Orion Crest, Series_1

Chapter 124: Uncertainty

　　MIT, a materials science lab.

　　Professor Moungi-G-Bawendi, sitting at his desk, is leisurely sipping his coffee while browsing the new articles on Arxiv.

　　As a big shot in the field of nanochemistry, this big man has been on a roll lately.

　　Just recently, the journal ACS-Nano published his research paper on PbS quantum-dot thin-film solar cells, which attracted widespread attention from high-tech companies in Silicon Valley.

　　Although this technology is still a long way from industrial production, but the potential it shows, has been rather "black tech".

　　Many people say that the distance between him and the Nobel Prize is only one commercialisation of quantum dot technology. When the technology really popular, and change the world, then the Nobel Prize is not far away.

　　That day may be ten years from now, or twenty years, it's definitely not too far away. Industry has slowly begun to embrace these technologies, and it is expected that the technology will first be used in displays and will eventually change the future of the semiconductor industry.

　　But no matter how far away it is from being truly commercialised, he already owns four companies through the technology. Other professors might be worried about research funding, but he had become a real boss and was doing experiments out of his own pocket.

　　Just then, in his mailbox, he suddenly received an email from Nature.

　　"Lithium dendrite?"

　　Looking at the email in the screen, Professor Bawendi's eyebrows raised in a look of interest.

　　Stroking his chin, he turned back to his assistant and shouted, "Latis, bring me a sandwich."

　　"Okay, Professor."

　　The Latin American woman in the white coat got up and went outside, and soon sandwiches with bacon were brought over.

　　Sitting in front of his computer, Professor Bawendi enjoyed his breakfast as he continued to read down the text on the email.

　　Honestly, he didn't believe it when someone claimed to have solved the lithium dendrite problem.

　　Although he wasn't in the lithium battery business, someone in his team had researched this piece, and he had heard about it due to this influence.

　　The best R&D in this area is probably Sion in the US and Oxis in the UK, but nothing special has been heard of lately. Samsung, as always, crazy registration of patents, but no one has seen them really make a big news out.

　　To say that the only "progress", may be last year, a MIT professor, found that the fixation of sulfur in mesoporous carbon materials, and with a special electrolyte, can effectively inhibit the growth of lithium dendrites.

　　In the end, however, it turned out to be a beautiful misunderstanding. If the lithium dendrite is so easy to solve, IBM, once claimed to take the supercomputer to calculate the distribution of each ion's path, will not have no choice but to withdraw its investment.

　　Returning to the paper, if it had been written by someone else, Professor Bawendi might have looked at it and tossed it aside, but the problem was that it was written by an interesting contributor who, although well known, was not an industry insider in the field of electrode materials, but a professor of mathematics at Princeton University.

　　"Improving the 'permeability' of anode materials and inhibiting the growth of lithium dendrites by thin films of PDMS materials ...... This is not a novel idea, but the SEM electron micrographs are surprisingly good and don't look too much like faked."