Orion Crest, Series_1

Chapter 45: Commercial business

　　Professor Roger's lab, Institute of the Carbon Nanotube Materials.

　　"Yesterday afternoon, I received a notification that our project has finally come to a successful conclusion! Although you are not my graduate student, I can't let you do so much work for nothing. Without your research results, it's hard to say whether our project can be completed this year." Saying that, Roger pulled open a drawer and took out a piece of paper from it, picked up a pen and wrote on it a few lines, then stamped it.

　　In a relaxed tone, he continued. "I don't have anything here to give you, but if I don't give you any reward at all, Old Tang is afraid that he'll have to scold me again. How about this, this $10,000, as a reward, you just take it."

　　Happiness came too suddenly; Orion completely did not expect that there would be this amount of income. Receiving the cheque, Orion smiled, "Thank you Professor!"

　　"You're welcome, speaking of which, I still have to thank you." Roger cleared his throat and continued, "In recent years the production technology of multi-walled carbon nanotube materials has been improved a lot, the price was going down, and the pace of commercialization is accelerating." 

　　"Especially in the field of composite materials, although the cost is a bit more expensive than these additive materials such as high-grade carbon black, it is better because of the price-performance ratio is still quite considerable. Some time ago I had a chat with the boss of Imerys, and there is still a lot of room to expand the market in this area."

　　"Fairmat's side of the co-operation project delivered, when the New Year is over, I'll probably have to open a scientific research project here, doing research on electrode materials, are you interested?"

　　Orion thought about it and said, "I'm not sure if I'll have time by then." There was still a Princeton maths conference to attend in February, plus the system always threw him some weird and strange tasks to complete.

　　Although he wanted to participate in this kind of research project to accumulate academic resources, it was better to wait until then.

　　Roger smiled and said, ''That's true, let's do it this way, when the time comes to start the project, I'll just ask you again. Alright... ..."

　　Out of the lab, Orion went back to the library, and after switching on his computer, he was ready to continue reading the paper he hadn't finished earlier.

　　Just then, he saw that the dude in the neighboring seat was using the Campus Assistant's time management lock screen. It seemed that Wilfred's marketing plan had been implemented successfully, and he had already seen, more than once, someone in the library using his app.

　　A little proud of himself, Orion searched the Internet for the words "Campus Assistant", but at that moment, he suddenly saw a line of news appearing in the search page and froze slightly.

　　[Imerys (00XXX) invested in Campus Assistant APP, following the technological breakthrough, continue to lead the concept of "Internet" ......]

　　What the hell is this?

　　Orion did not know much about the securities market, and with curiosity, Orion clicked on the news.

　　[The day before yesterday, Imerys, with carbon nanotubes modified cementitious composite material technology to achieve a major breakthrough, the successful registration of two patents, and recently have another big news, Imerys invests campus assistant ......].

　　Skipping the long middle, Orion went straight to the end of the article. Then, his eyebrows jumped hard a few times.

　　Well, the news had only been out for two days, and this Imerys' stock price had risen 15.6%! The market capitalization had jumped upwards by more than 300 million!