Chapter 190 Superconducting Materials at Room Temperature
As Zhou Yu walked to the superconductivity laboratory, he recalled the content of superconductivity technology in his mind.
The DC resistivity of a conductor suddenly disappears under certain conditions, and the conductor that reaches this state is called a superconducting state, and the moment when it does not enter the superconducting state is called the ground state.
Without the resistance of the conductor, there is no heat loss when the current flows through the superconductor.
If there is no resistance in the conductor, no voltage will be generated, and the superconducting current in the superconductor has a zero-voltage characteristic.
The current inside the superconductor can form a strong current in the wire without resistance, resulting in a super-strong magnetic field.
When the conductor is in a superconducting state, the magnetic induction intensity in the superconductor is zero, which will squeeze out the magnetic field that originally existed in the body.
The determination of superconductors is confirmed by two phenomena: zero resistance effect and zero magnetic induction intensity.
If both of these phenomena occur in a conductor, it can be confirmed that it is a superconductor.
Zhou Yu continued to recall the principle of superconductor generation.
In superconducting metals, electrons are attracted to each other by lattice waves to form electron pairs.
Numerous electron pairs overlap each other and often interchange objects to form a whole, and the flow of electron pairs as a whole produces a superconducting current.
Since a certain amount of energy is required to disassemble the electron pairs, there is an energy difference between the ground state and the superconducting state in a superconductor, that is, the energy gap.
Different materials have different energy gaps, and the conditions under which they form superconductors are also different.
Now that it has been discovered that the only material used to form superconductors is metal, people can only try to find high-temperature superconductors by making different alloys.
Ma Shangshu and Feng Yunde's approach is to discover new kinds of materials that can produce superconductivity and test the conditions for its superconductivity state.
Zhou Yu walked into the superconductivity laboratory and saw that the people here were busy, he did not interfere with the work of the scientific researchers, and walked in the direction of the most people.
He noticed that the men were surrounding several blue-green plates, some with silver-white metal balls suspended above them, and some with silver-white metal balls inside.
The plate is covered with a glass cover that shows the temperature inside the plate.
Zhou Yu immediately understood that this plate was made of superconducting materials, and the superconducting materials entered a superconducting state, and the electromagnetic induction intensity was zero, resulting in the phenomenon of repulsion of magnetic inductance lines.
The magnetic metal sphere is directly repelled by a plate made of superconducting material, which is suspended above it.
The temperature at which the plate is located is the temperature required for the superconducting state of this superconducting material.
Zhou Yu stared at the temperature of the metal ball hovering plate above.
As long as the temperature is below 55 degrees Celsius, there are small metal balls suspended above it.
When Zhou Yu saw this, he immediately understood that Ma Shangshu had successfully researched superconducting materials at room temperature.
The upper limit of the minimum temperature of this room-temperature superconducting material is so high that it reaches a frightening minus 55 degrees Celsius.
This is truly a superconducting material at room temperature.
Ma Shangshu and Feng Yunde walked over, and they immediately found Zhou Yu in the crowd.
Zhou Yu saw them coming, smiled, and said happily: "Congratulations on your successful development of room temperature superconducting materials, the neutrino communication base station is in big trouble, but fortunately, your project is successful, and their problems are solved."
Ma Shangshu said modestly: "I didn't do anything at all with the discovery of room temperature superconducting materials, but only tested the superconducting properties of this material."
Feng Yunde also grinned and said: "This material is just one of the silicon-based polymeric materials I developed, if it wasn't for Ma Shangshu's discovery that it has superconducting properties, it would probably be buried in our laboratory."
"Don't be humble both of you, you have a lot of credit." Zhou Yu smiled.
"What about the physics of this superconducting material, and can it be used to make wires? Its production process is not complicated, and what is the output. ”
Zhou Yu asked with concern that this superconducting material can be used in industry, it must meet the corresponding standards, the output of this superconducting material cannot be too low, and the production process cannot be too troublesome.
Feng Yunde took a plate from the booth, put it in his hand to display, and introduced: "This superconducting material is a silicon-based polymer, and I imitate the principle of organic material generation and replace carbon chains with silicon chains.
In my lab, I made 'silene', the basic raw material of the silicon chain, which is very similar in structure to ethylene, but with silicon atoms instead of carbon atoms.
With silicene as a material, I have made a lot of silicon-based polymeric materials.
This superconducting material is to replace the hydrogen atom on the third silicon atom of butasilene with a divalent iron atom.
By using this butadiene isoferronickel as raw material, the polymerization reaction is carried out, and the polybutasilene isoferronickel produced is this superconducting material.
I named this superconducting material ferrosilicon.
Its reaction conditions are not difficult, and the equipment used for the polymerization reaction of organic materials is also used, but the catalyst and reaction conditions are different. ”
"The R&D process of ferrosilicon is quite complex, and this silicon-based organic material should be the focus of the materials laboratory in the future.
The treasure mine of organic materials has not been dug up until now, and you have opened up a new category of materials, so you must not waste this opportunity. Zhou Yu said happily.
The materials laboratory led by Feng Yunde is pioneering a new type of material, and its potential is in no way inferior to that of organic materials and nanomaterials.
"Mr. Zhou, every scientist in our Materials Research Institute can see the potential of silicon-based polymeric materials." Feng Yunde said confidently.
Ma Shangshu interjected on the side: "The topic has gone crooked, or let me introduce the physical characteristics of ferrogreen silicon."
After Ma Shangshu's introduction, Zhou Yu understood some of the characteristics of ferrogreen silicon.
Ferro-green silicon has good toughness, but its hardness is not high, it is about the same as the hardness of metallic silver.
But ferrosilicon chloride has good chemical properties and is also very light in weight.
As a conductor, ferro-green silicon can be mixed with other organic materials to be braided into a cable for long-distance power transmission.
Zhou Yu learned that ferro-green silicon could be used to make cables, and he instructed Feng Yunde: "You make a batch of ferro-green silicon-to-hand it over to the neutrino communication laboratory, and let Zhao Zhao use ferro-green silicon-green to improve the neutrino communication base station."
Feng Yunde waved his hand and said, "The production of such a simple material does not require the equipment in our laboratory at all.
In addition, the output of equipment in the laboratory is very low, and it takes several months to produce a 100-kilometer length of green ferrosilicon.
Its preparation process is really not difficult, and it can allow Xinghuo Materials Company to make green ferrosilicon.
We have registered a patent for this material in Huaxia, and we are not afraid of its leakage. ”
After Feng Yunde finished speaking, he patted his ass and said: "Mr. Zhou still had the foresight to set up a science and technology research and development center in Xiong'an New Area.
Many technology companies have applied artificial intelligence Mozi, and products have emerged in an endless stream, and the speed of patent applications has made people complain.
The slow work of the National Patent Office will change the work style and use artificial intelligence technology to improve the patent approval time. ”
"It's not my credit, it's the social changes that affect the government." Zhou Yu said modestly.
After learning about the situation of ferrosilicon, he immediately notified Gou Fugui, general manager of Xinghuo Materials Company, and asked him to contact Feng Yunde, director of the Materials Research Institute.
Began large-scale production of ferro-green silicon, a superconducting material that can make cables, is not only used in neutrino communication base stations, but also in the Huaxia backbone power grid. 8)