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Chapter 908 Nobel Prize Winners (Fourth Update, Please Subscribe)

Petrodollar hegemony!

When the Bretton Woods monetary system collapsed in the 1970s, the United States began to "persuade" oil exporters such as Saudi Arabia and Iran to accept the US dollar as the only pricing and settlement currency for international oil transactions.

The United States succeeded, and eventually made the dollar and oil "peg" a global consensus. Moreover, the United States can buy oil by printing money, which is a privilege that no other country has.

The "petrodollar" is a lucrative policy for the United States. The United States exports the virtual symbol of the dollar in exchange for the injection of real resources such as oil. Other countries in the world exchange real goods and services from the United States for dollars to purchase essential oil. These "petrodollars" are then converted into U.S. stocks, treasury bonds and other financial assets in the form of reflux, filling the U.S. trade and fiscal deficits and supporting the U.S. economy.

The petrodollar is also the most powerful tool for the United States to reap the world’s wealth!
After the U.S. dollar was decoupled from gold and instead linked to oil, the world entered the "petrodollar monetary system", and the material supporting this system is oil.

Therefore, the core of "petrodollar hegemony" is oil!
For Li Yian, destroying the US "petrodollar hegemony" is an inevitable war. This war is inevitable because with the economic development of Southeast Asia, the United States will inevitably try to reap the wealth of Southeast Asia just as it reaps the wealth of Japan and Germany.

Under such circumstances, Southeast Asia can either be like Japan and be willing to lose thirty years, following behind the United States and allowing it to reap its wealth, or it can fight back.

And counterattack is Li Yian’s inevitable option!

How far will this counterattack develop?
Li Yian had no idea about this.

However, many things must be planned in advance, so destroying the "petrodollar hegemony" and preventing the United States from reaping the world has become an inevitable option.

If you want to defeat future enemies, you must start from the beginning. Preventing the enemy from becoming stronger is an inevitable option.

While the negotiations between the Nanyang Ministry of Trade and Industry and the US Department of Commerce were ongoing and the Yongan financial market was experiencing ups and downs, Li Yian once again came to the King's Laboratory.

"Based on the technical information you provided, we invented the liquid-absorbing ultra-fine glass wool separator and designed the AGM technology of the valve-regulated sealed lead-acid battery based on it, which solved the problem of the compound circulation of oxygen inside the battery. This battery adopts a sealed structure and does not require the addition of electrolyte, making it convenient and safe to use. At the same time, the voltage and capacity of the sealed lead-acid battery have also been significantly improved..."

Although Sun Xianze is a well-known young expert in Southeast Asia, he is completely like a student in front of you. Although there are many experts and scholars who are arrogant because of their talents, there is nothing you can do about it. Even well-known scholars like Shu Chuanbao admire your knowledge very much.

Even the most rebellious scholars respect those who are more knowledgeable than themselves. Your academic level is so high that no one can make an accurate evaluation. According to some scholars, you may be as good as Einstein. And in terms of inventions and innovations, you may be far better than Edison.

PN junction transistors, integrated circuits... these are all inventions that have the potential to win the Nobel Prize. Even if they haven't won it now, they will definitely win the Nobel Prize in the future.

As for the researchers in the King's Laboratory, under the guidance of the information provided by you, they successfully made the world's first operational ruby ​​laser.

In the past few months, many innovative inventions carried out in the laboratory are inseparable from the conceptual information you provided.

Of course, this new type of battery is also included.

Perhaps, this is genius.

While Sun Xianze and others were expressing their feelings, Li Yian was looking at the battery in front of him. Although it was lead-acid, this sealed lead-acid battery was undoubtedly black technology in this era - in another world, its invention benefited from the research and development of space technology.

In another world...it is the power source for electric assisted bicycles and Laotoule. With it, we have electric bicycles and "Laotoule".

After asking about its capacity and other issues, Li Yian finally asked about the development of new batteries, which he was most concerned about.

“How is the research progress of lithium batteries?”

Sun Xianze said, knowing that you would definitely ask this question.

"We are now conducting in-depth research on lithium according to the direction you pointed out, and we have made some progress..." Although as early as the 19th century, people realized that the physical and chemical properties of lithium metal were naturally suitable for making batteries. However, lithium metal itself also has huge problems. It is too active and can react violently with water, and has high requirements for the operating environment. Therefore, for a long time, people were helpless with it. Although some scientists tried to make batteries with it, they all failed.

It was not until the 1960s that NASA began to conduct further research on lithium for the Apollo Project, which opened up the world's research on the application of lithium batteries. It was not until the late 1980s that lithium batteries achieved breakthrough progress.

Thanks to the popularity of new energy vehicles in later generations, Li Yian also has a certain understanding of lithium batteries, so he is able to put forward some technical details, from the concept of embedded batteries to the development of lithium cobalt oxide.

"We have produced lithium cobalt oxide in the laboratory. This magical material has a two-dimensional layered structure and can reversibly deintercalate lithium ions. The battery voltage can also be increased to 4 V..."

When talking about this new material, Sun Xianze seemed quite excited. What could be more exciting than discovering new materials?

"Really?"

Li Yian couldn't help but be surprised.

"Let's go to the lab!"

Li Yian is well aware of the importance of lithium cobalt oxide. Its appearance marks the emergence of lithium cobalt oxide batteries. Even in the 21st century, it still occupies most of the lithium battery market. Computers and mobile phones cannot do without it!
"We are planning to use it in combination with the concept of embedded batteries to develop new lithium batteries."

When Li Yian heard that Sun Xianze planned to use it as the negative electrode of the battery, he said

"Can we do the opposite and try to use lithium cobalt oxide as the positive electrode?"

"Use it as the positive electrode?"

Sun Xianze was stunned.

This is a completely subversive suggestion, because from the perspective of materials science, lithium is more suitable as a negative electrode material? Its low density, large capacity, and low potential all mean that it is an ideal negative electrode material for batteries.

"Wouldn't it be more suitable as a negative electrode?"

"As for experiments, we always have to try some paths. Sometimes we should take the initiative to break the rigid thinking."

Li Yian said with a smile.

In fact, it is the property of lithium that makes it suitable as a negative electrode that has restricted the development of lithium batteries. Scientists have always used lithium metal as a negative electrode, and they need to use flammable organic solvents as electrolytes. Safety issues have caused the industrialization of lithium batteries to encounter many difficulties.

But later, Japanese scientist Akira Yoshino broke the convention and used petroleum coke to replace metallic lithium as the negative electrode and lithium cobalt oxide as the positive electrode to assemble the first commercial lithium-ion battery.

In 1991, the first commercial lithium-ion battery was successfully launched by Sony. Lithium-ion batteries have helped the consumer electronics industry and changed the world; in turn, the huge market of the consumer electronics industry has also helped the rapid development of the lithium-ion battery industry, and lithium iron phosphate and ternary system cathode materials have emerged, as well as high-energy-density lithium batteries, which eventually made people think of using them in electric vehicles.

A few hours later, watching the car go by, Sun Xianze couldn't help but sigh,
"If successful, it will be another invention that can win the Nobel Prize!"

The colleague beside him also agreed.

"Yes, I really didn't expect that you have such profound attainments in the field of batteries. If you were a scholar, you would probably win a lot of Nobel Prizes."

(End of this chapter)