Beijing, inside an apartment building near Shuimu University.
An old man was holding an English magazine in his hand as he sat on the sofa and read.
Halfway through, he suddenly smiled and put down the magazine in his hand as he said, "This kid is a genius."
This old man wearing glasses was none other than Qiu Chengtong, the world's leading mathematician, Old Qiu.
The magazine in his hand was none other than the English edition of Nature Weekly. The page that he flipped to was an interview with the intern named Lu Zhou by the British female reporter, Belinda.
During the interview, the magazine mentioned that the interviewee was a master's student from the University of Jin Ling. It also mentioned that he was a member of the LHCb China cooperation group, as well as his opinion on the 750 GeV energy zone signal.
Just like the head of the LHCb China cooperation team, Academician Gao, said before, this intern helped the China cooperation team gain some face on the international stage of CERN.
It wouldn't be long before China would have an overwhelming coverage of this young scholar who was published in Nature Weekly.
He deserved all of this glory.
"Yeah."
The old man sitting across from Mr. Qiu sighed as he sipped his tea.
This was none other than Academician Wang Yuping, who Lu Zhou met once in Princeton.
Although Old Qiu's relationship with Yan University was very bad, to the point that they even argued with each other in the media, Old Qiu still had a few good friends at Yan University.
For example, Academician Wang Yuping was one of them.
Old Qiu paused for a second before he continued, "After the Princeton conference, I thought this kid's talent was in number theory. I didn't expect him to be so talented in the field of particle physics. I've seen a lot of young and promising scholars, but I've never seen a genius like him. "
Qiu Chengtong smiled and said, "I've seen one."
"Who?"
"Tao Zhexuan!"
Wang Yuping was stunned for a moment before he smiled and said, "Do you have such a high opinion of him?"
Tao Zhexuan was the first Australian to win the Fields Medal. He was also the second Chinese person to win the Fields Medal after Qiu Chengtong in 1982. He was currently teaching at UCLA. He was recognized as a genius in mathematics, and he was an amazing all-rounder.
Even though he wasn't involved in the field of physics, his research covered almost all fields of mathematics, from harmonic analysis to nonlinear partial differential equations. His research even spread from the field of pure mathematics to the field of applied mathematics. For example, the principle of compression sensing in cameras was one of his research results.
Many people regarded him as the Mozart of mathematics, because other than being a genius, there was no other suitable reason to explain why so many achievements appeared on a mortal.
Although there were many people in the Chinese mathematics community who called Lu Zhou "Little Tao Zhexuan", there was still a "little" in it. In Wang Yuping's opinion, his old friend's evaluation was a little too exaggerated.
Mr. Qiu smiled and said, "Is it high? I even think he has a chance of surpassing his predecessors! "
Wang Yuping was surprised when he heard his old friend's evaluation of Lu Zhou. He could not help but ask, "Are you serious?"
"Of course," said Mr. Qiu as he nodded, "When I saw that he chose Polignac's conjecture as his research topic, I already had this feeling. Now that I read this report, I'm even more certain. "
Wang Yuping smiled and asked, "Do you think he can solve this conjecture?"
"It's hard to say, he even solved the twin prime conjecture. If it wasn't for the fact that I don't have the energy, I would've challenged this conjecture," said Mr. Qiu. He suddenly looked at his old friend and said, "How about we make a bet?"
Wang Yuping smiled and asked, "Bet on what?"
"I bet he can solve this conjecture in two years."
"That's not realistic." Wang Yuping shook his head and said, "I know you think highly of him, but his research direction isn't number theory. It's mathematical physics. If he focused on number theory, he might be able to solve this conjecture … But now, two years is too short! "
Mr. Qiu shook his head and said, "Research direction isn't a problem. Interest is the best teacher. In my opinion, he has the talent to complete this project. Since we have different opinions, do you want to bet? "
Wang Yuping slapped his thigh and said, "Okay, let's bet! I'll pay a hundred yuan. It's not like I lose anything. "
Mr. Qiu smiled and said, "You old thing, you haven't even started betting and you're already thinking about losing. I don't want to bet with you, boring! "
…
"Achoo!"
Lu Zhou sneezed and rubbed his nose. He then muttered, "Who's scolding me?" and continued to write.
He had already seen Professor Lu's class schedule.
However, it was still summer break, and the next class was next month. Therefore, he did not have to worry about it.
Over the past few days, Lu Zhou barely left his dorm. He locked himself in his dorm and looked at the data on his computer as he racked his brains to design an experiment.
In order to design the PDMS film, he had to read a lot of literature and come up with experimental ideas.
Of course, the reason why he was so focused was because of money.
He was guarding a large gold mine. If he did not get something out of it, he would not be able to sleep well.
As for describing this technology as a gold mine, it was not an exaggeration at all. In fact, it was an underestimation of its value.
As early as 20 years ago, lithium metal as a negative electrode was abandoned by the industry. Due to the short circuit caused by dendrite growth, batteries became incendiary bombs. This "blew up" a listed company with a market value of tens of billions.
However, the strong market prospects of lithium metal still attracted countless materials science laboratories to invest in this topic.
At the enterprise level, IBM even prepared a supercomputer for the lithium-air battery project. It allocated the path of each gas molecule into the battery unit to avoid gas blockage … However, it was later discovered that it was a bottomless pit, so the capitalists mercilessly cut it down.
At the national level, for example, the Minister of Energy in the Obama team, Mr. Chu, who won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, was a fanatic supporter of lithium anode batteries for a period of time … However, he was eventually persuaded by a group of people.
As for why lithium batteries had such a fascinating power, the concept of energy density had to be mentioned.
The so-called energy density was the energy contained in a unit of volume. As the most important indicator to measure the performance of a battery, improving energy density had always been the pursuit of the industry.
In China's 13th Five-Year Plan, it was clearly stated that by 2020, China would achieve the same level of power battery technology as the international level and maintain the world's leading production capacity. The most important red line was to increase the energy density of power batteries. So far, lithium-sulfur batteries, which were still in the laboratory, had the highest chance of winning.
However, if the lithium dendrite problem was solved, all the other hot concepts would have to step aside and make way for the lithium anode battery.
Anyone who studied chemistry knew that the lithium metal anode had the lowest electrochemical potential, not to mention the specific capacity as high as 3,861mAh/g.
Using lithium materials as the anode, the energy storage effect could theoretically reach ten times that of graphite batteries, crushing the energy density of graphite anode materials!
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