From a university student to a chief academician

Chapter 185 Lithium Battery Separator Price Cut by 98.3%
Three days later, Professor Gao's office!

Ye Fei, wearing a white trigram, pushed the door in from the outside and said, "Professor Gao, you are looking for me."

"Sit!" Professor Gao pointed to the chair in front of him, then got up and went to the water dispenser, took a paper cup from the water dispenser, poured a cup of warm water for Ye Fei, and put it in front of Ye Fei.

Ye Fei picked up the cup, raised his head and gulped down the water.

Ye Fei is currently studying the fusion of C72 fullerenes and C72 non-fullerenes.

As mentioned earlier, when Ye Fei was studying C60 fullerenes and non-fullerenes, he once proposed to fuse fullerenes and non-fullerenes.

The advantages and disadvantages of fullerenes and nonfullerenes are complementary.

If they are fused together, a material with high electron mobility, spherical structure conducive to phase separation, stable shape and high light absorption can be developed.

To put it bluntly, if fullerenes and non-fullerenes are fused, a material with strong light absorption can be produced, which can be used in solar power generation.

Much stronger than existing fullerene solar panels.

As for the effect, we have to wait for the research and development, and the results will not be known until after testing.

Professor Gao saw that Ye Fei had finished drinking the water, and poured Ye Fei another cup of warm water. After taking it, Ye Fei still drank it all in one go.

Professor Gao poured another cup for Ye Fei, but Ye Fei still finished.

Professor Gao picked up the paper cup in front of Ye Fei to pour water, and said amusedly, "How long has it been since you drank water? You've already drank three cups."

Ye Fei smiled embarrassedly: "I entered the laboratory at seven o'clock in the morning, and I haven't had a sip of water until now."

Professor Gao said: "Don't work too hard, and pay attention to rest."

"Understood." Ye Fei took the water glass handed over by Professor Gao, drank a third of it and put it on the table in front of him.

Ye Fei asked: "Professor Gao, what do you want me to do?"

Professor Gao sat in his seat and said, "Last time you proposed to lease the lithium battery separator to Enjie, and I also told the above about your thoughts."

"The above respects your idea and agrees with your proposal."

The above people think that C72 fullerene was discovered by Ye Fei, and Ye Fei is one of the main inventors of the lithium battery separator.

Furthermore, in Ye Fei's capacity, he finally made a request.

They are also not good at refuting Ye Fei's face.

Therefore, they agreed to Ye Fei's proposal.

Furthermore, Enjie shares have also investigated it.

It is indeed a very conscientious private enterprise. Over the years, even if it has lost money, it has insisted on developing lithium battery separators.

Ye Fei smiled and said, "I turned around and said to the chairman of Enjie shares, should I call the chairman of Enjie shares to Kyoto?"

"That's for sure." Professor Gao said, "After all, we also have some requirements, and we need to tell them face to face."

"En!" Ye Fei nodded.

After leaving Professor Gao's office, Ye Fei called Xu Li and said, "Mr. Xu, the higher-ups have already agreed. You can come to the capital for a few days. Let's discuss this matter."

Ever since Xu Li received the news from Ye Fei that he had leased the lithium battery diaphragm patent to his company, he was in a state of anxiety.

I can't sleep well, I can't eat well, and I giggle from time to time.

When his subordinates saw his abnormal behavior, they thought he was on the board of directors and was forced by the directors to cut off the lithium battery separator business.

So it will be.

After receiving Ye Fei's call, Xu Li's heart was pounding, fearing that the higher authorities would disagree with this matter.

When he heard Ye Fei say that the higher-ups agreed to this matter, Xu Li was instantly elated, his blood surged, and his face was rosy with excitement.

Xu Li said excitedly: "Thank you Dean Ye, I will fly to Kyoto right away."

Ye Fei said with a smile: "You come directly to the Kyoto Graphene Research Institute, contact me at the door, and I will take you in."

"Ok."

After hanging up the phone, Xu Li immediately asked his assistant to contact the lawyer of the legal department and the manager of the business department, and at the same time booked a plane for the three of them to Kyoto.

Ten minutes later, Xu Li took his lawyer, manager and assistants to the airport by car and explained the matter to them on the way.

The manager was surprised: "What? There is such a good thing? Why did Dean Ye help us?"

Xu Li said with a smile: "I once met Dean Ye in the waiting room of the airport. He talked to me about the lithium battery separator. Not long ago, he told me that they developed a new lithium battery separator with the performance reaching the world's first. level one."

"The reason why he leased the patent to us is that he values ​​my persistence in lithium battery separators."

The manager smiled and said, "Mr. Xu, you are conquering Dean Ye in terms of quality!"

"I have said long ago that our persistence will pay off."

"Look, isn't it effective now!"

"Haha..." Xu Li laughed loudly: "Your achievement is that we have developed a lithium battery separator that is comparable to the world's average level!"

"Haha..." The manager laughed loudly, "It's all the same, it's all the same."

The lawyer asked: "Mr. Xu, is the patent leased to our family, or to several families?"

The nature of renting to one family and renting to many is different.

Judging from the performance of the lithium battery separator developed by Ye Fei and the others.

If it is leased to a company, it can monopolize the high-end lithium battery separator market.

If it is leased to multiple companies, it will not be able to monopolize the high-end lithium battery separator market.

Of course, the price is different for renting to one family and renting to multiple people.

Rent to a family, the price is much higher, and rent to multiple people, the price is much lower.

But in fact, the Fullerene Research Institute will make more money by renting it out to a family.

For example, the patent lease to Enjie shares is one billion yuan per year.

However, it is leased to multiple companies, and each company can charge tens of millions per year.

Even if there are [-] or [-] companies, they can only earn about [-] to [-] million a year.

Xu Li shook his head, frowned deeply and said, "Dean Ye didn't say anything."

Of course Xu Li wanted an exclusive patent, but he was very worried that he would not be able to obtain an exclusive patent.

The manager said: "Mr. Xu, we must strive for the exclusive patent right. If the performance of the lithium battery separator developed by Dean Ye and the others is as he said, as long as we get the exclusive patent right, we will release it."

With the popularity of new energy vehicles, battery cars, mobile phone batteries and home appliances, they are used by more and more people.

The sales of lithium batteries are increasing rapidly every year, with an annual growth rate of 9.5%.

The sales of lithium battery separators are also increasing, with an annual growth rate of 9.5%.

By this year, the global sales of lithium battery separators have reached 100 billion US dollars.

If Enjie shares Ye Fei's lithium battery separator, the annual sales of lithium battery separator alone will reach 20 billion US dollars.

"En!" Xu Li nodded, "I know that."

More than three hours later, Xu Li and others arrived at the gate of the Graphene Research Institute.

After contacting Ye Fei, Ye Fei came out of the Graphene Research Institute ten minutes later.

"Dean Ye, hello!" Xu Li smiled and shook hands with Ye Fei.

"Mr. Xu, hello!" Ye Fei smiled.

After that, Ye Fei shook hands with the people beside Xu Li.

Ye Fei said: "Let's go, let's go in!"

After Xu Li and others registered at the door, Ye Fei led them into the foreign guest building of the Graphene Research Institute.

When outsiders enter the Graphene Research Institute, they can only enter the foreign guest building, where they are entertained, and they are not allowed to go to other places.

Ye Fei led them to sit down in the tea room of the foreign guest building, and said with a smile: "Forgive me, this is the National High Secret Research Institute, and you are not allowed to go to many places, so I can only receive you here."

"It's okay!" Xu Li said with a smile: "Even if you find me a roadside stand to receive me, I'd be happy."

Ye Fei said: "Wait a little longer, someone will come over soon."

"it is good!"

Next, Ye Fei and the others asked the waiter for tea, and they chatted while waiting.

About 10 minutes later, Professor Gao arrived with a middle-aged man in a suit, and the middle-aged man was carrying a black leather bag.

"Ye Fei, let me introduce you." Professor Gao said, "This is Xia Hong, the director of the patent department of the research institute."

"Hello, Xiabu!" Ye Fei smiled and shook hands with Xia Hong.

"Director Ye!" Xia Hong said with a smile, "I have admired your name for a long time!"

Ye Fei said, "Please sit down!"

"Mr. Xu, let me introduce you!"

Ye Fei introduced them to each other and said, "You guys start talking, let's go to the other side."

After speaking, Ye Fei and Professor Gao sat down at another table and drank tea.

The opportunity has been given to Xu Li, how to talk about it next, how to fight for the interests is Xu Li's business.

Even if you can't get better benefits, it's none of Ye Fei's business.

Xia Hongdao: "Xu Dong, first let me show you the data of our lithium battery separator."

With that said, Xia Hong took out a document from his bag and put it in front of Xu Li.

"With the guarantee of our research institute, you can rest assured that these data are all true."

Looking at the data on the document, although Xu Li and the others have heard Ye Fei mention the data of the lithium battery diaphragm.

But when I saw it, I was still surprised.

After the three of them finished reading, Xia Hong said, "Dr. Xu, there are two things I want to declare in advance."

"Say it!" Xu Li said.

Xia Hongdao: "Because the core material C72 fullerene in the developed lithium battery separator is not for sale, only our research institute owns it."

"So, the C72 fullerene material used to make lithium battery separators will be sold to you at cost after our research institute makes C72 fullerene into semi-finished products."

"It costs 5000 yuan per ton, and four tons of fullerene separators can be produced."

The Graphene Research Institute did not make money from Enjie shares. The raw material price of C72 fullerene is two yuan per catty, and two thousand catties per ton.

But the research institute wants to process C72 fullerene into C72 fullerene molecules, and dope some other things in it.

As a result, C72 fullerene molecules can only be used to make lithium battery separators, and cannot be used to make other things, nor can they be used for research.

The raw materials provided by the research institute only earn a manual fee.

"Five years later, our research institute will sell C72 fullerene materials to the outside world. At that time, the research institute will not provide processed C72 fullerene materials. You can purchase C72 fullerene materials yourself and have them processed by your company."

"It's no problem." Xu Li said.

One ton is only 5000 yuan, and four tons of lithium battery separators can be produced.

The current market price, a ton of lithium battery separator is 300 million.

Compared with the price of lithium battery separators, 72 tons of C[-] fullerene materials are nothing.

Xia Hongdao: "And, according to the above requirements, the price of lithium battery separators should be reduced to [-] tons."

"Fifty thousand one ton?" The manager exclaimed, "This way our company will lose a lot of money."

The lithium battery separator of 300 million tons dropped to 98.3 tons, and the price dropped by [-]%.

Xu Li glared at the manager with dissatisfaction, and said, "What are you yelling at?"

Xu Li looked at Xia Hong and said, "Yes, we are willing to lower the price to [-] tons."

Fifty thousand and one tons can also make a lot of money every year.

The current global demand for lithium batteries is 300 million tons.

300 million tons of lithium batteries require 60 tons of lithium battery separators.

Based on the quality of Ye Fei's lithium battery separator, at least 20% of the market can be seized.

That is 12 tons of lithium battery separators, with a total sales of 60 billion.

After removing the cost, it can also earn 50 billion.

Enjie shares used to have an annual profit of 50 billion.

In other words, just selling lithium battery separators, the money earned has reached the sum of all the company's businesses in the past.

Xia Hongdao: "Since we agree, let's talk about the next thing."

"Patent leasing is divided into two types, one is exclusive patent rights and the other is non-exclusive patent rights."

"Exclusive patent rights, the annual patent fee is one billion, non-exclusive patent rights, the annual patent fee is 2000 million."

"Which one do you need?"

Xu Lidao: "Of course it is an exclusive patent."

"Okay, let's sign the contract!"

The research institute doesn't care whether Xu Li has an exclusive patent or not. Anyway, the exclusive patent research institute is more profitable.

After speaking, Xia Hong took out two contracts from his bag.

The signing of the contract requires the signatures of the two directors of the Fullerene Institute, that is, the signatures of Professor Gao and Ye Fei.

After signing, the two parties shook hands.

Xu Li held Ye Fei's hand and said with a smile, "Dean Ye, thank you so much."

Ye Fei smiled and said, "We both benefit and help each other!"

Xu Li leased the lithium battery diaphragm patent from the Fullerene Research Institute, and Ye Fei, as one of the main inventors, also took money.

It's just that you don't get the money every year, it's a one-time payment.

The annual patent fee for lithium battery diaphragm is one billion, and Ye Fei can get 1000 million at one time.

Don't look low, but the rules are like this.

After all, the research and development of lithium battery diaphragm is not the credit of Ye Fei alone.

Many researchers are also involved.

Moreover, the lithium battery diaphragm patent belongs to the Fullerene Research Institute.

Ye Fei is temporarily a researcher at the Fullerene Institute.

This is like the relationship between employees and the company.

Employees earn 1000 million for the company, can employees get 1000 million?You can get up to 50 million, or even less.

Xu Li let go of Ye Fei's hand and said with a smile, "Dean Ye, if you go to Yuxi in the future, call me and I'll entertain you."

"Ok!"

After chatting with Ye Fei for a few more words, Xu Li quickly left the Graphene Research Institute.

Then fly back to Yuxi.

As soon as Xu Li got off the plane, he called the company and asked all the directors to have a meeting in the conference room.

In the conference room!

Many directors sat in it, communicating with each other, wondering why the chairman asked them to come to the meeting.

One of them said: "Do you know what Xu Dong asked us to do? The company hasn't had any major incidents recently!"

The company's board of directors meets once a week, every Monday morning.

Unless something major happens to the company, the board of directors will be held during the rest of the time.

But recently nothing major has happened in the company, everything is going smoothly.

Except for the business of cutting lithium battery separators last week.

However, this matter is over, and there is no need to discuss it any more.

Half an hour later, Xu Li walked in with a document in his hand and sat in the first seat.

Xu Li glanced at all the directors present, and said, "Everyone, I went to Kyoto in the morning and discussed a big business."

All the directors opened their eyes slightly and looked at Xu Li with doubts.

Xu Lidao: "Not long ago, the Kyoto Graphene Research Institute developed a lithium battery separator with very good performance."

"This is the data of the lithium battery separator developed by the Kyoto Graphene Research Institute."

After finishing speaking, Xu Li placed the document in front of a director beside him.

The director saw the above data and exclaimed: "How is this possible?"

The director next to him looked at the contents of the document, and his eyes widened in surprise.

Seeing their surprised expressions, the other directors were even more puzzled.

After the two directors have read it, they pass the document to the other directors.

Ten minutes later, all directors read the document.

"Xu Dong, is the above data true?"

"Yes, Xu Dong, is it true?"

"..."

asked several of the directors.

Xu Li nodded and smiled, "Of course it's true. This is the data I got from the Kyoto Graphene Research Institute. They won't lie to me."

"Also, this matter was introduced to me by Dean Ye Feiye, there is absolutely no mistake."

A director said excitedly: "Mr. Xu, has the patent been taken?"

"Of course!" Mr. Xu nodded and said with a smile, "I have obtained the exclusive patent for the lithium battery separator."

"Great." All the directors showed excited expressions on their faces.

In the past, they let the lithium battery separator be cut off because they could not develop a lithium battery separator comparable to the international average.

Every year, the company is unable to make ends meet on lithium battery separators.

But now the lithium battery diaphragm technology of the Kyoto Graphene Research Institute has reached the world's first level.

As long as the company obtains the exclusive patent right, it can earn hundreds of billions of dollars every year.

Of course, this is the case that they don't know the price of lithium battery separators.

Xu Lidao: "Although we have won the lithium battery separator technology, the Kyoto Graphene Research Institute also put forward two requirements."

"The first requirement is that the raw materials in the lithium battery separator developed by the Kyoto Graphene Research Institute contain C72 fullerene."

"The C72 fullerene of the Kyoto Graphene Research Institute is not sold to the outside world. They will process the C72 fullerene and sell it to us at cost."

"It's 5000 yuan per ton!"

The directors nodded, C72 fullerene is not expensive at 5000 yuan per ton, it is indeed the cost price.

"Second, the Kyoto Graphene Research Institute asked us to reduce the price of lithium battery separators to 5 yuan per ton."

"What? 5 yuan a ton?" All the directors were blown away.

5 yuan per ton, the company can only earn 60 billion a year.

If the price is not lowered, the company can earn more than 2000 billion a year.

Between 60 billion and more than 2000 billion, the profit gap is not a gap of billions, but a gap of 2000 billion.

"No, absolutely not!"

"Yes, Mr. Xu, talk to the Kyoto Graphene Research Institute again. Fifty thousand one tons is too cheap. There has never been such a cheap lithium battery separator in the market before."

"Yes, Xu Dong!"

"..."

Xu Li scolded: "Quiet!"

After the directors calmed down, they said: "Everyone, this price is not up to us to decide, but to the higher-ups. The Kyoto Graphene Research Institute is just following orders."

"Do you want to resist the above?"

"Besides, if we disagree, the Kyoto Graphene Research Institute can find another company to cooperate."

"In Xiaguo, we are not the only ones making lithium battery separators."

"Moreover, with the quality of the lithium battery separator of the Kyoto Graphene Research Institute, many companies will cooperate with the Kyoto Graphene Research Institute."

"I think many companies will agree to lower the price to [-] tons."

"After all, 60 tons can also earn [-] billion."

All the directors felt helpless, yes, even if they disagreed, the Kyoto Graphene Research Institute could find another company to cooperate with.

If you agree now, you still earn money, but if you disagree, you lose money.

In the end, the directors could only agree.

A week later!

The Kyoto Graphene Research Institute announced that the Fullerene Research Institute, a subsidiary of the Kyoto Graphene Research Institute, has developed a lithium battery separator technology with C72 fullerene. The performance is as follows.

【Thickness: 10um
Breathability: 20cc
Automatic shut-off mechanism: 800°C
Porosity: 30%
Thermal stability: -40°C～90°C
Mechanical Strength: Tensile: ~90N, Transverse: ~90N
Chemical stability: inert]

Enjie also announced that the Fullerene Research Institute, a research institute affiliated to the Kyoto Graphene Research Institute, has developed lithium battery separator technology.

Enjie has obtained the exclusive patent right of lithium battery diaphragm technology from the Fullerene Research Institute!

At the same time, the lithium battery separator produced by Enjie shares is priced at 5 yuan per ton!
When these two news were announced, soon, all lithium battery companies knew the news.

The entire lithium battery market has caused a huge sensation!

(End of this chapter)