Orion Crest, Series_1

Chapter 81: Surprising results

　　It was dawn outside the window.

　　Orion, who had fallen asleep on the table at some point, rubbed his eyes, moved his stiff arms, and stood up from his chair.

　　Then, the first thing he did when he stood up, he couldn't wait to get to the digital microscope and examine the sample under it.

　　There was no explosion, no smoke.

　　Seeing that the sample was undamaged, Orion was overjoyed, and then immediately looked at the computer next to him, quickly going through the photos taken like a slide show.

　　"It's done!"

　　Fists clenched, he could barely hold back his cheers.

　　From yesterday afternoon until now, he had done a total of four sets of charge/discharge cycles, and none of the lithium dendrites appeared!

　　The lithium ions flying towards the negative pole did not form white branches, but instead deposited a layer of mossy folds underneath the PDMS material and stacked layer by layer upwards.

　　From the data on the BK-6808 Rechargeable Battery Performance Tester, not only was there no lithium dendrite formation, but even the Coulomb efficiency was maintained at a fairly high level!

　　The effect was so good that Orion was surprised.

　　He originally thought that at least the PDMS material and those carbon nanorods would have to be combined in order to completely solve the lithium dendrite problem. As it turned out, he didn't expect that even if he used the PDMS material alone, the effect was still amazingly good.

　　As for the role of the carbon nanorods, Orion maintained his earlier guess that, in addition to accelerating the precipitation of lithium ions, they are probably used to "smooth out" the folds underneath the PDMS material.

　　As for the mossy "folds", they certainly have an impact on battery performance, but at least they're much better than the deadly lithium dendrites!

　　Without those little balls, as the battery continues to charge and discharge, the folds will intensify, although not to the point of piercing the film, but the efficiency of the Coulomb cycle will certainly be reduced, making the battery's lifetime lower.

　　Perhaps for advanced civilisations, this flaw is unacceptable, but for any company on Earth, this flaw is simply negligible.

　　Under the premise of safety is guaranteed, not to decline the service life of the battery, do everything possible to improve the energy density of the battery, is the industry's biggest pursuit!

　　It's as if other people's mobile phones are fully charged to play a week's worth of games, while your mobile phone is fully charged to play less than half a day of red blood, it is clear that the former has a very high market competitiveness.

　　Of course, this comparison may be a bit exaggerated, there are many elements that affect the performance of the battery, the specific endurance also depends on the battery and the control chip of the battery and other components of the specific design, and it is difficult for Orion to interfere with this part.

　　But there is no doubt that this new negative electrode material will provide endless imagination for the whole industry!

　　Whether it is the widely used lithium borate batteries or lithium manganese cobaltate batteries on the market, the negative electrode is mainly graphite. As for the lithium-sulfur batteries still lying in the laboratory, there was even less chance.