Chapter 963 Finally Came in Handy!

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Switch to carbon?

Yang Xu was stunned.

Qian Zhongming and Liu Bo were also stunned.

All the researchers in the entire laboratory stared blankly at Lu Zhou, obviously not reacting to his words.

Just like that, the eerie silence lasted for a full ten seconds before it was broken by Yang Xu who came to his senses first.

"Replace them all with... carbon materials?"

Shaking his head with a smile, Yang Xu waved his hands and said, "Impossible, we have already tried, and even at the beginning we used carbon-based materials that are more flexible in structure, but later found that the chemical properties of carbon Silicon is still not so stable, so it was changed to the technical route of silicon-based porous materials."

Having said that, he made a self-deprecating joke.

"After all, what we're doing is a lithium-air battery, not a lithium-air bomb."

However, no one in the lab laughed, including himself.

Everyone is depressed.

After all, for them, this means that the hard work of the past two years has been wasted.

"That's because you didn't find the right way..." Lu Zhou looked around, "Is there a blackboard?"

Yang Xu was stunned for a moment: "There is a whiteboard... right behind you, what are you going to do?"

Lu Zhou didn't explain, just said with a faint smile.

"A whiteboard is fine too."

After that, he turned around and walked to the whiteboard placed against the wall, picked up the marker pen hanging beside it, thought for a few seconds, and then began to write word by word on the whiteboard.

[Ethylene-propylene copolymer, 3,4-polyisoprene, polysulfone cross-linked block copolymer CBGC and its chemical modification CBGC-M...]

Looking at the names of organic compounds appearing line by line on the whiteboard, the researchers standing in the laboratory were all at a loss, not quite understanding what he was trying to do.

A little confused, Liu Bo asked Qian Zhongming in a low voice as he approached Qian Zhongming.

"Academician Lu... what is he writing?"

"It seems a bit familiar..." Brother Qian obviously didn't understand it, but he was not confused, staring at the whiteboard and frowning for a long time, thinking to himself, "Could it be the formula of modified PDMS polymer? But it's not the same..."

The formulation of the modified PDMS polymer is not so long, and the improved version is just two compounds combined in a chemical mosaic form.

As far as the current situation is concerned, Lu Zhou has written more than five organic names on the whiteboard...

Yang Xu, who was closest to Lu Zhou, also didn't understand. Like the top students of the Institute of Computational Materials, he was dumbfounded by the long list of organic names on the whiteboard.

Obviously he recognizes every organic matter.

Even in this lab.

But after being written on the whiteboard by Lu Zhou, he was a little confused as to what he was going to do.

Seeing that the pen in Lu Zhou's hand stopped, Yang Xu finally couldn't help asking.

"This is……"

"Mix these organic substances in a certain proportion to form a film," Lu Zhou threw the marker pen on the table, smiled and continued, "Remember to use cold calendering as much as possible to form a film."

The Adam's apple moved up and down, staring at the long list of organic names on the whiteboard, Yang Xu's eyes were full of disbelief.

He did not doubt Academician Lu's scientific research ability.

only……

All this has subverted his understanding of computational materials science, and even the subject of materials science.

"...This, this is too exaggerated. What can be mixed with so many organic substances? What's more, how do you plan to control the dispersion of each component? And how to ensure that the different components can maintain stability?"

There are both physical mixing and chemical embedding, and the complexity of the whole system may have reached the level of a chaotic system!

to be honest……

How did you come up with the recipe for this mixture?

How is the allocation ratio of each group calculated?

Not only the ratio, but also the mixing sequence and posture of different ingredients, the products born may be two things with completely different physical properties.

Yang Xu shook out all his questions like a cannonball, and looked at Lu Zhou with a calm smile on his face. Yang Xu took a deep breath.

"It's not that I don't believe you, I just... how about it, I'll let someone simulate it later."

"No, I'm ready." Lu Zhou pointed to the USB flash drive on the table and continued, "The model is in it, and the software written is the internal working software of our Institute of Computational Materials, you should be able to use it. "

He looked at the USB flash drive on the table hesitantly. Although he couldn't believe that Lu Zhou could complete such a huge amount of work in such a short period of time, he still nodded suspiciously.

"Let me try."

After all, Yang Xu went up to pick up the USB flash drive, plugged it into the computer, and then opened the folder on the screen with the mouse, and ran the entire model.

All the researchers in the laboratory gathered around, standing in front of the computer screen nervously waiting for the calculation results.

There is only one exception, and that is Lu Zhou. Before coming here, he had simulated many times with a quantum computer, so there is only his face here, full of relaxed expressions.

Glancing at Lu Zhou, Yang Xu hesitated for a moment and asked.

"Can I ask you something?"

Lu Zhou: "What is it?"

Yang Xu: "...This model, you solved it yesterday?"

Lu Zhou: "That's right."

Although I stayed up all night without sleep.

Staring at Lu Zhou as if watching a ghost, just when Yang Xu wanted to express his opinion on this matter, the humming sound of the high-speed running chassis suddenly slowed down.

Simulation results are out!

Everyone leaned forward.

The moment they saw the results presented on the screen, the researchers surrounded by the computer froze in unison.

According to the results obtained from simulation calculations, when the surface air pressure applied to one side of the carbon-based film reaches the mark point A, the oxygen molecules start to move from one side to the other.

And when this simulation process was carried out for 24 hours, the oxygen purity in the gas exchange chamber was as high as 98%! However, when the simulation time was advanced to 72 hours, this number only fluctuated slightly within the range of 0.1%, and there was no significant decrease!

From this point of view alone, this carbon-based hybrid material has completely blown away the previous "porous silicon-based molecular exchange membrane" in terms of its superiority in molecular screening.

As for the stability of the chemical properties of carbon that they feared, it did not arise at all. To put it bluntly, this polymer material similar to the modified PDMS film has strong corrosion resistance and is not as delicate as they originally expected...

Staring at the results on the screen, Yang Xu's eyes were full of disbelief and ecstasy.

But soon, the expression on his face seemed to have been poured with cold water, and he quickly calmed down.

"you are right."

"This hybrid film does work better than the porous silicon-based material we developed earlier, especially in the screening of oxygen molecules."

"But the problem still lies here. Even so, we cannot completely guarantee that the gas entering the gas exchange chamber is all oxygen—"

Just halfway through the last sentence, Lu Zhou interrupted.

"Who said we must guarantee that the gas entering the gas exchange chamber must be 100% pure oxygen?"

Seeing the stunned expression on Yang Xu's face, Lu Zhou smiled, gently shook the small test tube that he took out from somewhere between his fingers, and said in a nostalgic tone.

"I made this thing when I was at Princeton."

"After so many years, I finally have the opportunity to come in handy."