Hirano Sadao and Nakagawa Motohisa left holding a small piece of dysprosium-terbium ferroalloy sample given to them by Sun Yuzhi like a treasure. They will take the earliest flight back to Japan to conduct the most comprehensive test on the sample.
Evaluate the value of this new permanent magnet material.
Sun Yuzhi sent Hirano Sadao and his party out of the Beijing Office of Daqin Group and watched them get into a taxi and leave. Then he returned to the building and came to Qin Hai's office. Qin Hai invited Sun Yuzhi to sit down on the sofa and looked at him
He looked worried and asked with a smile: "What, Lao Sun, haven't you figured it out yet?"
"Exchanging the dysprosium-terbium-iron alloy patent for the neodymium-iron-boron patent is a bit of a disadvantage in this transaction," Sun Yuzhi asked.
Qin Haidao: "Although dysprosium-terbium-iron alloy has better performance than NdFeB in all aspects, its biggest drawback is its high price, which determines that it will be useless in the future. And the market of NdFeB will further expand.
A big fat piece of meat. What’s wrong with exchanging a piece of chicken rib for a piece of fat meat?”
"I am engaged in scientific research and don't know much about the market. Mr. Qin, do you really believe that dysprosium-terbium ferroalloy will be too expensive to be promoted?" Sun Yuzhi asked slowly.
The research idea of dysprosium and terbium ferroalloy was first provided to Sun Yuzhi by Qin Hai. Sun Yuzhi’s original idea was that the prices of dysprosium and terbium were too high and the market prospects of new materials were not good. But at that time, Qin Hai was actively
He encouraged him to conduct research and said that as long as the research is done, it will be useful.
Sun Yuzhi mixed dysprosium iron boron and terbium iron boron with different formulas, and unexpectedly discovered that the mixed sinter had a very high magnetic energy product and Curie temperature, far exceeding the performance of neodymium iron boron. But just as he was happily leaving
When Qin Hai was happy, Qin Hai said that what he had come up with was just useless, and he might as well exchange it with Chunshan Company for the NdFeB patent.
Sun Yuzhi really couldn't understand Qin Hai's behavior of turning his hands into clouds and rain. However, he was the boss and he was just an employee. Since the boss had decided like this, what else could he say? He vaguely felt
, Qin Hai must have something left unsaid, and this is not something he should inquire about.
Qin Hai did hide something from Sun Yuzhi. This was not because he didn't believe in Sun Yuzhi's loyalty, but because he was worried that the nerd would accidentally spill the beans and reveal the secret. Qin Hai's plan was to lure Chunshan Company to dysprosium-terbium ferroalloy
Follow this evil path, and then use the rare earth monopoly it has just obtained to increase the prices of dysprosium and terbium tenfold, making dysprosium-terbium ferroalloy a luxury item that no one can afford. At that time, Chunshan Company should regret letting
The patent for NdFeB was issued.
In addition to the rare earth management rights, Qin Hai also has another trump card. That is the research idea of another cheaper new rare earth permanent magnet material. After Chunshan Company has gone far enough on the road of dysprosium-terbium-iron alloy
, if this new material can come out, it will ruin the efforts of Chunshan Company.
"Lao Sun, don't worry, the group will not do anything that is uncertain." Qin Hai said, "By the way, from now on, you will leave the research on dysprosium-terbium ferroalloy to students. I have another research idea.
.I would like to ask you to give it a try."
"What idea?" Sun Yuzhi asked curiously.
Qin Haidao: "Think about it, in the periodic table of elements. Next to boron are silicon and carbon, and further away there are nitrogen and phosphorus. The properties of these elements are similar. If boron is used with these elements
Instead, by replacing neodymium with nearby praseodymium, cerium and lanthanum, can one or even more new permanent magnet materials be produced? In particular, cerium is used to replace neodymium to form a cerium-based rare earth material with strong magnetism.
."
"Replace neodymium with cerium, and replace boron with carbon or nitrogen?" Sun Yuzhi stared, looking a bit incredulous, "This idea is quite novel. Let me think about it, the synthesis of carbides is a bit difficult, what about nitrides.
The stability is not enough and escape is easy to occur during the sintering process. How to solve this problem?"
"Old Sun, this kind of question shouldn't come from your mouth, right?" Qin Hai said with a smile, "You are confused. There are always ways to solve process problems. In the worst case, the sintering process will not work, and the bonding process will work.
Isn’t it possible?”
Sun Yuzhi also laughed sheepishly. He was also concerned and confused. In fact, you really don’t have to worry too much about process issues. There are always more solutions than difficulties. He patted his head and said: "I’m really confused. I’m really confused.
However, Mr. Qin, your idea is indeed very interesting. If you can really succeed and replace neodymium with cerium, the price of permanent magnet materials can be reduced by 70 to 80%. This is an epoch-making invention... By the way
, in this case, the dysprosium-terbium ferroalloy will really become useless!"
When he said the last sentence, he suddenly felt enlightened. The biggest problem of dysprosium-terbium-iron alloy is that it is expensive. In terms of cost performance, it is still inferior to neodymium-iron. If one day, he can invent something better than neodymium-iron
Boron is a cheaper cerium-based permanent magnet material, so dysprosium-terbium-iron alloy is even less valuable. No wonder Qin Hai is so generous and willing to exchange dysprosium-terbium-iron alloy with Spring Mountain Company. It turns out that he has such an idea.
Thinking of this, Sun Yuzhi vaguely felt that maybe Qin Hai already had a very mature idea about the cerium-based rare earth permanent magnet material he called himself, otherwise he would not dare to set up such a big trap and wait for the Japanese to jump in. Qin Hai
Hai's past actions have proven that he has extremely accurate intuition in materials research, so his intuition should not fail this time, right?
"This is just an idea of mine. Whether it can come true depends on your research, Lao Sun." Qin Hai naturally would not reveal where his foresight came from. He said: "Once Chunshan Company is willing to come up with NdFe
By exchanging boron patents with us, the group will immediately enter the NdFeB industry, and I will use 30% of the profits to support the research and development of new cerium-based materials. Just go ahead and do it, money is not an issue."
"Haha, okay, with what Mr. Qin said, I will bring out the new materials for you no matter what." Sun Yuzhi became energetic and assured Qin Hai, patting his chest.
Regarding scientific research, what Qin Hai can do now is to do his best to provide some enlightenment, and then provide strong support in terms of people, money, and materials. The School of Materials has now formed a good scientific research mechanism, whether it is scientific research services or
The incentives are all very mature and have met Qin Hai’s original expectations.
The Materials Science and Technology Exhibition was held for a total of one week, attracting the attention of a wide range of people from central leaders to ordinary primary and secondary school students. Numerous Chinese and foreign media even reported on various tidbits at the Materials Exhibition, ranging from magical new materials to
Speaking of various unique experience games, the popularization of materials science also took the opportunity to set off a craze, and a group of materials scientists, including Chen Heqian, received letters of invitation from several publishing houses.
Dozens of new material patents invented by Anhe School of Materials found buyers at the exhibition. Although the sales revenue was only more than 10 million yuan, it was an unexpected harvest for the scholars of the School of Materials. They were finally able to
Prove that you are not eating for free, but can create revenue for the School of Materials. According to the incentive policy of the School of Materials, the inventor of the patent can receive a portion of the patent sales revenue as a reward. In just a few days, the number of people in the school has increased.
Six or seven "100,000 millionaires", as for "10,000-yuan households", no one will pay attention to them.
The hot sales of various patents of the Anhe School of Materials have also produced a demonstration effect for other domestic universities and scientific research institutes. Some leaders with more flexible minds began to put forward slogans such as "Patents develop the school" and "Application first", which formed a theory in various units.
An ethos combined with practice.
The biggest achievement of the Materials Science and Technology Exhibition is that central leaders and a large number of ministry officials have realized the status of materials in modern industry. A few days after the Materials Exhibition, the State Planning Commission submitted a proposal to the Central Committee on a new round of major complete sets of equipment research operations.
The plan clearly stated in the plan that research on materials and processes should be the key tasks, abandoning the previous thinking model that emphasized products over materials and processes. This plan was affirmed by the central leadership, and several leaders were involved in the plan.
They issued instructions on the matter, pointing out that attention should be paid to the development of new materials and new processes. These instructions from leaders became the sword of wisdom in the hands of the Planning Commission and were quickly conveyed to the hands of key enterprises participating in key research operations.
The Heavy Equipment Office conducted another bidding process. This time, the plans submitted by various companies have changed significantly. The material and process issues that have been plaguing the development of the equipment manufacturing industry have been brought to an important position. In fact, the plans submitted by various companies have been brought to an important position.
Leaders and technicians are all veterans who have worked in the industrial field for many years. How can they not know which things are the most important? In the past, they were only guided by the baton from their superiors and did not dare or be willing to put too much energy into it.
In terms of materials, there is now a consensus from top to bottom, and they naturally put the focus of their work in the right position.
Qin Hai, Chen Heqian, Li Linguang and other materials experts have become even busier. For material research projects applied by companies, they not only have to review them, but also discuss with the companies, make suggestions for the companies, and help them find channels to solve the problems. There are
The problems faced by many enterprises have certain commonalities, so Qin Hai helped them establish a cooperative relationship and jointly tackle the problems.
After more than two months of busy work, all the work has come to an end, and we are just waiting for the fruits to come to fruition and harvest fruitful scientific research results. Qin Hai handed over the work of the Heavy Equipment Office to Wang Hongsheng, and then took Chen Heqian and Li Linguang with him.
He, Yue Kun and others, accompanied by a naval officer, came to Naval Station 33. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
ps: Science and engineering students can look at the periodic table. Carbon and nitrogen are really close to boron. The idea of replacing boron with nitrogen is feasible... Well, this is the fourth generation rare earth permanent magnet material we are talking about now.