Graphene is not cabbage, or at least so far, it is not cabbage. Provide 100 copies of graphene to institutions attending the seminar for research. Each portion is limited to one gram. No one will think that this is the Anhe Institute of Materials Science and Technology.
Stingy, on the contrary, everyone was shocked by this generosity. A full 100 grams of graphene, which is completely beyond the laboratory's preparation capacity, is enough to show that the Anhe Institute of Materials has been able to industrially prepare graphene.
Even these 100 copies of graphene are not provided by the School of Materials to participating institutions for free. Qin Hai’s words make it very clear: Each institution is limited to purchasing one copy, which means that it needs to be purchased with money.
Someone immediately asked Wang Xiaochen to inquire about the price of graphene and the price of renting a laboratory. Wang Xiaochen's answer shocked everyone again: the selling price of graphene per gram is US$100, and renting a laboratory is based on the price.
The equipment, reagents, etc. that need to be equipped will cost between US$200 and US$1,000 per day.
Everyone has nothing to say about the latter item. We all know that this is a reasonable price. Temporarily renting a laboratory with various analytical equipment in a foreign university will also cost this price. If the equipment used is relatively high-end, the price may even be cheaper.
It will be higher.
What shocked everyone was the quote for the previous item, which was $100 per gram of graphene. This was really beyond everyone’s imagination. However, most people thought this price was too cheap and too expensive.
≥∴长≥∴风≥∴文≥∴学, c◎◇t, basically they have not actually done any scientific research in this area, they are purely institutions seeking business cooperation.
"Ms. Wang, is the price of US$100 per gram your public quotation?" A scholar from the United States asked. One of the purposes of his visit to China this time was to purchase a batch of graphene for further experiments.
Therefore, you must ask clearly about the price.
Wang Xiaochen smiled brightly and replied: "Sir, I need to explain that the graphene price we charge this time is just a symbolic fee. Our current graphene production is still very low, and it is impossible to charge such a low price."
Public sale of graphene products.”
"So if I want to buy 100 grams of graphene, how much will it cost?" the scholar asked seriously.
The people nearby were also staring at Wang Xiaochen nervously, waiting to hear her answer. This scholar was not the only one who wanted to bring a batch of graphene back from China, there were also some companies that wanted to purchase graphene.
Coming from the idea of industrial raw materials, the quantity and price that Anhe Institute of Materials can supply are what they are most concerned about.
Wang Xiaochen was well prepared for this problem. She pretended to be embarrassed and said: "Sir, if you just want to buy 100 grams of graphene this time, I can only say I'm sorry. I'm afraid we can't satisfy your request."
Requirements. As I said just now, our current graphene production is very low, which is only enough to meet our own experimental needs. There is a little surplus that can be provided to important cooperative institutions. We are now building a graphene production line, which will be around
It will be put into production in half a year, and we expect to be able to supply graphene products to the market at 5 kilograms per day."
"So, what do you expect the supply price to be?" asked a European materials merchant.
"I can't answer you exactly, but according to our engineers' estimates, our supply price of graphene per gram will be expected to be less than 20 US dollars by then." Wang Xiaochen replied.
"20 dollars!"
Everyone sighed.
The use of a new material is closely related to its price. For example, when carbon fiber first appeared, the price was astonishingly high, so it could only be used in high-end fields such as aerospace and aviation. Next,
With the improvement of technology, the price of carbon fiber continues to drop. So some people use it to make cars, bicycles, fishing rods, etc. If one day carbon fiber can be as cheap as moso bamboo, carbon fiber furniture and packaging boxes will naturally appear.
, fence. All of this is directly determined by price.
The same is true for the application of graphene. Since industrially produced graphene has not yet been launched, no one knows what its price will be. US$100 or US$1,000 per gram are both possible results. Faced with different prices, manufacturers need to
Consider what products it will be used to manufacture, and estimate the final product's pricing and market space.
Graphene at US$20 per gram is far lower than most people expected. When Wang Xiaochen reported this price, many people were quickly thinking about how to maximize the development and utilization of this new material. As for
How to implement these applications is naturally a headache for scientists and engineers.
"Ms. Wang, will you continue to increase graphene production capacity in the future?"
A voice with a strange accent came out from the crowd. Everyone looked up and saw that the speaker was an Asian man with a vulgar description. From his pronunciation in English, you can basically guess that this is an Asian man from
Guests from Japan.
The speaker was none other than Gen Yoshida, the technical director of Nitsuka Chemical. However, he was registered on the guest register of the School of Materials as a lecturer at a university in Osaka. Nitsuka Chemical is quite famous in the research and development and production of carbon materials.
Due to his fame, Yoshida Gen is worried that his true identity will make Daqin Group wary.
Gen Yoshida came to Hongze, naturally, to find out the reality of the Daqin Group, and also to actually get in touch with the finished graphene products, which is very important for his team to develop the industrial preparation process of graphene. Just now, everyone was asking Wang Xiaochen
When asking questions, he just mingled with the crowd and listened. Seeing Wang Xiaochen's naturally cute look, he couldn't help but ask questions, hoping to find out more information from the female assistant.
Wang Xiaochen looked up at Yoshida Gen, nodded, and said: "Of course we will continue to increase the production capacity of graphene. Our group's goal is to achieve an annual output of more than 1,000 tons, and the price will drop to about 100 to 200 US dollars per kilogram.
, thus enabling graphene to become a new material with a wide range of applications."
"100 US dollars per kilogram?" The people around were all shocked. Just now they said it was 20 US dollars per gram, which means that it is 20,000 US dollars per kilogram. How did it become 100 US dollars per kilogram in the blink of an eye?
, converted, wouldn’t the price per gram drop to less than 10 cents?
Wang Xiaochen quickly explained: "Don't get me wrong, I'm talking about the ultimate goal proposed by our group. This goal will not be achieved until at least 2010. In the short term, our group is unlikely to further expand production capacity because of the
The production process is very complex, and the equipment investment exceeds what we can afford."
"Then haven't you considered finding some partners to co-produce?" Gen Yoshida asked again.
Wang Xiaochen shook his head: "Not yet. We are not sure how big the demand for graphene will be. It is not suitable to find partners at this time. Also, for our group, there are still many things worth doing.
, Graphene is only one of our products, so the group cannot invest too much money in this project."
"That's such a pity." Gen Yoshida said hypocritically, but what he was thinking was another sentence: So it turns out, these Chinese people are really too short-sighted.
Gen Yoshida had already evaluated the application range of graphene a few years ago. This was one of the reasons why he persuaded the company to invest heavily in graphene research and development. According to Yoshida Gen's calculations, if the price of graphene is really
If it can be reduced to US$20 per gram, the global demand will be at least 20 tons per year, which is equivalent to a market of US$400 million per year. According to Wang Xiaochen, Daqin Group will have a production capacity of about 5 kilograms per day, a year.
The annual output is less than 2 tons, accounting for only 10% of the entire market. This is strategically short-sighted.
You must know that as a company that has mastered advanced technology, it is very important to maintain a monopoly position in the market. This will not only enable the company to gain as much profit as possible, but most importantly, it can also squeeze out potential competitors and make itself in the market.
Stay in the lead for a while.
Daqin Group was unable to correctly assess the size of the market, and even regarded graphene as an ordinary product. It was unwilling to expand production capacity simply because the investment was too high. This gave Nitsuka Chemical an opportunity to counterattack. As long as Nitsuka Chemical can
If you develop your own preparation process in a short period of time, even if the technology is more complex and the cost is slightly higher than that of Daqin Group, you will still have a chance to survive because of the huge gap in the market.
Yoshida Gen believes that as long as Nitsuka Chemical can compete with Daqin Group, the final winner must be Nitsuka Chemical. Daqin Group has worked hard to open the door to graphene and has also painstakingly developed two preparation processes.
, will eventually become a stepping stone for Nitsuka Chemical.
In order not to show off his flaws, Yoshida Gen didn't say anything more, but infiltrated into the crowd again, no longer showing his head. However, he thought he was acting carefully, but he didn't know that the mantis stalks the cicada, and the oriole is behind, and his every move will be early.
Someone was staring at her. After Wang Xiaochen answered everyone's questions, she arranged for someone to take the guests to the cafeteria to eat. After returning to the office, she saw Xu Xiaoqi, the intelligence director of Daqin Group, waiting for her in the office with a smile.
"Xiaoqi, when did you come?" Wang Xiaochen greeted Xu Xiaoqi personally. She was not only a middle-level cadre of the group, but also the daughter-in-law of general manager Ning Zhongying. Like her, she also belonged to the senior management class.
Housekeepers, their normal relationship is very close.
Xu Xiaoqi said: "You have made such a big noise, and so many global scholars have come. As an intelligence officer, how can I not come and join in the fun? When you were having a meeting in the lecture hall, I was already watching from behind.
It’s just that neither you nor Mr. Qin saw me. By the way, Sister Xiaochen, do you know the origin of the Japanese who spoke to you later?” (To be continued...)