Chapter 60: An Unopened Treasure
"It's kind of interesting!"
In the library, Pang Xuelin was flipping through the materials related to the flying blade materials.
After the two technologies of flying blade material and graphene aerogel metamaterial were extracted, the technical principle and process flow of these two technologies were also given by the system.
Among them, there are more than 30 papers related to flying blade materials and more than 10 papers related to graphene aerogel metamaterials.
Pang Xuelin once tried to interpret this paper, but the result was naturally confused.
So he had to put all these papers on the shelf, originally thinking that when his father came back, he would discuss with him how to use the papers at hand to make a profit, but he didn't expect to use them in this world first.
It took nearly a week for Pang Xuelin to first read through the paper on the flying blade material, and if he encountered something he didn't understand, he would write it down, either check the information himself to solve it, or ask the teacher of Jiang University.
Unfortunately, the world does not seem to have made much progress in carbon nanotube materials, and many concepts are not well understood even by the teachers of Jiang University.
But even so, Pang Xuelin still barely understood the core technology of flying blade materials.
Prior to this, Pang Xuelin had always been a little unimpressed with flying blade materials and carbon nanotube technology, feeling that although this material had a certain value, it was only very useful in a specific range.
After all, in the three-body world, the flying blade material has always only shown the properties of high strength, and other aspects have not been elaborated too much.
It wasn't until he had a certain foundation in materials science and read the paper that Pang Xuelin realized how unnatural this technology was.
The carbon nanotubes in the flying blade material are actually single-walled carbon nanotubes, and the geometry can be thought of as being coiled from a single layer of graphene.
Carbon nanotubes can be divided into single-walled carbon nanotubes, and multi-walled carbon nanotubes.
Multi-walled carbon nanotubes can be understood as single-walled carbon nanotubes of different diameters, and the distance between the layers is about 0.34 nanometers.
The diameter of single-walled carbon nanotubes is very small, generally between 1-2 nanometers (larger diameter single-walled tubes cannot be very stable), so that their specific surface energy is very high, and most of the time they exist in bundles.
Compared with single-walled carbon nanotubes, multi-walled tubes can easily become trap centers and trap various defects when they begin to form, so the walls of multi-walled tubes are usually filled with small hole-like defects.
Therefore, the flying edge material is made up of thousands of single-walled carbon nanotube materials interwoven to form carbon nanotube fibers, which have extremely high strength.
But what is really powerful is not the strength of this carbon nanotube, but its high purity.
It is important to know that at present, human beings can only use methane catalyzed by cobalt catalyst to produce carbon nanotubes.
The purity of carbon nanotubes prepared in this way is not high, and most of them are multi-walled carbon nanotubes.
Single-walled carbon nanotubes can only be prepared in small quantities in the laboratory, but even in the highest-level laboratory, the purity of single-walled carbon nanotubes can only reach about 95%, and there is no way to commercialize, let alone large-scale industrialization.
In the three-body world, Wang Miao's team can use the black box reaction to produce single-walled carbon nanotubes with a purity of up to 99.99999%, which can not only be used to make flying edge materials, but also can be used to manufacture carbon nanotube CMOS devices (complementary metal oxide semiconductors and processes, basic units of integrated circuits).
Carbon nanotubes have unique mechanical, optical and electrical properties, especially their high mobility, flexibility, permeability and biocompatibility, compared with silicon materials and other nanomaterials, they have unique advantages, which can meet the future needs of the information industry for high performance, low power consumption and various functions, and are of great significance to the entire integrated circuit industry chain.
Because of the solar crisis, the Wandering Earth did not invest resources in the research and development of carbon-based chips when silicon-based materials were close to the limit, so over the years, human computer technology as a whole has not made much progress.
This can actually be seen in the movie.
Of course, among the Navigator space stations built by scientists from all over the world, the artificial intelligence MOSS, which is responsible for managing the space station, is an exception.
High-purity single-walled carbon nanotubes can solve the most critical problem in the research and development of carbon-based chips.
Moreover, the application of high-purity single-walled carbon nanotubes is not limited to this, and non-volatile random-access memories based on high-purity carbon nanotubes are an order of magnitude higher than ordinary memories in terms of storage capacity, read speed (1000 times that of ordinary flash memory), power consumption, reliability, and durability.
In the field of energy storage, single-walled carbon nanotube material is also a special conductive additive, which can form a conductive network at a lower concentration, so adding it to the battery can improve the active material in the battery, which can increase the energy density of the battery by 50% to 60%.
In addition, carbon nanotubes have a wide range of uses in medical, biosensors, nanorobots, conductive plastics, electromagnetic interference shielding, stealth materials, aerospace new materials and other fields.
"This thing is an anti-heaven artifact!"
Pang Xuelin's eyes lit up, and he was still thinking about whether these two technologies could get the attention of the coalition government after they were developed.
Now, he doesn't worry about it at all.
The mere function of increasing the density of battery energy storage is enough to attract the attention of the coalition government.
Not to mention the great significance of this high-purity carbon nanotube for the integrated circuit industry.
As long as he gets this material out by himself, then he will get some crucial powers, at least let his relatives enter the dungeon in advance, and there will be no problem in having a better living environment in the future.
But then, Pang Xuelin had a headache.
There is a principle, there is a technology, there is a process, there is a perfect executable plan!
But he didn't have a team under him, no lab at his disposal.
During this period of time at Jiang University, Pang Xuelin has found that the main research directions of the School of Materials and Engineering of Jiang University are mainly in the fields of silicon materials, high-temperature resistant alloys, metal materials, inorganic non-metallic materials, etc., and there is no strong force in the field of carbon-based materials.
And even if there is, Pang Xuelin will not be able to get the dominance of a laboratory.
It's a troublesome question.
If he doesn't make the real thing, who believes that he has the ability to make high-purity single-walled carbon nanotubes.
For him now, these papers are equivalent to a great treasure that cannot be opened.
"It seems that I can only ask my grandfather for help!"
Pang Xuelin rubbed his temples and said with a headache.