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Piao Tian Literature In fact, this is no wonder Exxon Mobil.

Because they just checked the situation of Catherine's Jinlong Battery Company, they already felt that it was unreliable.

The reason is simple.

Although Jinlong Battery Company is huge enough, the way this company was established is too unreliable.

Catherine directly acquired more than a dozen companies, and then merged them all to form Catherine's Golden Dragon Battery. Some companies, no matter how you look at them, look like a ragtag group of people. How can such a ragtag group of people be made to feel reliable?

Woolen cloth?

But Catherine's ideas were different from Exxon's.

Because entrepreneurial funds are all managed by Soros, Catherine believes in Soros's strength.

On the other hand, these companies that are still able to make profits in the market after such a long period of time can be said to have emerged from the waves. How could these people be incompetent?

It's just that the people at Exxon couldn't possibly know this. Even if they knew it, I'm afraid they still think it's not very reliable.

More importantly, the lithium battery business itself is already ready to start making profits. Although lithium batteries have many shortcomings, as a new type of battery, lithium batteries already have enough value.

——Not necessarily the sales value.

In fact, just recently, Exxon has thrown out the concept of lithium batteries. This concept has also attracted a group of people to watch. The value of lithium batteries has doubled. Although it is not yet on the market, it has indeed brought them

With huge potential profits, how could they share such a star product with others?

Moreover, Catherine's behavior seemed suspicious, as she did not clearly tell these people: I am here just to get your lithium batteries.

Therefore, although Catherine's frustration is unreasonable, it is expected.

"Ah... it's so troublesome! Forget it, we can just do it alone!"

Catherine immediately became angry. If this was the case, she might as well do it alone!

After her irritability reached a certain level, Catherine became angry.

Catherine can afford to lose. Even if she doesn't develop lithium batteries, even if her next plan fails, Catherine can still afford to lose.

This is not a question of money, in this regard. Catherine's mentality is very good.

The first condition for becoming a successful person is mentality. For a successful person, they may not be smart, but they must have a mentality of not admitting defeat and not being afraid of losing.

But some people, some losers just can't afford to lose.

Not only can these people not afford to lose, but they also have some very strange minds.

Such people will be depressed for a long time because of a fan, and then claim to have some kind of depression. Then when they find that there are still people complaining about them, these people will fight back.

But these people will not fight back in ordinary ways, they will personally attack the complainers.

Not just personal attacks, they will also attack the family members who complained. These people have no shame and live in their own world all day long. They think that the world revolves around them, and they can criticize this

The world, and this world can only kneel down and accept it. And it is not allowed to resist.

These people think that they are great and awesome, and that others are plagiarizing. They are the only ones who are original. But they don't realize that the people they write are happier and more shameless than others.

And they are also the same creature.

The work of the battery was left to its own devices.

Catherine is not afraid of failure. Even if she fails, Catherine will continue to invest until she succeeds.

Catherine was ready to give Exxon a hard slap. Since the other party did not agree with her cooperation case, she would also give the other party a good look!

"Bring over all the relevant patents of Jinlong Battery and let me take a look." Catherine decided to follow the company's current strategy. Whatever the company's current foundation, let the company follow this path.

"Well, okay."

Elsa decisively called Pu Guanshui and asked him to prepare the information.

"It's so convenient to have an errand boy..."

Elsa couldn't help but sigh at this time.

Not long after, the company's documents were placed on the table in Catherine's office.

"There are quite a few."

Catherine nodded, these things are all related products.

Catherine decided to look back from front to back, starting from the earliest patents, to see what these people had been researching.

But looking at it, Catherine was disappointed.

The other party did have some patents, but compared with the patents he wanted, these patents themselves were of little value. The patents above described things that Catherine could not use.

The more she read, the more disappointed Catherine became. What was inside was so different from what she wanted.

"Patents related to nickel-iron batteries... Unfortunately, they are of no use..."

Finally, Catherine found a patent related to batteries, but she found out that it was a patent for nickel-iron batteries. She was a little excited at first, but in less than a second, Catherine's excitement turned into disappointment.

Catherine shook her head. It was indeed unexpected for Catherine that some of the original employees of Jinlong Battery Company were still studying such ancient batteries.

Perhaps due to psychological effects, Catherine now regards Jinlong Battery Company as a bunch of rabble.

Although both high-speed iron batteries and nickel-iron batteries are iron batteries, the former is the star of future technology, while the latter is an old storage battery.

The nickel-iron battery was developed by Thomas Edison. Its cathode is nickel oxide, the anode is iron, and the electrolyte (electrolyte) is potassium hydroxide.

The shortcomings of this kind of battery are obvious. It stores less electric energy per unit mass, cannot store electric energy well, has low performance at low temperatures, and has high manufacturing costs compared with lead-acid batteries. These are the reasons why nickel-iron batteries are not affected by it.

Reasons to welcome.

Moreover, the performance of this kind of battery is also very poor, making it slow to charge and discharge. It can even be difficult to carry a laptop.

Nickel-iron batteries were invented in 1901 and were used as a source of energy for electric vehicles, such as the Detroit Electric. Edison manufactured these batteries from 1903 to 1940, bringing considerable profits to the company. To Edison's dismay, no one

Accepting the use of its batteries to start internal combustion engines. The above-mentioned electric vehicles were discontinued a few years after the introduction of these batteries. In the end, this type of battery was only widely used in railway signaling and backup power.

When Catherine was researching battery-related products and patents, she had dealt with this kind of battery. So when Catherine found that her own people were actually still researching such products, she was disappointed.

If lithium batteries are the star product now, then our own nickel-iron batteries are a sunset product. They no longer have much value...

"It can effectively double the battery capacity and effectively reduce the phenomenon of self-discharge...?"

But after taking a closer look, Catherine's eyes lit up.

This... seems to be a good thing!

Catherine became excited immediately.

If the power of nickel-iron batteries can be doubled and the self-discharge phenomenon can be reduced, wouldn't it mean that it can be used?

Of course, since such a product discharges very slowly, it cannot be used in laptops.

But if it is used for mobile phones, this is very suitable!

The nickel-iron battery can be said to be a very durable battery. Because the solubility of the reactants in the electrolyte is very low. During the charging process, the formation of metallic iron is very slow due to the low solubility of ferroferric oxide. Therefore, iron crystals

Forming slowly protects the electrodes well.

Moreover, such a product will not affect its charging performance even after severe discharge or long-term storage. Moreover, the battery is not easy to heat up during charging. The battery life is very long.

Although such batteries cannot replace lead-acid batteries, they can compete with nickel-cadmium batteries.

If it is such a battery, maybe I can use it on my mobile phone?

Catherine immediately took out the patent alone.

Although it is a Sunset product, as long as it can be used, Catherine decided.

But Catherine is not satisfied. Such a product cannot give Exxon a slap in the face.

At this time Catherine shook her head.

It would be great if I had polymer lithium batteries and lithium-ion batteries now. At this time, those guys would definitely run over crying and begging to cooperate with me...

This is called a slap in the face...

Otherwise, if you develop a product with little practical value, others will not take it seriously at all.

What is this?

At this time, Catherine could only continue to look at the report.

She noticed that the document originated from a battery company called Big Mac.

Catherine continued to read with interest, but to Catherine's disappointment, the following documents did not contain what Catherine needed, and the patents were thrown aside one by one.

"Is it really just a mob...ah?" At this time, Catherine saw another document.

"Is this the patent they applied for in the past two days?"

Catherine looked at the time and saw that it was 1972. This was actually a patent applied for after the new company was established.

"Sodium battery..."

The corner of Catherine's mouth twitched.

Is this... is this a mockery?

Sodium is an essential element for the human body. What people usually call salt is actually sodium chloride.

In the periodic table of elements, sodium and lithium are in the same group, and both have an electron in the outermost shell. This is junior high school chemistry.

Although they are of the same race, they are not interchangeable.

Sodium and potassium are also of the same family. Potassium is below sodium. But if people eat too much sodium chloride, they can only drink water. If they eat too much potassium chloride...you can try it. Your heart may stop immediately and your eyes will blink.

Shut up, a lifetime has passed...

Oxygen and sulfur are also of the same family, but no one has ever said that hydrogen sulfide can be drunk as water... That is also a very scary thing.

So when Catherine saw this patent for the first time, Catherine wondered if her eyes were mocking her and making her see something she shouldn't have seen.

Lithium can be used to make lithium batteries, but sodium cannot necessarily be used to make sodium batteries...

"Sodium battery? Sodium and lithium are of the same family, right? This seems to work as a battery, right?"

"Huh?" Seeing Elsa speak, Catherine was stunned for a moment.

"You mean...sodium battery?"

"Yeah. Sodium batteries, what's wrong, Kate?"

"No...nothing..."

Is it really a sodium battery...?

What a sodium battery!

Only then did Catherine seem to have a sudden feeling.

This... seems to be really a sodium battery!

Can sodium really be made into a battery?

Don't tell me, this is true.

After Catherine established Golden Dragon Battery Company, many people were a little dissatisfied that Catherine only wanted to use them to achieve the goal of cooperating with Exxon Mobil and developing lithium batteries.

At this time, some people wanted to prove their strength. At this time, they were conducting research and research on their own.

The first thing they thought of was that since the other party can develop lithium batteries, why can't they develop similar batteries here?

Next, they noticed the element below lithium, which was sodium.

So, can sodium, which is in the same family as lithium, be made into batteries?

Needless to say, this idea has actually been verified.

Some people mixed ferric oxide, sodium oxide, manganese oxide and other materials into powder, then put a ball into it and heated it at 900 degrees Celsius for 12 hours. The resulting material formula is as well as metal sodium as the electrode.

A nano-battery with efficient charge and discharge performance is made, which is no worse than ExxonMobil's lithium battery!

And what is now placed in front of Catherine is their patent.

Although such a battery is still a laboratory product and there is no way to mass-produce it, it is indeed a sodium battery.

"The name of the project leader is Anthony Elsa. Call this person over. I want to ask him some questions."

Catherine said this.

"Well, okay."

Elsa made a phone call directly.

Not long after, the man named Anthony ran over in a hurry.

Anthony, who was originally an ordinary employee under the Big Mac Battery, was a little excited at this time - being called over by Catherine, the boss behind the company, this is no ordinary honor!

"Are you responsible for developing this?"

She handed over the patent and description about sodium batteries.

"Yes." Anthony took a look and then admitted.

“Why would you want to develop a product like this?”

Anthony's face was a little red: "Because we think that as a big company like us, we have our own dignity, and we can definitely develop a better product than the other party."

"So you came up with a plan like this?"

Anthony nodded.

In fact, after being acquired by Ark Group, the original employees actually had a sense of superiority.

Ark Group! What kind of place is this?

Intel belongs here! Apple belongs here! Angel Beat TV belongs here too!

How could they not be excited about such a place and now that they were in such a place? How could they not feel a sense of superiority?

Along with the sense of superiority, their self-confidence has expanded.

And just when their self-confidence was inflated, they actually got the news-the reason why their company was acquired was just because Ark Group wanted to conduct a research and development project with Exxon Mobil on a small lithium battery.

Just cooperation!

How could this possibly feel comfortable?

These people soon felt that this was Catherine's slight to them.

Anthony is one of these people.

In the end, Anthony was pushed out, and then they set up a research team to prove their worth.

The current sodium battery plan is their response to Catherine.

It's just that this plan has not been completed. They are still studying this plan, and their tasks have not been completed yet.

"You used to work for Big Mac Batteries?"

Catherine asked again.

"Yes, Miss Edson."

The other party nodded again.

"Then this nickel-iron battery patent also belonged to you before?" Catherine asked.

"Oh, yes. But then our boss at the time encountered obstacles when promoting this product, so we stopped researching it. The nickel-iron battery was too old and its practical value was somewhat small."

Catherine nodded.

It seems that this guy named Anthony is not bad. If the other party comes up, I can also promote him.

"Is it feasible to put this battery inside a mobile phone and use it to replace dry batteries?"

Catherine asked again.

"This... is probably OK. Although the nickel-iron battery is very old and does not discharge well, if it is used to drive a mobile phone that can be driven by dry batteries, I think this should not be a problem. And the battery life is probably longer than that of ordinary dry batteries.

Better - at least better than the 3a battery."

No. 1, 2, 3, 5, and No. 7 batteries. These are relatively common batteries, among which No. 5 and No. 7 are particularly commonly used. The so-called AA battery is No. 5 battery, and the AAA battery is No. 7 battery! Both aa and aaa are

It indicates the battery model.

"Say it clearly."

Catherine didn't want to beat around the bush with the other party.

"Uh..." Anthony found that he had been caught playing tricks. He just didn't want to belittle his previous company's products: "It can probably be similar to the current battery life of mobile phone dry batteries. If it is a brand battery, we probably can't compare.

other side."

Batteries like Duracell and Nanfu are incomparable.

But there is no such thing as Nanfu. Such a product has not been born yet.

"Yeah..."

Catherine thought about it in her mind.

She was a little disappointed. There was still a big difference between such a product and what she had in mind.

"but--"

Anthony thought of something at this time.

"What?" Catherine asked.

"If we adopt a one-piece model later, we should be able to achieve better battery life."

When a dry battery is placed inside a mobile phone, at least half of it will be a gap. If it is a whole piece, the battery will increase in size by at least one-third, which means that more power may be used.

.

"Is this possible?"

In Catherine's impression, except for polymer lithium batteries, other lithium-ion batteries all have electric cells inside. She doesn't know whether nickel-iron batteries can really be used.

"certainly!"

At this time Anthony nodded sharply.

"Well...it doesn't seem to disappoint me..."

What Catherine didn't know was that in Catherine's original world, nickel-iron batteries were used in mobile phones!

A nickel-iron battery the size of an n95 battery can probably have a capacity of 3.7v, 600mah!

Of course, that was later. Current battery technology is not that developed. Even the nickel-iron batteries that have been developed for a long time are constrained by bottlenecks. There are really not many batteries that can reach the level of the future.

"Well, this research needs to continue."

Catherine nodded.

"Our next generation." Catherine said to Elsa.

"I will also Mr. Cooper."

Ms. Rama is mainly responsible for signal research, and the appearance of the mobile phone is all developed by Martin Cooper.

"Um."

Then Catherine turned her head.

"I will get in touch with Rama Labs later, and you guys can make preparations. I want to discuss the battery issue with them."

Catherine replied.

"Okay, Miss Edson."

Anthony answered.

"So, how far have you progressed in your research on sodium batteries?" Catherine asked.

"This... although our batteries are usable, they cannot appear as products... In other words, we only have finished products for the time being... But as long as we are given time, I... we... should... no, we will definitely

Something was discovered!”

The other party's words gave Catherine the feeling that the other party seemed to have no confidence, but looking at the other party's excited and eager face, Catherine found that this was not the case.

Anthony is so excited...

Catherine nodded.

She has decided to rely on this improved nickel-iron battery at first, and then develop her own sodium battery. This is her future strategy.

"Well, it shouldn't be limited to this..." Catherine murmured.

It’s not like I’m short of money. Although I already have products, why do I keep focusing on them?

Looking at it from another perspective, it is not in your own interests to keep focusing on a product!

After thinking about this, Catherine immediately understood.

——This is not just what it is now.

"Next, I have another task to give you." Catherine said: "Next, I need you to research a new type of product..."

But Anthony was stunned after hearing what Catherine said.

As long as there are metal elements on the earth, we need to try one by one to see if they can be made into batteries. This is Catherine's plan.

For this reason, Catherine did not hesitate to invest 10 million US dollars, just to let these people find new products.

It is not just iron, nickel, lithium, sodium, cadmium, and lead that can be used as batteries. Catherine clearly remembers that many batteries are suitable for use as storage battery products. Catherine just does not understand this aspect.

And now, she decided to find out these products one by one...

…

Second and third updates. By the way, I complained about a personal attack on someone in my family.

It's not two in one, it's just that I don't want to separate it. 6k words, definitely two updates...

Well, let’s start saving the manuscript now.