Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Molecular Machine Returns
"This cow", Wang Yinan was more excited than the female star of the Sun Country who saw the light.
"It is not unreasonable for human beings to evolve for hundreds of thousands of years to form the way they walk and run today," Wang Yinan said to Chen Zihao.
"Muscles are the most efficient way to motivate, lightweight, long-lasting and the most efficient use of energy."
Wang Yinan opened the research report and began to study it carefully.
"It seems to be a polymer material made by 3D printing technology, and the main raw materials are silicon and ethanol", Wang Yinan commented while watching,
"It seems that the know-how lies in the delicate microbubble structure in the middle, and by embedding a large number of microbubbles in the fibrous clusters, this artificial muscle can expand and contract according to temperature."
"The maximum can be expanded to 900% of the smallest size", Wang Yinan pointed to this line of small print,
"This is amazing, nine times the expansion coefficient, let me see what the maximum bearing capacity is",
"Well, a hundred kilograms, it's enough to drive a humanoid machine."
"Heating by burying metal wires, this is too Lo, the processing will be very difficult, no wonder the yield rate is so low", Wang Yinan looked at the back, a little disdainful,
"And the reaction speed is too slow, from power-on to heating, it should be calculated in seconds, so it's not suitable to drive the robot, even if it comes out, it's an old lady robot."
"If you really want to use it in actual equipment, you still have to use electricity as a control signal, and the reaction time of heating expansion or cooling contraction is in seconds, and it is too clumsy to drive the robot like that", Wang Yinan shook his head, it seems that this thing can't be counted on.
However, this idea is quite good, the use of well-designed microstructure to achieve the deformation of materials under specific conditions, the only problem of the R & D team in rice country is that there is no molecular weaving technology in hand, can only use 3D printing, so the larger scale of microbubbles is the only feasible option.
But Wang Yinan is different, he has a big killer such as a molecular weaving machine in his hand, and even a specific oxide lattice can be compiled, not to mention the much larger scale of polymer materials, there are many basic polymer materials that can shrink and expand under the stimulation of electric current, and they only need to be assembled in a suitable way.
"The key is the technology of combining these fiber materials, and how to bury the electrode in the middle of the material," Wang Yinan thought.
At present, there are two most fatal flaws of artificial muscles, one defect is the lack of maximum driving force, for example, in an experiment, artificial muscles are used to make a tail similar to a shark, and drive the machine forward by swinging in the water, but this drive can only reach a speed of less than 0.1 meters per second, although the noise is very small, it looks beautiful, but this speed determines that this thing can only be a toy.
Another defect is that it is difficult to control, how much current is applied to produce how much driving force, this has no theory to calculate, not to mention nonlinear, each piece of material even has its own curve, which needs to be calibrated before it can be used, and after working for a period of time, the curve becomes completely different, what do you say.
"It's also time to find something new to do for the molecular programming laboratory, they are now working on battery technology, I don't know how it is progressing", Wang Yinan said just do it, he immediately dialed Zhu Ping's phone number of the Imperial Capital Molecular Machinery Joint Laboratory,
"I'm Wang Yinan, how is your research progress on the latest battery materials?" , didn't care about greetings, Wang Yinan asked straight to the point,
It took Zhu Ping on the phone for a long time to react, and it turned out that the big boss rarely began to care about work.
"The progress is still relatively smooth", Zhu Ping replied.
"Two parts of improvement, one is the electrode and the other is the solid-state electrolyte, both have good progress, of course, the biggest progress is the solid-state electrolyte, we are in the laboratory to manufacture the solid-state electrolyte, than the best material reported now, the performance is 50% better, and the weight is lighter",
"I'll go, why didn't you report to me such a good result", the molecular machine laboratory, which has always been the most unpopular with Wang Yinan, can actually achieve such great results, which is completely beyond Wang Yinan's expectations.
"Didn't you ask, it didn't take long for the results to come out, didn't we want to wait for you to come and report by the way", Zhu Ping was also very aggrieved,
"Let's not talk about this stubble, I'll come over in the afternoon to see your progress, and by the way, there is a new task for you", Wang Yinan hung up the phone after speaking.
"There's nothing wrong with you here", Wang Yinan looked at Chen Zihao beside him and asked,
"It's basically nothing, but can I stay a few more days and then go back to David's team," Chen Zihao said.
Although Wang Yinan is not good at emotional intelligence, his nose is definitely a dog, and when he saw Chen Zihao's rare shy appearance, Wang Yinan immediately leaned up and sniffed Chen Zihao.
"Hey, boss, what are you doing", Chen Zihao shrank back in fright,
"I'll just say, there is such a big commotion on my body", Wang Yinan pointed to the white coats outside, and from time to time he could see the white coats that looked like white bones chattering together,
"It must have been a sugar-coated cannonball",
"How can it, even if there is a hacker with a good level, he often asks me for advice or two", Chen Zihao's voice became smaller and smaller,
"Well, well, I know, isn't it just a hacker who looks like a bone spirit, although it's not common, but it's not uncommon, right?" , Wang Yinan said with a smile,
"But you have to be careful, you know what to say and what not to say", Wang Yinan still instructed,
"Don't worry, boss, for sugar-coated cannonballs, our approach is to eat the sugar-coated cannonballs and shoot the cannonballs back!" , Seeing that Wang Yinan had no intention of objecting, Chen Zihao immediately became energetic.
The joint laboratory of molecular machinery of Imperial University and Rong and the company is located in a newly built experimental building of the Department of Chemistry of Imperial University, and President Lin generously gave a floor as the research and development center of the laboratory.
Looking at the students and professors coming in and out of the building, Wang Yinan couldn't help but have some hidden worries about the safety situation, you know, in addition to superconducting materials, super batteries are also strategic technologies with huge military potential, if there is really such a big breakthrough, it is not appropriate to put the molecular machine laboratory here.
In the laboratory, Wang Yinan met Zhu Ping and Zhou Yugui, it seems that the situation of these two is good, there is no change in mentality because of the prosperous scene in the superconducting laboratory, and they are still willing to do things calmly, and they are not resentful because Wang Yinan temporarily does not let them publish papers.
Wang Yinan first called these two subordinates to the small conference room, Wang's chicken soup poured out without money, first theoretically communicated with them about some new developments in the molecular machine, and then, of course, all kinds of promises, whether it was publishing articles or soft sister coins, it would not be a problem in the future.
It's useless to just say that you don't practice, in fact, Wang Yinan also knows that these two colleagues, including other colleagues in the laboratory, are relatively stable, and an important reason is because Ronghe Company was really rich last year, so the benefits and allowances of each joint laboratory are in accordance with the highest standards, and the money is soft, and it is a world-class laboratory, and it is not so easy to find other good places.
"Let's talk about the current progress", Wang Yinan finished pouring the chicken soup and started the topic.
Zhu Ping glanced at Zhou Yugui, "Let's talk about Yugui",
Very modest, Wang Yinan couldn't help but look at Zhu Ping twice, it seems that this kid has a good emotional intelligence, and he knows how to let his colleagues be in the limelight.
Zhou Yugui was not pretentious, took out a small laptop and began to introduce,
"Qin Kai was in charge of the battery joint research group in the early stage, and after theoretical research on a variety of lattice configurations, he found a specific configuration suitable for use as an electrode, and handed it over to our laboratory for follow-up experiments and tests."
"According to the theory, we have prepared three kinds of lithium-ion cathode materials, among which the configuration with the fewest oxygen atoms has an energy density of 250 milliampere-hours per gram, which is already the highest level in all the literature."
"What about the stability, what about the working temperature curve", Wang Yinan hurriedly asked, in practical application, these are very important factors.
"Very stable, charged and discharged 5,000 times, we only carried out so many tests at most, and the energy attenuation was less than 2%",
"And there is almost no fever",
"The only problem is that the manufacturing is too slow, and it took us a week to produce a two-gram sample," Zhou Yugui said with some regret.
"This is no problem, as long as there is a lattice configuration, it is a big deal to customize a new molecular machine," Wang Yinan said secretly in his heart.
"Very good, is it possible for the data to continue to improve", it is human nature to look at Shu, and Wang Yinan is no exception.
"Of course, it is possible that in the previous theoretical analysis, the theoretical energy density obtained was 400 milliampere-hours per gram, and the samples in our laboratory are still far from this theoretical value, and we are currently analyzing the possible sources of the gap."
"Zhu Ping knows the electrolyte situation better, let's introduce it", voted Li Baotao, Zhou Yugui gave Zhu Ping the next opportunity to show his face in front of the boss.
Zhu Ping took out his laptop, "Solid electrolytes are our main research direction, and there is no mature theory to refer to before."
"Therefore, according to the lattice frequency theory of the boss, combined with some existing experimental solid-state electrolytes, we have established a lattice frequency theory for solid-state electrolytes, which is used to theoretically predict the energy density of solid-state electrolytes."
"The final results are quite good, and the theoretical and practical values are in good agreement."
"Very good, how is your paper prepared", Wang Yinan asked,
"The relevant papers have been written, but when they will be published depends on the boss's intentions."
"What are the results of the analysis of the new solid-state electrolyte, and are there any materials that are worth the effort?" , Wang Yinan asked, in fact, he didn't expect much on this, good things must have been studied by others for I don't know how long,
"Boss, there really is", Zhu Ping replied,
"Actually, there really is, let's hear it", Wang Yinan was happy,
"We have found that organic materials, especially carbohydrates, have the potential to be used as new solid-state electrolytes," says Zhu Ping.
"Shrimp?" , Wang Yinan is a little dizzy,
"You mean carbohydrates, like rice?" ,
"In the future, instead of putting any electrolyte solvent in our batteries, we will directly stuff rice into them?" ,
"Do you want to cook it?" Wang Yinan thought. 8)