Chapter 677: Just say it directly, we can handle it

Office.

Two people were sitting by the window drinking tea.

Regarding the funding, Xu Qingzhou was not surprised. His last exchange with Zhang Zhi Gao could not be called pleasant, and could even be said to be full of gunpowder.

The visits between the two units also remained within the scope of the technical exchange of the authorized superconducting film.

Just talking about exchanges, they have held over 20 visits with the Plasma Physics Institute.

But the Southwest Physics Ding Liyan has only had 3 visits so far.

"This old guy is currently riding high."

Ren Nan's tone carried sarcasm.

The progress of the HL-3 is very smooth, and it is expected to achieve the first plasma discharge 2 months ahead of schedule, which is October 2020.

The Southwest Physics Institute is now considered very popular, and the world's attention is focused here.

"Don't care about it. You have to eat rice one mouthful at a time. We have just started, so we don't need to compare with these old-brand institutions in the short term. Think about it from another angle: our institute has just been established, we have the advantage of being latecomers, the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves in front..."

Xu Qingzhou smiled and said.

This might be the confidence of a cheater.

Moreover, they also have some stellarator technology in their hands.

Compared to tokamaks, stellarators have higher manufacturing costs and process complexity, and are also a competitive field for future energy.

At the moment, the fusion group has already started synchronous plan design. Once the lithium dendrite group finishes and comes over, the project will advance even faster.

"Yes, we just need to do our work step by step... I heard Old Zhao and the others have big moves?"

Academician Ren Nan asked with a smile.

"Some development, but still testing. If it goes smoothly, there could be good news before the end of this month."

"No wonder the people in Zheng Xu's group have been like they were injected with chicken blood these past few days. Every time I pass by at night, I can see the lights in their row of offices are still on."

The two chatted for the time it took to drink a cup of tea, and Academician Ren Nan also stood up to say goodbye and went back to work.

Although he said "step by step" and didn't need to deliberately compare with other institutions, he was holding a breath in his heart.

Ren Nan left.

Xu Qingzhou focused his attention on the manuscript in front of him again.

These days, besides following the lithium dendrite group's experiments, he was also helping Zheng Xu and the others do mathematical models. Zheng Xu led the people below to screen materials with physical confinement type, chemical adsorption type, and catalytic conversion type as mechanisms.

They also had quite a breakthrough. After screening more than 20 carbon composite materials, they locked their eyes on carbon nanotube composite aerogel and FeCoNi-S high-entropy sulfide. The former achieved near-zero dissolution through a physical-chemical synergistic mechanism, and the latter broke through the kinetic bottleneck through multi-metal catalysis.

Currently, they are doing tests on these two materials.

Time passed slowly in the complex calculation formulas.

2 hours later, Xu Qingzhou sent the completed model to Zheng Xu.

"Actually, both carbon nanotube composite aerogel and FeCoNi-S high-entropy sulfide have obvious pain points."

Xu Qingzhou rubbed his eyebrows, looking at the model on the computer.

"A few days ago, I put all my energy into the dendrite group. Now that the problem there has come to an end, I can focus on the shuttle effect experiments."

Although the experimental results haven't come out yet, he is very confident.

"So..."

Xu Qingzhou's gaze sank, and he opened the folder, which contained the experimental data of Zheng Xu's group over the past half year. "Perhaps we can pull all the experiments again."

Time flew to the end of June, lithium dendrite lab.

In stark contrast to the usual heat, the atmosphere in the large lab was a bit heavy and anxious.

In mid-June, according to Xu Qingzhou's arrangement, everyone temporarily gave up the other three plans and focused on researching TiON-TiO technology. The result was no surprise: TiON-TiO met the experimental requirements.

And the effect was surprisingly good.

During this time, the lithium dendrite group worked overtime to combine TiON-TiO technology with polyolefin-based separators. ===== CHAPTER 678 =====