I Have a Research Support System

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Wei Xingsi drove Xu Qiu and Chen Wanqing to Blue River's company.

This time, Han Jiaying didn't follow her. After she finished the article on scraping and coating the standard sample, she no longer worked part-time with Blue River Company.

In fact, the school girl went there before because Xu Qiu took the shares of Blue River Photoelectric Materials Company.

In the early days of the company's establishment, there was a shortage of manpower, so she went to help and earn some extra money by the way.

Now that the organic synthesis laboratory at Blue River is on the right track, it doesn't matter if she goes or not.

Of course, Blue River didn't explicitly or tactfully express "I don't need you here anymore".

It's just that Han Jiaying thought about "she used to get 1,000 yuan for paddling for a day", felt a little sorry, and offered to leave.

On the way, Xu Qiu sat in the passenger seat and closed his eyes to rest.

While driving the car, Wei Xingsi chatted casually with Chen Wanqing who was sitting in the back seat.

Chen Wanqing's current state is that she can't find anyone every three days. Except for being present at the group meeting, most of the other times she is not at school, but goes to Blue River Company.

Coupled with the increasing number of people in the research group, two main research teams have been formed, and the structure has gradually developed from the previous flat to hierarchical.

Wei Xingsi usually communicates directly with the team leaders—Xu Qiu and Wu Feifei, and the others generally don't manage much.

Therefore, Wei Xingsi and Chen Wanqing haven't had much communication recently, especially in the car.

Wei Xingsi: "How about Blue River Company?"

Chen Wanqing: "It's pretty good, the company is running very well now."

Wei Xingsi: "It's officially working, does it feel the same as in the laboratory? Are you still used to it?"

Chen Wanqing: "It's almost the same. I was also doing research and development in the past."

Wei Xingsi: "How's the working environment?"

Chen Wanqing: "Now all kinds of equipment are very complete."

Wei Xingsi: "How much money do you get every month?"

Chen Wanqing: "More than 10,000 after tax."

Wei Xingsi: "Oh, that's quite a lot, higher than my basic salary."

Chen Wanqing: "..."

Wei Xingsi: "Are you talking about a boyfriend? Is it hard to find someone at your age?"

Chen Wanqing: "..."

...

The two chatted awkwardly all the way, and almost finished talking about the topic for several months, and finally reached Blue River Company.

Chen Wanqing swiped the card skillfully, and quickly brought Xu Qiu and Wei Xingsi in.

It has been a long time since Xu Qiu came to Blue River Company. Usually, he would contact Yang Qin through WeChat and remotely control the progress of the experiments here.

When he came here this time, he found that the changes were quite big.

The office that entered the door seemed to have been redecorated, and the number of workstations had increased from less than ten to more than twenty.

Among them, there were a few new faces who were operating the computer at the desk, looked up at Xu Qiu and the others, and then lowered their heads to continue working.

In several laboratories on the side, Xu Qiu also saw some new instruments, some of which he couldn't even name.

There is a high probability that Blue River has expanded its business scope, and is no longer limited to the previous scratch coating and organic photovoltaic fields.

Lan He had already received the news, and came out to greet him warmly: "Mr. Wei, Brother Xu Qiu, Chen Wanqing, you are here."

Wei Xingsi looked around and exclaimed, "Lanhe, your side is doing well now."

"It's okay. After all, the company has been established for almost a year, and it must have been a bit of a splash..." Lan He said with a smile: "Look at your radiant looks, have you posted something lately?" article?"

"That's right," Wei Xingsi bragged, "The research team just published a major sub-journal of "Nature", "Nature Energy", and our team once again broke the current world record in the field of organic photovoltaic efficiency..."

Wei Xingsi patted Xu Qiu's shoulder: "Here, the first article is here."

Several employees who were working in the office turned their gazes over and listened attentively after hearing the words "big journal of "Nature"" and "breaking the world record".

Except for one accountant and two or three programmers in Blue River Company, most of the other employees are masters of science and engineering, so they naturally know the grade of the major sub-journal of "Nature" and the difficulty of breaking a world record in a subdivided field .

There are a few master students who have not published SCI when they graduated. The supervisors of their original research groups are also struggling to publish AFM and AEM, the sub-journals of AM.

Now when others are talking and laughing, they casually refer to the big sub-journal of "Nature".

Moreover, the young man who is said to be the author of the article next to him looks younger than himself.

Why is there such a big gap between people?

"Amazing," Lan He looked at Xu Qiu, then at Wei Xingsi, and asked with a smile, "Are you planning to publish "Nature" in the next article?"

"We are stacking layers now..." Wei Xingsi stopped in time after speaking halfway, he realized that there are too many people here, and it is not suitable to reveal too much.

Lan He is also a human being, and he understood it instantly. He made a "please" gesture, pointed to his office, and said, "Let's stop standing around and talk in the office."

Seeing this, Chen Wanqing voluntarily resigned: "Then I'll go to work."

Lan He nodded: "Okay, you can go. You can talk to Yang Qin about the inkjet printing at his side."

The three of them walked into the office. Lan He had already brewed a pot of tea in advance. He helped Wei Xingsi and Xu Qiu each fill a cup of tea, and said, "Mr. Wei has made another breakthrough?"

"The efficiency of the stacked devices we are making now has exceeded 15%." Wei Xingsi briefly introduced a sentence, and then changed the subject: "By the way, don't say this to the outside world."

"Don't worry, there will be no random rumors." Blue River occasionally listens to the solar cell progress reports summarized by Yang Qin and Chen Wanqing, so he still has a certain understanding of organic photovoltaics: "The efficiency is 15%... This is a big breakthrough. I remember that the field of organic photovoltaics was always at 12% all the year round.”

"That's right," Wei Xingsi nodded, "So we plan to continue to optimize the performance and see if we can impact the "Nature" you just mentioned."

"This is amazing," Lan He exclaimed, "There are only a hundred or so articles published in "Nature" and "Science" every year in China. If you can publish one, won't it take off?"

"Taking off isn't a big deal, domestic scientific research isn't easy right now, so we have to take it slow..." Wei Xingsi waved his hand and changed the subject: "By the way, Lan He, you asked us to come here..."

"Oh, that's how it is," Blue River continued, "There are a few main things. The first is that our optoelectronic material company has turned losses into profits, and it has achieved profitability in November."

Lanhe took two documents from his desk and handed them to Wei Xingsi and Xu Qiu respectively: "This is the financial statement for November, 20% of the net profit, I will transfer it to your bank card in the form of dividends, and the remaining The next 80% I will continue to invest in the company as agreed."

Xu Qiu glanced at Mr. Wei's copy of materials, and found that it was the same as the one in his own hand, so he looked at the one in his hand.

The company's financial statements are relatively complicated. Xu Qiu is not an accounting major, so it is a little difficult to read.

However, he didn't intend to pay attention to how to calculate the cost and profit. He mainly wanted to know the sales of various materials.

In November, a total of 36.4 grams of various monomers, polymer donors, and non-fullerene acceptor materials were sold.

In terms of sales volume, the best-selling products are ITIC and IEICO, which sold 8.2 grams and 5.5 grams respectively.

In addition, some monomer units for the synthesis of ITIC are also selling well.

For example, various derivatives of ICIN terminal groups, including ICIN, ICIN-M/2F/2Cl, etc., are also sold in 2-4 grams.

In terms of polymer donors, several standard sample systems that match ITIC are also selling well, such as H22, which sold for 3.7 grams.

These high-selling products are exactly the materials that Xu Qiu told Yang Qin to synthesize.

Because of adequate preparations, there was basically no out-of-stock situation during the sales process.

Moreover, the materials have been tested by devices before leaving the factory, and the feedback after being sold to customers is also good. Most of them can repeat the corresponding device efficiency, and the repurchase rate is very high.

From the profit point of view, like polymer donors and non-fullerene acceptor materials, the profits of this finished product are relatively high.

Because they are relatively expensive, usually around 10,000 yuan per gram.

The profit of the monomer is relatively low, and the price ranges from one thousand yuan per gram to several thousand yuan per gram.

In the final calculation, the total net profit was more than 40,000.

Xu Qiu calculated the dividends, multiplied 40,000 by 20% and then 10%, and the dividends he got were about 800.

emmm...

It's better than nothing, it's not as much money as the previous day when I came here.

However, it was normal, after all, Xu Qiu didn't own many shares.

Moreover, the proportion of profit dividends is only 20%, and the remaining 80% of profits are invested in the company's production. If 100% dividends are paid, then there will be 4,000 yuan.

In addition, this is the first month to turn losses into profits, and if we can increase sales in the future, it should be better.

Xu Qiu also simply calculated the rate of return. If you only count the 5 million cash invested by Blue River, the monthly profit is 40,000, and the annual profit is roughly 480,000 for twelve months a year. The annualized return is close to 10%, which is not bad.

In fact, Xu Qiu did not expect that Blue River Optoelectronic Materials Company would be able to make a profit so soon.

According to his expectation, it will have to operate for more than a year.

He roughly analyzed the reasons:

On the one hand, it may just catch up with the ITIC boom that I set off, and the external demand for purchasing ITIC-related materials has increased.

On the other hand, it may also be because the threshold for starting an optoelectronic material company is relatively high, and the upper limit of profit is relatively low, so the pressure of competition is relatively small, and there are not many people doing it, so it is easier to get a share of the cake.

To start an optoelectronic material company, you need an organic laboratory, a device laboratory, a characterization laboratory, and you need to recruit people. The initial investment needs to be more than 100W.

And many of them are investments in fixed assets. Once the investment fails, it is equivalent to all in vain. For example, it is usually difficult to resell such instruments and equipment. At least universities and research institutes are not likely to buy second-hand instruments. They buy brand new ones. of.

In the end, you may have to buy it at a low price and return it to the manufacturer, but if the manufacturer recycles it, for an instrument with an original price of 10W, 90% of the new recycling price may only be 2-3W.

In addition, it is also necessary to have a knowledgeable expert to guide the experiment, otherwise a lot of materials may not be sold after being synthesized in the early stage, which is equivalent to wasting.

With his guidance in Blue River's company, Yang Qin basically doesn't need to do market research, and can just synthesize according to the command, which is also a very big advantage.

Of course, the threshold is important and important, and it is not so important if it is not important.

After all, a few million is a lot of money for ordinary people, but it is small money for capital. As long as the rate of return is high enough, a lot of people will follow suit immediately.

However, for companies related to scientific research, as long as they are not patented or monopolized industries, the profit ceiling of most industries is relatively low.

Because the plate is so big, it is difficult to make it bigger and stronger. Basically, it can only be sold to domestic universities and research institutes, so generally there is no big capital to enter the market.

After reading the financial statements, Xu Qiu commented: "The company's sales are pretty good, basically in line with my previous expectations."

Lan He said with a smile: "That's thanks to Brother Xu Qiu's guidance, Yang Qin always mentions you by my side."

Xu Qiu replied politely, "It should."

Wei Xingsi put the documents in his hand on the coffee table beside him, and asked, "How is the situation of your main company? How many scraping machines have been sold in total?"

Lan He thought for a while and said, "The only one that has been sold is Mr. Wei's, and there are three other companies that are interested, but they haven't formally placed an order or signed a contract yet."

Xu Qiu asked: "Is there any order from Jinghang's Bao Yuanyou research group?"

"Hey, yes," Lan He said with a puzzled expression, "How do you know? Did Yang Qin tell you?"

"Oh, it's like this," Wei Xingsi took the initiative to explain: "Last week we took the lead in holding an academic seminar on organic photovoltaics. At the meeting, Bao Yuanyou's students said that they were doing scratch coating and asked us if there was any recommended manufacturer. After the meeting, we During the private chat, I recommended your company to the past, but they said that your company just came to sell it not long ago, and I guess they will place an order soon."

"That's quite a coincidence." Lan He smiled: "I have to thank you for helping me introduce clients."

"The main reason is that the instruments you made are really fine, so I dare to recommend them to outsiders." Wei Xingsi turned his head and said, "Is that right, Xu Qiu?"

"Well, the instrument is really easy to use." Xu Qiu responded, and then asked: "When I came in just now, I saw that the company has added a lot of new equipment, are you planning to expand the scope of business again? "

"That's right," Lan He nodded: "My plan is to make an all-round printing machine that integrates inkjet printing, dispensing, scraping, screen printing, etc., which can print electronic systems, such as solar cells, microprocessors One-touch printing of devices, screens, etc. through a microelectronic printer."

"Oh?" Wei Xingsi became interested: "Then how is the progress now?"

"Isn't this just a scratch coating?" Lan He smiled awkwardly and explained: "Now we are continuing to optimize the scraping process while simultaneously tackling inkjet printing, dispensing and screen printing. The progress is in the process of optimizing the process..."

"By the way," Blue River changed the subject: "I came here today to talk to you about whether there is any good development direction for organic photovoltaics, and whether it is possible to realize industrialization."

Wei Xingsi and Xu Qiu looked at each other, they both agreed tacitly and did not speak.

Blue River continued to talk eloquently: "The current semiconductor industry, including integrated circuits and solar cells, is basically monopolized by silicon-based materials. I want to try to make some changes and replace silicon-based materials with carbon-based semiconductor materials. If I can obtain Breakthrough, it will definitely form a technological trend, apply carbon-based semiconductor materials to all aspects of life, enough to change the status quo of human life..."

"This is also my original intention of developing an all-round printing machine. I don't just want to simply sell the instrument. The development of the instrument is just a pre-stage link. My idea is to make a semiconductor printing instrument for home use, which can be customized according to your needs. Directly DIY the semiconductor device you want, whether it is an integrated circuit, a solar cell or a display screen."

Speaking of this, Lan He looked expectantly at Xu Qiu and Wei Xingsi.

"The idea is not bad," Wei Xingsi changed the topic: "But from the perspective of company benefits, it may not be a good choice. If organic photovoltaics want to achieve large-scale industrialization, such as your household printing equipment, at least now I think the stage is still relatively difficult, and there are many problems that need to be solved.”

Xu Qiu added: "I think the pace can be slowed down. First follow the original idea, first provide instruments for universities and research institutions, and then if breakthroughs are made in the field of organic photovoltaics, solve problems such as low device efficiency and poor stability. After the problem, it’s not too late to turn around.”

Blue River's ideas, such as "semiconductor printing equipment for home use", are relatively idealistic, which can be called "forward-looking" if it sounds good, and "fantasy" if it is not good.

As for whether it is the former or the latter, it must be guided by results. If it succeeds, it is "forward-looking", and if it fails, it is "fantasy".

Of course, for society as a whole, this kind of idealist is still very important.

If the rich are all playing the game of financial alchemy, such as Huabai, Baitiao, or even gift loans, in pursuit of stable capital growth, then technological progress is a joke.

After listening to Wei Xingsi and Xu Qiu's words, Lan He fell into deep thought, and after a while, he responded: "Let me think about it... Let me show you the laboratory first, to see the new gadgets we have developed Son."

"Okay." Wei Xingsi put down his teacup and stood up first.

Afterwards, the three entered the laboratory, and Blue River began to introduce their new equipment, including inkjet printing, dispensing, and screen printing equipment.

At present, they are all separate machines. Chen Wanqing is debugging the equipment with a few master students, and it still looks decent.

However, these methods are not suitable for organic photovoltaic devices, but for flexible OLEDs and flexible integrated circuits.

Therefore, Xu Qiu didn't pay too much attention to it, just listened to it casually, as a way to expand his knowledge base, and copied a copy of these instruments in the simulation laboratory.

After the visit, it was just time for dinner, Lan He offered to treat him, and Wei Xingsi did not refuse.

Xu Qiu guessed in his heart that Teacher Wei chose to leave at three o'clock, maybe it was just for the purpose of grabbing a meal? Otherwise, according to his impatient personality, he would probably set off at 1:30 in the afternoon.

Still quite possible.

Lan He called Chen Wanqing and Yang Qin to have dinner together.

The company's side is an industrial park, and the surrounding facilities are not very good, and there are no good restaurants, so the place to eat that Blue River chose is far away, and you need to drive there.

Lan He drove the car himself, Wei Xingsi sat in the passenger seat, Chen Wanqing, Xu Qiu, and Yang Qin sat in the back row, three skinny guys, it was relatively spacious.

In fact, Yang Qin also has a driver's license, and his driving experience is six years.

However, the real driving experience is zero years, because his driver's license was taken in his hometown during college, and most of his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees were spent in Shanghai.

So after taking the driver's license test, I basically haven't touched the steering wheel for six years, and now even if I have a driver's license, I don't dare to be a driver for my boss.

After about twenty minutes, everyone arrived at their destination.

The places where Blue River has entertained Xu Qiu and the others are very good. The last time I went to the Tire Lin star restaurant, this time I came to this restaurant, which is a relatively famous restaurant specializing in seafood.

As soon as you enter the door, there are rows of glass water tanks, which contain various living aquatic products.

Among them, the most eye-catching one is the king crab, which is 588 yuan per catty, which is about twice as expensive as the market price.

After Lan He walked around the aquatic area, he called the waiter.

As if he didn’t see the price tag, he pointed to a king crab that looked extraordinarily strong, and said, “Here’s a king crab, that’s all. It’s said that there are nine ways to eat king crabs here. Get a full set."

"Okay." The boss came over to receive him personally, grabbed the king crab out, and quickly threw the crab to the ground in front of everyone, as if he was afraid that others would regret it. Then, the boss took the crab shell Pour out the water, weigh it, and it's three catties and six taels.

Of course, throwing the selected crabs to death in public may also be to prove that they will not secretly drop the crabs in the back kitchen.

After ordering a hard dish, Lan He ordered some seafood such as oysters, scallops, squid, gimai shrimp, and Pipi shrimp, and added a few vegetarian dishes.

Because he had to drive, Lan He didn't order any wine, but just a pot of chrysanthemum tea.

At the dinner table, no one discussed work matters. It was mainly Lan He and Wei Xingsi who were chatting and analyzing the international situation...

During their conversation, Xu Qiu silently gnawed on the king crab's leg.

Expensive still has its advantages. It is indeed delicious. There are nine ways to eat it, each with its own advantages.

At the same time, Xu Qiu was also analyzing Lan He.

Maybe when there is no worries in life, and when there is no need to worry about a series of trivial things in life, such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, etc., it will be easier for people to become idealized.

Xu Qiu can probably imagine Blue River's state, but from his own perspective, it's not easy to put into the opponent's perspective.

Including Blue River, it is difficult to think from the perspective of organic photovoltaic researchers like Xu Qiu and others.

Some people say that the more a society develops, the harder it is for people to empathize with each other.

In a way, it is.

Before, there were only a few classes such as emperors, officials, landlords, and farmers.

It's pretty much the same within the class, and everyone can understand each other's situation.

But now because of social development, people perform their own duties, and their functions are highly differentiated, resulting in different industries.

Between different industries, every other line is like a mountain.

Before Xu Qiu did scientific research, he had no idea what scientific research was like.

In the meantime, I listened to the stories of some seniors and sisters, and thought I understood what scientific research looks like.

After entering the industry, I realized that it is difficult to imagine things that have not been experienced, just relying on fantasy.

Even, even if you keep listening to people in this industry to talk about the situation inside, you can only get a vague concept.

Only by going deep into a line, at least for more than a year, can we barely get a glimpse of the whole picture.

Also, sometimes what you see is not necessarily true.

With the increase of time in the industry, the feelings of different time periods are also different, just like nesting dolls.

It is roughly similar to the change of "looking at mountains is mountains, seeing water is water; seeing mountains is not mountains, seeing water is not water; seeing mountains is still mountains, seeing water is still water".

As for what decision Blue River will make in the end, Xu Qiu is not sure, anyway, he gave his opinion.

Although I have a system here that can provide a certain acceleration effect, no one can say whether a field can go out of the laboratory and realize industrialization.

At least Xu Qiu doesn't see much opportunity now. The efficiency of the device in the laboratory reaches 15%. Once it is industrialized, it may only be 7% or 8%. It can't beat silicon-based batteries at all.

At this stage, there is nothing wrong with being conservative.

If you really put all your belongings up at this stage and find that it can't be used in the end, it will be a bit difficult.

After that, with the implementation of the research, it may be possible to find a way out in the field of organic photovoltaics.

Or, hope that the system will give a big hang?

Xu Qiu is still quite looking forward to what rewards will be given for system upgrades and what functions will be activated after publishing an article on CNS. It is estimated that it will be more powerful.