The scientists are immersed in the research objectives on a purpose-built test bench with a scanning probe microscope on the test bench. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is a miniature robotic arm with nanoscale precision accuracy, that is, even if the robotic arm is a large machine, as long as its end operator can complete the task of nanometer operation, this type of robotic arm can be called a "nano robotic arm".

The scanning probe microscope is a kind of nanomanipulator, and the scanning probe microscope can be divided into three types: "scanning tunneling microscope", "atomic force microscope" and "scanning near-field optical microscope".

One of the most famous application cases is that in 1990, IBM scientists used a scanning probe microscope for the first time to gradually move 35 xenon atoms adsorbed on the surface of nickel and arrange them into the word "IBM".

At this time, the scanning near-field optical microscope is used. Because the nano manipulator has already had a foundation in reality, although it is expensive and requires extremely high precision technology, but the hive itself is extremely advanced in the field of nanotechnology, and it is not difficult to order this kind of robotic arm, and the finished product in front of him is much more advanced than the world's most advanced nano manipulator, and the nanorobots that deal with the day of the earth's stagnation are not a problem at all.

Seeing that the scientists were still immersed in research, Zhang Heng walked directly to Louis, who commanded everyone to study, at this time, Louis also saw Zhang Heng, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to greet him, and immediately said with concern after shaking hands with Zhang Heng affectionately, "Mr. Zhang, is your body okay?" ”

"Don't worry, since I have the ability to bring back nanobots, it means that these things can't hurt me." Zhang Heng nodded, no matter where he is, the more capable a person is, the more he will be respected, at this time, Louis's importance in the hive is not inferior to Yan Ronghua, Luo Jincheng and other top scientists, and Louis is in a period of high-speed accumulation, and his future achievements are likely to be above the four top scientists, Zhang Heng treats this person kindly, and he will not put on the boss's shelf at all.

"That's good, I'm actually quite surprised." Louis then excitedly said, "You know what? We've just disassembled over 100 robots, only to find that the internal structure of this robot is extremely complex, even more complex than the T-800, which almost upends our perception of nanobots! ”

"In our cognition, nanorobots should not have too complex structures because they are extremely small, because the more complex the structure, the higher the cost of manufacturing, and nanorobots often need tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of quantities to complete a task, this kind of workload and capital consumption is almost impossible for us!"

"However, after a general analysis of the functions of the nanobot components you brought back, we found that the other party actually has the ability to replicate itself, and we realized that for the creator of this nanorobot, they only need to make a nanorobot, and the rest will soon be copied as the robot devours more and more materials, and the same nanorobot will soon be copied, so to speak, in addition to the material cost, the manufacturing cost of the new nanorobot can be described as zero!"

"It's amazing!" Louis couldn't help but admire, "It's not that we haven't thought about expanding the number of nanobots with the technology of robot self-replication, but there are two big limitations to this - first, if a nanobot wants to replicate a similar kind of person, it takes a lot of work, just like a human wants to design a bionic human that is indistinguishable from a human being, and it cannot be done without months or even years of effort." ”

"Then, there's the material." Luis continued, "There are strict requirements for the selection of materials for nanorobots. In fact, we have found artificial compounds on the parts of nanobots, their shells are made of inorganic metal materials, with a melting point of more than 3,000 degrees Celsius, which alone can make them completely immune to thousands of degrees of high temperatures, and the body is dozens of materials, and they have smelting modules, construction modules, and miniature solar modules that can convert light energy into power, and the technology contained in them has even completely exploded our electronic mosquitoes and flying sticks. ”

"But I remember that these nanobots have become so much by devouring tungsten gold, where did all that tungsten gold go?" Zhang Heng couldn't help frowning, this question has been confusing him, if this is just a movie, Zhang Heng can also say that this is a bug when making a movie, but what about when the movie becomes a reality?

"That's exactly what I'm about to emphasize." Louis also showed an incredible look of admiration, he smiled and couldn't help but play dumb riddles, "Do you know how artificial elements are born?" ”

"What do you mean......" Zhang Heng couldn't help but shrink his pupils and said in a low voice, "Change the number of protons in the nucleus?" ”

"That's right, this nanobot uses this method to transform all kinds of devoured matter into the substance it needs, and then build and assemble it, so that it can be split into two and two into four, thus devouring everything!"

Zhang Heng couldn't help but show a shocked look, although he also vaguely guessed this possibility, but when this possibility was verified, Zhang Heng was even more shocked - forcibly interfering with microscopic particles at the level of protons is already a god-like method, even Marie Curie, who was the first to use the functional method, is just using the method of 'atomic addition' to change one substance into another.

The so-called famous atomic addition method is that when the nucleus of polonium of element 84 splits, it will shoot out its "fragment" - helium nucleus at a very high speed. In the helium nucleus, there are 2 protons. So, they used this helium as a "shell" to "fire" at the metal aluminum plate. In the end, a miracle happened, and aluminum, a metal element, turned into phosphorus.

This method with too many limitations is inevitably a bit tricky, but in the last century, when science was extremely underdeveloped, this achievement even surpassed Zhang Heng's achievement of inventing T-1, and laid a solid foundation for human beings to complete the periodic table, so that later physicists invented the cyclotron under their inspiration, also known as the atomic cannon.

But in front of him, this kind of nanorobot has the ability to change the structure of matter at will, so that one element becomes another element, and the method is far simpler than atomic cannons and other methods, if this technology can be mastered by Zhang Heng, then Zhang Heng's potential will expand in an instant.

The so-called turning stones into gold pursued by the ancients is nothing more than that. (To be continued.) )