"Anyway, this was an accidental discovery, and I didn't spend much money on it. If the funding is too high, I would feel somewhat uncomfortable,"
When the conversation reached this point, Chen Xuan revealed his actual concerns, "But there's an issue...uhm, you see, regarding this project, there might be a few details that need to be fine-tuned.
While I've got the basic framework sorted, there is a lack of practical experience. Could you possibly assign a few seniors to help (work as contractors) me out?"
Definitely, every project requires a research paper explaining what it is about and how it was done.
And of course, the experimental data deployed to support this paper is of the utmost importance.
If someone tries to validate and finds that, even after following the procedure, they can't replicate the results – or even the process – then that would be academic fraud.