The mainland is the world's largest producer of consumer electronics, mobile phones, computers, color TV production accounted for 90%, 90% and 70% of the global proportion of 90%, and the manufacture of so many consumer electronic devices, which means that the mainland consumes a lot of micro-nanocrystalline glass every year. Micro-nano crystal has huge market prospects, but although the continental micro-nano crystal glass market is huge, it has long been occupied by overseas manufacturers.
Foreign giants monopolize the electronic glass market
According to Maia Research and Analysis, the global electronic glass market concentration will exceed 95% in 2020, of which Corning alone accounts for 55%. In the field of high-end consumer electronics, Corning is a highly monopolistic. Taking flagship phones as an example, Corning glass has almost become standard. In 2020, Corning's total operating income was $11.3 billion and net profit was $510 million, of which $4.746 billion in electronic glass business revenue accounted for 42% of Corning's total revenue, and net profit accounted for more than 60%.
In the case of the rapid popularization of 5G and the emergence of digitalization and intelligence as a new trend in development, it is foreseeable that the scale of the micro-nanocrystalline glass market will continue to grow, and Corning's dominance will become stronger and stronger. According to the current situation, China's consumer electronics industry will inevitably be constrained by American companies.
In 2021, a dark horse appeared in China's manufacturing industry, successfully breaking Corning's monopoly position in the field of electronic glass, which is Zhao Tianyou's company.
It is understood that the transparent micro-nanocrystalline second-generation electronic window materials produced by the company have been detected by third-party institutions, which can further reduce dielectric loss and signal loss, and have certain advantages over the world's top products, and a number of parameters are leading the world's first-class panel manufacturers, especially the dielectric constant reaches 7.25, further enhancing the signal of 5G mobile phones. After the mass production of the material, Chinese manufacturers are expected to completely get rid of their dependence on overseas companies in the field of micro-nanocrystalline glass.
The father of micro-nano crystal glass in China
Zhao Tianyou, who is 89 years old this year, as a technical expert in domestic micro-nanocrystalline glass, has 65 years of research and development experience in new glass materials. It should be known that the research and development threshold of micro-nanocrystalline glass is high, and it has always been monopolized by foreign companies, and research and development especially needs technical and financial support, and it needs the long-term research of countless scientific researchers. In 2010 began to engage in micro-nanocrystalline glass technology research, based on glass-ceramic, constantly overcome technical problems, and constantly experiment with new material formulas, in 2021 finally successfully developed, Mr. Zhao Tianyou is an absolute authority in the field of micro-nanocrystalline glass, and won the National Technological Invention Award, the National Science and Technology Progress Award and other honors, but also known as "the father of China's micro-nanocrystalline glass".
The second generation of micro-nanocrystalline breaks the monopoly of foreign countries
With the advent of the 5G era, 5G needs higher frequency electromagnetic waves, and a major factor affecting 5G signals is the attenuation of electromagnetic waves, affecting the attenuation of electromagnetic waves is the dielectric constant and dielectric loss, micro-nanocrystalline glass has an ultra-low dielectric constant and dielectric loss, which can ensure the communication quality of 5G mobile phones, especially to ensure that 5G signals are "full".
Micro-nanocrystalline materials have gone through the research and development stage, related enterprises are actively preparing for mass production, while with the improvement of the process hardness, light transmittance has also improved, while the second generation of micro-nanocrystalline has a complete independent intellectual property rights, with the gradual mass production of products, can progress to break the international monopoly, but also not afraid of "card neck".
To know that micro-nanocrystalline glass can not only be applied to mobile phones, in fact, many industries and products need micro-nanocrystalline, such as the current very popular AR, VR equipment, smart wearable devices and displays, etc., including automotive glass or even bulletproof glass, micro-nanocrystalline can also be applied to solar panels, including photovoltaics, satellite solar panels and so on.
Core technology creates a technological power
The author believes that the mainland is the world's manufacturing power, whether it is output or sales are in the forefront of the world, but many manufacturing core technologies are monopolized by foreign enterprises, from manufacturing power to technological power transformation and upgrading, the need for more excellent scientific research experts such as Zhao Tianyou and decades of scientific research spirit, more need for scientific research capabilities and enterprise technology needs of the close combination. In recent years, the international environment is turbulent, market competition has become more and more fierce, in order not to be suppressed by foreign patented technology to the throat of enterprise development, only through independent research and development to break the patent monopoly may have a market competitive advantage. But now Chinese enterprises generally have pain points of difficult technology acquisition, high cost and long cycle. Whale Dynamic Laboratory builds a service platform for both supply and demand, gathers resources and information, forms a large database, and through AI intelligent algorithms, realizes accurate matching between supply and demand, and carries out relevant online and offline services, so that scientific research can produce technological achievements with commercial value, meet the technical needs of enterprises in the production and operation process, promote the high-quality development of scientific research supply and demand, and help China transform from a manufacturing power to a technological power!