A bright silver flight drew a white line in the blue sky, extending all the way to the edge of the clouds.
With the future of China's controllable nuclear fusion industry in mind, a delegation of around 30 people set off for the Max Planck Institute. According to the cooperation agreement between the two parties, they would receive simple training there and make final preparations for taking over the WEGA stellarator machine.
According to the original plan, Lu Zhou was also going to go with them.
However, he didn't immediately depart. Instead, he arranged for the trip to be in three days.
Because while the China experts were departing, the experts sent by the Max Planck Institute had already arrived at Jinling International Airport.
The wrinkled Germanic engineer, whose nose bridge was so high that it almost reached the brim of his hat, walked down the stairs of the plane with a suitcase he carried with him.
He squinted his eyes and looked at the airport building not far away. He spoke to his colleague next to him in a casual tone.
"A lot has changed here."
The slightly younger red-haired engineer who was walking beside him raised his eyebrows.
"You've been here before?"
"Ten years ago." The slightly older engineer opened his wallet and rubbed the group photo in it with his index finger. He said, "If you lived in Berlin, there might not be any obvious changes in ten years, but here, you see different places every year."
"You mean Berlin? Actually, there are changes. "
"Oh yeah?"
"Ever since our CEO Madam Li let those people in with headscarves in, we see new things in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung every day."
When the old engineer heard the young engineer's teasing, he smiled and shook his head.
"It's better to say this in private. Don't let others hear it."
"Of course I know." The young engineer looked at the group of people not far away and paused for a second. He narrowed his eyes and said, "Thousands of nanometers wide wire, do you really think they can do it?"
It wasn't that he looked down on China's ability to innovate in science and technology. After all, in terms of scientific and technological innovation, Europe had been weak since the middle of the 20th century, so they didn't have the right to look down on China.
However, scientific and technological innovation was one thing, but whether or not the technology could be brought out of the laboratory was another.
In fact, since the beginning of 2014, graphene nanoribbons had been able to achieve a width of dozens of nanometers in the laboratory. Even now, it was possible to create "black technology" with a width of only seven carbon atoms in the laboratory. However, this technology was still sealed in the laboratory.
This was probably the biggest generation gap between the industry and academia.
A century and a half ago, if a scientist discovered a novel compound or a simple synthesis method of an important industrial raw material, he or she might become rich overnight. However, these kinds of examples were quite rare nowadays.
What was more common was that when the academic community produced a seemingly beautiful result, it would take decades or even decades for the industry to digest it. In the end, it would prove that it was useless.
Because of Lu Zhou's success with the lithium anode material, the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres had noticed this carbon-based superconducting material with unlimited potential. However, when they evaluated the possibility of industrialization, due to various reasons such as cost and production difficulties, they eventually gave up on this material.
However, now that someone had suddenly completed this mission that they thought was almost impossible, they could not help but feel surprised after hearing the news.
After all, China's nanoscale finishing technology wasn't very good …
"Judging from the samples they sent, they actually did it."
"Unbelievable."
"Yeah, unbelievable." The old engineer paused for a second and said, "Isn't that why we're here?"
On the other side of the airport, at the VIP entrance.
Yang Xu stood next to Lu Zhou and looked at the plane not far away. He suddenly said, "Actually, I've always wanted to ask, why is it the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres?"
Lu Zhou: "That's normal, you can't expect a group of plasma physicists to be good at materials science."
Yang Xu smiled and said, "Isn't there one here? And he's good at mathematics. "
Lu Zhou paused for a second and quickly realized that Yang Xu was talking about him. He smiled and shook his head.
"Completely different."
While they were talking, the German delegation had already walked down the gangway.
On the other hand, Lu Zhou also walked toward the gangway.
The slightly older engineer walked in front of the group. He took off his black hat and reached out his calloused right hand to Lu Zhou.
"Hello, Professor Lu, I'm Rand Ulich from the Helmholtz Berlin Materials and Energy Research Center. This is my colleague, Simson Eugene. "
"Lu Zhou." Lu Zhou shook hands with the Germanic engineer. He looked at him with a smile and said, "You speak Chinese?"
"I used to work in Jinling for two years. I don't speak Chinese very well, but I know a little bit," the serious-looking old man said in a humorous tone.
"Really? But in my opinion, it's very good. "Lu Zhou smiled and let go of his hand. He continued to introduce the three people next to him," This is Yang Xu, the director of the Institute of Materials Science of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study, Mr. Sun Chengwu, the general manager of Baosheng Group, and Mr. Gang Ganwei, the chief engineer. "
"On behalf of Baosheng Group, I welcome you all." Sun Chengwu shook Ulic's right hand and said with a smile, "Our group has prepared a hotel for you. Do you want to go to the hotel to put your luggage first, or do you have other arrangements?"
Ulich said, "We can go to the hotel later, but can you take us to the factory first?"
Sun Chengwu paused for a second. He obviously didn't expect these Germans to be so eager, so he glanced at Lu Zhou.
After seeing Lu Zhou nod, General Manager Sun immediately looked at Professor Ulich and spoke with a smile.
"Of course, no problem."
The German delegation wasn't large. There were only six people in total, but all of them were top experts in carbon nanomaterials research at the Helmholtz Berlin Materials and Energy Research Center. After the group of people got on the shuttle bus, General Manager Sun took the initiative to sit next to Lu Zhou and couldn't help but ask.
"Why do you think these Germans are in such a hurry?"
Lu Zhou heard General Manager Sun's question and spoke with a smile.
"For example, when you were in school, if your deskmate only scored 70 or 80 points on exams, then suddenly scored 120 points on a recent test, what would you think?"
Yang Xu thought for a second and said, "That depends on the score system."
"The score system doesn't matter." Lu Zhou shook his head and said, "No matter what the score system is, you will definitely wonder how he did it, or if there is something fishy going on."
General Manager Sun hesitated for a second and said, "You mean, they are suspecting that we are fooling them?"
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