Shanghai, in an apartment building near Shui Wood University.

An old man is holding an English magazine and sitting on the couch watching.

Half the time, he suddenly laughed and put the magazine down and said, "This kid is a talent. ”

The old man wearing glasses is not someone else. He is Tai Dou Qiu Chengtong of the world's Chinese numeracy school, Mr. Qiu.

And the magazine he held in his hand was nothing else, just the English version of Nature Weekly. And on the page that was turned over, it was Belinda, a British journalist, who interviewed the intern named Ark.

In the interview, the magazine mentioned the identity of the interviewee, Jinling University Master's Student, and his membership in the LHCb China Cooperation Group, as well as his views on signals emerging from the 750GeV Energy Zone.

As High Academician, head of the China Cooperation Group for the LHCb Project, said earlier, the intern, helping the otherwise non-existent China Cooperation Group, argued in the international arena of CERN.

I'm sure it won't be long before the young scholar in Nature Weekly is covered.

And he deserves all this glory.

“Yeah.”

The old man sitting opposite Mr. Qiu, drinking tea, whispered emotionally.

This is not someone else, this is the Wang Puping Academician who had an edge on the Ark in Princeton.

Although Mr. Qiu's relationship with Yan Da was poor, to the point of even shelling each other in the media and turning his teacher around, Mr. Qiu still had a few good personal friends in Yan Da.

One of them, for example, is Master Wang Qiping.

After a moment of pause, Mr. Wang continued to mourn: “After that academic meeting in Princeton, I thought the kid was mathematical, and I didn't expect him to have such a talent in high-energy physics. I've seen a lot of young, productive scholars, but I haven't seen a lot of them. ”

Qiu Chengtong smiled and said, "I've seen one before. ”

“Who?”

“Tao Zhexuan! ”

Wang Qiping stunned for a moment and laughed: “Are you so high on him? ”

Tao Zhexuan, the first Australian to receive the Fields Award, and the second Chinese to receive the award after Qiu Chengtong in '82, now teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles, is a recognized genius in mathematics and an amazing talent.

Although he did not involve research in the field of physics, his research paradigm covered almost all areas of mathematics, from tuning and analysis to non-linear bias differential equations, and even his research spread from the pure field to the field of coefficients, such as compression sensing principles in cameras.

A lot of people rated him as Mozart in mathematics, because besides genius, no good reason could be found to explain why so many achievements appeared in a mortal.

Although many people in the domestic mathematics community have evaluated the ark and called him "Little Tao Zhexuan”, he ended up wearing the word "Little”. In Wang's opinion, the evaluation of the old friend is still a little exaggerated.

Mr. Qiu laughed and said, "Is it highly rated? I even think he has every hope of surpassing his predecessor! ”

Hearing the old friend's assessment of the young man was so high, Wang Qiping was surprised and couldn't help but ask: “Are you serious? ”

“Of course," Mr. Qiu nodded, "I actually had this feeling when I saw him choosing the Bolignac conjecture as the subject of the study. And now I see this story, but it makes me even more certain. ”

Wang Qiping asked with a smile: "Do you think he can solve this problem? ”

“Hard to say, he solved even the twin count guess. If it wasn't for that energy, and the number theory was outside my scope of research, I'd like to try to challenge this problem." Mr. Qiu was moved, suddenly his eyes turned and smiled at his old friend and said, “Why don't we make a bet? ”

Wang Qiping asked with a smile: "What's the bet? ”

“I bet he can solve that conjecture within two years. ”

“Unrealistic.” Wang Qiping shook his head, "I know you rated him highly, but he's not looking at mathematical physics, he's looking at mathematical physics. If he thinks about mathematics, it is possible to complete this topic... but now that we look at it, two years is still too short! ”

Mr. Qiu shook his head: “The direction of research is not a problem. Interest is the best teacher. In my opinion, he has the talent to do this. Since we disagree, do you want to bet? ”

Wang Zhoping patted his thigh and said with a smile: "Okay, let's bet! I'll give you a hundred bucks, and I won't lose anyway. ”

Mr. Qiu scolded with a smile: "You old thing, you haven't started gambling yet, you want to lose. I'm not gambling with you, I'm bored! ”

……

“Sneeze! ”

Sneezed, the ark rubbed its nose, muttered, "Who's yelling at me?" and continued to ambush writing.

Master Lu's schedule, he's already seen it.

But it's still summer vacation, and the latest class is next month, so don't worry about it for now.

For days, the ark has barely exited the bedroom door, keeping itself locked in the bedroom, strangling the data from the computer to design experiments.

In order to design that PDMS film, he had to look at a lot of literature and conceive experimental ideas based on it.

The reason for him to be so focused is, of course, about money.

Guarding a big gold mine, if he doesn't get something off it, he can't even sleep well.

There is no exaggeration or even underestimation of the value of a gold mine to describe this technology.

As early as 20 years ago, lithium-metal anodes were abandoned by industry because of the short-circuit problems caused by the growth of branched crystals, which turned batteries into incendiary bombs and “blew up” a ten-billion-dollar listed company.

But the strong market outlook for lithium metals still attracts countless materials laboratories, and there is a successive influx on this subject.

At the corporate level, IBM even prepared an over-count for a lithium air battery project, allocating the path of each gas molecule into the battery cell to avoid gas congestion… although it was later discovered to be a bottomless hole that the capitalists had mercilessly cut off.

At the national level, such as the Minister of Energy in the Obama team, Mr. Zhu Yuwen, an American Chinese who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in '97, has been a fanatic supporter of lithium anode batteries for some time... although he was finally persuaded by a group of people.

As to why lithium batteries possess such fascinating magic, the concept of energy density has to be mentioned.

The so-called energy density is the energy contained within a unit volume. As the most important measure of a battery's performance, increasing energy density has been the industry's quest.

Even in China's 13th Five-Year Plan, there is a clear plan to achieve synchronization of the power cell technology level with the international level by 2020, and maintain the global leadership in capacity scale. And one of the core red lines is to increase the energy density of the power cells to 300-350 Whkg.

At present, lithium-sulfur batteries still in the laboratory are most likely to be unplugged.

But if the lithium-crystal problem is solved, all those hot ideas have to stand aside and give way to the lithium anode battery.

Chemistry has been learned, first of all, that a lithium metal anode has the lowest electrochemical potential of -3.04V, let alone a specific capacity of up to 3,861mAhg.

With lithium material as the anode, the energy storage effect can theoretically even reach ten times that of graphite batteries, compressing the energy density of graphite anode material in all directions!

And the most appealing thing is that once the lithium-crystal growth problem is solved, it doesn't even need to make major design changes to the existing battery, even replacing the existing universal graphite anode material directly can achieve a leap up in battery energy density!