Chapter 805 Seven Nobel Prize-winning researchers? 1% of the profit-sharing rights! Exploding market demand!
Globally, with increasingly dense urban populations, high-rise residential buildings and apartments have become the mainstream, and ordinary people have an increasingly urgent need for sound insulation of floors and walls.
Countries are also continuously raising the standards for green and healthy buildings, including mandatory sound insulation requirements.
In other words, this directly boosted the use of sound insulation materials in new buildings.
In addition, the market for sound insulation materials is also extremely broad in fields such as industrial manufacturing, automotive industry, rail transportation and consumer electronics.
Just considering the noise pollution in the neighborhood, if they were to launch a civilian version of Mengjie Sponge, the annual revenue would probably be no less than 1 billion US dollars.
The more popular the building vibration device is, the more Mengjie Sponge can sell, sometimes even several times more.
However, the civilian version must streamline materials and reduce costs in order to cover a wider market.
Of course, Chen Yansen could also make two versions: a basic version to boost sales, and a high-end version to make money from the rich.
Moreover, he could use this opportunity to build another factory, providing thousands or even tens of thousands of jobs, adding another source of humanitarian aid.
With this in mind, Chen Yansen immediately organized his thoughts and began to improve and optimize the materials, structure, and microcapacitors of Mengjie Sponge.
On the other side.
Upon receiving the suggested revisions, Meng Jie's face lit up with delight after reading his boss's reply.
Although the patent belongs to the company, the boss clearly stated in the email that not only should this "Dynamic Acoustic Energy Management System" be officially named "Mengjie Sponge," but he would also receive 1% of the net profit generated by Mengjie Sponge in the future.
A sure win of both fame and fortune!
Although the profit-sharing ratio isn't high, it still reflects the respect the big boss has for me.
You should know that when he was in the research institute, even though it was his own research, he sometimes couldn't even get a third authorship!
As for patent royalties?
There's no need to even dream about it!
That's your contribution to the collective!
Since it's about giving, don't talk about getting anything in return!
That's why he quit his job without hesitation, willing to risk huge career uncertainty to join Yunkun Aerospace.
Only when his vision blurred did Meng Jie wipe away the tears in his eyes, and for the first time, he felt the happiness of being human.
However, having spent so much time at the research institute, he underestimated the immense significance of Meng Jie's sponge.
In the following days, he compiled his research findings into a document and submitted it to the company's intellectual property department.
Immediately afterwards, the company submitted his paper to the Chinese Journal of Physics, the Chinese Physics Letters, and Chinese Physics B.
Unsurprisingly, it was quickly published in a prime position in the magazine.
The core "quantum acoustic trap principle" of Mengjie Sponge and the materials used are all new physical innovations that have not been experimentally verified before.
This is a true breakthrough from 0 to 1!
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On May 15, news of Meng Jie's sponge traveled across the Pacific Ocean to the other side, and then spread to academic circles in Australia and Europe.
Researchers in the fields of physics and chemistry were all shocked!
Whether it's the quantum sound trap principle of Mengjie sponge or the combined application of metal ceramic composite materials and lead zirconate titanate nanoparticles, both are ingenious ideas and designs.
More importantly, this product has been successfully manufactured!
The Nobel Committee in Sweden, upon hearing the news, looked at each other in bewilderment, unsure of what to do.
The first issue is that Senlian Group's R&D capabilities are simply too extraordinary, with gene editing solutions for C4 crops and quantum sound trap technology.
The second question is, if the reliability of the Mengjie sponge can be confirmed, should the recipient be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics or the Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
In principle, both awards are well-deserved.
However, in practice, there has never been such a precedent for the Nobel Prize.
"Send someone to China to verify the situation first."
Ultimately, the committee leader made the final decision.
Meanwhile, staff members for the Breakthrough Prize and the James Dyson Award also set off for Asia.
If scientists ignore major breakthroughs in the scientific community, their awards will lose their authority.
However, a question is widely held in the Chinese scientific community: Who is Meng Jie?
No one had ever heard of this name before.
Not long after, when Meng Jie's resume was exposed by the media, the researchers at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering were all dumbfounded.
They never expected that this brilliant scientist, who was expected to be nominated for the Nobel Prize, the Breakthrough Prize, and the James Dyson Prize, was actually the "marginalized person" in the institute who was disliked by the director.
The atmosphere in the conference room of the Ningbo Materials Research Institute was so oppressive it was almost palpable.
The director pointed at Meng Jie's resume on the projection screen, his voice trembling: "Who the hell approved his resignation? Such an important talent, and you actually let him go!"
He was furious!
If Meng Jie had stayed at the institute, he might have been able to hitch a ride and experience the taste of the Nobel Prize.
In a corner of the conference room, a director kept his head down, not daring to meet the director's gaze.
Talent?
If Meng Jie were here, he would definitely burst out laughing. Those years he spent at the institute were almost the most depressing and darkest time of his life.
What kind of soil produces what kind of flower!
These people didn't realize that if Meng Jie had stayed at the institute, he probably wouldn't have been able to get research funding, so how could he have created the Meng Jie Sponge?
That afternoon.
Inspection teams from the China Aerospace Center, the North China Military Research Institute, the South China Maritime Association, and the Railway Association successively flocked to Yanjing, heading straight for Yunkun Aerospace.
The testing hall of the Yunkun Aerospace R&D Center was crowded with representatives dressed in different uniforms.
The chief engineer of the China Aerospace Center personally set the parameters of the impact device and slammed it against a wall inlaid with Mengjie Sponge civilian high-end version.
The military-grade decibel meter showed a stable reading of 8 decibels. The railway association representative next to him couldn't help but reach out and touch the wall. The touch was so smooth that it was as if he had never experienced any vibration, and there was no huge impact sound as expected.
The sound was very faint, almost inaudible.
Meng Jie stood to the side, pushed up his black-rimmed glasses, and explained seriously: "The industrial-grade version of Meng Jie Sponge has an optimized acoustic impedance transition curve, which can cope with wide-frequency vibrations from 10 to 200 Hz, and its attenuation efficiency is 15% higher than that of the civilian version."
If used for vibration damping pads on high-speed rail tracks and sound barriers along the line, it can reduce noise in residential areas to below 10 decibels.
As soon as he finished speaking, a representative from the North China Military Research Institute stepped forward: "Mr. Meng, we need a version adapted for military aircraft. The aerodynamic noise when a fighter jet breaks the sound barrier can cause great damage to the avionics system in the cockpit and the pilot's hearing."
A representative from the South China Maritime Association was even more direct: "Noise pollution from container cranes and ship engines in ports has always been a problem for the industry, and we hope to achieve cooperation."
For a time, the testing hall had transformed into a cooperation negotiation meeting.
Meng Jie looked at the scene before him, somewhat dazed.
A few months ago, he was just an unappreciated peripheral technician, but now he has become a star figure sought after by major organizations.
The portal websites outside are practically praising him to the skies!
The next morning.
Yunkun Aerospace issued an announcement stating that it will establish an independent subsidiary to focus on the multi-field research and development and production of Mengjie Sponge.
The new company has a registered capital of 1 billion yuan, with Meng Jie serving as the chief scientist and enjoying a 1% permanent share of the profits.
As long as Mengjie Sponges are still being sold, and as long as Mengjie has descendants, he can continue to generate income.
The news caused an uproar across the internet.
After several days of media outreach, people now have a clear understanding of the economic benefits of Mengjie Sponge.
This product is indispensable to all industries, and as long as the price is reasonable, it can generate at least several billion yuan in net profit per year.
In other words, even if Meng Jie goes home and stays in bed, three generations of his family can live a comfortable life.
In an instant, researchers across the country were eager to get started.
Chen Yansen's move is clearly a case of "spending a fortune to buy a horse's bones," setting an example for researchers worldwide: joining Senlian Group means not only ample financial support but also guaranteed prestige.
Just like Meng Jie, who is now likely to win three top awards, and Sun Jianing and Guan Yujie of Orange Bio, along with the three Nobel laureates of DeepBlue Technology, Senlian Group will soon have seven Nobel Prize-level technical experts.
After netizens raised this point on social media, everyone belatedly realized just how terrifying Senlian Group's scientific research capabilities were.
In mid-May, Meng Jie was undoubtedly the world's top influencer.
Countless people suffering from noise pollution, some even developing noise allergies and depression, flocked to Chen Yansen's social media accounts seeking help after learning that Meng Jie Sponge could potentially solve their noise problems.
"Brother Sen, help me! The kid upstairs is making a ruckus until midnight every day, and the elderly person gets up at 5 a.m. to make breakfast. It's constant noise, I'm going crazy! When will Mengjie Sponge go on sale? I really can't take it anymore!"
"Damn it, I've had three fights with the upstairs neighbor. The property management and the neighborhood committee's mediation didn't work. They're just a stubborn mule. I'm even thinking of selling the house!"
"I've been tormented by the neighbor's kid's piano music for three years, and it's even triggered my noise allergy. The doctor said I'll become depressed if this continues! Brother Sen, I've never begged anyone in my life. Promise me, can you start selling tomorrow?"
"Located in an old residential area in Shanghai, the first floor is being renovated, then the second floor, and then the fourth floor starts working again. All I can hear right now is the sound of electric drills. I hope it can be put on the market as soon as possible!"
The comments section was even more popular than the official marriage announcement of a top celebrity, and the total number of views on related topics across the internet exceeded 5 billion.
According to statistics from a third-party organization, there are more than 2 million comments about noise pollution on a single social media platform, which means that the civilian market demand for Mengjie Sponge is far greater than Chen Yansen initially estimated.
Chen Yansen felt quite helpless after seeing these comments.
The factory was just acquired, and the personnel, materials, and production lines all need to be integrated. It's not like we can build a factory today and start production tomorrow.
Faced with requests for help from netizens, he could only reply: "The factory is still under construction. I have seen everyone's requests and will expedite the production process as soon as possible."
The moment the reply was posted, the comment section exploded.
Some netizens expressed their understanding: "Brother Sen, don't worry, we can wait. Ensuring quality is the most important thing."
But many more noise victims have already lost patience. Cries like "If the production capacity is not enough, then pay more to expand production! We are willing to pay a premium to buy spot goods" and "Can we do a small-scale trial production first, even if it is a limited-quantity flash sale?" are rising one after another.
To put it bluntly, the root of all this is that the developers are inhumane.
The building association stipulates that the standard thickness of floor slabs should be 10 to 12 centimeters, but in order to save costs, they often only do the minimum standard of 10 centimeters, and the materials may not meet the standards.
It would be strange if the sound insulation was good!
(End of this chapter)
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