For the gift, start research and development of graphene batteries

Chapter 8 Team Up
Seeing that everyone had said almost the same thing, Li Ming concluded:
This project is very important to our second department. It is a key project, and the resources of the department will be given priority to this project.

Here is a summary of everyone's opinions, let's see if this is the case:
1. Increase the unit volume of the battery, and achieve the company's goal of 500Wh/kg at the assembly level through optimized design.

The advantage is that the solutions are ready-made and the difficulty is the lowest. Through continuous iterative optimization, the purpose of improvement can be achieved.Of course, this requires in-depth cooperation with application engineers.

The disadvantage is that the range of improvement may be limited, but if you conduct research quietly, there is still a lot of room for improvement.

2. Improve the energy density of positive and negative electrode materials, and cooperate with process optimization to increase the energy density of the battery cell.

Advantages: If the energy density of the material is greatly improved, the corresponding increase is the largest, and it is most likely to be close to the goal of 500Wh/kg.

Disadvantages: The requirements for personnel are extremely high. If you have to make innovative attempts, the probability of failure is very high, and you may end up with nothing.

3. Optimize the ratio of positive and negative electrodes and electrolyte to achieve the purpose of increasing the capacity per gram.

Advantages: It is mainly to use suppliers, develop the best products of suppliers, and improve the energy density of batteries through comprehensive optimization. The difficulty is relatively small.

Disadvantages: There are high requirements for the compatibility of various latest materials, and because each product is the latest, the potential risk is relatively large.

4. Optimize the structure of the battery cell and assembly level, as close as possible to the goal of 500Wh/kg.

Advantages: Through pure physical optimization, the best utilization of space is achieved, and the difficulty is relatively low.

Disadvantages: After the spatial structure is changed, there is a high demand for process verification, and stricter testing is required before implementation.

Li Ming is worthy of being a supervisor. Although in terms of being a person, his emotional intelligence may be a little lower, but his technical level is not a problem.

In three or two sentences, the key points are summed up.

Even Jiang Ming couldn't fault it.

After hearing this, the others couldn't help nodding their heads. In the eyes of everyone, this is a relatively reliable solution that has been selected so far.

These programs are all effective, but the effect is obvious or not.

These optimization work, in fact, everyone has been doing in their usual work. This time, they used the opportunity of the company's project to reorganize it, which can be regarded as an extension of daily work.

Thinking of the company's bonus, everyone's eyes sparkled.

Don't even think about a few million, it's not bad to be able to get some small money.

In the eyes of everyone, this is the company's reward for R&D engineers.

However, there are many research and development teams in the company, and if you want to stand out among them, you have to show your skills.

If it was the former Jiang Ming, he would not have any objections to the 4-point plan proposed by everyone.But now, from Jiang Ming's point of view, it is indeed a bit out of date.

According to the existing technology, even if it is further optimized, it can be increased to 300Wh/kg, which is the limit.

This is still based on the premise of greatly increasing the battery volume at the expense of safety.

There needs to be a balance in the middle. If one is not careful, what is produced is not a product, but a bomb.

This kind of example has been so common in the market in the past two years. It is so common that the country has to cancel the established plan to continue to increase the upper limit of energy density and maintain the original technical standards.

However, although the national standard has not changed, driven by the market, some battery manufacturers have taken the initiative to raise the standard instead.

The degree of involution can be seen from the frequent product news from OEMs.

Moreover, Jiang Ming guessed that the meaning of the higher-ups was also that the R&D engineers should focus on improving the performance of materials, rather than focusing on some tinkering.

With the idea of ​​taking advantage of the company to study, Jiang Ming estimated that these people are destined to be disappointed.

It's just a question of how to bring it up.

I can't say that I have mastered the graphene battery and can accomplish the goal. You all listen to me, right?
This is a little unrealistic.

What's more, Jiang Ming's salary rank is only a technician. Although they are all called engineers, they are far from the engineer ranks present.

Even if Jiang Ming brought it up, no one would believe it.

Although Jiang Ming thought he had been in the company for a long time, his technical level was no worse than that of ordinary engineers.

But who makes other people's reports beautiful, and who makes other people's patents write more.

These days, education is a natural barrier, preventing people with low education like Jiang Ming from jumping up.

Jiang Ming was waiting for the right time to cut in.

It didn't take long, the opportunity came!
For the four directions mentioned by Li Ming, different engineers will be arranged to follow up and a corresponding R&D team will be established.

According to the principle of voluntariness, the group is divided into groups on the spot, and then Li Ming deploys personnel according to the actual situation to ensure that the technical strength of each group is similar.

Jiang Ming didn't rush to make a choice, but looked at the situation of the others first.

This is a normal group, and there was no problem in the past, but this time it is more embarrassing.

Because Li Ming discovered that for the second project team, after a long time, no engineer was willing to choose, and the engineers rushed towards the first or third team frantically, as if going early would take advantage of it.

Jiang Ming also discovered this situation, and couldn't help but praise in his heart.

Sure enough, they are all a group of realistic people. If they really have interests, they can go wherever they want, regardless of whether it suits you or not.

Group 1 is also understandable, after all, the difficulty is the lowest, and the existing scheme is used for optimization.

As for the third group, Jiang Ming didn't understand at first, but when he thought of developing new material products, which involved suppliers and the selection of subsequent products, Jiang Ming immediately understood.

After all, the supplier is Party B, and it is always a pleasure to communicate with it as Party A.

Li Ming was worried, and she did not expect this situation to happen.

In fact, Li Ming also knows what the company's strategic intention is, which is to fundamentally improve the basic materials of batteries for the second point, but Li Ming also understands that the existing resources are not enough to support the research and development of basic materials .

For example, the company's test equipment is still an old model a few years ago, and the test channels are seriously insufficient.

Even if it is done, if you want to verify it, you have to compete for those test points, such a long test cycle, and it is very likely to fail. When considering resource allocation, naturally, the company will use this type of research and development project Put it behind.

As a result, more and more engineers are unwilling to do such thankless basic research and development.

They are all short-term, flat and fast projects. This is true for a department, a company, and a country.

It can be said that the country's support for new energy is strong, but in the end, the entire new energy technology has not made much progress.

Thinking of this, Jiang Ming, as a practitioner, felt a little sad.

Weakness in basic research will result in weak scientific and technological progress.

He didn't have this ability to make changes before, but now Jiang Ming has it, and it's easy.

Thinking of this, Jiang Ming no longer hesitated, and wrote his name on the form representing the second group.

Puzzled, puzzled, shocked.

All kinds of expressions converged on everyone's faces, interweaving into a picture of gloating at others' misfortune.

Jiang Ming was a little speechless when he saw everyone's expressions. Is this necessary? Although he keeps a low profile in the office and doesn't like cuddling, don't be so indifferent, right?

It is everyone's right to choose which one, but it is a bit inappropriate to have to laugh at it.

Moreover, this is also for your consideration. There can't be two groups of research, there is no one to choose, right?Now that someone is on top, why don't you have fun?
"Cough cough."

Li Ming was also a little surprised when he saw that Jiang Ming chose group 2. He coughed twice, as if he was choking, then quickly picked up the water glass in front of him, and took a sip.

"You choose this, do you want to think about it?"

After moistening his throat, Li Ming asked.

It wasn't that Li Ming had good intentions, it was that Li Ming was afraid that Jiang Ming's technology would not be up to standard, which would affect the overall performance appraisal of the R&D Department II.

You must know that this research and development direction is to be reported to the company, and the progress must be reported according to the time node.

If the progress of Jiang Ming's research and development is too small, it will affect the assessment of the entire second group.

Other engineers are only assessed for a single project, but as a supervisor, she is faced with the assessment of the entire second department.

Thinking of this, Li Ming had no choice but to persuade.

Of course, the research topic of the second group cannot be completely discarded, otherwise it will be in violation of this project.After the company's senior management inquired, it was not easy to deal with business.

Therefore, from the bottom of my heart, Li Ming hopes that there will be an engineer with slightly stronger technical ability who can stand up and lead a few engineers to at least make a breakthrough, which can be regarded as an explanation for the company.

As for this person, it's not Jiang Ming anyway.

After all, Jiang Ming is just a technician in terms of rank, and it is a bit difficult for a technician to lead the research and development of conductive cores.

But Jiang Ming chose it himself, and Li Ming couldn't say anything.To say that Jiang Ming's ability is average, and his education is still a junior college degree, this is very inconsistent in the R&D department, which is composed of undergraduates and graduate students.

If Jiang Ming hadn't come early, the R&D department was short of manpower, so Jiang Ming wouldn't be able to get into the R&D department.

Jiang Ming's only advantage at present is that he has been here for a long time and is familiar with the company's processes.

Moreover, some past projects have experienced a lot, and they can provide some past experience when holding project meetings.

It's just that the engineers of the second department have their own plans, and they don't want to touch the projects of the second group, and they are afraid that their hard work will be in vain.

Thinking of this, Li Ming was also a little embarrassed, and fell into a dilemma for a while.

Time passed quickly, and all the engineers had chosen their projects, and they were all eager to try and prepare for a big fight.

Looking at the only name in the two groups: Jiang Ming, Li Ming was even more distressed.

If Jiang Ming didn't sign up, Li Ming could use the pretext that he couldn't have a team leader for each project, and grab a few people he liked to take charge of it. Now, it would be difficult to transfer people to it.

Li Ming had already thought about how his old fritters would reject his words.

"Forget it, let's not report it!"

After thinking about it, Li Ming still couldn't find a suitable candidate. After weighing the two, Li Ming gave up the idea of ​​reporting this project to the company.

As for Jiang Ming, Li Ming had an idea. Since his engineers wanted to study it, Li Ming would not stop it.

And this research direction is indeed good, but it is too difficult.

If, in case Jiang Ming can produce some research results, then
Li Ming shook his head, smiled, and wondered how he had the idea that Jiang Ming could produce results.

So many graduate students and doctoral students have no confidence in the project of Group 2, how can they expect Jiang Ming, a technician, to make a breakthrough.

Since Jiang Ming chose Group 2, let Jiang Ming study it, just for the dignity of this technician!

As the supervisor, Li Ming did not deny Jiang Ming's idea of ​​joining the second group for research, but considered it more comprehensively.

It's just that although some people are researching, the research topics of Group 2 are destined not to be included in company-level projects.

Thinking of this, Li Ming said:

"Colleagues, the project team will be established according to their respective registration status. As for the team leader, everyone is familiar with it. You can discuss it on your own, form a unified opinion, and report it to me in the afternoon."

"This project is a company-level project. Your research results will be used as the basis for the company's assessment of our second department."

"Next, each project team will formulate their own research directions, and each team leader will come to hold a project progress report meeting every week."

"In this case, then"

Li Ming summed up forcefully. Depending on the situation, the next sentence will end this meeting.

Seeing that Li Ming was about to end the meeting, Jiang Ming realized that something was wrong. There were several people in the other project teams, but why did he get to his own team 2 with only one person.

Thinking of the complex data that needs to be processed and the many experiments to be done in the development of graphene batteries, Jiang Ming's head is as big as a cow.

Jiang Ming was able to make it by himself, but the key was that it took too long.

When I have researched it myself, other project teams have completed the questions. No matter how good my own results are, I can't wait for the time to blossom and bear fruit.

Thinking of this, Jiang Ming quickly interrupted Li Ming. If he didn't bring it up at this time, he would have no chance in the future.

"Miss Ming."

Li Ming: "What's wrong?"

"I just want to ask, am I the only one in Group 2?"

Seeing Li Ming's eyes that everyone else is fine, but you are, Jiang Ming couldn't help lowering his voice.

"At present, it seems that you are the only one who signed up, which is the case."

Li Ming said seriously.

"Just one person, but"

To say that Jiang Ming holds the system in his hand and has the bottom of his heart, he should be upright, and he should say what he has to say directly.

But after working under Li Ming all the year round, Jiang Ming was still somewhat intimidated by this female boss.

When it came time to ask for resources, he was still coy and unable to speak out.

This kind of mentality change must be gradual, and it is rare to reverse it in a short period of time.

"How should I put it, the subject of Group 2 should be the most challenging, and if it can produce results, it will also be the biggest."

Li Ming spoke.

Listen, this is leadership, and the way to enlighten people is just different.

The key is that every sentence is to the point, and Jiang Ming doesn't know how to say such things.

The challenge is high, so high that it is basically impossible to succeed.Being able to produce results is of course the most lucrative, but not producing results is also useless.

Obviously, everyone understands this.

"If there is only one person in the 2nd group, it's really not a problem. So, given another chance, is there anyone willing to go to the 2nd group?"

At this time, everyone lowered their heads and looked serious, obviously not wanting to get involved in the 2nd group's project.

From the half-smile expressions on some people's faces, Jiang Ming knew that everyone had no confidence in this project.

Just when Jiang Ming was about to give up the important person and was about to go it alone, Li Ming suddenly called his name and said:

"Su Lingjuan, Song Zhiyi, you two go to Group 2 and form a project team together."

"Ah, ah."

Hearing Li Ming's roll call, everyone looked surprised, and some people couldn't help shouting.

But after hearing the names of the two people clearly, everyone's faces looked like this.

"It seems that sister Ming didn't want to waste too much resources on the projects of the second group, so she transferred the two most 'useless' people in the second part."

Everyone thought so.

As the saying goes, the head count is enough, but the quality of the personnel is a bit questionable.

If these two people engage in the past, even if the project can be completed, it will probably be ruined.

In their hearts, everyone has already sentenced the two groups to death, and then, it depends on the performance of the other groups.

(End of this chapter)