In the blink of an eye, the end of November arrived at the beginning of December. The twelve-day MRS conference finally came to an end.
At the closing ceremony, Lu Zhou was invited by the organizers to present the award to the winner of the Best Poster Award.
Since there were a total of 63 topics set up for this conference, it was impossible to compare the different directions, so there were also 63 awards set up.
Generally speaking, only young scholars participated in the poster presentation, and well-known scholars were in charge of the award presentation.
Lu Zhou was responsible for presenting the Best Poster Award for Photovoltaic Materials and Photovoltaic Devices. The winner was Master Wang Chen from Shanghai Caicai University. His instructor was Xu Lijun.
Although this "University of Materials" was not as famous as "University of Finance", it was quite top-notch in the field of materials science, especially in the field of photovoltaic materials.
Under the guidance of Professor Xu, Student Wang used a hybrid continuous deposition method to synthesize CH3NH3PbCl3 thin film with good crystallinity. He also obtained a coplanar insert CH3NH3PbCl3 thin film visible light blind ultraviolet detector.
Although this result wasn't good enough for an oral report, it was undoubtedly an excellent research result for a "poster" for young scholars.
It was precisely because of this that her work had won the favor of the judges and stood out from all the others.
On the podium, Professor Xu Lijun shook Lu Zhou's hand.
The old professor said with a smile during the short conversation.
"Congratulations, after this MRS Autumn Conference, Professor Lu will be the number one person in the field of computational materials science!"
"I'm flattered." Lu Zhou shook the old professor's hand and said with a smile, "I'm just a mathematics professor. I need more knowledgeable people to make brilliant achievements in the field of computational materials science."
After a brief exchange, the two of them let go of each other.
Lu Zhou turned around and took the award certificate and souvenirs from the staff. He handed them to the winner, Wang Chen, and shook hands with the winner.
The girl shook Lu Zhou's hand and said excitedly, "God Lu, do you really not plan on teaching computational materials science at Princeton?"
Upon hearing this, Lu Zhou was slightly taken aback.
Why do I feel that this person …
Why did he look so familiar?
He stared at her for a while and finally remembered that they had met outside of the report.
However, he did not change his plan.
"Maybe in the future, but we don't have any plans for now."
The master's girl said reluctantly, "Then … I'll apply to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
Lu Zhou gave her an encouraging look. "Well, good luck!"
The master's girl: "…"
After the award ceremony, the closing ceremony of the conference was finally coming to an end.
After this world-class materials science conference came to an end, Lu Zhou, who had been on a business trip for almost two weeks, finally returned to Princeton.
At the same time, there was good news from AM.
The company in the Cayman Islands had been successfully registered. According to Lu Zhou's request, it was named Star Sky Technology Ltd. The main business scope was intellectual property services and overseas investment. The logo was three interlaced Mobius rings.
Just like this, after an immature startup, Lu Zhou finally owned a company, and it was a multinational company …
However, this company was a bit different. Other than the hundreds of thousands of US dollars in the bank account, they didn't even have an actual office space. They were still hiring patent management staff, and their only business partner was an accounting firm.
However, this situation only lasted until the second week of the MRS Conference.
Soon after, Star Sky Technology welcomed its first real customer.
And it was a US $400 million project.
"I didn't expect you guys to be so fast, I thought it would be after Christmas," said Lu Zhou. He looked at the contract that Grynberg handed him and asked, "Only one?"
Grynberg said, "Of course you have to prepare Christmas presents before Christmas. In addition, this is the draft of the contract in your hands. I just sent the electronic file to your email. I thought you probably wouldn't sign it without reading it, so I only made a paper file. "
Of course, no one would be that stupid.
Lu Zhou flipped through the contract and handed it to the lawyer sent by the AM firm.
It was a waste of time to look at this kind of thing, so it was better to hand it over to a professional. Umicore's lawyer was also here, and the two sides discussed every possible dispute in the contract.
Grynberg was already at the final step of the patent negotiation, so he obviously wasn't in a hurry. However, it was boring to just sit and wait. Therefore, he began to chat with Lu Zhou about the future of lithium batteries.
The lithium dendrites problem was solved, and downstream industries such as mobile phone manufacturers and alternative energy vehicles quickly began to develop new products. Major battery manufacturers were also accelerating their lithium battery projects.
Even if lithium-sulfur batteries didn't come out of the laboratory, even if the Li-MoS2 battery was dug out from the grave, the entire industry would be able to increase the energy density several times.
Other than NEC, which bought the Li-MoS2 battery patent at a high price, and now that the patent had expired, almost all battery-related companies would wake up laughing in the face of the huge market demand.
For chemical giants like Umicore, obtaining patent authorization as soon as possible was a top priority in the face of this huge market.
Because of this, Umicore and Lu Zhou were more anxious about this negotiation.
Regardless of whether it was to reach an agreement as soon as possible or to gain more long-term benefits after four years, they restrained the idea of playing tricks and did not deliberately play tricks on the contract.
They studied the contract from morning until evening. After the AM lawyer team repeatedly checked the contract, they fixed a few possible disputes. Umicore's lawyer team also confirmed the revised contract.
Even though Lu Zhou knew that he probably couldn't see anything wrong, he still read the final version of the contract from beginning to end. He then picked up a pen and solemnly signed his name on this piece of paper.
From today onward, Umicore would obtain a four-year exclusive license for the modified PDMS film technology from Star Sky Technology, as well as a second license, at a price of US $400 million.
Star Sky Technology would no longer authorize third parties in these areas, and Umicore would share 50% of the profits from the second license with Star Sky Technology.
As for how Umicore would use its excellent legal team to "extort" its peers, that wasn't something that Lu Zhou had to worry about.
A large part of the reason why he gave Umicore the exclusive rights, the pricing rights of the second license, and 50% of the profits was that he didn't want to spend a lot of time on boring negotiations and lawsuits.
If someone used his patent without authorization, he believed that Umicore would be more active than him, whether it was to suppress competitors or to extort money.
Also, if the court issued a fine, Lu Zhou would get half of it.
Looking at the two contracts on the table, Grynberg's originally tense face finally revealed a trace of a comfortable smile.
With this contract, Umicore would have a greater advantage in the lithium battery industry.
To him, this was a rather brilliant result.
Grynberg put away his contract and reached out his right hand to Lu Zhou.
"Happy working with you."
Lu Zhou shook Grynberg's right hand and smiled.
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