Orion Crest, Series_1

Chapter 123: Hailstones

　　In the editorial office of Nature Chemistry, two technical editors are processing newly received manuscripts.

　　After all, it was one of the two top academic journals in the world, and the manuscripts received here every day could be described by the word thousands.

　　Although a large portion of them ended up in the recycling bin, there was no lack of papers of outstanding quality.

　　Just at this moment, Kevin, who was checking the manuscripts, suddenly let out a small sound of astonishment.

　　"Incredible ...... that someone claims to have solved the Lithium Dendrite?!"

　　Kevin's voice immediately attracted the attention of the colleagues next to him.

　　Sitting at the next table, Kliman stood up with his coffee and came to the side of his computer, looking at the paper in the screen pushed his glasses, and said with interest, "It is indeed incredible ...... If this is true, the battery industry will set off a new round of technological revolution."

　　This statement is not exaggerated.

　　The current technical bottleneck restricting lithium batteries lies in the issue of lithium dendrites. Is a portable bomb or high-performance battery, the question is who can solve, the "silver fork" that pierces the diaphragm. Although it is only a small anode material, but its application is too wide.

　　Of course, all this requires that it is true.

　　The two editors stared at the paper for a long time, and no one could make up their minds.

　　There was nothing wrong with the paper's formatting, there were no obvious holes in the lines, and the results of the research were exciting enough to be worthy of Nature. But the problem is that the technology is a bit too "black tech". Everyone is researching how to inhibit the growth of lithium dendrites, but you actually solved this problem directly?

　　Therefore, the two editors hesitated.

　　Kliman, who stood behind Kevin, pondered for a moment before asking, "What do you think of this article?"

　　Kevin frowned, "I don't know, there's nothing wrong with the paper itself, and it definitely qualifies as a breakthrough research progress in the field of lithium batteries, but ...... for the correctness of the paper itself I can't guarantee it."

　　Kliman reminded, "The contributor is from Princeton."

　　Kevin sighed and said with a headache, "I know, and is a maths professor and won the Crafoord Prize in Sweden not too long ago. But the only connection he has to materials science that I've found after searching is a paper on computational materials."

　　Kliman hesitated and said, "Given Professor Orion's academic reputation, he shouldn't make honest mistakes."

　　Kevin asked, "And your opinion is?"

　　"My opinion is that since the paper itself is fine and meets the requirements of our journal, let's throw this issue to the academic editors to worry about, and if the experts think it's fine, I think it's OK," said Kliman.

　　"So, who do you think would be better?" Kevin asked.

　　"Professor Moungi-G-Bawendi's research group at MIT is very deep in the field of batteries, and he himself is an expert in batteries and authoritative enough that I think it would be appropriate to contact him." Kliman paused for a moment and continued, "Moreover, he was also the reviewer of Professor Orion's previous paper on computational materials science, and I think his opinion should be crucial."