All of it...
Replace it with carbon?
Yang Xu froze.
Qian Zhongming and Liu Bo were stunned as well.
Every researcher in the laboratory stared blankly at Lu Zhou, clearly unable to process what he had just said.
The strange silence lasted a full ten seconds before Yang Xu, the first to recover, broke it.
"Replace all of it... with carbon materials?"
Yang Xu smiled and shook his head, waving a hand. "Impossible. We already tried that. In fact, we initially used carbon-based materials with more flexible structures, but later discovered that carbon's chemical properties were still less stable than silicon's. That was why we switched to the technical route of silicon-based porous materials."
At that point, he made a self-deprecating joke.
"After all, we're trying to make a Lithium-Air Battery, not a lithium-air bomb."
Yet no one in the laboratory laughed, himself included.
Everyone was in low spirits.
After all, to them, this meant that two years of hard work had gone down the drain.
"That's because you didn't find the right method..." Lu Zhou looked around. "Is there a blackboard?"
Yang Xu froze. "There's a whiteboard... right behind you. What do you need it for?"
Lu Zhou did not explain, merely smiling faintly.
"A whiteboard will do."
With that, he turned and walked to the whiteboard against the wall. He picked up a marker hanging beside it, pondered for several seconds, then began writing on the board word by word.
[Ethylene-Propylene Copolymer, 3,4-polyisoprene, polysulfone cross-linked block copolymer CBGC and its chemically modified derivative CBGC-M...]
As they watched lines of organic compound names appear on the whiteboard, the researchers in the laboratory were completely baffled, unable to understand what he was trying to do.
Rather confused, Liu Bo moved closer to Qian Zhongming and asked in a low voice.