Chapter 125: Preliminary Results
In comparison, the style of Hongxin mobile phone is too simple, so it is reasonable for sales to decline.
Jiangcheng University, the new energy technology and materials laboratory, Lu Zixin and Hongxin's R&D team, as well as several professors who are already technical consultants of Hongxin Group, are doing the first phase of the sample test of lithium-air batteries.
Lu Zixin only provided some important technical information, and the specific research and development and material tests were completed by them.
In front of them, there is a palm-sized sample lithium-air battery, and Professor Luo Hanshan is explaining.
"Battery technology is an energy storage technology. Batteries are the medium for storing energy, and there has been no significant breakthrough in battery technology in the past decade. ”
"A few years ago, I also worked on battery technology with a few colleagues to try to build new battery models. However, we searched the periodic table and crystal databases, and still did not find a reliable theoretical model. ”
"Lithium-air batteries, on the other hand, use the method of changing the negative electrode reactants to achieve greater energy storage......
He talked a little bit about it, and then said: "Lithium-air batteries have a greater energy density than regular lithium batteries, which means that there is a greater chance of danger. So security and stability are the biggest challenges we face right now. ”
"In order to ensure stability, we reduced the amount of reaction and made this sample, which currently has four to five times the energy storage capacity of ordinary batteries. ”
Lu Zixin asked, "What about stability?"
Luo Hanshan said: "The internal structure of the battery has been repeatedly modified to simulate dozens of accidents, and the stability and cycle stability are even higher than that of ordinary lithium batteries! ”
Cycle stability is what may happen to the battery after repeated charging.
"Then do you think this sample can be put into commercial use?" Lu Zixin asked.
"Yes!" Luo Hanshan affirmed, "as long as it is tested by a state agency, it can be put into commercial use." However, for the sake of safety, commercial lithium-air batteries have to reduce some energy storage for the time being, and the performance of the commercial version of the battery can reach four times. ”
"Four times! Four times is enough!" Tang Gang next to Lu Zixin was pleasantly surprised, the battery of the same size has four times the power of others! This is a great advantage for them!
Lu Zixin said with a smile: "Congratulations to Professor Luo, and your efforts to make this cross-era lithium-air battery!"
Those professors were naturally full of joy, but Luo Hanshan said calmly: "This is not enough, this is only a preliminary technique." A real lithium-air battery should be able to be used in any mobile electronic device, electric vehicle, and even large energy storage. This research is the first step we have taken. ”
Lu Zixin nodded and said, "That's also quite remarkable." In the future, we will continue to provide research funds to try to make this technology more mature. Great work. ”
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Coming back from Jiang University, Tang Gang was still excited, he said: "I just asked, I can make a commercial version of the mobile phone lithium battery model within half a month, and submit it to the relevant departments for review." In a month, we will be in production!"
"How's going on with the battery factory?" Lu Zixin asked.
"If you find a small factory and the business is not doing well, their boss is willing to sell it. However, if we want to be wholly owned, we will invest a lot in replacing equipment, expanding factories and so on. ”
"Still have to vote. In the future, the profitability of batteries may not be less than that of mobile phones!" Lu Zixin said, this lithium-air battery itself is a super profit point.
As long as the market can see its performance, it is estimated that battery orders will not be completed.
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A few weeks later, I got the results of the certification from the state agency. Hongxin Electronic Technology announced a news that shook the industry, after the joint research and development of Hongxin's R&D team and Jiangcheng University, it finally made a breakthrough in lithium battery technology and developed a commercial version of lithium-air battery, which has more than four times the performance of ordinary lithium batteries.
Jiangcheng University also released this statement, and it was also posted on the school's official website as an honor.
As soon as this announcement came out, it immediately caused an uproar, first of all, various media reported on the incident.
Science and Technology Daily: "China's enterprises have independently developed lithium-air batteries, which is of epoch-making significance!"
Penguin News: "Hongxin announced the development of a new type of battery, which has more than four times the performance of ordinary batteries!"
Phoenix Technology: "Another breakthrough in new energy technology, Hongxin announced the successful development of lithium-air batteries!"
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Ordinary people may not pay much attention to these things, but people in related industries are surprised.
Those who pay the most attention to red letters are naturally competitors in the same industry.
Rice company, Tian Xiangshan saw Hongxin's announcement, and was immediately frightened, if the battery with four times the performance is used for mobile electronic devices, how strong is it?
"Is this true or fake?" Tian Xiangshan asked the company's technicians.
The technician didn't know either, and said, "If it's a model of a lithium-air battery, it's possible." But for the commercial version, it's hard to say. However, battery technology has not been innovated for many years, and I still think it is a gimmick and hype. ”
"Hope is hype. Tian Xiangshan comforted himself, if Hongxin can really commercialize this kind of battery, it will be a disaster for their peers!
Other mobile phone brands have also felt the crisis, but like Tian Xiangshan, they also feel that Hongxin is hype. How long has Hongxin been making mobile phones? Even HX2 has not been released, and a new battery has been developed, which is not scientific!
On the Internet, there is also an expert in new energy technology who came out to speak, he said: "The lithium-air battery claimed by Hongxin is likely to be just a technical model and cannot be commercialized!"
"A few years ago, the University of Cambridge had built such models and samples. Similar batteries have been sent out by island nations and Israel, but now they can only exist in laboratories. ”
He also said: "Red letter is hype. In the past few months, a billion gambling games have been hyped, and now we are going to hype new batteries, and it is recommended that everyone look at it rationally and not be led by the hype of merchants. ”
Not only him, but some battery companies have also said that lithium-air batteries are still some way from commercialization.
There is even an island scientist named Masakisuke who stood up and declared in front of the media: "The Island New Energy Technology Development Association made a physical air battery in the laboratory a few years ago, and Hongxin is still at least ten years away from them!"
His statement has won the unanimous agreement of everyone. Some media have reprinted Masakisuke's statement, saying that Hongxin's announcement is another hype.
"Which green onion is this Masakisuke?" asked Lu Zixin in the office.
Su Zhirong looked at her phone and said, "A member of the National Institute of Industrial Technology of the island country, an expert in new energy technology." By the way, he is also the CTO of Fujidaira Battery. ”