The top student must be diligent.

Chapter 205 The Last Problem of Classical Physics

"Pleasant to work with."

"Pleasant to work with."

In a hotel on Science Island in Fei City.

Xiao Yi stood in the middle, and Wang Chuanfu and Zeng Yuqun stood on both sides, holding Xiao Yi's hands. Behind them was a huge billboard that read: Authorization ceremony for the three major patents of lithium-sulfur solid-state batteries.

Afterwards, the three of them faced the cameras of a large number of reporters in the audience and took a photo that represents the huge changes that are about to take place in the battery field.

According to the final agreement, Science Island New Energy Technology Company, which was established by Xiao Yi and Science Island Laboratory according to the patent rights ratio, will formally authorize the three patents to Diaby and Linde Times.

The patent licensing fee is a one-time payment of 5 million yuan, plus a 30% profit share.

As a high-value patent, this profit sharing ratio is relatively reasonable.

The authorization period is 5 years, and it needs to be renewed after 5 years. Of course, it is not ruled out that new material patents will be developed after 5 years.

However, no one can predict such things.

This result was decided during the meeting in Beijing, under the guidance of national experts.

Therefore, it is equivalent to that these two companies together will have to pay 10 billion yuan directly to Science Island New Energy Technology Company.

According to the share ratio of the patent beneficiaries, Xiao Yi directly earned 8 million from it.

Well, just 8 small goals.

Of course, money is not important to him now, so he decided to use 10 million out of the 5 billion as the funding for the next experiments of the Science Island Laboratory. As for the million that originally belonged to him, he can withdraw it from the subsequent profits when he needs the money.

However, judging from the foreseeable future, he will definitely not have an urgent need for money.

At this point, someone may ask, this 1 billion yuan in income must be taxed.

There is no need to worry about this, because Science Island New Energy Technology Company is completely tax-free in the first three years, and enjoys a 50% tax reduction policy in the following three years.

Compared to the jobs that this patent can bring to the entire Fei City and Hui Province, these taxes are totally insignificant.

According to Xiao Yi's requirements, all authorized companies need to establish a certain number of factories in Hui Province and Fei City and provide a certain number of jobs.

After all, he has the ability, so he should help develop his hometown.

The leaders in my hometown are naturally willing to offer some preferential policies in return.

Diaby and Linde Times had no objection to this request. It didn't matter to them where the factory was built, and Xiao Yi didn't ask them to build all the factories here. It didn't matter.

After taking the photo, Xiao Yi shook hands with the two people again.

Wang Chuanfu said with a smile: "Professor Xiao, if you come up with any new technology in the future, don't forget us."

Zeng Yuqun also nodded: "Indeed."

Xiao Yi smiled and waved his hand: "Both of your companies are super enterprises in our country. If there is any place for cooperation, I will definitely not forget it."

"Haha! That's good!"

Both big bosses laughed.

Then, Wang Chuanfu suddenly asked, "By the way, Professor Xiao, does your company, Science Island Laboratory, also have shares? I heard that Lao Zeng and I are jointly paying 10 billion this time. Will you use 5 million of it to invest in the laboratory as funding?"

Xiao Yi nodded: "Yes."

"Five hundred million." Wang Chuanfu clicked his tongue twice. He knew that the cost of building the Science Island Laboratory, excluding the land under his feet, was only five hundred million.

And Xiao Yi was actually willing to directly take out 5 million yuan to support the construction of the Science Island Laboratory, and some of the money even belonged to him.

It can be seen how much importance Xiao Yi attaches to the Science Island Laboratory.

The boatman thought for a moment and said, "Well, Professor Xiao, we at Diaby have always supported scientific institutions like the Science Island Laboratory, so on behalf of Diaby, I am willing to provide your laboratory with 5 million yuan in funding for five years."

Xiao Yi was stunned for a moment, and looked at Wang Chuanfu in surprise, "Boss Wang, is this what you said?"

This is 3 million yuan. Although it will be paid in five years, it is completely free.

Wang the boatman laughed heartily and said, "Of course, that's what I said. What I, Old Wang, say will never be false."

Zeng Yuqun, who was standing next to him, saw that Wang Chuanfu had already spoken, so he certainly would not be left behind. He immediately said, "Since Old Wang is so generous, I, Old Zeng, certainly cannot be stingy. On behalf of Linde Times, I am willing to provide Science Island Laboratory with 5 million yuan in funding for five years."

Wow, this adds up to 6 million. How could Xiao Yi have any reason to disagree?

He immediately laughed and said, "Then on behalf of the Science Island Laboratory, I would like to express my gratitude to you two."

"Haha, as long as Professor Xiao can come up with more new technologies like lithium-sulfur solid-state batteries, it will be worth it even if we provide more funding for free!"

Wang the boatman laughed.

Zeng Yuqun also nodded repeatedly: "Indeed, our company invests so much in scientific research every year, but what's the result? There is no output, especially in the field of lithium-sulfur batteries and solid electrolytes. We invest hundreds of millions or even billions of yuan every year, but in the end, we have published a lot of papers, but there is not a single technology that can be actually used. In the end, we still have to rely on you, Professor Xiao."

Wang the boatman also nodded repeatedly.

Linde Times and Diaby are both among the top 20 companies in the country in terms of R&D investment, and they are very aware of this.

Xiao Yi smiled and nodded.

Of course, he added in his heart, I hope you two don't blame me in your hearts for developing these three patents quietly.

After all, these two companies have invested too much in both lithium-sulfur batteries and solid-state batteries. Now, because of the three patents he has developed, all these investments have gone to waste.

Maybe he's even cursed him behind his back.

Of course, there is no need to talk about this kind of thing.

After some celebration, the authorization ceremony came to an end.

Both bosses were very busy men, so they left Anhui Province that night and left the rest of the matters to their subordinates.

Xiao Yi's work is not over yet, because in addition to authorizing Diaby and Linde Times, these three patents must also be authorized to other related domestic companies.

Any domestic company that has its own unique technology in the battery field can obtain authorization from him.

As for how these companies will compete with the two giants, Diaby and Linde Era, it depends on their respective investments in research and development.

Xiao Yi only provided the material patent, but there is also room for exploration in the battery structure. Whether it is a power battery designed for electric vehicles or a battery designed for electronic products such as mobile phones and computers, they all have different structures.

So, maybe there is a small company in the past that can become a new-era dark horse in the field of lithium-sulfur solid-state batteries by relying on its excellent structural design?

In this way, a month passed.

……

In the office of Science Island Laboratory.

"Well, this month, about a dozen companies have come to get authorization. Tsk, I guess it will be a bloody storm in the next few years."

Xiao Yi sighed in his heart.

These authorizations directly allowed Science Island New Energy Technology Company to receive a one-time fee of 18 billion yuan.

In addition to big companies like Diaby and Linde, there is one company that he remembers most vividly.

It was a newly founded company, founded by three PhDs in materials science who had just graduated from USTC, namely Liu Changbo, Pan Ke, and Xu Jin.

These three people naturally didn't have much money, but they came over and said they hoped to get patent authorization.

Logically speaking, such a company probably couldn't even afford the one-time fee, but Xiao Yi checked the past resumes of these people and the papers they had published, and finally chose to provide them with authorization and provided them with an investment of 50 yuan in the name of Science Island New Energy Technology Company, which was considered an angel round and accounted for 15% of the shares of their startup company. This meant that they had nothing, but their company was valued at 330 million yuan.

Faced with Xiao Yi's investment, these three people were naturally very grateful. Xiao Yi himself was their idol, and now they were able to get such strong support. They almost knelt down and said: I have been wandering for half my life and have never met a wise leader.

Then they started their adventure with a patent and 500,000 yuan in funding.

Recalling this incident, Xiao Yi couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "I never thought that I also have the potential to be an angel round investor."

Angel Round: Since it is called "angel", it is because in the eyes of the investors, these investors are just like angels to them, providing investment when they are most difficult to start.

Generally, there is a certain relationship between investors and investees.

Xiao Yi and these three postdoctoral fellows are alumni of the same school.

“Hopefully they can come up with something.”

Xiao Yi shook his head. It’s only five hundred thousand, a small amount of money.
Then I didn’t think much about it.

"Okay, now let's count that the Science Island Laboratory has about 11.2 billion in funds to mobilize."

Looking at the statistical results, Xiao Yi couldn't help but gasp.

Excluding the 1.2 million yuan in funding sponsored free of charge by Diaby and Linde Times in the first year, the remaining 10 billion yuan is the one-time fee obtained through patent licensing.

18 billion, 8% of which originally belonged to him, but in the end he still took out 10 billion of it as the future funding for the Science Island Laboratory.

Of course, not all of this funding is used for scientific research. Most of it is used to expand the Science Island laboratory.

In addition, the provincial and municipal governments, as well as the country, will provide hundreds of millions of dollars in funding...

"Yes, at least now the funding scale has caught up with those top laboratories."

Xiao Yi thought jokingly.

The Science Island Laboratory is benchmarked against famous laboratories such as Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Oak Ridge Laboratory.

The annual budget of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is around US$3 million, which is almost US$20 billion in total. Now the two are on par with each other.

As for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory...it is still a long way off. The annual funding of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is more than 20 billion US dollars.

At present, Science Island Laboratory cannot catch up.

Of course, after all, Oak Ridge is a national laboratory of the United States and the largest multidisciplinary laboratory under the U.S. Department of Energy, so it is normal for the funding scale to be so high.

"Can we expand the Science Island laboratory completely this time?"

This is what Xiao Yi thought in his heart.

All the necessary parts should be built. In addition to the current laboratory which will be completely independent as a condensed matter laboratory, a pure materials laboratory and a mathematics-mathematical physics laboratory will be built. In addition, staff dormitories, canteens, libraries, study rooms, etc. will also need to be built.

Now he has a feeling like playing a management game like Cities: Skylines. As the first leader of a laboratory, his goal is to build his laboratory into the best laboratory in the world.

But, we still need to work hard.

"Wang Hao, come in for a moment."

After calling his assistant in, Xiao Yi asked him to make an appointment with relevant leaders and prepare to discuss the subsequent expansion of the Science Island Laboratory with these leaders in a few days.
Wang Hao got the task and then left the office.

Xiao Yi brought a pile of draft paper from the side.

These draft papers record his research on the Greenwald limit.

"Hmm... According to the calculation results, it seems that we have indeed reached the limit. However, this limit is determined by the current fixed trajectory of the plasma flow."

"Could it be that the plasma flow can only move in this form?"

After stroking his chin, Xiao Yi concentrated on thinking for a moment, then wrote down a few lines of simple formulas on the draft paper.

【ρ(v/t + v·v)=-p……】

[(ρε)/t+·(ρεv)=-·qp·v+j·E+·(Π·v)……]

…

"For the fluid in the tokamak device, a multi-fluid model is generally needed. Such a model can accurately describe the complex processes of plasma, such as ionization and dissociation. For example, the drift-simplified Braginskii fluid model used in the paper mentioned by Director Zhao of the Institute of Plasma Physics is a multi-fluid model."

"However, the multi-fluid model is somewhat inferior in terms of turbulence and boundary layer, and there are also certain incompatibility issues in the coupling with the magnetic field process."

"On the contrary, the NS equation has sufficient advantages in this regard."

"Hmm... maybe it would be a good idea to combine the two for research?"

This is what Xiao Yi thought in his heart.

I searched the Internet for relevant information and found that there are indeed some models that combine the NS equations and multi-fluid theory, such as the multi-fluid NS equation coupling model, the NS equation closure of the multi-fluid model, and the two-fluid NS equation model.

Then he searched for relevant research on these models, but there were no particularly outstanding results, let alone whether they could help him solve the problem.

But think about it too.

If other models were feasible, they would have been discovered by other scholars long ago.

"Well... I'll have to try it myself in the end."

Then he started to take action.

【ρ(tu+uu)=p+μΔu+f……】

【ns/t+(ns·vs)=0】

【ms(tvs+vsvs)……】

……

And just like that, time passed quickly.

An hour later.

Xiao Yi, whose thoughts had been uninterrupted, suddenly frowned.

He encountered a problem.

The solution to the new model may exhibit singularities or instabilities.

According to his deduction, the energy of some local solutions may become infinite in a finite time. This phenomenon is called "explosion solution", which means that the solution loses its smoothness and becomes singular in a finite time.

In addition, when velocity shear exists, the solution may become unstable, causing the interface to fluctuate and gradually become chaotic, which is also known as Kelvin-Helmholtz instability.

"This problem... should be caused by the NS equation."

He thought for a moment.

"And there is only one way to solve this problem... to prove the smoothness of the solution to the NS equations."

Xiao Yi fell silent.

This problem also has a name, one of the seven problems of the millennium.

It is also the last problem of classical physics.

Existence and smoothness of solutions to the NS equations.

So, is it possible that he is going to make dumplings just for this plate of vinegar?
(End of this chapter)