Chapter 431

After arriving at the company, Lin Yi went to the office first,

and then went to Fengyi Tech's laboratory.

At this time, Fengyi Tech's laboratory was no longer the "two or three kittens" from the beginning.

The entire laboratory could now be said to have taken shape.

It had a research team of nearly 200 people.

It was divided into a battery project group, a carbon fiber project group, and a biological nano project group.

The battery project group was led by Dr. Zhao Xuebin and Dr. Wen Xiang, researching new types of batteries.

While the carbon fiber project group and the biological nano project group were led by Dr. Wen Xia.

When Lin Yi arrived at the laboratory.

He saw Dr. Zhao Xuebin and Dr. Wen Xiang, as well as the researchers, had already arrived.

They were all focusing intently on something that looked like fabric.

Beside them were various testing instruments.

They didn't even notice Lin Yi's arrival.

"Very good, the charging and discharging have met the requirements!" Dr. Zhao Xuebin said.

"Director, that means we succeeded!"

A research member said excitedly.

"Yes, the next step is fine-tuning; I believe this will be another flagship product for the company in the near future!"

Zhao Xuebin said with a smile.

"That's great...!"

The young research staff were very happy.

Just at this moment, a voice came over,

"What is this?"

Hearing this, everyone turned their heads and saw it was Lin Yi.

"Boss, why are you here?" Zhao Xuebin said in surprise.

"Why, can't I come to see the company's laboratory!" Lin Yi laughed.

"Of course that's not what I meant, it's just that you are quite busy, boss!"

Zhao Xuebin, who was wearing glasses, said.

"No matter how busy I am, I have to see what kind of black technology you have researched for me; what is this fabric?"

Lin Yi asked curiously.

Consequently, Zhao Xuebin explained:

"This is a type of battery fabric we newly researched?"

"Battery fabric?" Lin Yi thought to himself, this didn't seem like technology from the system lottery.

"The so-called battery fabric, simply put, is to superimpose battery performance onto traditional fabric,

which can realize intelligent interconnection, temperature regulation, monitoring human body health, etc., in the future..."

Zhao Xuebin explained, and at this point, he introduced to Lin Yi:

"This is Wang Xiao, who just graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last year with a major in materials application. He is now a first-level researcher in our company's laboratory, and he is the proposer and person in charge of this project..."

Lin Yi immediately looked at the researcher beside Dr. Zhao.

The latter shouted very excitedly:

"Mr. Lin!"

"Yes, you are the proposer of this project; tell me, how did you think of doing this project?"

Lin Yi asked.

"Mr. Lin, in view of our company's research in battery technology,

I thought of how in 1996, scholars at the Georgia Institute of Technology took the lead in carrying out research and application of intelligent interactive textiles in the military field, creating a brand-new intelligent clothing by implanting optical fiber and conductive fiber technology into products.

The intelligent clothing used optical-electrical textile products provided by WearableMotherboard, which could collect the wearer's physical index data and transmit the data sent by sensors to a gateway, using comprehensive monitoring software to summarize and conclude health suggestions and send them to the user.

The platform constituted a multi-functional framework integrating sensing, monitoring, and information processing equipment, which could be applied to biomedical monitoring and intelligent wearable fields.

Later, Google joined forces with the Ugly Nation clothing brand Levi's to develop a pair of jeans capable of being compatible with smartphones and products like MP3s and iPods in intelligent interactive fabric research.

Through the user's touch on the fabric, the product could directly control multimedia equipment, such as switching songs or pausing/playing, as well as volume control. This product could support the vast majority of iPod products on the market."

Then Wang Xiao continued:

"In recent years, intelligent interactive textiles have become a major hot technology in the world's textile industry. This technology has gradually been applied with the performance development of new materials,

while the domestic market, restricted by issues such as new material costs and immature supporting technologies, has had less research on the introduction and application of this technology.

So when I came to Fengyi Tech and witnessed Fengyi Tech's research in nanotechnology and battery technology,

I had the idea of wanting to develop a wearable electronic textile!?"

"Great idea!" Lin Yi praised, and then he looked at Wang Xiao and said:

"Is this material considered a success?"

"We have developed this rechargeable calcium-lithium battery fabric,

which can charge and discharge at room temperature and cycle stably 700 times.

The battery is mainly composed of three parts: a metal calcium negative electrode, a carbon nanotube fiber polymer lithium-ion positive electrode, and an organic electrolyte.

Its design has excellent performance and low cost,

and also takes into account environmental sustainability and the application requirements in flexible electronic equipment."

Wang Xiao said excitedly.

"Can it be mass-produced?" Lin Yi asked curiously.

Suddenly, Wang Xiao stopped talking.

At this time, Dr. Zhao said:

"Mr. Lin, saying mass production is actually not a problem, but the problem is the process... this thing requires advanced lithography and etching equipment..."

"Uh, this kind of material also needs lithography and etching?"

Lin Yi was stunned.

After all, he studied mechanical automation, so he also knew that generally, it was only chips that used this kind of equipment.

"This kind of material needs to obtain single-layer MXene nanosheets through lithography of carbon nanotube fiber polymer lithium ions, coating them on the surface of polydopamine-modified fibers to build a complete MXene conductive network.

As for MXene, it is a type of new two-dimensional material with a graphene-like structure, composed of transition metal carbides, nitrides, or carbonitrides. Its chemical general formula is Mn+1XnTx. MXene materials were first prepared in 2011 by researchers at Drexel University by selectively etching the Al layer in the ternary layered carbide Ti3AlC2 using hydrofluoric acid..."

Dr. Zhao said a whole bunch in one breath, but Lin Yi, who knew nothing about materials science, really couldn't understand it.

"In other words, you need lithography machines and etching machines, right!"

"Yes, of course, it would be best to have workers familiar with the operation?" Dr. Zhao Xuebin said.

"As for workers, I can't solve that; let the human resources department dig for people with high salaries. As for the machines, I will help you solve it!"

Lin Yi said.

"Boss, we need at least deep ultraviolet lithography machines... this is a product embargoed by the Dutch ASML company!"

Dr. Zhao said.

He understood that compared to etching machines, which the Dragon Nation had basically mass-produced, lithography machines were the trouble.

"You'll know when the time comes..."