Dr. Qichao Hu

Yes, yes, yeah.

That's amazing.

That's amazing.

We've seen this technique being developed and deployed in life science a lot.

So in R&D, when you develop a new material, you have to go through lots of trials and errors.

Say you go through 100 times

that don't work, and then that 101st time works.

So that first 100 times, you can really use this process to accelerate.

And then that final trial, the last trial that actually gets you the breakthrough, that one, of course, you can still take the time, do the full testing, do all that.

But just the process before that can be much faster.

Yeah, almost no.

So just put things in context.

The materials that are used in batteries, a lot of times these are small molecules, small organic molecules.

Then in the universe, there's about 10 to the 60th, six zero possible small molecules.

And then since the 1990s, the last almost 40 years, the battery industry only screened about 10 to the 3rd.

different small molecules.

So we explored 10 to the third out of 10 to the 60th possibilities.

So we knew lithium metal was going to be the best because if you look at the periodic table, lithium metal is number three.

Then lithium is the lightest metal we have on the periodic table.

And then even lighter than that, you have helium and hydrogen.