Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Throughout this time, the Ark has been following the movements of its peers.

Papers on hollow carbon sphere and sulfur monomer composites showed an overall upward trend on the ARXIV website.

Although an innovative idea is not decisive in the technology-oriented fields of biology and chemistry, so scholars are far less enthusiastic about posting papers on ARXIV than they are in pure mathematics, theoretical physics, and computer science, the growing trend of this term is an intuitive reflection of the direction of academia.

At the same time, retrieval through professional academic search engines is also evident in the recent emergence of results on hollow carbon balls.

By contrast, however, these results are not as groundbreaking as HCS-1.

Of course, it is not excluded that the major research institutions have actually achieved some results, but for the sake of greater ambition, the gradual results have been kept in the hands of unpublished, secretly and without proclamation.

After all, companies like Yumeike and Nippon Chemicals, while happy to cooperate with the Ark when the cost of patent licensing is lower than the cost of illegal, are obviously more keen to hold the patent right in their own hands.

Since our last meeting with Carodite, the Ark has noticed something. Needless to say, the Belgian laboratory must have been full of horsepower and ready to take over the highlands.

If that's the case, the ark will have to go faster.

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In mid-March, after receiving a written reply from Science, Ark Boat and Yang Xu, far from Jinling, arranged a short videoconference to discuss the next research plan.

Prior to the start of the meeting, Ark Ship sent relevant information on HCS-1 to Yang Xu's work email address, which included data that had already been published in the submitted journal and was not yet available.

And that's why when the video call started, Yang Xu immediately asked, “What's in the email you and I sent? ”

“The new experimental program, the relevant information, will be in the mail, and samples will be sent shortly," the Ark said briefly. Simply put, I need you to try to find a way to stabilize synthetic HCS-1 materials. ”

The method of producing HCS-1 materials in Sarott's laboratory has a large chance. Even strictly speaking, HCS-1 is only a by-product of the reaction, obtained by centrifugation and further purification.

Even without considering the limited prospects for industrial applications of HCS-1 materials themselves, it is difficult to achieve industrial production based on this inefficient production method.

Unless someone is willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a lithium battery and spend another heap of scrap, this is clearly not possible from a continuing perspective.

There are two ways to promote HCS-1 materials, one being to improve the way they are prepared and to compress production costs. The other is to improve the material itself.

With HCS-1 as a reference, it is not difficult to continue along existing lines to find HCS-2 or even HCS-3 that is more suitable for mixing with sulfur monomers.

Combined with these reasons, the Ark set two directions when formulating research directions for the Jinling Institute of Computing Materials. One is an improvement in the process of HCS-1 material and the other is an improvement in the HCS-1 material itself.

His requirements for the Institute of Computing Materials in Jinling differed from those of the Sarot Laboratory, which studied the topologically folded caged molecule in order to accomplish systematic tasks.

The former, on the other hand, focuses on the reality of solving the shuttle effect.

This is a need for the new energy industry and for a national new energy strategy. Whether out of personal interest in research or commitment to the China National Energy Agency, the Ark will work in this direction.

Yang Xu said with sadness: "You gave me a problem. ”

The Ark laughed and said, "I'm sure you can do it. ”

Yang Xu: “In addition to the vague direction, do you have a more specific idea? ”

The Ark thought about it and said, "I thought about it a little bit, and I said you write it down and you won't be sending another email. ”

Yang Xu nodded seriously and took out the paper and pen.

The ark drank saliva and continued: "Glucose. ”

The silence between the two was about half a minute.

Yang Xu stunned: “... glucose? ”

The ark nodded: "Yes, at a specific point, the precursor was changed from a copolymer of polyaniline and polypyrrole to glucose. ”

This is the result of his discussions with Sarott, and how they were discussed, naturally through a great deal of computation and experimentation, as well as some essential “scientific intuition”.

This sounds a little unreliable, but there is at least some theoretical basis compared to the "test and error method”.

Although these theories have yet to be substantiated.

However, listening to Yang Xu's ears made his eyebrows twitch.

“Nothing? ”

The ark opened its hand and said in a positive tone: "No, that's it. ”

No wonder you don't have to send an email, that's not really necessary.

Yang Xu spat in his heart and put away the paper and pen on the table.

After a pause, the ark went on to say, "We're not the only ones doing this kind of research, I know of Belgian elegance and Japanese chemistry. We are competing with the international chemical giant, and I know the task is daunting, but I hope you can overcome it. ”

Yang Xu couldn't help but say: "If this is really a promising direction, you shouldn't have said it at the seminar. ”

The Ark made a helpless expression: “The situation was a bit special, and I had no idea that they would be so forthright in publicizing what was discussed at the seminar. ”

And one more thing the Ark didn't say.

Most of all, he didn't expect it to be public, but there are so many people taking it seriously...

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Hollow carbon balls are a promising direction, and as a promising direction, there is never a lack of competitors on the same path.

In academia, merely a novel idea is worthless.

In addition to the international chemical giants Yumeike and Nippon Chemistry, many other research institutions are doing similar research. Some of them work with enterprises, while others take money from the State on vertical topics.

For example, Professor Wang Haifeng is one of them.

Just as Ark and Yang Xu were discussing technical issues, he was also busy with the project.

But he's not busy experimenting, he's preparing for experiments.

About two weeks ago, the subject of the laboratory was finally finalized, with the hollow carbon spherical sulfur composite as the positive electrode, to address the diffusion of polysulfur compounds from the positive electrode to the organic electrolyte. Though he hated the ark, he had to agree that hollow carbon balls were indeed a very promising direction.

The issue report on the request for funding has now been submitted and, if not surprisingly, the results will be available in the next few days.

As a research owner, what he needs to do now is set more specific directions for research and assign research tasks to the research workforce.

However, at this time, his PhD student Liu Hong, with a brand new journal, walked in from outside the lab with a constipated expression.

That way, it's as if there's something to say, but I don't know if I should.

Looking at his students, Wang Haifeng frowned slightly and asked.

“What happened? ”

Liu Hong hesitated and finally made up his mind.

“Professor… our subject seems to be a car crash. ”

Hearing this, Wang Haifeng, sitting in his office chair, almost choked on his own saliva.

“What?" What? A car crash? ”

What the hell is that?

How is that possible?

How did you get into a car crash if you haven't even applied for the subject?