The experiments at the Sarrot Institute are proceeding step by step. These days, Luzhou is dealing with the Jinling Institute of Computational Materials, and has not paid attention to anything else.

But what he didn't expect was that in the second week of the seminar, he saw his name in the news, and was also put together with lithium-sulfur batteries and hollow carbon balls.

The article gave an overview of the seminar on lithium-sulfur batteries. Instead, it did not use any headlines and words that were full of gimmicks. It was just a brief quote from professors about lithium-sulfur batteries.

Among them, nature is indispensable to Lu Zhou.

Recently, the market is extremely sensitive to the term new energy. It is a bit windy and can make a strong wind.

Especially the opinion of Lu Zhou himself is particularly obvious.

Even if it is just a few quotes, it will be marked with a key mark and focused on interpretation.

After all, the door to lithium battery is what he pushed away.

After watching the report, Lu Zhou was quite unexpected.

I don't know who put the news out, and I didn't know him.

However, it does not matter. This kind of thing is not an aircraft cannon atomic bomb. The specific production technology may be used as a trade secret by the enterprise. However, theoretically, I have not heard of anyone who has researched it and is hiding it. Not to mention the things that will be discussed and the results.

Moreover, I am qualified to make a transcript at that kind of meeting. I am not sure that it is a reporter of the central media. After all, it is no longer a lot of money.

Other things are left unchecked for the time being. For the development direction of Lu Zhou's optimistic hollow carbon ball, some people agreed, but some people expressed criticism.

The voice of approval believes that hollow carbon spheres have a potential as a potential in carbon-sulfur composites. Although they have many black spots, if they can solve those problems, they may become the key to solving the shuttle effect.

As for the voice of criticism, it is believed that Lu Zhou should not publicly make such remarks until there are major achievements. It is irresponsible to use the influence to openly support an immature technology.

In fact, Lu Zhou is quite helpless.

It’s true that he said it, but it’s not his pot to put it out.

Of course, the voice of criticism is ultimately a small part, and it will not develop to the extent that draws his attention. And compared to other people's evaluation of him, there are things that are more worthy of him to wait for him.

In the second week of Qian Zhongming and Liu Bo’s two trips to Europe, the first batch of experimental equipment was in place.

Just what Lu Zhou didn't think was that it wasn't just the experimental equipment that arrived at the Jinda Experimental Building, but also Mr. Caro Carter of the beautiful branch.

At the entrance of the experimental building of Jinling University, after the special car, the Belgian man with a good face was eagerly extended his right hand across the distance, and strode up and met.

"My dear friend, I am very happy to see you again, how have you been recently?"

With the patent of modified pdms material, the recent performance of Umicore in the overseas market is as good as the expression on his face.

In order to enter this field, their old rivals BASF Group and Nichia Chemical had to pay a high "admission fee".

Whether it is the securities market or the material market, Umicore is a great form. In particular, the BASF Group was forced by the irreplaceability of lithium battery anode materials, so that they had to give up the United States Argonne National Laboratory and file a lawsuit against Umicore on the ternary battery patent issue.

Because of this series of good news, Caro Dit’s position on the board of directors is naturally rising.

If it is not because Lu Zhou is a man, he vows that he will certainly not be able to control her.

Of course, this is just an exaggerated metaphor, in order to show the excitement in his heart.

"Not bad," shook hands with Mr. Caro Dett. Lu Zhou looked at him strangely and asked in a casual tone. "What wind blows you?"

Although he borrowed the transportation channel of Umicore when purchasing this batch of equipment, even if it was delivered, it would not be a trip to the group's ceo.

For the inquiry of Lu Zhou, Carrotit smiled heartily.

"Remember our agreement? Thank you for your blessing, we have a continuous battle in the lithium anode material market. I am here to visit you, mainly to talk to you about the spoils."

The expression of interest appeared on the face, Lu Zhou asked: "How much?"

“BASF Group and Nichia Chemical have paid US$50 million and US$70 million in patent licensing fees for lithium anode materials, respectively, in exchange for production licenses for two to three years in the global market except for the Chinese market. At the same time they produce One ton of cathode material containing a modified pdms film must pay us $1,500."

With a big smile on his face, Carnotit continued, "There are $100 million in licensing fees and advance payments that have already arrived. According to our agreement, half of these spoils belong to you. I don't know. How would you like us to pay you this amount?"

After thinking for a while, Lu Zhou said: "After the instrument manufacturer's final payment is paid off, the remaining part is directly exchanged for rmb according to the current exchange rate, and it will be good to hit my domestic account."

Due to the five-year tax exemption policy, the money goes directly to the account of the Jinling Institute of Computational Materials. It only needs to be accounted for, and no additional tax deduction is required.

As the instruments pass through customs, the research institutes here will soon begin experiments, and the corresponding research funding must also be kept up.

Originally, Lu Zhou was planning to inject funds from the account of Star Technology into the domestic account, but now obviously it is not so troublesome.

Umicore has branches in China, and they are allowed to do it on their behalf. I believe they are also happy to help.

As Lu Zhou expected, Carrotit agreed very quickly.

"No problem, I will do this according to your requirements!"

This time I came to China, although I was sending money, but if I sent money, it was not enough for him to make a special trip to China. It was not enough to make such a bright smile on his face.

The reason why he really makes him so diligent is naturally because of another thing.

After showing his sincerity and the spirit of the contract, Mr. Carottit smiled diligently and said the true intention of his trip.

"It is like this. I heard that you are studying lithium-sulfur batteries recently?"

This kind of publicity has nothing to hide. Lu Zhou said casually: "Okay, the shuttle effect in lithium-sulfur batteries is a very interesting proposition. I have a plan in this area recently."

When Karutit heard it, he immediately said with joy: "It is so clever that we are very interested in the research related to lithium-sulfur batteries. I don't know if you need to invest?"

Although it was expected that Carottit would ask this question, he did a good job of rejecting it, but Lu Zhou couldn’t help but ridiculed: "Do you think I still need to invest?"

Of course, Carrotit will not give up so easily, trying to convince: "But you don't want to share the risk? I know that you are confident, but research is like a gamble. No one can guarantee that their experiments will produce results. We are willing to share the research cost of 70%. I guarantee that this number will be more than 400 million US dollars! In contrast, we only require 50% of the research results. I believe that it is absolutely impossible for someone to open a better condition than us."

This is what Carodid said is true. No one can really open such a condition.

If it wasn't for the beautiful case of the lithium negative material patent case, even if he was a beautiful ceo, he would never dare to put such a gamble proposal on the boardroom's meeting table.

However, this condition may seem difficult to refuse in the eyes of the peers, but for Lu Zhou, it is somewhat chicken.

After retreating 10,000 steps, he threw a lot of money into it and couldn't do it. There was also a last option.

That is to spend a lot of points and seek help from the system.

However, he will not consider this option until he spends half of the $400 million.

Although the experience of system tasks has been expanding, but the rewards for each task reward have never changed. From this point it is not difficult to see how valuable those points are.

Unless he is unable to solve the problem, he still intends to solve it by his own strength.

Shaking his head, Lu Zhou said: "Before losing all the chips, I will not consider borrowing chips from other gamblers for the time being."

Carrotit looked at him with unbelievable eyes: "All the chips lost? God... You are crazy, are you going to put all your belongings in? That's $400 million, you don't think too much. Consider it?"

Lu Zhou smiled and said in a relaxed tone: "From a business point of view, this is really not a rational investment, but I am not a businessman. The starting point for us to consider the problem is different."

If it is just to pursue efficiency, why not invest in real estate?

Obviously, it is better to engage in research and build money.