Orion Crest, Series_1

Chapter 133: Voyages to the new world

　　The following afternoon, the lecture theatre on the topic of lithium batteries at the MRS conference was packed to the rafters.

　　Many people came to the venue early, waiting in advance for the start of the presentation.

　　Standing at the door of the lecture theatre, looking at the black crowd inside, Orion had a moment of scalp numbness.

　　For some reason, he suddenly felt a trace of admiration for Professor Sarote, whom he met yesterday.

　　In a sense, for the sake of the salaries of a dozen or two dozen researchers in the lab, for the sake of millions of research funds, taking imperfect projects and running here to tear into peers, it also required a certain amount of courage.

　　For example, in the direction of lithium-sulfur batteries, manganese dioxide nanolayers and polymer solid electrolyte, at first glance it seems to be something that is not related to each other, but in fact, they are all designed to solve the shuttle effect of lithium-sulfur batteries.

　　In fact, everyone's technology has drawbacks, it's just a matter of how much.

　　Everyone wants industry to adopt their solutions, invest in their own research, and keep their technology "alive".

　　In the same way, Orion's paper, although it brought hope to the concept of lithium batteries, but it also made a lot of project teams have been cut off the funding, and many researchers lost their jobs, I believe that a lot of people behind the back of the scolding him.

　　But to Orion's surprise, when he stood on the podium and swept downwards, he didn't see the kind of people who were obviously waiting to pick a fight.

　　At least not in the front row where he could see.

　　Instead, the pair of eyes were filled with ......

　　Anticipation?

　　Though he wondered if he was looking at the wrong people, the presentation was already about to begin.

　　Orion stepped up onto the podium and plugged the USB stick into the multimedia podium, then signalled the staff next to him to get three whiteboards for him.

　　Usually, a material science presentation would not need to use the boards for so much content, but naturally his presentation was maths-based.

　　Facing the venue that had gradually quieted down, Orion tried the microphone and spoke succinctly.

　　"Regarding the various properties of the modified polydimethylsiloxane film as well as the preparation method, I have already made a fairly complete description in my thesis, I believe that you have already read it before this presentation, so I won't repeat it here."

　　After a pause, Orion continued, "And I believe you are more interested in how I discovered it than the PDMS film."

　　Hearing this, many people sitting on the stage nodded their heads.

　　There are not all researchers or company representatives who are interested in lithium batteries sitting here, but many experts in other organic materials fields are also sitting here at this moment.

　　For people of different research directions, they are more curious not about the PDMS material itself, but how Orion actually targeted this material through the establishment of mathematical models.

　　Responding to the pair of expectant eyes, Orion didn't waste time on opening remarks and got straight to the point.

　　"During the initial stages of deposition, lithium ions typically acquire electrons and deposit them on the collector, which is considered a heterogeneous nucleation behaviour. Since, this initial nucleation phenomenon can have a decisive impact on the final lithium deposition pattern, my initial thought was to use the early stage of the nucleation phase as an entry point to solve the problem of irregular growth of lithium dendrites."