Why did Gu Ao pester a bunch of young battery material experts to break his brains and find another way?

Those who have a little common sense in later generations should have seen that Gu Ao not only wanted to make money, but also wanted to compete for merit and voice for the progress of basic technology.

What he likes is graphene, which was famous for being hyped in later generations.

Although this thing may not be able to produce commercial profit results after ten years of research, it is obviously worth investing some money in it from now on.

As an IT person in his previous life, Gu Ao was of course not unfamiliar with the topic of graphene materials that were hyped up in China around 2017. Even if he listened to his colleagues' bragging and had a meal with customers and suppliers, he had many sources of information in this regard. So he was at least a bit of a common sense of a three-legged cat.

Graphene is basically popular in the domestic industry around 2017, but early scientific discoveries appeared in the laboratory, but they were found in 2004. The two scientists who first achieved results won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010.

According to the normal situation in later generations that "it took decades of verification after the results were produced, it was applied by the industry, and became famous in society. Scientists themselves were almost old enough to win the award", it only took 6 years from the results of leaving the laboratory to winning the Nobel Prize, which is already a very remarkable breakthrough in the underlying scientific.

Perhaps some laymen would wonder: Isn’t graphene just a material? Why can a breakthrough in the field of materials application be able to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in such a hurry? Is there any trap for the judges? Or is there a bonus for the identity of a scientist?

There is really nothing, because the two scientists who won the award for graphene in 2010 were not very well-known. They were unpopular Lucians. They moved from Lucia to the Netherlands and Brittany to conduct research after the USSR disintegration in 1991.

The key contribution of that achievement finally reached the level of winning the Nobel Prize was that it "discovered a new manifestation of the quantum Hall effect" and summarized the "integrated quantum Hall effect".

These professional terms are too difficult to talk about, and there is no need to worry about the details. Describe it in words that people who watch the fun can understand. The key is:

Before the discovery of graphene, mainstream physicists in this world believed that based on traditional understanding of the quantum Hall effect, or based on the understanding of the fractional quantum Hall effect, people felt that "it is impossible for pure two-dimensional matter at the atomic level in the world."

In other words, everyone thinks that all matter is "a ball of atoms", and it is impossible to peel off "a piece of atoms that are only a single layer of thick".

This involves a physical bias involving human cognition of the underlying atomic world. The argument before 2004 was not very sufficient, but everyone agreed that this is what they thought.

But in 2004, the two Lucia moved to the Netherlands and Brittania scientists, and found a sticky material that could stick graphite to it, and then glued this special colloid on both sides of a piece of graphite material and tore it apart. The graphite was stuck to the colloid on both sides, and it was torn in half.

This repeatedly teared it back and forth, starting from a material of several thousand layers of 1 micron. After tearing it more than ten times (1024 can be removed in ten times), it finally tear out a single layer of graphite with only one atomic thickness.

At this time, the macroscopic characteristics of graphite, which "has very good conductivity within a single layer, has a very strong structure, but is very easy to slide between layers and very weak atomic bond force" were suddenly screened.

The characteristics within the layer are fully expressed, and the characteristics between layers are no longer expressed because there are no other layers.

Isn’t your atomic building very strong floor and weak columns? Then, I will demolish you to only have one floor and no columns, which will transform the overall macro properties from the atomic level?

This single-layer graphite atom is "graphene".

From the perspective of new materials capitalists, the physical properties of graphene are very important.

From the perspective of the Nobel Prize in Physics, the physical properties of graphene are not very important, and they are not important enough to win the Nobel Prize six years after discovery.

Most importantly, this discovery subverts the theoretical bias of "it is impossible for nature to have a material with only one atomic thickness that achieves a pure two-dimensional thickness at the atomic level."

This opens the door to a new world.

To put it bluntly, your substance is like being flattened by a two-way foil. It is purely flat, how flat the two-dimensional one is, it is so flat.

At this time, let’s break down this future Nobel Prize in Physics. To accomplish this, four major contributions are required.

First, you should theoretically state that the prejudice that "nature cannot have a single-layer atomic thickness" is not rigorous.

The second step is to get a viscose material that can perfectly separate graphite, which can really peel off the layers and layer stresses of graphite atoms.

The third step is to design the experiment, using this perfect viscose material to tear out a single layer of graphite atoms.

The fourth step is to verify the macroscopic and microscopic characteristics of this single-layer graphite atomic material, and compare it with traditional graphite materials of other structures at the quantum mechanics level. And finally, it is broadened to obtain the "integrated quantum Hall effect".

Among them, the most difficult academic content is the fourth part, which is also the finishing touch.

The most difficult engineering method is actually the second step, that is, to find out the kind of viscous material, which requires significant scientific research investment in the field of materials science.

The easiest thing to make money and the easiest to win the performance is the third step - to put it bluntly, isn’t it just that you have given everything to you, so you can tear it? Who can’t tear it? (Of course, it’s not just tear it casually, it’s also necessary to tear it rigorously, and the most sophisticated observation methods are required to verify the result of the tear. After all, a single layer of carbon atoms can’t be observed even by electron microscope. It’s just that compared with the second and fourth steps, this third step is the easiest step to grab the credit)

Gu Ao must invest in graphene, which is the general direction of future battery technology electrode research. Moreover, during the investment process, the new understanding of the "quantum Hall effect" obtained is also of great guiding significance for the basic research of other electrode materials.

Even if you don’t use graphene as an electrode, as long as you go further in the field of quantum Hall effect research, the research on other electrode materials can accelerate a lot. From the current random trial and error, you can provide underlying guidance from the level of quantum mechanics and define targeted trial and error.

It can be said that it is helpful to all electrical materials science in the world.

In addition to investing, Gu Ao naturally fantasized about letting the Chinese make some benefits in the field of the Nobel Prize in Physics.

He hopes that at least China's non-ferrous metal salt research experts can find a way to spend money to study the perfect viscose material that peels off the graphite layer.

This can be made by spending money and resources as long as there is a funder setting a goal. Scientific research institutions in other countries in the world simply didn’t expect this thing to be useful, so they wouldn’t mess with things that seem to be wasting money at the moment.

As for the discussion article "The current scope of application of the cognition of the quantum Hall effect may exist is too wide, and it is impossible for a misunderstanding of the possibility of pure monolayer atomic matter in nature", if Gu Ao can understand it, then write it himself, or let Chinese scientists write it.

The third step of tearing is definitely the only way for the Chinese to tear it out by themselves. If Gu Ao can design experiments and tear it out by himself, it would be better. He himself does not expect to win the Nobel Prize. After all, he is not a physicist, has no professional background, and is not good at physics. However, being able to show more in such a grand event will make people remember that he is not just an investor, but has really intervened in scientific research and provided strategic direction guidance. That is enough.

He wants the world to know that this questioning direction was proposed and guided by him, but he just won't be able to study it in detail.

As for the last step, Gu Ao didn't understand anything. He didn't even know what the entire quantum Hall effect was. That could only be done by Chinese scientists.

During this period, there are some things that are not very rewarding. He can also consider waiting for Lucia to attract those Lucia researchers who yearn for foreign scientific research environments to come to China to help do something together.

However, the third step is to simply grab credit, so there is no need to let the Lucians intervene. At most, it is difficult to summarize the entire Quantity Hall effect, so let the leaders help.

Gu Ao also knew that it was very difficult to evaluate the Nobel Prize in Physics based on the West's hostility to China. A Lucian man came in and did the final "post-observation theory summary and calculation derivation" to give white people some face, and maybe it could slightly alleviate the white people's arrogance.

Things always have to be done step by step. After all, Nobel's knife is in the hands of white people, and they are not completely fair and kind-hearted men and women. The process of fighting also involves mediation art.

Gu Ao is a diplomatic student, so how could he not understand the resource coordination and twists and turns in it?

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Gu Ao talked with Wang Fu for a long time, and the standards were well grasped.

He didn't expect Wang Fu to have a great research talent, but since he knew that the other party was the founder of BYD in later generations, he was also very at ease with the other party's research management and research organization abilities.

What Gu Ao hopes is to let Wang Fu carry out some materials science experiments on electrode material layer stripping colloids without knowing the overall plan, and collect and organize the data first.

Historically, it took several years for the two Lucia scientists to create graphene from the beginning to designing experimental verification, to really finding a suitable viscose material and completing the layer tearing and peeling off.

Gu Ao could not achieve it overnight. Of course, he also wanted researchers such as Wang Fu to do a good job in researching these transitional materials without knowing the final overall purpose.

As for funds and treatment, Gu Ao is not hesitant.

Just a few days later, as Wang Fu and the new research team led by him began to prepare, the treatment he received made him wholeheartedly give up the idea of ​​"learning some experience for a few years and seeing if he wants to go into the market in the future" and decided to give Gu Ao a lifetime of life.

This is just a group that seems to be unpopular in other senior tycoons and has no value. But Gu Ao actually offered each researcher a salary of at least five digits, with papers and discoveries in stages, and a bonus of at least five digits.

As long as it is a paper with relevant SCI with influencing factors, it belongs to the target research field. Even if it is a journal with only a few-point factor, an article will be a personal bonus starting from tens of thousands of dollars.

Any process-based material patent is even more amazing.

Who has ever seen such a heavy reward in China?
Chapter completed!