Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Located at Hyatt Hotel, Union Square, just steps away from Chinatown. The hotel offers an in-house dining area as well as a 24-hour gym with dedicated meeting rooms to provide venues for academic meetings.

Driving the ark to its destination, Sarott parked it in the underground garage and walked with the ark to the elevator.

Such meetings are a good opportunity not only to share academic issues with peers, but also to broaden connections. No aspiring researcher can easily let go of an opportunity like this.

Unlike his boss, of course, all expenses were reimbursed by the organizers from the moment they boarded the aircraft. And Sarott, in attending this meeting, had to pay for it.

Standing on the elevator, the ark looked at Sarott and said, "I'm going to go upstairs and get some sleep. What about you? ”

Sarott couldn't believe a glance at the ark: "Are you going to sleep? But there's still a ball. ”

“I don't know how to dance,” said the ark, lacking interest, ”and one such banquet would suffice. ”

On the evening of the seminar, there was also a bigger, more formal dance.

As for this kind of party that preheats academic exchanges, it doesn't matter to him whether he attends or not.

After spending a few hours on the plane, he now just wants to lay back in bed and sleep to cultivate for tomorrow's awards ceremony and speech.

Sarott made a helpless expression: "Then go to sleep. I'll stay in the lobby on the first floor later. Do you want me to order you a dinner and bring it to your room? ”

The ark waved: “No, have fun yourself, if I'm hungry, I'll call the front desk. ”

Sarott's room is on the third floor, and before he goes to the prom, he needs to do some prep, like moss his hair.

As for the ark, the elevator continued up to the fifth floor.

Through the corridor with the red carpet on it, while passing through the rest area in the middle of the corridor, the two men in suits noticed him and immediately stopped the conversation, got up from the couch and greeted him.

The ark looked at the two people walking face to face unexpectedly, only to think that one of them was familiar, but could not name it.

“Nice to meet you, Professor Lu from Princeton. Nice to meet you here.” The old man, who looked familiar, extended his right hand and shook the ark, enthusiastically saying.

“Hello… who are you? ”

“Stanley Whitingham, New York State University, Binghamton,” the old man introduced himself politely.

When the name was heard, the expression of the ark suddenly appeared.

Stanley Whittingham, who is also a lithium-electric bull, no wonder he feels familiar.

As far as the old man was concerned, as early as the '70s, he used titanium sulfide as a cathode material and lithium metal as an anode material, designing the earliest lithium batteries. And this is also the recognized, earliest lithium battery.

Lithium batteries have not been able to get out of the lab successfully, just because of the well-known safety problems caused by lithium branches. Lithium batteries did not complete the transformation from bomb to battery until the modified PDMS material of the ark solved the problem.

“Nice to meet you," Ark and Stanley shook hands and looked at the one standing next to him, "Who is this? ”

"This is Darren Woods, CEO of ExxonMobil. ”

“Nice to meet you, Professor Lu.” Darren Woods laughed at the Ark and stretched out his right hand, "your paper in Nature, Science is impressive, that some views are really too difficult to understand, I'm afraid I have a lot to ask you. ”

Although Darren Woods has not been heard, ExxonMobil has.

Remember just two months ago, Mobil's CEO was Rex Tillerson. However, with the arrival of a real estate tycoon, who had been named “the most influential CEO in the world” in 16 years, he resigned and was transferred to the post of Secretary of State.

Looks like this Woods is Tillerson's successor.

“Hello,” shook the CEO's hand and the ark looked at him unexpectedly, "Mr. Woods is interested in lithium batteries, too? ”

Woods smiled slightly: "Of course, oil is a precious chemical raw material, and it's a waste to burn it. We prefer to turn it into a chemical feedstock to gasoline. In fact, in order to mitigate a range of climate problems, such as global warming, we have been committed to investing in new energy sources, of which batteries are naturally a vital part. ”

Although ExxonMobil is an oil and gas company, it is involved not only in oil and gas, but also in the chemical, automotive, new energy and other industries.

The earliest lithium battery was made by Professor Stanley's lab, and it was funded by Mobil Chemicals.

The Ark laughed and didn't speak.

Mobil's interest in the field of new energy was normal, and he would find it strange not to be interested. But it's ridiculous to say that it's because of a sense of social responsibility like global warming.

Looking at the ark, Woods continued with a smile: "Speaking of which, has there been any progress in the synthesis process of HCS-1 materials? ”

The ark shook its head: “Not yet. ”

“That's unfortunate,” Woods sighed, saying in a rather regrettable tone, "that's a very good material, but its price is a little unacceptable. ”

Obviously, Mobil Chemicals also co-thermally reacted with the fullerene material using carbon nanotubes according to the method described in the paper, screening yielded a small amount of HCS-1 and mixed with monosomal sulfur according to a mass fraction ratio of 20%.

Although neither the number of cycles nor the efficiency of cycles are friendly, their excellent energy density remains covetable.

It's like a quad-rotary-wing drone, some underwater work equipment, and there's still a lot of space for lithium-sulfur batteries in areas that require a lot of continuity.

The ark laughed and said, "Yeah, but in my opinion, it's still very flawed. ”

Woods shook his head: "No, no, no, you don't understand, not all batteries are so demanding on the number and efficiency of cycles, and sometimes we use replaceable disposable batteries to pursue energy density. ”

After a moment of pause, Woods smiled and offered an invitation: "If you solve this technical dilemma, it will be of great benefit to the world as a whole, and I wonder if you need some help? ”

The ark shook its head: “Unfortunately, my research is unnecessary, and perhaps you could consider investing in more potential laboratories. ”

“That's too bad that nobody seems to me to have more potential than you to do this great job. ”

This is the second time Woods has spoken of the word "regret," but despite what he has said, his expression does not look very regrettable.

Obviously, a similar study is being conducted in Mobil's investment laboratory.

And I'm afraid a lot of results have been achieved, but the staged results have simply not been published.

Looking at Professor Stanley standing next to him, the heart of the ark was slightly palpable.

The two men had come to explore their own research progress.

Thinking about it, the heart of the ark shook its head with a smile.

Want to know about his research?

Well, just buy a copy of Science and you'll see.

He never hid it.

After a few words of conversation, it was discovered that the two men had been trying to test themselves. When Ark Zhou felt a lack of interest, he said goodbye and dragged his suitcase to his room.

Woods, who had seen the old man leave, gradually closed his smile and looked at Professor Stanley next to him.

“What steps do you think his research has taken? ”

Professor Stanley frowned slightly: “It's hard to say that this man is hiding very deeply. If the two papers that were published in Science were all of his current research progress, we would still have a great chance of getting ahead of ourselves here, but I don't believe that's all. ”

After a pause, Professor Stanley looked a little heavy and went on to say in a serious manner.

“Didn't you notice? Although we have been trying to test his research progress, he has no interest in our research progress, not even a single question...”