Dr. Li is a senior researcher in the new materials R&D department of Wuzhou Company.

After graduating from Huaqing University with a bachelor's degree in materials science, he studied at the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Academician Yang Peidong, a professor in the Department of Chemistry. During his time overseas, he participated in a number of cutting-edge materials science-related research projects with his professor, published 13 high-level papers, and obtained a doctorate.

Due to family reasons, he returned to China to continue to engage in materials science research, joined the top materials science major in China, and achieved outstanding results in the fields of new functional materials, nanomaterials, and biomedical materials.

He is also a genius scientist recommended by Wu Zhou's system.

As for why Wu Zhou was able to poach him, it was very simple, as simple as one sentence, "You can study whatever you want, without any constraints, and the funds will be allocated at will." ”

Then Dr. Lee agreed.

Because most universities want to study a project.

There are some necessary steps required.

For example, the first step is to determine your research direction and topic, find relevant literature, write a detailed research plan, and explain your research objectives, methods, expected results, and innovations.

The second step is to find a suitable funding agency, which can be a national, provincial or municipal science and technology department, or a foundation or enterprise within or outside the school. It is also necessary to understand their application requirements, conditions, time and procedures, and choose projects that meet the characteristics and level of their own topics to declare.

After everything is done, the third step is to fill in the application form, which needs to fill in the project name, person in charge information, research content, budget, etc. according to the prescribed format and requirements of the funding agency or project.

After that, it is time to submit the application and wait for the review, and you will be notified of the review results in a few weeks or months.

Anyway, there is nothing wrong with these processes, but the problem is that Dr. Li doesn't like these cumbersome processes.

Moreover, many of his research project ideas may be the same when they were declared, but in the process of research, they suddenly completely changed their direction and produced completely unrelated results.

In addition, there is still waiting time for the declaration, and in his opinion, every minute is extremely precious.

As a result, Wu Zhou picked up the treasure, of course, in order to recruit him, Wu Zhou personally went over to communicate, and gave a promise in black and white.

Dr. Li excitedly rushed into Wu Zhou with a report and said loudly, "Boss, big discovery, big discovery!" Dr. Lee's face was full of excitement.

Wu Zhou looked at Dr. Li, who was at least ten years older than himself, but was very 'immature', but he was still smiling, "It seems that it is really a big discovery?" Let me see. Wu Zhou took the report from Dr. Li's hand.

Dr. Li said directly at this time, speaking very quickly, "Look at this, this is a new compound that we have accidentally discovered in our laboratory, I will call it LZ-1 for the time being." Our lab recently discovered a new type of antimicrobial peptide while researching it. This novel compound is highly hydrophilic and lipophilic, and can self-assemble into a cholesterol-like structure in aqueous solution. I don't have a little electric donkey, the battery life has dropped greatly, I thought, try to see if it can be used as an additive for electrolyte salts to improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries, I added it directly last weekend, and the battery life suddenly returned to when I bought it newly, and the charging time was also saved by nearly 15%, which is particularly easy to use! ”

"During this time, our group also did detailed research in the laboratory, after LZ-1 is added to the electrolyte salt, it can greatly reduce the viscosity of the electrolyte, and it is almost not affected by high and low temperatures, and can remain stable under various temperature conditions, and will not fail and degrade."

After finishing speaking, Dr. Li still had excitement on his face, but Wu Zhou glanced at him a little speechlessly, "It's just an electric car, if it doesn't work, change it, how can you add other things to the battery fluid at will, it's very dangerous, isn't the company equipped you with a driver." ”

"Got it, got it, don't say this, don't say this, you look at the report behind this." Dr. Li waved his hand, a little impatient, and disapproving, and directly flipped up the report in Wu Zhou's hand, and turned to some data and charts.

Dr. Li pointed to a table on the report and said, "Look here! We prepared several electrolytes with LZ-1 as an additive with different concentrations and ratios, and compared them with the commonly used electrolytes in the market. The results showed that at 25°C, the viscosity of LZ-1 additive electrolyte was only about 0.5 mPa·s, while the viscosity of commonly used electrolyte was between 1.5~2.0 mPa·s. At -20°C, the viscosity of the LZ-1 additive electrolyte remained at about 0.6 mPa·s, while the commonly used electrolyte soared to more than 10~15 mPa·s. At 60°C, the electrolyte of LZ-1 additive is only about 0.4 mPa·s, while the commonly used electrolyte drops to 0.8~1.2 mPa·s. "The barrage of values was completely blurted out, exactly like the one on the report.

In fact, these reports were not written by him, but were automatically produced by the company's AI based on experimental data.

"So low?" Wu Zhou was also shocked when he heard this, and opened his mouth in surprise.

"yes!" Dr. Lee continued, "Don't interrupt me, I'm not done yet! The ion mobility of the LZ-1 additive electrolyte is also much higher due to the much lower viscosity. We measured their ionic conductivity and molar conductivity at different temperatures. The results showed that at 25°C, the ionic conductivity of the LZ-1 additive electrolyte reached about 12.5 mS/cm, while the ionic conductivity of the commonly used electrolyte (with LiPF6 as lithium salt) was only about 9.5 mS/cm. At -20 °C"

"In addition to this, we also made some samples of lithium-ion batteries with LZ-1 additive electrolyte, and tested the charge-discharge performance and cycle life with samples made from commonly used electrolytes. The results showed that at 25°C, the specific capacity of the sample prepared by the LZ-1 additive electrolyte reached about 180 mAh/g, while that of the sample made by the commonly used electrolyte was only about 150 mAh/g. At -20°C, the specific capacity of the sample prepared by the LZ-1 additive electrolyte remained at about 160 mAh/g, while the specific capacity of the sample made by the commonly used electrolyte decreased to about 80 mAh/g. At 60°C, the sample prepared by the LZ-1 additive electrolyte was also about 170 mAh/g, while the sample made with the commonly used electrolyte decreased to about 120 mAh/g. ”

"We also measured their cycle life at different temperatures. The results showed that at 25°C, the capacity retention rate of the sample made by LZ-1 additive electrolyte reached more than 98% after 500 cycles, while the volume retention rate of the sample made by the common electrolyte was only about 85% after 500 cycles. At -20 °C"

Wu Zhou watched and listened, and at this moment he also understood the meaning of this report, or the value of this new compound LZ-1.

"Can I speak now?" Wu Zhou asked with a smile.

"It's okay now, boss, you can hurry up, I have other projects in progress, time is precious." Dr. Lee said, glancing at an electronic watch on his wrist.

"Then you go and get busy, and feel free to tell me if you need anything." Wu Zhou didn't delay his time either.

"Okay, bye-bye." Dr. Li turned around and left Wu Zhou's office directly.

Wu Zhou looked at Dr. Li who left directly, shook his head with a smile, and then sent a message to Dr. Li's assistant: "Give his electric car a regular new battery." ”

(End of chapter)