last step of the patent negotiation, Kalodite naturally wouldn't be in a hurry, but it would be boring to just sit and wait, so he chatted with Lu Zhou about the bright future of lithium batteries.

The problem of lithium dendrites has been solved, and downstream industries such as mobile phone manufacturers and new energy vehicles 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 climb out of the laboratory, even if you dig out Li-MoS2 batteries from the grave of history, the entire industry can change its guns and double the energy density several times.

Except that NEC, which bought the Li-MoS2 battery patent at a high price, may cry in the toilet now that the patent right has expired. Facing the huge market demand, almost all battery-related companies will wake up with laughter.

Facing the same huge market, for chemical giants like Umicore, obtaining patent authorization as soon as possible is a top priority.

It is precisely because of this that Umi Ke is more anxious than Lu Zhou for this negotiation.

Whether it is for the sake of reaching an agreement as soon as possible or the longer-term interests of four years later, they have restrained the idea of ​​playing tricks and did not deliberately play tricks on the contract.

From the morning to the evening, after repeated inspections by the legal team of AM Firm, several possible disputes were repaired, and the legal team of Umicore also confirmed the revised contract.

Although he knew that he probably couldn't see why, Lu Zhou took the final version of the contract and read it from beginning to end. Then he picked up the pen and solemnly signed his name on this piece of paper.

Starting today, Umicore will obtain a four-year exclusive authorization for the global market of the modified PDMS thin film technology from Xingkong Technology at a price of US$400 million, as well as a second authorization license.

Starry Sky Technology will no longer authorize third parties in these areas, and Umicore will share 50% of all profits obtained through secondary authorization with Starry Sky Technology.

As for how to "blackmail" colleagues with Umicore's 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 gave Umicore the exclusive right, the pricing power of secondary authorization, and 50% of the revenue was that he didn't want to spend a lot of time on boring negotiations and lawsuits.

If someone uses his patent without authorization, I believe that Umicore will be more active than him, whether it is for the motive of suppressing competitors or making a fortune.

And when the time comes, Lu Zhou will still get half of the fine issued by the court.

Looking at the two contracts on the table, Karodite finally showed a relieved smile on his tense face.

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

For him personally, this is also a very brilliant achievement.

Putting away his own contract, Carodit extended his right hand to Lu Zhou.

"Pleasant cooperation."

Holding Carodit's right hand and shaking it, Lu Zhou nodded with a smile.

"Happy cooperation!"