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Chapter 73 Solid-state battery! Unlimited!

When the original battery design manuscript was revealed on the plateau, the conference room quickly became quiet, and the company's researchers began to discuss in private.

"Research on batteries? We are a chemical fiber company, and the battery span is too large, right?"

"It's not a matter of span at all."

“What’s the problem?”

"Of course it's Mr. Gao's design. Where can there be such a battery in the world? Without electrolyte, it means ultra-high density. When the battery is fully charged, atoms will inevitably expand inside the battery. Without electrolyte as a buffer, how to prevent the danger of excessive expansion? How to prevent the atomic detachment caused by repeated contraction?"

"this…"

"It seems to make sense, brother, I used to study batteries?"

"No, I followed Teacher Li Changxing to do vulcanization technology. Batteries are just a personal hobby."

"To be honest, I'm not optimistic about Mr. Gao's design. So far, the world's most advanced technology is Panasonic's semi-solid state battery, and Mr. Gao's solution is completely *** and has entered the all-solid state era."

"But then again, Mr. Gao is really awesome in basics. He is actually studying electrical and chemical engineering?"

Before we knew it, Kunlun Company was already a large-scale enterprise with a R&D team of 400 people. Everyone is talking about it at this moment, but in the end, it is generally believed that the probability of success in battery research will not be too high.

Xu Qingzhou frowned slightly and asked Gao Yuan: "Is this a solid-state battery solution?"

Gao Yuan nodded, "Yes, the lithium battery technology we are currently using is approaching the physical upper limit. The price may decrease with large-scale production, but the capacity is difficult to exceed 500 watt-hours per kilogram."

Energy-to-weight ratio is an extremely important data in the battery field.

Simply put, 500 watt-hours per kilogram means that every kilogram of battery, and it stores up to 5 kilograms of electricity. Suppose you want your electric car to install 100 kilograms of electricity, you need to stuff 200 kilograms of batteries into the body of the car.

Li Changxing asked curiously: "Then Mr. Gao, how much capacity can your solid-state design achieve?"

The plateau pondered for a moment, "According to my preliminary calculations, conservative estimates will not be less than 2 kilowatt-hours per kilogram."

Swish ~

As soon as these words were said, people were stunned at that time. It took a full minute to wake up like a dream.

"Two kilo watt-hours per kilogram? That's too high, how is that possible!"

"Yes, the 811 model with the highest capacity of ternary lithium can only reach 300 watt-hours. Mr. Gao's design is nearly seven times that of 811 lithium batteries!"

"Terium lithium has been calculated, and lithium iron phosphate is generally only more than 200 watt-hours."

"Although Mr. Gao's design is a bit extraordinary, it will not increase the capacity so much?"

Faced with doubts, Gao Yuan was ready, so he released a new chart, which shows the current technical routes and production scale adopted by major major manufacturers.

The so-called 811 ternary lithium battery is actually the positive electrode of the battery, which contains 80% nickel, 10% cobalt, and 10% manganese.

At the beginning, the ratio of positive electrode elements was actually 523, but later evolved to 622, and finally established to 811. It is recognized in the battery industry that the 811 ternary lithium battery is currently the most advanced technology and the highest capacity solution.

The disadvantage of the 811 battery is that it is not that safe.

Someone once compared CATL's 811 ternary battery with BYD's lithium iron phosphate blade battery, which also caused the battery to be damaged due to puncture. The blade battery is basically fine, but the 811 ternary battery caught fire.

Gao Yuan said in a deep voice: "Through this picture, it is not difficult to find that domestic battery manufacturers have technically maintained a global first-tier company led by Panasonic, and have already completed the Jedi overtake in terms of production and market share!"

"Just a few years ago, we did not have so many excellent ternary lithium power battery manufacturers. Now we not only have excellent manufacturers such as CATL, BYD, Guoxuan Hi-Tech, and Funeng, but also completed the construction of the entire industrial chain from battery raw materials, parts to battery production and assembly!"

"The times are really different. At least in the fields of batteries and new energy, we don't need to underestimate ourselves. Whether it is Tesla, Mercedes-Benz and BMW plug-in versions, if you disassemble them, 70% of them are masterpieces of the domestic industrial chain. The so-called chips rely on Infineon, batteries rely on Panasonic and LG, and electronic control rely on mainland and Denso. That's all the old calendar. Nowadays, it's not embarrassing to use domestic products now!"

"Next, I will tell you about my plan, please see the projection."

As the picture flickered, everyone saw clearly the internal structure of the solid-state battery, which was actually composed of countless billions of tracks! The whole thing was honeycomb!

These honeycomb tracks are less than 100 nanometers in diameter, ensuring that the lithium metal is completely fixed during the battery operation, and will not de-energize ions, and will not cause side reactions to form a passivation film.

According to the design of the plateau, nickel and cobalt will no longer be used in the positive electrode of solid-state batteries. These two metals are not only expensive, but also very toxic. Plateau proposes to use manganese and oxygen ions as the positive electrode materials.

The problem is that during the battery reaction, oxygen ions will become fluid, which may cause them to escape from the positive electrode, so molten salts are needed to be used to plating the surface of the oxygen ions.

In general, Plateau plans to use the polymer material technology that Kunlun Company is good at to establish countless honeycomb nanoorbitals inside the battery to control the spread of lithium metal. In this way, the reaction can be completed in the orbit, and the traditional electrolyte is completely abandoned.

On the other hand, the Plateau also improved the positive electrode of the battery, using cheap but better performance manganese and oxygen ions.

As a result, solid-state lithium batteries have achieved higher density, safer and cheaper three major improvements that seem impossible to achieve.

Huh ~

The students who understood the technical route of the plateau could not help but gasp.

"It really did it! Mr. Gao really did it!"

"Nanorails belong to innovation in battery structure. The introduction of manganese and oxygen ions is an innovation in material. The coating of oxygen ions is forced to become stable, which is an innovation in process! Our boss is very powerful, far more powerful than imagined!"

"According to what you say, is the boss's plan a good idea?"

"It's definitely a play! It's so a play!"

"If this solid-state battery can be made, the range of electric vehicles will not last hundreds of kilometers, but thousands of kilometers!"

"The more important application is heavy-duty trucks and ocean-going ships! If even these equipment are powered, my god, the picture is so beautiful that I can't imagine it!"

As a result, the conference room was completely boiling.

Everyone thought that Gaoyuan was just proposing an idea, and eventually, his fellow researchers had to find solutions.

As the saying goes, the boss moves his mouth and the employee runs off his legs. That's probably what it means.

But what everyone never expected was that Plateau not only proposed the idea, but also provided specific solutions!
Chapter completed!
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