You say you have an iron will, are you serious?

Chapter 86
"???"

Listening to the secretary's report, Ke Fei didn't react at first. He didn't understand why his secretary was reporting this matter when he had nothing to do. It seemed to have nothing to do with their Sloan Foundation now, right?

But soon, Ke Fei realized, good guy, something seems wrong.

The candidates for the Sloan Research Award have just been finalized, and Zhao Mo, who rejected them, has been eliminated. Now Zhao Mo has made another noise, and the noise is not ordinary. He directly published a report on lithium-sulfur batteries in "Advanced Materials" And a super paper that laid the theoretical foundation for the commercial use of graphene batteries. What does this mean?
Experts’ comments mean that Zhao Mo’s research in the field of lithium batteries has reached a leading position in the world!
This means that Zhao Mo's level of excellence has exceeded that of ordinary outstanding young scholars!
In this case, Zhao Mo is not included in their Sloan Research Award list, which is a bit of fun.

You know, Zhao Mo rejected them before, and they eliminated Zhao Mo. They could also explain that Zhao Mo refused on his own initiative, and others would not have much objection.

But now, even if they say that Zhao Mo took the initiative to reject it, others will say: "Zhao Mo rejected you, so you just gave up. Is this how you value talents?" What's more, such as those in the material field Young scholars, when they see that they have won the Sloan Research Award, Zhao Mo, who is more powerful than them, has not yet won it, and they may refuse to accept the award.Once that happened, it would be a major disaster for the Sloan Research Award.

Related to this, the impartiality and influence of the Sloan Foundation, as the unit that determines the award, will be severely affected!
When Ke Fei thought of this situation, his face suddenly turned ugly. Then he looked at the secretary hesitantly and asked: "Now, do we need to hold a meeting with the judges to re-discuss the issue of Zhao Mo's quota?"

The secretary heard a black line at one end: "???"

No, you asked me to do this all at once. Is this really appropriate?

Those judges are all masters in various fields. If I, a little guy like me, talk about this, aren’t I just waiting to be picked on?
"I suggest you call and tell them in person. This will take them more seriously!"

The secretary secretly gritted his teeth, but replied calmly.

Ke Fei coughed and felt a little embarrassed, but for the sake of the reputation of the foundation, he made a decision after thinking for a while, picked up the phone and started calling the judges.

"God, we have already notified the winners, and now you are saying that we want to replace them? Are you crazy? Do you think we are all idle and have nothing to do..."

There was no need to think about making other calls. After hearing this, the first judge started yelling on the phone. The sound was so loud and deafening that Ke Fei had to move the phone receiver away.

Then, Ke Fei quickly hung up the phone.

Since the quota cannot be changed, the only option is to add another quota, and their foundation will have to spend more money.

So Ke Fei started looking for big benefactors.

"Stop! No one has ever been able to take away prizes and medals without coming to the scene. Who does he think he is? Einstein? Tell him, stop having such a dream!"

The big benefactors had a unanimous opinion and quickly rejected Coffey's proposal.

Ke Fei looked at the secretary, shrugged and said, "Okay, man, that's it."

After saying that, he slapped his official seal on the report and prayed silently in his heart: "I hope his achievements will stop here, otherwise I can already imagine the end of me packing up and leaving~"

……

Wancheng, within ATL, a subsidiary of TDK.

"Old Zeng, look at this~"

Huang Lin, the director of the R&D Department, anxiously found his immediate boss Zeng Qun, who was also his high school classmate, and handed over a journal in his hand.

"what?"

While asking, Zeng Qun reached out and took the journal.

Huang Lin said: "The latest issue of "Advanced Materials" published two papers, one on graphene batteries and one on lithium-sulfur batteries."

Zeng Qun was startled for a moment, then lowered his head and looked up, his brows furrowing more and more.

Zeng Qun is from ND in Fujian Province. He graduated from Fudan Jiaotong University. After working, he was admitted to the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for a doctorate in condensed matter physics. Reading this "Advanced Materials" is naturally not difficult at all.

However, like many people, being able to understand the paper does not mean that you can fully understand the paper, because it involves a lot of mathematical problems, and it is really not possible to understand it after reading it a few times.

However, these are not big problems for Zeng Qun, as long as he can understand the paper.

After half an hour, Zeng Qun finished reading the two papers, his frown relaxed, and his face showed a hint of excitement. He looked at Huang Lin and asked: "Can these two batteries work? ?”

Huang Lin knew what he meant, but he still shook his head honestly and said, "I don't know."

Zeng Qun's expression darkened, and he kept writing the journal without letting go. He said with emotion: "Yes, the prospects described in these two papers are indeed very attractive, but they are too advanced and too advanced to be believed. .”

In 1989, he joined a state-owned enterprise after graduating from Jiaotong University in Shanghai. However, he was not satisfied with this and soon transferred to Xinke Magnetics, a subsidiary of the foreign-funded enterprise TDK.After Huang Lin heard that he had gone to Xinke Magnetics, he became prosperous and soon became a senior executive in the factory. In 95, he also became an imported talent from Xiangjiang, so he gave up his iron job and jumped into Xinke. Magneto, working with him.

In 1999, 31-year-old Zeng Qun became the youngest engineering director of Xinke Magnetics and the only director from the mainland.At that time, he quit and founded ATL with Huang Lin to start his own business.

It's a pity that the year before last, due to financial problems, he and Huang Lin had to sell ATL to TDK. After going round and round, they returned to TDK.This incident made Zeng Qun and Huang Lin very depressed.

Zeng Qun is from ND, Fujian Province. He seems to be born with a restless heart that refuses to admit defeat and wants to do something big. After he and Huang Lin returned to TDK, they had been thinking about how to get out again, but they just kept thinking about it. No opportunity found.Of course, it was also because I was short of money and couldn't afford to go through too much trouble.

These two papers made him feel a little more at ease and a little restless again.

"How about we ask the author of this paper?"

Huang Lin put forward his own suggestions.

Zeng Qun was startled, then looked at the introduction of the author of the paper, and was shocked: "Zhao Mo, a freshman at Wudaokou, this year?"

Huang Lin smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, I couldn't believe it when I saw it. It's too incredible."

He and Zeng Qun are only in their 30s and less than 40 years old. Their current achievements are already beyond the reach of more than 99% of people in their lifetimes, and they are enough to be proud of.However, when he saw that the authors of these two papers had surpassed unknown numbers this year in the lithium battery industry, which they had been involved in for more than ten years, he was deeply hit.

Zeng Qun also shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Today's young people are really amazing. It's true that the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, and each wave is stronger than the last!"

Later, he agreed with Huang Lin's suggestion and said, "Without further delay, let's set off now."

Huang Lin was shocked and said: "Okay!"

……

Pengcheng, BYD headquarters.

"Mr. Wang, this is today's science news~"

Early in the morning, Brother Boatman, who had just arrived at work, received a briefing prepared by his secretary.In addition to company management and project progress control, Boatman also certainly keeps track of the most cutting-edge scientific and technological developments in the world.

As a man who graduated with a master's degree in 1990 and became the general manager of a state-owned battery company in Pengcheng in 1993, he is a highly educated person himself.Especially in the field of batteries, Brother Boatman can be said to have been devoted to it all his life. He studied batteries for his undergraduate degree, studied batteries for his master's degree, and also worked on dry batteries until he established BYD.

Today's BYD is no longer a simple battery company, but a high-tech company that starts with batteries and spans many fields such as molds, electronics, and automobiles.

This year, BYD Electronics Division will also be listed in Hong Kong.

For Boatman, the company's most important project right now is the research and development of F3DM.

"Okay, let's leave it here~"

The boatman said casually, and then began to pay attention to the progress of F3DM.His goal is to require F3DM to be officially launched next year, which is also a gift for the Beijing Olympics next year.

"Still having trouble with the motor?"

“Iron battery energy density and safety require redesign?”

Looking at the problem points marked in red on the progress, the boatman's face gradually became serious.

As BYD's first tangentially electric vehicle, Boatman has high hopes and is not allowed to fail, only to succeed.When he switched to the automotive field, he keenly noticed that it was almost impossible to surpass Western countries in terms of internal combustion engines.Not to mention anything else, just talking about the patents accumulated over hundreds of years of development is enough to stifle all development of late-developing countries.Therefore, electric vehicles are the key to overtaking in corners, which he realized when he saw the EV-1, the world's first electric vehicle launched by General Motors.

Although General Motors failed that year, launching EV-2001 in 1 and announcing its abandonment in 2002, Boatman doesn't think the problem is with the electric vehicle industry, but with the battery.

Needless to say, he is a senior expert in the battery field!
But I didn't expect that the difference between batteries in the consumer field and batteries in the automotive field is really huge. After several years of research and development, his "iron battery" still has problems.

Well, iron batteries, the BYD version of lithium iron phosphate batteries, are not regular lithium iron phosphate batteries. They are the patented areas of Little Book and Hydro-Québec and other Americas. BYD does not infringe patents, but only makes inventions.

After scratching his head, the boatman decided to go down to the factory workshop in person, so he picked up the briefing and left the office.

On the way, he opened the briefing and read it.

After a while, a paper briefing titled "Theoretical Discussion on a New Graphene Three-Dimensional Porous Carrier Loaded with Metallic Lithium as a Composite Anode Material!" attracted his attention.

"Wait, graphene battery?"

The boatman suspected that he had read it wrong, so he quickly read it again, and then confirmed that he had read it correctly. Someone had indeed written a paper on "graphene". This person was a student at Wudaokou, and there was Nuremberg University behind the briefing. Comments from Professor Crystal.

The boatman looked doubtful: "Is it true? Can this thing really be built? However, Zhao Mo's name seems familiar. It seems like he is somewhere... I remembered the math genius who appeared on the News Network years ago. !”

Then, Brother Boatman believed that the credibility of this paper reached [-]% to [-]%.

(End of this chapter)