After taking the advice, I became a top student.

The materials Deng Songyuan gave Chen Mo were not university chemistry textbooks, but rather papers written entirely in English, which Deng Songyuan had carefully selected from his collection of papers over the years.

From a basic overview of lithium-sulfur batteries to the synthesis methods of MOF materials, to the latest research on the adsorption mechanism of polysulfides, the book is quite extensive, totaling over a thousand pages.

Even though Chen Mo's English improved by leaps and bounds and he had a photographic memory, these materials still gave him a headache.

In English, once you switch to a different field, all the words and terms become completely new.

The more Chen Mo studied English, the more he felt that the English language was a pile of garbage code, and the more he appreciated the simplicity and elegance of Chinese.

Fortunately, he has a photographic memory.

The classroom was filled with the sounds of reading; some were reciting "Free and Easy Wandering," some were reciting English words, and some were quietly discussing what to eat for lunch in the cafeteria.

Chen Mo ignored him, his eyes fixed only on the dense English letters and chemical structural formulas.

During recess, students flocked out of the classroom to get some fresh air and chat.

Chen Mo changed his posture, resting his chin on his left hand while continuing to write and draw on the paper with his right hand.

When Shen Qingyi returned from outside, she saw that he was still in that position, with more than a dozen pages of documents already turned in front of him.

She didn't say anything, quietly placed a bottle of milk on Chen Mo's desk, then sat back down in her seat and opened the math competition problem set. She had now joined the math competition team and was preparing for next year's math competition.

During evening self-study, the fluorescent lights in the classroom hummed.

Chen Mo has already seen the literature on the composite of conductive carbon materials and MOF.

This section involves a large amount of electrochemical characterization data, including cyclic voltammetry curves, AC impedance spectroscopy, and constant current charge-discharge curves.

Instead of skipping the charts, he annotated each one with his own interpretation: this peak corresponds to the reduction from S₈ to Li₂S₄, that semicircle represents charge transfer resistance, and the capacity decay may be due to the loss of active material rather than structural collapse.

His draft paper began to show some fragmented calculations: multiplying the gram capacity by the sulfur loading to estimate the theoretical energy density, dividing the pore volume by the sulfur density to estimate the sulfur filling rate, and multiplying the current density by the time to calculate the capacity retention rate.

He listed these numbers in a table, compared them with the data in the literature, and then circled several parameters that he felt could be optimized in red.

At 9 PM, Chen Mo started his live stream as usual.

Wait, are we done with math and physics? Are we starting chemistry now?

[The person upstairs is amazing! I can't even understand this as chemistry. If you hadn't told me, I would have thought it was an English reading passage.]

This is a chemistry paper!

[Holy crap, has the streamer already started reading academic papers?]

[Chen Shen has been discussing lithium-sulfur batteries with his chemistry teacher lately, and he's been researching them non-stop for the past few days, almost to the point of obsession.]

[Um, I don't mean to look down on streamers, it's just that scientific research isn't that simple. The problem of lithium-sulfur batteries has plagued the chemistry community for decades. If a high school student were to solve it, wouldn't the big names in the field of chemistry lose face?]

However, I feel this ratio might not be optimal. Too many grafts occupy pore volume, hindering sulfur loading; too few grafts result in insufficient adsorption sites. Is there a way to calculate the optimal grafting density?

Deng Songyuan fell silent.

He didn't know the answer to that question either.

"You can ask Professor Jiang when you see him later."

Deng Songyuan coughed lightly and offered his advice to Chen Mo.

The building of the School of Materials Science and Engineering is very new. The security guard at the entrance of the laboratory building checked Deng Songyuan's ID and only let the two of them go upstairs after Professor Jiang came downstairs to pick them up.

Professor Jiang was a plump man in his fifties with gray hair, and his smile resembled that of Maitreya Buddha.

Upon seeing Deng Songyuan, he burst into laughter: "Old Deng, it's been so long! What, decided to make a comeback?"

Deng Songyuan shook his head. "My student has a very good idea, and I wanted to bring him here to test it out."

"Welcome back, in any case."

Professor Jiang said happily.

He certainly didn't believe that Deng Songyuan had really only brought a student to do an experiment.

What kind of experiments can a student do?

The high school's chemistry lab is perfectly adequate; there's no need to travel all the way here.