The Science Fiction World of Xueba

Public opinion on the Internet is in full swing, but the show is not over.

After completing the interview at Pang Xuelin's home, the program team began to follow Pang Xuelin to the School of Materials Engineering of Jiangda University to visit the laboratory of the Carbon Nanomaterials Research Center.

Interspersed with the interviews of many project team members, as well as popularizing the significance of high-purity single-walled carbon nanotubes, large-size single-layer graphene film materials, etc.

Just when everyone thought that this episode of the show would be dull, an unexpected scene appeared at the end.

At that time, Kirton Walker came to look for Pang Xuelin, but Dong Qing and the others did not leave, and they also followed the filming.

Therefore, the program team also gave a general introduction to the arrival of Kirton Walker, saying that the professor of the Department of Chemistry at Princeton University accepted Pang Xuelin's invitation, gave up his teaching position at Princeton, and decided to join Jiangcheng University in chemistry and molecular engineering. College, became a member of Pang Xuelin's project team.

As soon as this news came out, it once again triggered a wave of discussion on the Internet.

You must know that although China's overall attractiveness to talents has greatly increased over the years, most of those who choose to return to China to work are Chinese scholars who have lost overseas.

It is relatively rare for a quasi-Nobel Prize-level scholar like Kirton Walker to join a Chinese university full-time.

What's more, the other party resigned from Princeton and joined River City University.

Regardless of the comparison in all aspects, River City University and Princeton are one level behind.

Then the only reason why Kirton Walker chose to join Jiangcheng University was Pang Xuelin.

For a while, there was a lot of discussion on the Internet.

"Shen Pang is so awesome, he actually got such a scholar to Jiang Dalai."

"Mochizuki Shinichi, Perelman, plus Kirton Walker, this is already the third!"

"Shinichi Mochizuki and Perelman can understand it, but it's hard for Kirton Walker to join Jiangda. No matter how you look at it, Jiangda's chemistry major is not as good as Princeton's."

"Could it be that God Pang has some kind of mysterious magical power, so why are all the bulls running towards the river?"

Even Pang Shaoan and Yao Jianzhong were a little curious about how Pang Xuelin hooked up this former tenured professor of Princeton Chemistry to come to Jiangda.

Pang Xuelin explained with a smile, "I promised him at least 150 million research funding."

Pang Shaoan and Yao Jianzhong couldn't help being taken aback.

Pang Shao'an said, "Xiao Lin, is Qianjiang University willing to come out?"

Pang Xuelin said, "Jiang University doesn't need a penny, I invest it myself?"

"You invest yourself, what project?"

"Li-air battery!"

Pang Shaoan and Yao Jianzhong couldn't help but looked at each other, Pang Shaoan said, "Xiaolin,

Are you sure? That's not a small fortune! "

Pang Xuelin smiled and said, "Don't worry, Grandpa, don't say 100%, there must be more than 90% certainty! Besides, didn't Jiangda School of Materials Engineering cooperate with my dad's Xinkai Materials to develop high-purity single-wall carbon Nanotubes? Now that the results are coming out soon, Xinkai Materials should be able to make a lot of money on this project, and it will just be used to invest in lithium-air batteries.”

Pang Shaoan nodded and said, "That's good."

The interview with "Face to Face" that followed was a bit uneventful, with some well-regulated questions and answers, and did not cause much sensation.

After watching the TV, Pang Xuelin and Yao Bingxia went directly to their room to rest.

Early the next morning, Pang Xuelin drove Yao Bingxia to the airport. The girl had classes in the afternoon, so she was able to catch up.

At this time, although the online discussions about OSS and Cotton Walker were still heated to a certain extent, compared to last night, they had dropped a lot.

Pang Xuelin didn't pay much attention, and was just about to drive back to school.

At this moment, Pang Xuelin's phone rang suddenly.

The caller ID is Li Xiang, Dean of the School of Chemical Engineering, Jiang University.

Pang Xuelin hastily pressed the answer button and said with a smile, "Dean Li, what's the matter?"

On the other end of the phone, Li Xiang's anxious voice came, "Professor Pang, something has happened. Zhihu published an article called "What's the matter with Kirton Walker joining Jiang University?" Decided, the popularity of public opinion on the Internet has already risen, and it even appeared on Weibo’s trending searches.”

Pang Xuelin was slightly taken aback, and said, "Dean Li, wait a minute, let me read this article first."

With that said, Pang Xuelin hung up the phone, opened Zhihu, and found this article.

The article first recalled Kirton Walker's previous resume, and then wrote, "It is true that in the field of electrochemistry, Professor Kirton Walker is indeed a big cow, but back then, he fooled the DuPont consortium into spending a lot of money on lithium On the air battery project, when DuPont realized that it was not good, Professor Kirton Walker squandered a large amount of research funding. Later, the lithium-air battery project team was abolished, and Kirton Walker was completely marginalized in Princeton. In recent years, Kirton Walker has not been happy in Princeton, clinging to the lithium-air battery project, resulting in less and less funding in Princeton every year."

"According to the news I got from my friends in Princeton, the reason why Kirton Walker is willing to leave Princeton to go to Jiangda University is because Professor Pang Xuelin promised him a huge amount of money on the lithium-air battery project when he was in Princeton. financial support."

"However, research in recent years has shown that the lithium-air battery system is much more complex than previously imagined, and there are complex side reactions among li2o2, electrodes, and electrolytes. The most important point is that lithium-air batteries must use lithium metal as the Negative electrode, but the negative electrode made of lithium metal was abandoned by the industry as early as 20 years ago, because of the possibility of short circuit caused by lithium dendrite growth and the battery becoming an incendiary bomb...Compared to lithium-sulfur and lithium-air batteries in conceptual design , The innovative lithium-ion battery is undoubtedly more practical. The development of a high-capacity lithium-rich oxide cathode (350 power battery) based on an anion charge compensation mechanism.

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"Therefore, I have to suspect that Professor Pang was fooled by Kirton Walker. But I think someone at Jiangcheng University should be aware of Kirton Walker's situation. If in this case, Jiang University and Professor Pang are pursuing personal or school If the self-interest of reputation is disregarded by the national scientific research funding, I think Professor Pang needs to stand up and give the public an answer!"

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After reading the article, Pang Xuelin couldn't help laughing.

The author of this article may be a practitioner in the battery industry. The writing is well-founded, and even the writing about Kirton Walker's situation over the years is not bad at all, which is very convincing.

It's just that the author of the article is somewhat different from himself in his judgment on the future of lithium-air batteries.