Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Outside the window the sky was bright.

When he fell asleep on the table, he rubbed his eyes, moved his stiff arm and stood up from his chair.

And then the first thing he did was he couldn't wait to get to the digital microscope and check the samples under the microscope.

No explosion, no smoke.

Seeing the samples intact, the ark was delighted, then looked at the computer next to it, and the photos were taken over as quickly as a slide.

“Got it!”

His fist was squeezed tight and he could hardly stand to cheer out.

From yesterday afternoon until now, he has performed four sets of charging and discharging cycles, none of which have appeared lithium-crystal!

Lithium ions flying toward the anode do not form white trees, but rather deposits a mossy fold beneath the PDMS material and superimposes it one layer at a time.

From the data on the BK-6808 rechargeable battery tester, not only is there no lithium branches formed, but even the Kulun efficiency is maintained at a fairly high level!

Good results surprise the ark.

He thought it would take at least a combination of PDMS material and those carbon nanospheres to completely solve the lithium-crystal problem. The result was unexpected, even if the PDMS material was pulled out separately, it worked amazingly well.

As for the action of those carbon nanospheres, the ark maintains previous speculation that, in addition to accelerating the rate of dissolution of lithium ions, it is probably used to “flatten” the folds beneath the PDMS material.

As for those mossy “creases," they certainly have an impact on battery performance, but at least they are much better than the deadly lithium branches!

Without those little balls, as the battery continues to charge and discharge, the wrinkle phenomenon increases. Although not enough to pierce the lithium branches, the efficiency of the Cullen cycle will definitely decrease, reducing the battery's life expectancy.

Perhaps this flaw is unacceptable for advanced civilization, but it can be ignored for any company on the planet.

The biggest pursuit of the industry is to increase the energy density of the battery as much as possible without decreasing its life expectancy under the premise of safety guarantees!

It's like someone else's phone is fully charged to brush their neck for a week and play games for a week, while your phone is fully charged to play red blood in less than half a day, and the market is highly competitive.

Of course, this comparison may be somewhat exaggerated. There are many factors that affect the performance of the battery. The specific lifespan also depends on how the battery and the chip that controls the battery are designed, and this part is difficult for the ark to interfere with.

But there is no doubt that this new type of anode material will give the entire industry an infinite imagination!

Whether lithium borate batteries or lithium manganese cobalt acid batteries are widely used on the market, the anode is predominantly graphite. As for the lithium-sulfur battery that was still lying in the lab, he knelt beneath Papa Lithium's feet and sang the conquest.

So the Ark knows exactly what it's meant to be what it's been doing for most of the month.

He took a deep breath, closed his eyes and meditated.

“System, what do those carbon nanospheres do? ”

The system has not responded.

He opened his eyes and stared at the sample on the microscope, whispering silently.

“Really?”

As he predicted, the technology contained in those carbon nanospheres had exceeded his material grade, and he had no access to that part of the information for the time being, just like anything like a diaphragm that screened oxygen molecules.

But it doesn't matter.

The data scanned from Wreck One is on his computer, and not everything has to be solved by the system.

Sooner or later, when his own lab is built, he will hire a group of researchers to help him restore every piece of technology in it.

The power was unplugged and the ark stored a sample of the battery under the microscope in a pre-prepared small box.

Immediately thereafter, he saved all the photographs on the digital microscope and the data on the BK-6808 rechargeable battery tester to the USB disk, and the raw data on the device was completely destroyed by him.

After cleaning up the lab and confirming that nothing “interesting” was left behind, the ark left the lab in a happy mood and returned the key to Teacher Wang, who was in charge of managing the laboratory equipment.

By chance, on the way out, the ark ran into Brother Qian.

When he saw the ark, Brother Qian greeted him and said, "Are you done with the experiment? ”

The Ark laughed and said, "Done. ”

Originally it was just a photo shoot, the ark suddenly thought of something, calling Brother Qian who was about to walk into the office.

“By the way, are you studying electrode materials? ”

Later last year, when Ark was working on a project for Professor Lee, he heard about what kind of electrode materials he seemed to be studying this year.

“Yes,” Brother Qian nodded, smiling. “Interested? ”

Instead of answering the question, the Ark asked, "What are you doing? ”

Not something worth keeping secret, Brother Qian replied in a chatty tone: "Lithium sulfur battery cathode material. Recent research results from MIT have found that fixing sulfur to the mesoporous carbon material as a cathode material can effectively slow the growth of anodic lithium branches. As for something more specific, I couldn't say enough and sign a confidentiality agreement. If you are interested, Professor Lee would certainly welcome you to join our team. ”

“Forget it, Master Lu won't be happy to see me touch the fish.” The Ark laughed and hesitated for a while, "he said," and I don't think it's a good choice... I've seen that paper you said, and I'm actually doing similar research. ”

With words in mind, the Ark continued.

“But I think that if this discovery were so important, the research team at MIT would be less likely to send it to the journal, at least not in such a hurry. ”

Technologies that have already been disclosed cannot be patented because they conflict with the “novelty” of national patent laws.

While it is not excluded that selfless researchers benefit society, laboratories with investments in enterprises (mainly in engineering) typically adopt the model of registering patent protection research results before publishing papers for high-value research results.

So easily thrown into a journal, there's a high probability that it's unreliable, and something like that hasn't happened, even in the area of batteries.

Around 2011, Cornell University's L-Archer research group published a paper on aluminum ion batteries in the JECS journal, proposing a battery model in which Al made an anode V2O5 as a positive electrode, which had been widely reported as “breakthrough” in the battery industry, and even highlighted by the famous journal Science.

It is not very good to say whether these people have been tricked into funding, but the end result is that it has proved to be a dragon.

At the MRS conference, Cornell University people were “hung up” by a guy named Luke Reed with convincing data and had no power to talk back...

The Ark did not know if the results of MIT's research were correct, but he did know that there was no future for studying how to suppress lithium-crystal growth, starting with cathode materials.

Because he has completely solved the problem.

Even, right away, we're going to register a patent.

Brother Qian shook his head and said: “Whether it is feasible or not, we will test it with experiments. There is nothing in the mouth to discuss. ”

When Brother Qian said that, the ark could only sigh softly and smile.

“Well... good luck to you. ”

He can't reveal anything more.

If we go on, no one will believe that it is easy to offend. Besides, many things are simply unexplained and can only be diluted.

In the circumstances of the past, the only reminder he can make is to click on it.

However, he did not have to worry about the face of the old professor and two old teammates who had fought side by side when the paper came out.

Soonest of all, his patents will have to wait until next year before he can start writing papers.

If it wasn't an accident, he'd be in Princeton by then.

I don't know, by then, Professor Lee had given up this unreliable subject, maybe?