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Chapter 51 Confirms the Breakthrough
Today, with the arrival of the inspection team, most of the personnel in the main laboratory building of the National Key Laboratory for New Energy have been evacuated, and the security office has been taken over by the National Security Field Team.

The expert team specially dispatched to Shenzhen consisted of academicians in the field of energy batteries and heads of relevant national key laboratories. Coupled with the major breakthrough in gaseous lithium battery technology, they had no choice but to be cautious.

In response to Lao Qi's question, Director Huang laughed and picked up the "Gaseous Lithium-ion Battery Product Specification Sheet" from the lab table.

"It's achieved! And it's a reverse overstatement. The actual measurement exceeds the original parameters!" He flipped to the parameter page and ran his finger over the energy density data: "Theoretical value is 48Wh/L, actual test is 50, error ±2! Cycle life is stated as 3000 cycles, and it has run 3150 cycles in the lab without any decay!"

"Nonsense!" Upon hearing that lifespan testing had already begun, Professor Jiang's roar echoed throughout the room, his eyes widening behind his glasses: "Ten batteries were sent for testing, and now only five remain! You old fogies have even done the damage testing first!"

Hmm! Why shouldn't it be me, Old Jiang, who does it?

There's no other way! Cycle life is a necessary data point for batteries; otherwise, just doing some superficial tests would be meaningless.

Fortunately, as long as the cycle life exceeds 3000 times, it is enough to prove the authenticity of the parameters on the gaseous lithium battery report.

Nowadays, the common practice for manufacturers to submit three sets of batteries for testing is to tacitly agree to select the best set for certification data.

Who is as "honest" as Chen Mo? He said he would send a set of ten batteries for testing, and he actually sent ten. He even cut back on the parameters in the product report, falsely labeling them.

At this point, Professor Jiang actually developed a very good impression of this student of Old Lin.

Besides being a genuine genius, the other party was also very down-to-earth and honest.

In today's academic environment where superficiality and data inflation are rampant, Chen Mo is like a rough gem, not exaggerating his achievements or resorting to opportunism, but letting his solid technical skills speak for themselves.

Professor Jiang was very much to the liking of this kind of meticulousness hidden in the "hard work".

How did I end up following that academic slacker, Lao Lin?

Hmm! Actually, Vice Dean Lin can't really be considered an academic slacker; it's just that his focus isn't on technology anymore.

On the contrary, Vice Dean Lin actually "relyed" on Chen Mo, using Chen Mo's SCI papers as a reference to produce a superficial review article.

Professor Jiang's current thought is that Chen Mo is being wasted by Lao Lin, a technical slacker who lives off his parents and a genius student.

If this were my own student, I wouldn't let him finish half of his master's degree and then go off to make mobile phones!

Professor Jiang stroked the densely packed raw data on the actual measurement report.

Why don't we talk to Lao Lin and tell him to stop misleading students? Although I'm not very talented, I do have some experience in educating students.

"Why should you, Old Jiang, get one? Everyone else is an academician, you're the only one with a big face!"

"That's right! That's right!"

Professor Jiang suddenly remembered something and rummaged in his pocket: "That's right! Chen Mo is me..." But the words were drowned out by a new round of arguing among the experts.

You, Old Jiang Niu, are an academician among the experts here, and a head of a national key laboratory.

In the laboratory, an academician was secretly stuffing batteries into an explosion-proof box when he was caught red-handed by a sharp-eyed colleague.

"Academician Zhou! This is breaking the rules!"

Academician Zhou put down the liquid nitrogen tank, grabbed the explosion-proof box, and spread his hands: "You guys keep arguing! I just want to take it to do an electron microscope to see the internal structure!" "You need a liquid nitrogen tank to do an electron microscope? Do you think I'm blind?!"

The scene was quite lively, which made Director Huang smile wryly as he looked at Deputy Team Leader Qi, who was mainly responsible for the technical aspects of the inspection team.

"Old Qi! These are disputes within your academic circles, and it's not convenient for me to get involved. Why don't you handle it for me?"

Deputy Team Leader Qi quickly waved his hand: "No, no, no, please! I'm neither an academician nor the head of a key national laboratory. Besides, with my qualifications, how could I possibly persuade these big shots!"

Director Huang handed a copy of the measured data to Lao Qi, and didn't forget to tease him.

"You've already won Changqing and Guojie awards, so you're practically a candidate for academician. If you can resolve the conflicts with these bigwigs now, they might even vote for you in future elections!"

Now that the breakthrough in gaseous lithium battery technology has been verified both logically and technically, Director Huang, the person in charge, is in a rare moment of relief and has even started joking with Lao Qi.

It is foreseeable that everyone deserves a great deal of credit for successfully uncovering the technological breakthrough in gaseous lithium batteries.

While Director Huang's contribution might not be enough to get him promoted to a higher rank, it would at least save him two years of waiting time for his next promotion.

Of course, the one who benefits the most from this whole affair is Chen Mo, who is currently unaware of it.

"I can't control it! I really can't control it!"

Deputy Team Leader Qi shook his head vigorously, determined not to get involved in this mess.

Ultimately, the "bad guy" was none other than Director Huang, who was not from academia.

"Stop arguing!" Director Huang had no choice but to stand on the lab bench, the mineral water bottle clattering against the steel frame: "Five batteries, five special task forces! With Elder Jiang in charge, let's pick one first!"

Before he could finish speaking, Professor Jiang had already snatched the tray, picked up a prototype battery, and proudly waved it at everyone.

"Those graduate students in my group should have seen the world a long time ago!"

After saying that, he put it in the battery box, and proudly carried it into the laboratory.

Such an opportunity is rare, and Professor Jiang still takes good care of his students. Of course, he is also very strict with them.

Especially after Professor Jiang was elected as an academician, he cherished his reputation even more.

Otherwise, if he had known from Director Huang that Xu Mingyuan might have lied to him, he wouldn't have been so angry. Today, he kept a cold face until Xu Mingyuan cleared up the misunderstanding.

But while Professor Jiang was busy leading his graduate students in researching this cutting-edge gaseous lithium-ion battery prototype, he always felt like he had forgotten something.

Professor Jiang couldn't think of anything for the time being, and with the troubling gaseous lithium battery still on his mind, he stopped thinking about it.

At this moment, the office of the boss of Yuantu Company was brightly lit. Xu Mingyuan was still waiting for Professor Jiang's confirmation. When exactly would the BTD inspection experts arrive?
Although Xu Mingyuan was a little angry about the blunder, the reality was that he had to bow his head and grab onto the lifeline that Teacher Jiang offered!
Around 3 a.m., these experts were still working late into the night. In the end, it was only after Director Huang forced the National Security personnel to shut down the laboratory that they were persuaded to come out.

If any of the experts here were to have an accident, then Director Huang's merits and demerits would cancel each other out.

After obtaining all the actual test data of the gaseous lithium battery, Deputy Team Leader Qi stayed up all night to compile a technical report, which, along with Director Huang's investigation report on the entire incident, was sent to Beijing.

(End of this chapter)