Chapter 688 Lithium-Air Battery Project Approval

Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.

Institute for Computational Materials.

Because it was lunch break, everyone in the office was relatively relaxed. Except for Qian Zhongming who was still writing his papers, most of the others were either browsing the news of some industry peers on the Internet, or drinking coffee and bragging.

"I heard that Jin Da held a social event a few days ago?"

"Well, I heard that too. It seems that I organized a wave of autumn outings with the faculty and staff of the School of Foreign Languages, and stayed at the Zijinshan Hotel for two nights."

Sighing with a thin face, Liu Bo continued.

"Damn...why doesn't our Dahuayuan have such activities?"

Most of the researchers of Jinling Institute for Advanced Study have teaching positions in nearby universities, among which Jinling University is the majority, followed by Jinling Institute of Technology. After all, the academic leader is Lu Zhou, a Nobel laureate in chemistry and the founder of computational materials science. Even internationally, the Institute of Computational Materials of Jinling Institute for Advanced Study is also a top research institution in the field of materials.

For such a research institute, naturally no university would refuse the researchers in it to give lectures here.

Therefore, they also have a share of the benefits that faculty and staff should have.

Unfortunately, there are no activities in the Chemical Institute this year, and this October is going to pass peacefully.

Hearing Liu Bo's sigh, Yang Xu who made himself a second cup of coffee smiled and said casually.

"Don't count on it. Even if we do this fellowship in the School of Chemistry, do you expect those slim girls from the School of Foreign Languages ​​to be interested? Not to mention anything else, just talking about the hairline is enough to kill a lot of people."

The four major tiankengs of biochemical ring materials, this word is not only reflected in the money path, but also the embarrassing amount of hair.

In order to measure a set of data, it is common to lay a floor in the laboratory, and staying up until one or two in the morning without turning off the lights in the laboratory is also commonplace. It may be better for those professors who have already made it through. After all, there are many high-quality, hard-working, and hard-working scientific research dogs that can be used, but those who can make it through in this line of work probably don't have a few hairs left on their heads.

However, life has to be a bit of a dream.

Upon hearing Yang Xu's ridicule, Liu Bo immediately became unhappy, and immediately retorted.

"Speaking of baldness, we are not as good at materials as we are at mathematics, right?"

Taking a leisurely sip of coffee, Yang Xu shook his head and said, "That's not necessarily the case. Do you think Professor Lu has less hair?"

Liu Bo had a speechless expression on his face, and he held back a word after a while.

"...I don't think it's universal to use that kind of monster as a sample."

Yang Xu said with a smile: "Well, after get off work, you can go to the Institute of Mathematics and the Institute of Chemistry to visit separately, and pick the faculty and staff of the same age to have a look, and compare them visually. Is there any universality?"

Listening to the conversation between the two, Qian Zhongming, who was scrolling the mouse wheel and scrolling through the papers, finally couldn't help but interject.

"Looks about the same age... I'm afraid it's not easy to find."

There was silence in the office.

For a while no one spoke.

Coughing, Liu Bo broke the silence.

"Let's not discuss this sad subject..."

This time, it was rare that everyone in the office agreed on the formula tacitly, and no one spoke again.

The topic of chronological age and biological age...

For material dogs, it is a bit too heavy.

The lunch break time passed quickly, and when it was almost one o'clock, everyone sitting at the desk had already entered the working state one after another, and at half past one, no one was chatting, everyone had their own things to attend to busy.

Back in his office, Yang Xu pulled out his chair and sat down, turning on his laptop.

At this moment, he suddenly found a new email lying in the mailbox, and it was sent by Lu Zhou.

"...High Permeability Oxygen Molecular Separation Membrane for Li-air Batteries?"

Glancing at the title of the email, Yang Xu's eyebrows immediately raised a look of interest, and he quickly downloaded the attachments in the email. After opening, he carefully read each line, and the more he looked down, The expression on his face became even more shocked.

For a long time, lithium-air batteries have been a controversial topic in academia. There are many people who support it, but there are also many people who doubt it. The most fundamental reason is that the extremely active nature of lithium metal will react with almost all gases in the air except rare gases.

To solve this problem, it is necessary to separate the oxygen in the air and only allow oxygen to enter the reaction system.

The ideal way is to add a layer of molecular sieves or membranes that only allow oxygen to pass through the surface of the lithium metal or the air inlet of the battery. This sounds easy to say, but quite difficult to do.

However, in the attachment of this email, Professor Lu not only pointed out a clear research route, but also listed several feasible technical ideas.

"...Did this thing be completed while studying the Yang-Mills equation?" Seeing the last line of the attached document, Yang Xu sighed softly, leaned on his chair and stared at the ceiling, and couldn't help but say, "This guy is really a monster..."

Is it human to do this work while working on a world-class problem like the Yang-Mills equation?

Of course, Yang Xu still didn't know this.

If you let him know that in addition to the Yang Mills equation, Lu Zhou has also solved the problem of miniaturization of controllable fusion technology, I am afraid that he will have begun to doubt life at this moment...

In any case, now that the technical idea is in place, as to whether it will work or not, that is what they need to do.

Thinking of this, Yang Xu selected the email that Lu Zhou sent him, selected group sending in the address book of his work mailbox, and then stood up from his office chair.

Then, he returned to the previous large office, stood at the door and knocked on the door.

"New mission, there is work to do."

Several researchers in the office raised their heads in a swish, casting questioning gazes at him.

Qian Zhongming spoke first, pushed his glasses and asked, "New mission? What subject?"

Yang Xu made a succinct explanation: "A high-permeability oxygen molecular separation membrane, the specific content, and how to do it, I have sent the relevant documents to your mailbox."

High permeability oxygen molecular separation membrane?

The moment he heard these words, Qian Zhongming's face suddenly showed a hint of surprise.

And Liu Bo, who was sitting at the desk not far away, also had a trace of shock on his face, and then asked with a slight tremor in his tone.

"A high-permeability oxygen molecule separation membrane? Is this subject..."

"Well," Yang Xu nodded and continued, "Our next topic."

"It's a lithium-air battery."