An hour went by.
Director Li walked out of his mansion. He was in a daze.
It wasn't until he got into the car parked in front of the gate and looked at the lush green trees outside the window that he suddenly sighed with emotion in the back seat.
"I'm getting old."
Hearing this inexplicable sigh, the driver sitting in the front was stunned for a moment, then he said with a smile.
"Not at all, you're only in your early sixties. You can still work for at least another twenty years."
Director Li shook his head and sighed.
"You guys are the ones who are young, I'm not young anymore. Just talking to you young people makes me feel like I'm suffocating. Another twenty years? Haha, I'm afraid I'll get a heart attack in five years. "
The driver, who was holding the steering wheel, didn't respond.
He felt like Director Li had a strange misunderstanding of the concept of young people.
Director Li remembered that he just came out of Professor Lu's house and guessed something. However, this kind of thing might be confidential, so he didn't dare to ask. Therefore, he just quietly drove his car.
Director Li didn't continue to chat with his driver. He took out his phone and dialed a number. He called Director Lu's phone at the Energy Bureau.
"Hello? Old Lu, I want to tell you something. I learned a lot on this trip to Jinling! "
"…"
…
In fact, it was very difficult to expect lithium-air batteries to completely replace lithium-sulfur batteries. After all, the most reliable way to give oxygen molecules a high enough pressure to pass through the membrane was to keep it in a moving state.
Automobiles were undoubtedly a very suitable application. The intake grille used to supply oxygen to the engine could also be used to supply oxygen to lithium-air batteries.
However, if it was a phone that was often stuffed in one's pocket, adding an "intake grille" design would be useless.
Compared to lithium-sulfur batteries, which were more focused on materials, lithium-air batteries were more focused on mechanism. Ingenious design was used to increase the energy density per unit volume as much as possible.
This meant that the larger the size of the battery itself, the more space the designer could use, and the easier it would be to increase the energy density per unit volume.
If this was taken to the extreme, it might be like what IBM advocated in the "Battery-500" project, using distributed computing technology to ensure that every oxygen molecule entering the reaction system was accurately matched to a lithium battery slot …
Of course, this goal was too sci-fi, and even from the current point of view, it was hard to say whether it was necessary to achieve this level of technology.
Finally, Director Li left. Lu Zhou put away the drafts of the design plans that were thrown on the sofa by Director Li.
These were all ideas that he had come up with when he was studying the structure of Debris No.1. They weren't mature designs.
Of course, even though many of the ideas on the draft paper were just ideas, with his level 6 engineering level and his accumulated experience from leading so many scientific research projects, there were still a lot of noteworthy points.
After figuring out that this wasn't a mature lithium-air battery technology, Director Li finally gave up.
However, before he left, he also expressed that if they really made a breakthrough in this technology, the State Administration for National Defense could help with patent approval.
For example, the approval process, which was originally based on years, could be reduced to months or even weeks.
In fact, Star Sky Technology's patent applications had always been treated like a VIP.
After putting away the documents, Lu Zhou took out his phone and called Chen Yushan.
Soon after, a familiar voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Oh? You've been calling me a lot lately, aren't you on a retreat? "
"I want to." Lu Zhou sighed and cleared his throat. He then said, "Director Li came to see me."
Chen Yushan guessed that Lu Zhou must have been asked to do something, so she went straight to the point. "What did he ask you to do?"
"It's about the Dragon One chip."
It took around five minutes for Lu Zhou to briefly explain the Dragon One and the three-party research and development agreement to Chen Yushan.
Especially regarding the parts of the agreement that he wasn't sure about.
After listening to Lu Zhou's explanation, Chen Yushan leaned back in her office chair and tapped her finger on the armrest. She thought for a second and said, "This agreement is actually pretty good. Oh yeah, it only involves the chip patent, right?"
Lu Zhou: "Sort of, I'll scan the agreement and send it to your email."
"Yeah, it's better to send me a copy of the agreement first." Chen Yushan paused for a second and said, "Also, just to be safe, we have to add a few more clauses. We have to separate the carbon-based transistor integration technology from the chip. After all, we've already taken care of this thing. There's no need to cooperate with them again and let them take advantage of it. "
Seeing that Chen Yushan had thought about it so thoroughly, Lu Zhou was relieved. He smiled and said, "I don't have any objections, just do whatever you think is appropriate. Also, I talked to Director Li about the lithium-air battery patent. Let's hurry up and register the patent. "
The other end of the phone went silent for a while.
Chen Yushan didn't know what Lu Zhou was talking about, but she went silent for a while.
Seeing that there was no response from the other end of the phone, Lu Zhou hesitated a little.
"What?"
The other end of the phone finally responded.
"… Lithium-air battery?"
"Yeah." Lu Zhou nodded and said, "… Didn't I tell you?"
Chen Yushan: "… When did you tell me?"
Lu Zhou suddenly remembered that he just gave the model to Yang Xu yesterday, and he hadn't told her about it yet.
Lu Zhou coughed and said awkwardly, "Okay, it's my fault."
"It's fine, it's not my fault, I'm just a little surprised … Let me think, if I play this card well, it might work …"
Chen Yushan pinched her eyebrows and thought for a long time.
Lu Zhou was wondering if he should call her until she made up her mind. Suddenly, she spoke.
"Oh yeah, didn't you tell me before that lithium-air batteries are used in cars?"
Lu Zhou nodded and said, "It doesn't have to be used in cars, but it's definitely the most suitable for cars. The larger the design space, the higher the energy density per unit volume. Furthermore, because of the nature of oxygen molecules selectively passing through the membrane, it is best used in vehicles such as cars. "
As soon as Chen Yushan heard this, she immediately snapped her fingers and spoke excitedly as if she had won the lottery.
"Got it! I'll take care of it! Oh yeah, about lithium-air batteries, if you have nothing else to do, just publish a couple of theses. It doesn't have to be too detailed, just a summary thesis. Just let the world know that we're researching lithium-air batteries, and we've made some progress. "
What do you mean publish a couple of theses …
Theses aren't like eating or drinking, why would they be so easy to publish? Even with his reputation as a Nobel Prize -level scholar, he still had to write some highlights in his article.
When Lu Zhou heard Chen Yushan's request, he sighed and said, "What do you plan on doing?"
With a confident smile, Chen Yushan, who was on the other end of the phone, sat up from her office chair and spoke in a confident tone.
"A big game of chess!"
Lu Zhou: "…?"
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