Material Empire

For Zhang Yating and others, the two or three years in Anhe Materials College were the happiest time in their adult life. The living welfare is much better than that in the original unit, and the experimental conditions and funding guarantee are beyond imagination. This is just one aspect of their happiness. What is more important is the relaxed and harmonious atmosphere in the Anhe School of Materials.

The struggle between people in scientific research units is nothing more than fame and fortune. The scientific research funds in the unit are limited, and the number of professors and researchers is also limited. If you want to get ahead, you can only fight for it. After you have finally won all the honors you deserve, and your assistants and students have grown up, you have to help them fight again, otherwise how can you be worthy of others who have been helping you to search literature and do experiments for several years? ?

The unit adopts the "work point system" management for scientific research personnel. How many articles, how many patents, and how many awards you have won are all your "work points", which correspond to the treatment you can get. However, it is absolutely impossible to come up with articles and obtain patents without financial support, which makes scholars have to devote all their energy to this kind of competition.

Zhang Yating and the others have long been tired of this kind of competition, but they are always in the middle of the game and have to do it as a last resort. While doing scientific research, they have to play games with the departments in charge of money and affairs at the same time, which makes them feel physically and mentally exhausted all the time. This is their life state before they came to Anhe College of Materials Science and Technology.

After arriving at the School of Materials, the situation is completely different. In terms of funding, they don't need to look at the face of the management department. As long as the proposed research plan is feasible, the college will allocate the funds in place, and the amount often exceeds their expectations. As for professional titles, the School of Materials does not limit the number of places, and you can be promoted if you reach the level. You only need to fight for your own ability, and you don't need to rely on squeezing out colleagues to get up. Of course, the professional titles assessed by the School of Materials and the national professional titles are not common, but so what? Salary, benefits, etc. can be guaranteed, so why do they bother to fight for other false names?

Qin Hai often tells everyone that it is too futile to compete within a unit, and the only way to compete is to compete internationally. Fu Wenbin, Wang Xiaochen and others are also actively implementing Qin Hai's ideas. They often carry out international competition propaganda in the academy, and do not give any chance to those who make small names. If the leader does this, the employees below will naturally be affected. The topics everyone usually discusses together are how to build the reputation of the academy in the world and how to compete with scholars from developed countries.

In the School of Materials Science and Technology, the most frequently heard word is "our school". When it comes to this word, everyone has a strong sense of honor.

That is to say, under such an atmosphere, Zhang Yating felt that her mentality was becoming younger and younger. She, who was not very social with others, began to become easy-going, and her colleagues gradually called her From Professor Zhang to Sister Zhang.

Qin Hai heard Wang Xiaochen talk about the mystery of this, so he changed his words cheerfully and called this half-old lady Zhang Jie.

"Sister Zhang, you haven't answered my question yet. How is your current progress in the practical application of gas-sensitive ceramic sensors?" Qin Hai asked.

"Our work is completely synchronous." Zhang Yating replied proudly, "According to your request, Mr. Qin, our current scientific research work is done with two hands, theoretical research with one hand, and application development with the other. After the theoretical research is over After that, we immediately solved the problem of the production process, and several types of gas sensors for mines and households have been put into mass production.”

Gas-sensitive materials, as the name implies, are materials that are sensitive to gases. This material can change its resistance value with the concentration of a certain gas in the environment, so it can play a role in monitoring the leakage of harmful gases in the environment. Gas-sensitive ceramic sensors can be used in mines to detect whether the concentration of gas gas exceeds the standard, and can also be used in home kitchens to detect whether gas leaks, so it has a wide range of application directions.

Of course, Zhang Yating understands these application directions. Therefore, while organizing manpower to carry out theoretical research on gas-sensitive ceramics, she did not neglect the application research, and always linked the direction of theoretical research with the final application. The School of Materials has a complete scientific research support system. Just after Zhang Yating’s laboratory submitted the research results, the school sent the relevant patent materials to the Patent Office for patent applications. At the same time, it contacted several cooperative units and started product Production. Compared with Zhang Yating's previous unit, Anhe School of Materials has increased the speed of technology application and production by more than 10 times.

"Beixi Mining Machinery Factory is responsible for the production of gas sensors. For each set of sensors produced, they will pay the college a patent fee of 12 yuan." Wang Xiaochen introduced to Qin Hai softly.

"Can it meet the export standard?" Qin Hai asked.

Wang Xiaochen said: "We produce in the North Mine according to the export standards. The relevant samples have been handed over to Mr. Chen of the Red Sea Company. They have checked the situation in the European and American markets and reported that the market has responded well, and they are expected to be exported in large quantities. "

"Okay." Qin Hai nodded, and said, "Our School of Materials aims at the world's advanced level. The technology we develop must be pushed to the international market as much as possible to earn money from foreigners. We are such a big country. You can’t always rely on selling rare earths for foreign exchange, but rely on everyone’s wisdom to sell high-tech products to earn foreign exchange.”

"We've always done this," Zhang Yating said. She pointed to her colleagues around her and said, "We've always kept Mr. Qin's intention in mind. Now when our laboratories are engaged in technology research and development, We must first discuss whether it has practical value and whether it can open up the international market..."

"If there is no practical value, or if you can't open up the international market, what will you do?" Qin Hai asked intentionally.

Zhang Yating was dumb for two seconds, and then said with a weak smile: "Of course we will not blindly focus on money. Although some basic research cannot create value at present, it can bring many derivative results. We also have to persist in doing research, and this does not contradict President Qin's request to us."

"That's true." Qin Haidao, "Sister Zhang said well that we need to transform technology into productivity, but we are not just about money. For those potential research directions and issues that can have a significant impact on material theory, We still have to keep going, without the guidance of theory, practice cannot go too far. What we need to pay attention to is the balance between theory and practice, which I think everyone should do well.”

"How can we not do well what Mr. Qin has explained." Zhang Yating echoed with a smile.

Hearing that Zhang Yating flattered Qin Hai, everyone present did not feel any discomfort. From everyone's point of view, Qin Hai is indeed a wise leader of the School of Materials Science and Technology. Whether it is his extraordinary attainments in the field of materials or his great skills in the management of the school, these scholars who are almost twice his age are impressed. admire. You must know that intellectuals are the most likely to commit the problem of "underestimating literati". It is really not easy to make them admire a person.

After Zhang Yating started, the heads of other laboratories also spoke one after another, introducing to Qin Hai the practical technologies developed by their laboratories in the past period of time. Some of these technologies have found cooperative enterprises and have been put into production, while others cannot be put into production due to various conditions, but their economic value is very considerable.

While listening, Qin Hai made records in his notebook, and secretly calculated the benefits that all these achievements could bring. According to the regulations of the School of Materials, the ownership of these achievements belongs to the school, and the scholars who developed these achievements only have the right to get a commission from the results. The School of Materials is a subsidiary of the Daqin Group, so the assets of the school are also the assets of the group. Qin Hai can exchange these achievements for foreign exchange.

"I am very pleased to hear the results reported by everyone." After the last laboratory person in charge finished reporting, Qin Hai put down the pen in his hand, looked at everyone and said:

"Our School of Materials has produced so many achievements in just over two years. I made a rough judgment just now. At least 15 achievements have reached the world's leading level and have very broad application prospects. With such leading technology, our country can occupy a place in the international high-tech market. China's history of relying on the export of petroleum, rare earth, clothing, footwear and other products in exchange for foreign exchange will eventually end in the hands of our generation. In this sense, everyone is a hero to the country."

Hearing Qin Hai's compliments, everyone's faces burst into smiles. Everyone wants their work to be recognized, especially to be recognized at the national level. They also knew that although Qin Hai's words were somewhat encouraging, most of them were objective. The achievements they made had indeed reached the international level. Of course, they were able to do all this thanks to the favorable conditions provided by the School of Materials.

"President Qin, it's all because of your good leadership, and Dean Fu and Assistant Wang who have done so much for us. Without the support of your leaders, and the good scientific research conditions of the School of Materials Science and Technology, we would not have Given five or ten years, we will not be able to achieve such results!" Sun Yuzhi, an expert on permanent magnet materials, said sincerely.

Qin Hai laughed and said: "Haha, let's stop praising and self-praising like this, how about this, I will host a banquet tonight, thank you for your contributions over the past two years, let's not get drunk, how about it?" ?”

"Okay, everyone, don't get drunk!" Everyone responded loudly.