496 The Visiting Group Arrives (1/3)

Chapter 496 The Visiting Group Arrives (13)

A bright silver flight drew a white line in the blue sky, extending to the edge of the cloud.

Carrying the future of the domestic controllable nuclear fusion industry, a delegation of about 30 people set off for the Max Planck Society. According to the cooperation agreement between the two parties, they will receive simple training there and make final preparations for taking over the WEGA stellarator device.

In the original plan, Lu Zhou was going to go together.

However, at this moment, he did not set off immediately, but arranged the itinerary three days later.

Because at the same time as the experts from Huaguo set off, the experts sent from the Max Planck Society had already arrived at Jinling International Airport.

The high bridge of the nose seemed to reach the brim of the hat, and the Germanic engineer with a wrinkled face walked down the gangway of the plane with the suitcase he carried with him.

At this time, he squinted his eyes and glanced at the airport building not far away, and said briefly to his colleagues next to him in a chatty tone.

"There's been a lot of variation here."

Walking beside him, the red-haired engineer who looked a little younger raised his eyebrows.

"Have you been here before?"

"It happened ten years ago," opened the wallet, rubbed the group photo with his index finger, and the slightly old engineer said casually, "If you live in Berlin, maybe nothing will happen in ten years. changes, but you can see different places here every year.”

"You mean Berlin? In fact, there are still some changes."

"Oh?"

"Since our Madam Chancellor put the hooded people in, we see something new in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung every day."

Hearing the young engineer's ridicule, the elderly engineer smiled and shook his head.

"It's fine to say this in private, so that no one can hear it."

"Of course I know." Looking at the pick-up group not far away, the young engineer paused for a moment, squinted his eyes and said, "...Do you really think they can do a wire with a width of several thousand nanometers?"

It's not that I look down on Huaguo's ability to innovate in science and technology. After all, in terms of technological innovation, from the mid-twentieth century to the present Europe, there is really no capital to look down on others.

However, technological innovation is one thing, and whether the technology can be moved out of the laboratory is another.

In fact, since the beginning of 2014, graphene nanoribbon technology has been able to achieve a width of tens of nanometers in the laboratory, and now it can even produce a "black technology" with a width of only seven carbon atoms in the laboratory. It's just that this technology is still sealed in the laboratory so far.

The biggest generation gap between industry and academia is probably here.

A century and a half ago, if a scientist discovered a novel compound, or a simple synthesis method for an important industrial raw material, he might become rich overnight. But such examples are quite rare nowadays.

A more common phenomenon is that often the academic community has produced a seemingly very beautiful result, but it takes the industrial community more than ten years or even decades to digest it, and it even proves to be useless in the end.

Considering Lu Zhou's success in lithium anode materials, the Helmholtz Association has noticed this carbon-based superconducting material with unlimited potential since the birth of the SG-1 material, but before its industrialization is possible When evaluating the performance, because of various reasons such as cost and production difficulty, they finally gave up this material.

However, now that someone has suddenly completed this task that seems almost impossible to them, after learning the news, they are naturally surprised.

After all, the Huaguo who completed this work, the nano-level finishing technology is really not very good...

"Based on the samples they sent, they did."

"incredible."

"Yes, unbelievable," continued the old engineer after a moment's pause, "isn't that what we're here to figure out?"

On the other side, at the entrance of the VIP channel of the airport.

Standing next to Lu Zhou, looking at the plane not far away, Yang Xu suddenly asked, "Actually, I've always wanted to ask, why are people from the Helmholtz Association here?"

Lu Zhou: "It's normal. You can't expect a group of plasma physics experts to be good at materials research."

Yang Xu joked with a smile: "Isn't there one here? And he's good at mathematics."

Slightly stunned, Lu Zhou quickly realized that Yang Xu was talking about himself, and then shook his head with a smile.

"totally different."

While they were talking, the visiting group from Germany had already stepped down the gangway.

On Lu Zhou's side, he also greeted him in the direction of the gangway.

Walking in front of the group, the slightly aged engineer took off his black hat and extended his callused right hand to Lu Zhou.

"Hello, Professor Lu, I'm Rand Ulrich from the Helmholtz Center for Materials and Energy Research Berlin. Next to me is my colleague, Simson Eugene."

"Lu Zhou," shook hands with the Germanic engineer. Lu Zhou looked at him in surprise and smiled, "Do you speak Chinese?"

"I used to work here in Jinling for two years, and my words may not be very standard, but I still know a little bit." The serious-looking old man grinned and said in a humorous tone.

"Really? But in my opinion, it's pretty standard." After letting go of his hand with a friendly smile, Lu Zhou continued to introduce the three people next to him, "This is Jinling Institute for Advanced Study Materials Science Yang Xu, the director of the research institute, Mr. Sun Chengwu, the general manager of Julius Baer Group, and Mr. Zhao Ganwei, the chief engineer."

"On behalf of the Julius Baer Group, I welcome you all," Sun Chengwu said with a smile while shaking Ulrich's right hand, "Our group has prepared a hotel for you, may I ask you to go to the hotel to put your luggage first, or do you have another Other arrangements?"

Ulrich said: "It's okay to go to the hotel later, can you take us to the factory first?"

Sun Chengwu was stunned for a moment. He obviously didn't expect these Germans to be so anxious, so he subconsciously glanced at Lu Zhou.

Seeing Lu Zhou nod his head, Manager Sun immediately looked at Professor Ulrich and said with a smile.

"No problem at all."

The visiting group from Germany is not large, with only six people in total, but all of them are top experts in the research of carbon nanomaterials from the Helmholtz Berlin Materials and Energy Research Center. After the group got on the special car, Manager Sun took the initiative to sit next to Lu Zhou and couldn't help asking.

"You say these Germans are in such a hurry?"

Hearing Manager Sun's question, Lu Zhou smiled and said.

"For example, when you were in school, if your deskmate was only 70 or 80 in the exam, and suddenly scored 120 in the latest test, what would you think?"

Yang Xu thought for a while: "That depends on how many points the system is?"

"It doesn't matter how much the score system is," Lu Zhou shook his head. "No matter how much the score system is, you will definitely wonder how he did it, or whether there is something tricky in it."

Manager Sun hesitated: "You mean, they suspect that we are fooling them?"

"This kind of important cooperation, people will pay attention to it." After a pause, Lu Zhou continued, "We just need to prove it to them."