"Menglong, how are you doing this 11th?" Early the next morning, Zhang Menglong received a call from his senior brother Zhu Mengchao.

"It's not bad, what about you, senior brother?"

"Of course, we miserable doctoral students are swinging the bottles and jars in the laboratory," Zhu Mengchao said helplessly. "I don't know what water I had in my mind at the beginning. After studying for graduate school, I studied for another doctorate. My hair was getting smaller and smaller every day, but my pockets never saw a drum."

"Don't you have a lot of subsidies every month?" Zhang Menglong asked curiously.

"Subsidy? Come on! The school's subsidy is enough to live. My girlfriend can't stand it if she buys something casually. Lao Han's scientific research funding this year is too tight. Our labor fee has been deducted from 4,000 yuan a month to 800 yuan a month. It's all tears if you say too much!"

"Oh?" Zhang Menglong's eyes lit up. It seemed that due to the overall situation this year, these traditional enterprises have been affected, and even these college teachers cannot receive scientific research funds.

"Let's stop talking about those, your graduation thesis is about to start preparing. Let's start tomorrow. I'll send you a piece of information first and you can read it. I'll take you to start the experiment tomorrow."

"Okay," said Zhang Menglong.

Zhang Menglong turned on the computer and sure enough, a document had been transferred to his email address.

"Surface modification of graphene?" Zhang Menglong took a look at his topic. This is graphene, a very popular inorganic material recently. Its excellent performance plays an extremely important role in many fields.

However, the production cost of graphene is quite high. The most common hummer method in the laboratory is now less than 1 gram in a week, and the purity is very low.

Those high-purity graphenes are even sold at thousands of yuan per gram, which is ten times more expensive than gold!

"Good guy, it turns out that scientific research is the most expensive!" Zhang Menglong glanced at his experiment content. The price of this 1 gram of high-purity graphene alone reached 2,000 yuan. No wonder these teachers try their best to make money in various companies every day. A research team is simply a money-burning machine.

Thinking of this, Zhang Menglong called Zhu Mengchao directly.

"Menglong, what's wrong? Do you have any questions about the subject?"

"There is no problem with the project," said Zhang Menglong, "I just want to ask my senior brother, is the scientific research funding of our research team not enough?"

"Oh, I'm worried when I talk about this!" Zhu Mengchao lowered his voice, "Lao Han obtained 30 million yuan in scientific research funds last year. He wanted to make some achievements in the field of graphene, and now he has achieved some results."

"But the 30 million yuan fund can only be supported for less than a month. The companies we originally cooperated with are also forcing us to achieve results. Now the business is not easy to do, and we are unwilling to increase our scientific research investment no matter what we say. Lao Han's hair has turned white during this period."

"Is the funding gap very large?" Zhang Menglong asked tentatively.

"It's quite large, and it costs at least 25 million. But don't worry, it's enough to give you graduation funds, but we're going to suffer, hey..."

"Senior brother, are Teacher Han in school these days?"

"Old Han has been to the company again these two days, but he will go back to school the day after tomorrow. Is there anything you have?" Zhu Mengchao asked, "Wait, you don't want to study for a postgraduate student, right? Don't be too impressed and advise people to study for a postgraduate student and have no descendants. You must not come in this major in the pit, you still have a bright future."

"Senior brother, I want to invest a scientific research fund in our research team."

"Ah? You say it again?" Zhu Mengchao thought he had heard it wrong. This investment in scientific research is not a joke. Not only does it have to bear huge risks, but even if there are results, it will be quite long to convert scientific research results into an industry.

The most important thing is, where does Zhang Menglong, an ordinary senior student, get the money to support scientific research? Even if it is a few million, he can't stand the tossing and trouble in their research team for too long.

"Senior brother, I mean I want to invest a scientific research fund for our research team." Zhang Menglong repeated again, "You just said that there is still a gap of 25 million now, right? I'll invest 50 million first."

"What? 50 million? Wait, junior brother, aren't you kidding, are you..."

"I'm not kidding. Look, I'm about to leave school. I'm thinking of making some contributions to our school and our research team before graduation."

"But..." Teacher Han's temper is famous. If Zhang Menglong was joking, his senior brother would be dismantled by Old Han.

"Senior brother, let's do this. Give me Teacher Han's contact information and I'll tell Teacher Han myself that even apart from the problem, it won't implicate you." Zhang Menglong knew what Zhu Mengchao was worried about. If it were ordinary people, who would believe this kind of thing?

Even if that 30 million was still the one that Teacher Han went there, signed many agreements and terms before he finally got it. And the school left a part of the so-called handling fee, but the one he got was not 30 million at all.

"Okay, but you don't allow me to say that the number was given to you."

"Don't worry, senior brother, I'll treat you to dinner then!"

"It's not necessary to eat," Zhu Mengchao said, "If you can really help our research team solve the funding problem, I thank you for not having time, so that Lao Han will no longer deduct our labor fees."

"Hahaha, senior brother, don't worry, I will definitely tell you!"

Zhang Menglong successfully got Teacher Han’s phone number from Zhu Mengchao.

Teacher Han’s full name is Han Jinyu. He is a very famous professor at Jiangnan University of Technology, and is also the head of their materials major. He holds the title of Changjiang Scholar. If the project is successful this time, he may even have the chance to become the second academician independently trained by their school. For ordinary first-tier universities like Jiangnan University of Technology, this is not a trivial matter.

Han Jinyu was lying on the hotel bed with a sad face, with a thick stack of information scattered beside him.

Although he is a handsome professor on the surface, only they themselves know how painful it is to deal with the bosses of those companies.

Especially when they ask for money, they are like their grandson.

Today he was rejected again. Some of the achievements of this project are only in papers, but for companies, they don’t care at all about the extent of papers published. Even if they are published in the world’s first-class journal science or nature, it will not be of great benefit to them.

All they care about is how to apply the researched results to the industry and how to help them earn more money, that's all.

Having invested 30 million, but I haven't seen any return yet. Now Han Jinyu is now asking them for funds. Isn't this a joke? The company is not a charity!

Just when Han Jinyu was almost collapsed, his cell phone rang, but the voice of a very young boy came from the other end of the phone.

"Hello, is it Teacher Han?"

"Who are you?"

"Teacher Han, I am Zhang Menglong, who chose your research group for graduation design this year. You should have an impression?"

"Oh, it's you," Han Jinyu said, "Didn't I arrange for Zhu Mengchao to take you to do the experiment? What's wrong? Is there something wrong with the experiment? Or is the senior brother irresponsible?"

Han Jinyu's attitude quickly made Zhang Menglong feel good. He knew many teachers and always looked arrogant when dealing with ordinary students. With this alone, Zhang Menglong was willing to help him.

"Things are not available, my senior brother takes good care of me."

"That's good, then is there anything wrong with calling me?" Han Jinyu really couldn't imagine what the purpose of a graduate calling him. Could it be that he hoped that he would give him a chance in the graduation design?

"Teacher Han, I heard that your research team has encountered some funding problems recently, so..."

"What Meng Chao told you?" Han Jinyu's tone suddenly became serious. Such things are the secrets of the research team. How can you just talk to a student who is doing graduation design?

"Teacher, don't be angry, that's right. I have some money here and want to invest it in our research team as funding. See when you have time, let's discuss this matter."

"Scientific research fund?" Han Jinyu couldn't help laughing, "How much do you plan to invest in our laboratory?"

"Purchase 50 million first?"

"What? 50 million?"

"Yes, if it's not enough, I'll add it later. Since you're out of town these two days, I..."

"No, no, no, where are you now? I will go back to school immediately!" Han Jinyu seemed to have regained all his energy. This time, his subject was saved!
Chapter completed!