Tech startup: I really do make mobile phones!

Chapter 66 Kill two birds with one stone

In the laboratory of Group Three.

About 30 seconds later, a series of beeps indicating that charging was complete began to sound.

"Senior Sister Liu! My phone has a 917 mAh battery!"

Liu Mingzhen held the notebook and was responsible for recording the capacitance results of the piece of metal they were each responsible for hand-rubbing.

"Senior sister! Mine is 930!"

"922!"

Ultimately, Liu Mingzhen calculated that the average capacity of these 20 newly designed gaseous lithium batteries was 925mAh, with an error rate of ≤±3%.

This error rate of ≤±3% made Chen Mo's eyes well up with tears.

As expected of a configuration created using a high-precision plasma etching machine, the capacitance error is controlled so well.

It's worth noting that this data completely surpasses Apple 4's proud 5% error standard.

If given the chance, Chen Mo really wanted to get himself a "magical tool" like this to assist in scientific research.

Of course, controlling the capacitance error to within 3% is a standard that can only be achieved in a laboratory.

Pingguo uses ATI and Xinwangda batteries with a capacity error rate of 5%, which is unparalleled in the market.

In the mainstream domestic market, batteries with a capacity error rate within 5% to 15% are considered qualified products.

For mobile phones, the difference in battery life of half an hour due to battery capacity error is barely noticeable; you just think of it as playing for an extra two minutes.

However, when this 15% capacity error standard is applied to new energy vehicles, it creates a stereotype that the batteries are overrated and not durable.

"Teacher Jiang, regarding this structure authorization," Chen Mo said, clutching the statistical record Liu Mingzhen handed him, "I can pay the authorization fee!"

"What nonsense are you talking about! The trees were planted on your land, so you get a share of the fruit." Professor Jiang patted him on the shoulder: "You taught my bunch of brats for three days, and that's more than that so-called authorization fee!"

Although the annual funding allocated to the national key laboratory is limited, Professor Jiang is not so short of Chen Mo's paltry licensing fees.

"However," the old man winked slyly, with a touch of childlike charm, "I do have a problem with gaseous lithium batteries. Would you dare to take on the task?"

Liu Mingzhen sidled up to her, clutching her lab log, her eyes shining brightly: "Professor Jiang! I want to hear it too!"

The three groups of graduate students raised their hands in unison, their white lab coat sleeves swaying like white waves.

Chen Mo looked at the eager crowd, then glanced at Professor Jiang's expectant smile, and nodded emphatically.

"No problem! As long as it doesn't involve the core secrets of gaseous lithium batteries, I'll tell you everything I know!"

Since Professor Jiang didn't want the licensing fee for the MOF-honeycomb structure, Chen Mo would do his best to explain the contents of gaseous lithium batteries to them, as long as it didn't involve core secrets.

In the eyes of these researchers with gleaming eyes, Chen Mo was a walking SCI paper!
A week later.

The setting sun outside the laboratory window cast a long shadow of Liu Mingzhen as she carried a tray containing 20 batteries into Chen Mo's temporary office in the laboratory.

The brand-new battery even retains a slight warmth from charging and activation, and its surface has a silvery metallic sheen.

“Professor Chen! These are my 20 batteries, all of them are up to standard.” She placed her laptop in front of Chen Mo, the outline of her thesis still glowing blue: “Is the energy mobility of low-density vaporized lithium ions positively correlated with the material’s structure?”

In the past few days, Chen Mo has received an overwhelming number of questions about gaseous lithium batteries.

Even researchers outside the three groups, upon learning that the developers of gaseous lithium batteries were coming to "teach" in person, found acquaintances to sneak in.

Some small questions that they can figure out on their own will be asked again by those who blindly trust the authority of the researchers.

These researchers are practically using themselves as future Deep Sakes; where would they find the time to use the lab equipment to produce those 1000 mobile phone batteries?

Therefore, Chen Mo established the rules.

Apart from Professor Jiang, they were only allowed to ask one question about gaseous lithium batteries after submitting 20 sets of newly structured gaseous lithium batteries that passed the tests.

You know what, it's killing two birds with one stone.

As Chen Mo's life became much quieter, the number of unlabeled batteries in the incubator also increased day by day.

The batteries that researchers have been hand-crafting are now almost filling two temperature-controlled chambers, and these are high-quality batteries with a capacity error of only 3%.

As the first users of the Orange 1, they will be truly fortunate. At least, this batch of high-quality batteries, produced by a key national laboratory and crafted by graduate students at the very least, will likely be enjoyed by only them.

If Chen Mo wants to mass-produce gaseous lithium batteries for mobile phones, he definitely won't be able to use this method anymore.

If it weren't for the complete set of gaseous lithium battery solutions provided by the system in his mind, he really wouldn't have been able to handle the barrage of questions from these "academic geniuses".

Shenzhen University is neither a 985 nor a 211 university. Chen Mo is just an ordinary graduate of a first-tier university. If it weren't for the gaseous lithium battery solution provided by the system, would these high-achieving students have flocked to him for advice just because of his SCI paper?

"Teacher Chen?" Seeing Chen Mo seemingly lost in thought, Liu Mingzhen tilted his head slightly, his short hair swaying slightly in front of Chen Mo's eyes: "My vaporized ion..."

"Let me see your thought process first!"

Chen Mo scrolled down the paper on his laptop, pretending to read Liu Mingzhen's paper, but in reality, he was rapidly searching his mind for information about gaseous lithium ions provided by the system.

The system doesn't cover the parts related to material structure at all; this remains a vague blind spot that needs to be explored by future researchers.

He coughed lightly, turned his laptop halfway around, and stared at Liu Mingzhen's almond-shaped eyes, which revealed a sharp thirst for knowledge.

"Vaporized lithium ions migrate 37 times faster in the supercritical state than in the solid state, but..."

Chen Mo shared some of the information he knew about lithium-ion mobility; the rest would have to be researched by Liu Mingzhen himself.

"But what?"

Liu Mingzhen's eyes lit up instantly, automatically ignoring his deliberately drawn-out ending, and his fingers flew across the keyboard as he typed in his notebook.

“But this is only the characteristic of ions.” Chen Mo spread his hands: “The material structure is like a lock. Each variable is a key. I can only tell you where the lock is. You have to try it yourself to find the key.”

He glanced at Liu Mingzhen's slightly downturned lips and added, "But the fact that you could think of combining migration rate and materials already puts you ahead of 99% of people."

I don't understand the world of you geniuses, does that mean we have to publish in Nature?

So, has my Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of North America been removed from the SCI list?

However, Chen Mo's encouragement did have some effect.

Liu Mingzhen straightened his back: "Okay! Once my data is ready, I'll ask you to be the second author of the paper first!"

It seems this genius is still not convinced!
Judging from Liu Mingzhen's actions, he's determined to make a major breakthrough and publish it in Nature.

However, the thought of suddenly having four or five more high-quality second-author SCI papers in journals like *Science* or *Nature* is somewhat exciting.

This wasn't an SCI paper that Chen Mo got by relying on his father's connections; it was all second-author papers that he insisted on giving to others after "guiding" them.

If we're talking about the most valuable work, then it's undoubtedly Professor Jiang's ongoing project, "A Cross-Scale Analysis of Ion Transport Mechanisms in Supercritical Fluids: Theoretical Construction and Experimental Verification of the Chen Mo-Schmidt Model."

Main title (highlighting the discovery) + subtitle (methodology) = matching degree of the title of "Science".

As for the naming convention of the models, Chen Mo, as an applied scientist, comes first, followed by Schmidt, as a theoretical scientist; this is a common naming rule in the scientific research community.

Professor Jiang, this 58-year-old academician, hasn't left the lab all week, working on perfecting his paper.

The current academician system is still based on lifetime appointments. In fact, Professor Jiang no longer needs to use top-tier SCI journals like "Science" to build his reputation and prove himself.

Twenty years ago, Schmidt passed away amidst overwhelming skepticism from the academic community. The regret that researchers felt deeply was like a thorn deeply embedded in Professor Jiang's heart.

Novels about unresolved personal grievances have a large readership, and researchers naturally have their own grievances as well.

Twenty years later, the emergence of gaseous lithium batteries is sufficient proof of Schmidt's supercritical theory.

As an idealist "martyr," Professor Jiang was determined to vindicate Schmidt, who had been heavily criticized but illuminated the path of materials science.

Of course, Professor Jiang's unspoken meaning was also to show off to the foreigners.

Look at you guys, you used to treat the theories of your genius scientists as science fiction, while our geniuses have already made real things.

This is similar to how parents like to show off their children's success; it all stems from their love and care for the younger generation.

When Chen Mo left the Shenzhen National Key Laboratory of New Energy, in addition to more than a thousand mobile phone gaseous lithium batteries, he also booked five SCI papers as second authors.

Among them are top-tier SCI journals such as Science and Nature, which somewhat makes up for his regret of not firmly pursuing an academic path in his previous life.

As for this lifetime, we'll see!
(End of this chapter)