If lithium-sulfur batteries were the nuclear fission of lithium electricity, then lithium-air batteries were the nuclear fusion of lithium electricity. The idea of obtaining oxides from the air basically represented the upper limit of the energy density of all batteries that used lithium metal as the negative electrode material.
Compared to traditional lithium-ion batteries, lithium-sulfur batteries had an order of magnitude higher energy density. Compared to lithium-sulfur batteries, lithium-air batteries also had an order of magnitude higher energy density, both in terms of volume and mass energy density.
The only drawback was that it wasn't suitable for use on devices such as mobile phones or satellites.
After all, the reason why lithium-air batteries had a high energy density was that their oxides weren't integrated inside the battery. Instead, they were located outside the battery and needed to "breathe".
Mobile phones were often placed in people's pockets, satellites were far away from the atmosphere, and it was difficult for these devices to take advantage of lithium-air batteries. However, for electric vehicles or some small fixed-wing drones, there was no better energy supply device than lithium-air batteries.
Because of this, lithium-air batteries had more stringent technical requirements than lithium-sulfur batteries.
Not only did all lithium anode batteries face the lithium dendrite problem, but lithium-air batteries also had extremely stringent material requirements. After all, lithium itself was a super reactive metal. To expose it to the atmosphere and make it only react with the oxygen in the atmosphere, the difficulty was self-evident.
Not to mention a series of complex side reactions.
The key to solving this problem was to find a film that could filter out water vapor, carbon dioxide, and other gases in the air, as well as accurately and quickly screen oxygen molecules.
In fact, this technology existed on Debris No.1.
The only unfortunate thing was that Debris No.1 was heavily damaged, and this thin film was on the surface of Debris No.1. Even if they used a scanner gun to collect data from the debris, it would still be difficult to restore this technology.
Fortunately, with Lu Zhou's knowledge in the field of computational materials and his understanding of carbon-based materials, he was able to find a few technical routes that seemed to have a high probability of success. He then handed them over to the Institute of Computational Materials to study.
As an academic leader, he didn't need to do every project himself. He only needed to plan a research direction and a reliable technical route.
If this technology was successful, it would change more than just the battery field.
From industrial production to medical care, many fields could benefit from it …
The Alternative Energy Vehicle Summit in Jin Ling City lasted for two days. During this time, Lu Zhou received a lot of business cards. Although he rarely interacted with people in the capital world, the domestic capital world was surprisingly interested in him.
Whether it was because of the Ling Yun medal, or because they coveted Star Sky Technology's R&D advantages, many people took the initiative to exchange business cards with him.
For those who were interested in him, no matter what their motives were, Lu Zhou responded politely.
Although he couldn't use these connections for the time being, who knew what would happen in the future?
After all, not all projects were suitable for national funding.
About a week after the summit, it was late October.
It was a cool autumn day, the perfect season to sit in the office and study mathematics problems. Lu Zhou unexpectedly received an email from Switzerland.
The email was from Edward Witten.
In this email, in addition to caring for him, it also emphasized CERN's recent research progress.
Especially the part about the "M particle".
[… Regarding the "M particle" you predicted in your thesis, the related exploration project has been arranged in this month's experimental plan. If everything goes well, there will be results by the end of the month. We have held many meetings for this experiment, and we are all looking forward to discovering something interesting in the experiment.
[Finally, I wish you good health and a happy work. I will let you know as soon as there is any news … Although I feel like CERN's report is faster than my writing.
[Also, have you seen a kind of tofu that looks like cheese? I'm not sure if it's a specialty of Jinling, but it's delicious in bacon sandwiches. I recommend you try it. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the same flavor in the supermarket for a long time … If it's convenient, can you help me send some over? I'll transfer the money to you. : P]
When Lu Zhou saw the "P" at the end of the email, he nearly choked on his coffee.
What the hell is a tofu that looks like cheese?
Maybe it's tofu?
Lu Zhou thought for a while before he typed on the keyboard and replied to the email.
[… I have a rough idea of what you want.]
Lu Zhou clicked send and closed the webpage. He was about to open his thesis when his student, Wu Shuimu, walked over.
"Professor, do you want to eat at the cafeteria?"
"No, I still have some documents to read … Oh yeah, if you don't mind, can you bring me a bacon sandwich?"
"Bacon sandwich? Okay, "said Wu Shuimu as he nodded.
Lu Zhou said, "Also bring me a bottle of fermented bean curd."
Wu Shuimu: "…?"
In short, Lu Zhou had to listen to his professor.
Wu Shuimu went to the supermarket and ate his lunch. He then returned to his office with a plastic bag.
"I've brought you a sandwich … and the fermented bean curd you wanted."
"Thank you."
Lu Zhou transferred the money to Student Wu's Alipay account and hesitantly followed Witten's recommendation. He put a little tofu on the bacon sandwich and took a big bite.
Lu Zhou felt the ocean-like flavor spread on the tip of his tongue. He sat in his office chair and went silent for a while. He then silently closed the can of tofu and threw it aside.
MMP！
Other than the fact that it was so salty, what was so delicious about it???
…
Time quickly passed by, and it was soon the end of October.
Lu Zhou was preparing for the upcoming moon landing project bidding conference. He almost forgot about Witten's email. Suddenly, a piece of breaking news came from CERN.
In the latest round of collision experiments, CERN tested the M particle predicted by Lu Zhou's electrostrong interaction theory. They surprisingly observed signs of the existence of the M particle on both ATLAS and CMS detectors!
Although it was only a "sign" and the confidence level had only reached 2.5 sigma and 2.7 sigma, it was still quite a distance away from "discovery". Even so, it was still quite exciting!
If this sign was confirmed as a discovery, the physics community would have a piece of the puzzle outside of the standard model. This was the so-called "new physics". Regarding the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap, people could finally give a clear theory to explain its existence!
Also, this discovery would become a major discovery, second only to the Higgs particle. It would be listed in the top ten physics discoveries of the century!
Even though this century had only just begun …
After this news was announced, it immediately attracted the attention of the international physics community.
The Brookhaven National Laboratory quickly followed suit. They announced that they were preparing to repeat the experiment and verify the results of the experiment announced by CERN. Other high energy physics laboratories around the world also began to prepare for the arrival of this particle.
At the same time, it wasn't just the institutes of high energy physics that were celebrating. The entire theoretical physics community was immersed in a grand "party" because of this particle that bridged the strong interaction and electromagnetic force.
The number of theses on arXiv about this particle had reached an all-time high. Many PhD's wanted to take advantage of CERN's time to write their graduation thesis on this particle.
The Brookhaven National Laboratory experiment was finally ready, and CERN's second experiment was on schedule.
At this moment, China was not affected by this news. The Positron Collider in Beijing was temporarily unable to repeat the physics experiments in the high-energy zone.
However, although the domestic physics community was slightly calm, the aerospace field was surging.
On the first Friday of November, in Harbin, northern China, a bidding conference for a manned moon landing project was being held as scheduled …
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