Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a material science laboratory.

Professor Monkey G. Bawandi, sitting at his desk, is enjoying his coffee while browsing through new articles on Arxiv.

As a big bull in nanochemistry, the big man has been in a good mood lately.

Not long ago, the journal ACS-Nano published his research paper on PbS quantum dot thin-film solar cells, which attracted widespread attention from Silicon Valley High Technology.

Although this technology is a long way from being accepted by industry, its potential is already quite “black technology”.

Many have commented that the distance between him and the Nobel Prize is only one quantum point technology commercialization short. When quantum dot technology is truly universal and changes the world, the Nobel Prize is not far off.

This day may be ten years from now, maybe twenty years from now, but it will not be too far away. Industry has begun to embrace these technologies slowly, and it is expected that they will be used first on monitors and eventually change the face of the future semiconductor industry.

However far away from true commercialization, he had already owned four companies through the technology. Other professors may be upset about research funding, but he has become the real boss and is doing experiments at his own expense.

At this point, in his mailbox, he suddenly received an e-mail from Nature.

“Lithium branches? ”

Looking at the emails on the screen, Professor Bawandi's eyebrows provoked a hint of interest.

Touching his chin, he turned to his assistant and shouted, "Lattis, get me a sandwich. ”

“Okay, Professor. ”

A Latin woman in a white coat got up outside and quickly sent her sandwich with bacon.

Professor Bawandi sitting in front of the computer enjoyed breakfast while continuing to look down on the text in the mail.

To be honest, he didn't believe that someone claimed to have solved the lithium-crystal problem.

He doesn't make lithium batteries, but someone in his team has studied this piece, and he's heard about it.

Probably the best R&D in this section is done by Sion in the United States and Oxis in the UK, but I haven't heard anything special lately. Samsung is as crazy as ever to sign up for patents, but nobody saw them really make a big story out of it.

The only “progression”, perhaps a professor at MIT last year, found that fixing sulfur to the mesoporous carbon material, combined with special electrolytes, could effectively inhibit the growth of lithium branches.

In the end, however, it proved to be a beautiful misunderstanding. If Lithium Branch Crystal was so easy to solve, IBM, which had promised to calculate the distribution of paths beyond each ion, would not drink and withdraw its capital.

Returning to this thesis, if someone else wrote it, Professor Bawandi might look at it and throw it aside, but the problem is that the author of this thesis is interesting, not an expert in electrode materials, but a mathematics professor at Princeton University.

“Improving the ‘breathability' of anode materials through PDMS material films and inhibiting the growth of lithium-crystals… This is not a novel idea, but the performance on the SEM electroscope is surprising and less like P's. ”

“Computational Materials and this? Never heard of it. ”

In the image, based on images of the anode material in several charging and discharging cycles, the anode material located below the PDMS film does not form that deadly white tree, instead it is replaced by a mossy fold, and as charging progresses, it is superimposed one layer at a time.

Then there is the discharge link, because the entire surface of the anode material is a relatively smooth mossy fold in the micro state, and there is no so-called tip area until after the discharge, there is no significant dead lithium residue on the electrode.

Without doubt, these achievements would be absolutely groundbreaking if they were not falsified.

The only deficiencies in the US are that those wrinkles can also affect battery life and performance, although this defect can be said to be insignificant compared to the branches caught on the lithium battery technology bottleneck.

The index finger tapped gently on the table and Professor Bawandi pondered for a long time.

The paper was a good article, and the data and pictorial evidence listed therein did not pick out the problem, but because the breakthrough was so great that he was now as uncertain as the editor of Nature.

After a long time of reflection, Professor Bawandi suddenly moved slightly in his heart and shouted back.

“Lattice, I'll send you an experiment report to your e-mail, and you tell Isaac to follow that experiment report. Remember to tell him this is his experimental assignment this week. ”

“Good professor. ”

Done.

Professor Bawandi had a smile in his mouth.

Isaac is the master's student he brings, and he's studying exactly the direction of the battery.

The experiment itself is not too difficult, it can be tested within three days.

Although the general reviewer was not responsible for repeating the experiment, in order to satisfy his own curiosity, he decided to ask several master's students to do it.

He had all the equipment anyway, and the materials didn't cost much.

If he really solves the lithium twig crystal, then he's a witness to history.

……

Nor was the Ark idle while the paper was peer-reviewed by Natural Chemistry.

Once again, the three masters were summoned to his office, and this time the ark sent everyone a book list.

There are not many books listed above, for a total of only six.

However, he asked them to eat through all six books within a month and a half, that is, by September.

He will then ask questions from the contents of the six books and examine their learning.

For a student who has just completed his undergraduate studies, it is definitely not an easy task, but it is not absolutely impossible to do so. There's a lot of content that they're hunting for at the undergraduate level, but they're not going into it.

And what the Ark now needs them to do is go from shallow to deep.

It's impossible not to sweat at all to get involved in his subject.

It is predictable that they will have a full summer.

As the task continued, just a week later, the Ark, which was writing an opening report in the office, suddenly received a call from home.

Over the phone, Xiaotong shouted excitedly.

“Dude, dude! I took the test! ”

When Xiaotong heard the excitement, the ark smiled slightly.

“Congratulations!”

Xiaotong asked pathetically, "Dude, can I ask you something? ”

"Tell me, what gift do you want? I'll send it to you. ”

Xiaotong shook his head and pitied him: “I don't want presents, I just want to come to Princeton to play with you! ”

As soon as he heard the little guy didn't want a present, Ark Zhou stood still.

“… what's so funny about Princeton? ”

There doesn't seem to be any particularly fascinating scenery here except for a Lake Carnegie, at least in his view.

And as for the rich academic atmosphere, it's not something that anybody can feel.

Xiaotong said with disgust: “It's so boring to stay at home, I want to go out for a walk. ”

The Ark thought about it and thought it made sense.

It's a waste of your life to spend such a relaxing holiday at home playing games. It's better to go out for a walk, and it's more reassuring to have her watch than to go out on her own.

Ark: “Well... do you know how to get your own visa? ”

When he saw his brother, Xiaotong immediately said: “Of course he will. I already got my passport! Go to Shanghai the day after tomorrow for a visa! ”

Turns out this little guy already planned it.

The ark shook its head with a smile.

“All right, I'll buy you a ticket. Just get on the plane. I'll pick you up here. ”

Xiaotong's cheering came from the other end of the phone.

“Yay! Brother is the best!” - [sic] "[sic]

“Roll, roll, roll, roll, roll. ”

After hanging up the phone, the ark laughed and put the phone on the table.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered one thing.

Speaking of which, I don't know how Han Mengqi is doing.

Even if he stopped working part-time as a tutor, after all, he was a student brought out by himself, and the job did help him a lot. The Ark was still a little concerned about her condition.

After completing his college entrance exam, he had never asked for her grades, and now that the admission letters had come down, he wondered whether she had taken her desired university.

Opening WeChat, the Ark sent a message with it.

[Did you get the admission notice?

Rarely, he waited a while and didn't see a reply.

Looking at her, she probably didn't see her, and the ark put her phone next to her.

I wish she had a college exam of her own.

A silent blessing was expressed in the heart, and the ship temporarily set aside the matter and continued to busy with the work at hand.