On may 11th, at the ningde-era research and development centre, xinhua online (wing joo), researchers are looking for more efficient product options from thousands of materials, using a digital, intelligent material development platform that originates from a domestic emerging technology company。
From fundamental innovation to the development of autonomous intellectual property (ipr) research tools to breaking foreign technology monopoly into the first international multi-scale simulation software team - – over a period of more than eight years, china’s microtechnologies (shanghai) corporation, inc., has been working with a team of domestic scientists to achieve a national replacement of materials and software, providing a foundation for high-quality development in the real economy, with a synergetic technological contribution。
“china's scientific research is accelerating, as is the innovation of tools to serve chinese scientific research. Hong's initial purpose and mission is to break international monopolies, lead multi-scale simulation techniques, and free the world from hard-to-do materials.” chairman cho yonggen said。
This is chairman cho yonggen. Xinhua net
To serve the chinese scientists
If material science is the crown of the new industrial revolution, the multiscale simulation software for material development is the "middle bead" on the crown。
From quantum communication, integrated circuits, aerospace science and technology closures, to the development of new energy vehicles and oled light materials, material science covers the frontier areas of current science and technology innovation and is key to industrial breakthroughs。
For researchers, material development is a difficult and lengthy process. The inventors of the electric light bulbs, after nearly 7,000 experiments, found tungsten silk in over 6,000 materials. The amount of experiments that scientists are facing today in the development of materials is a geometrical multiple of that figure。
In around 2000, dr. Cao yonggen and dr. Wang ying, who were engaged in scientific research at the university of jordan, were already exposed to simulation software developed by foreign companies. Since then, the two have travelled to overseas universities for exchanges in relevant fields. At the end of the visit, the idea of developing chinese autonomous intellectual property simulation software emerged。
Material development is a continuous process of taking stock of research results in both trial and trial error. The development of modern materials involves a wide range of disciplines, a large amount of data computing and a wide variety of software and expertise。
Our scientific work is catching up with the rest of the world at an unprecedented rate. The number of papers published in china is among the highest in the world in the international authoritative sci database, which searchs for articles related to the first principle of calculation. For a long time, however, the relevant software used by researchers has come from abroad。
In the view of many researchers, these products, although relatively mature, also have obvious pains: higher prices for overseas software, local services being handed over to domestic agents, and long technical response times; in addition, data interoperability and computing in different scientific software are inadequate。
Tsao yonggen said that the original idea for creating hong kong was to make autonomous research and development of multi-scale simulation software and to replace national production, to provide a basic research platform for high-quality development of the real economy and to serve the aspirations of chinese scientists。
For eight years, regardless of the changes in the investment climate, the capital market's “story” has evolved in such a way that it has kept up with the country's scientific report, its original purpose of self-research and development, and it has not applied “smartness” to scientific research and has not taken a “short cut”。
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To date, the company has focused on intellectual property issues in software products, ensuring that codes in software products are prepared by its own researchers, rather than simply obtained through mergers and acquisitions or subcontracts。
At present, hung has 132 fully autonomous intellectual property rights and 41 different patents. In 2021, hun sen was selected by the ministry of state for industrial and technological affairs to specialize in new “small giants”。
In 2014, the initial amount was used for simulation software in semiconductor research and development. Over the next eight years, companies, in partnership with a large number of scientists in the country, have developed more than 20 basic computing, design and simulation software, starting with the most basic bottom solvency model, covering all areas necessary for material development。
For the team of micro-entrepreneurs, independent r & d and the replacement of national production by eight words reflect the commitment of scientists and the courage of entrepreneurs。
A scientist from shandong university was impressed to say, “i have spent my entire life in quantum chemistry research, but for many years the software for material computing and research in other fields of research has remained dominant in foreign firms, and i can't believe that chinese companies are now making the same product, and really thank you.”
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They are scientists and entrepreneurs. The “dual identity” of the micro-entrepreneur team made it possible for enterprises to develop their research and development while also taking the lead in understanding the important changes in the domestic research market。
The new global industrial revolution is accelerating and material development is constantly evolving in a multi-scale, interdisciplinary direction. For scientists, the daily software involved spans different platforms, with more than a dozen sections。
In terms of user experience, the operational interfaces and data connectivity of dozens of software, both domestic and foreign, vary. Previously, the functional replacement of single-forming software from abroad had been achieved in the product arrays of hung niwa. However, the challenges of big data, surges in computing and synergetic innovation in research work lie ahead。
In recent years, china's advantage in digital economic development has increased. Cao yonggen and wang sing began to think about how to apply the latest chinese achievements in big data and artificial intelligence to scientific research. The most critical transformation has taken place since the start of entrepreneurship。
In 2021, the cloud-based scientific research platform, “the clouds of the dynasty”, built on its own initiative, began providing saas (software or services) research tools to global scientific institutions. In contrast to previous work patterns, scientific researchers have been able to achieve “atom-grade modelling of materials, efficient scientific simulation, monitoring and management of computational missions, and visualization of data” so that one-stop material computing services have greatly improved scientific efficiency。
Wang jing said that the company is moving forward with three strategic configurations, taking as an opportunity to go online:
One is the “bottoming” of the research, which will provide a safe and reliable research platform for scientists in the country. The second is cloudification, in which companies are building on china's industrial advantages in cloud computing and artificial intelligence, and in which the cloud remodels scientific tools and increases the efficiency of scientific research efforts. Thirdly, it is ecological, and the micro-plan is working with more scientific institutions to develop higher-quality scientific tools。
In the field of material science, the development platforms commonly used by researchers cover a wide range of technical aspects, including density general communication theory, quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics and computational thermodynamics, up to dozens of software programmes. The number of tools provided by hung niwa has reached almost half. Market ownership of some scientific tools exceeds 40 per cent. More importantly, scientists have access to these tools in the clouds。
The research teams in several higher education institutions evaluate after the use of the cloud, the integration of the new platform and the precision of the calculations at the international level, together with better experience in cloud computing, etc. Than in foreign software。
At the same time, china and china have entered into strategic cooperation with a number of well-known cloud service providers in the country, such as clouds, who will work together to build a platform for the development of materials based on national hardware and the world's leading super-computer clusters to provide researchers with more integrated and cost-effective scientific computing solutions。
Looking to the future, helping china to make a breakthrough in science and innovation
The clients of hong's micro-services have reached more than 600 universities, research institutes and industry head-run enterprises in the country and abroad, with brand coverage and market occupancy rates at the top of the industry。
In addition, the research products of hung niwa have entered the established market of powerful countries in material science such as the united states and japan. In recent years, a group of prominent scientists and academicians abroad have also become users of hongxiwa。
In cao's view, the greatest gain since hong's micro-entrepreneurship has been not only the national replacement of multi-scale simulation software, but also the emergence of a new path of autonomous industrial software development and ecological innovation in china。
The new track has opened a whole new business landscape and brought new challenges. During the single-line product period, there is still a competitive path to development. And the emergence of the “mixed cloud” has enabled enterprises to act as “traceers” in many areas, including product development, commercialization and industrial ecological construction。
On the one hand, the creation of a team of chief scientists to build a “scientific corps” of basic software research, and on the other hand, the micro-enabled use of open industrial ecology has attracted more national researchers to join in the development of the “micro clouds”。
In addition to the laboratories established with universities and research institutes such as the university of beijing and the chinese academy of sciences, the pprop programme (the programme for the training of scientific elites) was launched jointly with the united nations institute for training and research, and horizontal research projects were carried out to create a win-win, win-win scientific and research ecology in the clouds, and to promote the transformation of research results。
As wang has said, china's “golden age” in material science has only just begun: the “145” plan and the vision 2035 vision outline, which strengthens the original lead science and technology barriers in the areas of quantum information, integrated circuits, genes and biotechnology. Material science, on the other hand, is the key to furthering these core areas。
Cao yonggen said that, in looking ahead, the vision is to uphold the values of breakthrough, altruism and win-winness, to empower more scientific institutions on new tracks, to accelerate the pace of production, learning and transformation, and to help achieve breakthroughs in critical areas of scientific research。
Eight years ago, from the creation of a single tool software, to the mastery of the "eighteen martial arts" and from the emergence of a dozen software pieces on the market, to the development of the first cloud-based integrated scientific platform in the industry -- – compared to those who have accumulated development for decades abroad, it is not the following, but the thinkers, the innovators, the changers。
It's about time. His name shows the physical scale of material science, from micro to macro, and explains the initial vision of chinese researchers in basic scientific research。
