"Hey, it's just the boron-based chips we're playing with. This is very exciting? The group has not even said anything about the technology, and then the global protests have begun? Do they want to make the group not public in this way? Where in the world is there such a good thing? And I'm afraid no one will know that although boron-based chips have not yet started production, they are only transitional products in our case. Our real core is the photonic chip that has been researched and matured. Qi Ruixiang looked at the protest news from all over the world on the terminal and sneered to himself.

Qi Ruixiang was originally not interested in outside news. The reason why he was busy browsing it today was simply because he wanted to see the reaction of his work after it was displayed.

"Yes. Our photonic chip uses titanium boride as the core light-emitting material, which is very stable in operation and the calculation results are also very reliable, which is far from the titanium phosphide used in the research of external photonic chips. Hey, Lao Qi, you said that boron, which was originally not very useful in the earth science community, how did it come up with such tricks in the hands of those scientists at the headquarters of our Star Group? You see, this boron element can not only be used as the ultimate substrate at the level of electronic chips alone, but also as the main material for photonic chips used in quantum computers. In addition, I have also heard that titanium boride is also ...... than titanium phosphide in the excitation of high-energy lasers," said a middle-aged man with a scruffy beard sitting next to Qi Ruixiang.

Zhao Kewei, a middle-aged man, is a Chinese scientist who focuses on the research and development of quantum computer hardware and software.

Zhao Kewei and Qi Ruixiang's personalities are generally similar, and they are only obsessed with scientific research. He also passed Xiao Qian's inspection and was selected by Chen Yue into the 'True Dragon Project'.

Jasper City's photonic chip program has been successful. Zhao Kewei came to Qi Ruixiang's laboratory this time to verify the final parameters of titanium boride with Qi Ruixiang.

Qi Ruixiang suddenly raised his hand and stopped Zhao Kewei from continuing.

"Lao Zhao, although you and I are both members of the 'True Dragon Project', logically speaking, we can talk about all the scientific research projects involved in the True Dragon Project. But these projects are all shocking projects, and the leakage of any one of them will make the Star Group extremely passive. For things that have nothing to do with our own projects, we still try to do our best not to talk about them, and just do our own thing. Qi Ruixiang said to Zhao Kewei very seriously.

'Cough, cough ......', Zhao Kewei was choked by Qi Ruixiang's unkind words and coughed again and again.

But Qi Ruixiang's words were very reasonable, and Zhao Kewei couldn't find a reason to refute them at all.

"Lao Qi, you have a point. So, the parameters of titanium boride are fixed like this. I'll go back to my stall. Zhao Kewei smiled and got up to leave Qi Ruixiang's laboratory.

Qi Ruixiang looked at Zhao Kewei's back, shook his head slightly, and then left this matter behind. He knew that Lao Zhao had no bad intentions, but as a scientific and technological worker, he was full of curiosity about all unknown things. However, every project here in Qi Ruixiang occupies an extremely important position in the True Dragon Project, and its significance is also extremely significant, and it is really not suitable for more people to know. Even if the other party is also a person in the True Dragon Project, it can't be.

Because all he is doing here is material research.

In modern society, materials are the foundation of modern society.

Just imagine, if there is no special alloy with sufficient strength, where can the deck of an aircraft carrier bear the impact of tens of tons or hundreds of tons of momentum when a fighter plane takes off and lands without deformation? If there is no sufficiently advanced stealth coating, how can a stealth fighter be invisible? If there is no fuel with sufficient energy density, how can a fighter fly at supersonic speed, and how can a missile rocket cross such a long distance?

In Jasper City, materials are still the foundation of the foundations. And Qi Ruixiang, who is good at material research, is an indispensable figure in Chen Yue's eyes in the True Dragon Project.

Qi Ruixiang deserves the nickname of 'material genius'. Less than half a year after joining the True Dragon Program, he made several basic materials handed over to him by the company.

Under the guidance of the company's guiding materials, Qi Ruixiang found in the research and development process that among all the basic materials, boron, which was not valued by the earth science community, shines here, and can even be said to be indispensable.

Among the major basic needs, in addition to the heavy metal elements on the periodic table as the main material for the shell of the manufacture of large-scale war weapons, boron is the main material in both energy and communications.

Not to mention simple boron-based chips, boron can also polymerize with other elements to form another substance that has a significant effect.

Take titanium boride as an example, titanium boride is formed by special modulation of one of the 15 crystal states of boron and then polymerization with titanium under specific conditions.

The finished titanium boride can not only be used as the only material for photonic chips to generate and emit light quanta, but also, as Zhao Kewei said, can indeed be used for the excitation of high-energy lasers.

Among all laser materials, the performance of titanium boride far exceeds that of other similar products, and it is far ahead in terms of cost performance.

When Qi Ruixiang saw the relevant parameters of titanium boride in laser, he immediately understood in his heart that as long as titanium boride was available, it had become a reality that a practical directional high-energy weapon could be put into use.

Since it only focuses on material research and does not involve weapons research, Qi Ruixiang does not know whether the company has used the achievement of titanium boride in the manufacture of high-energy weapons. But he didn't have to guess, he could casually know that it was inevitable that the company would use it in the manufacture of weapons. It's just that he doesn't know where the company makes it.

Regarding boron products, lithium boride is also more important.

To be honest, when Qi Ruixiang finally studied lithium boride according to the guiding data and got all the parameters of lithium boride, he was also stunned.

Lithium boride has no other role than one only role - energy storage. At first glance, lithium boride can be used for energy storage and seems to be used as a battery material. In fact, it is indeed a 'battery' material. It's just that the 'battery' made of lithium boride can store an unimaginable amount of electricity.

According to the scientific research data given by the company, Qi Ruixiang made a strip-shaped thing with lithium boride. After equipping this thing with the relevant accessories, it was recharged.

Of course, he is charged with electricity.

After tens of thousands of kilowatt-hours of electricity were charged, Qi Ruixiang saw a display on the energy meter, indicating that there was a trace of energy in the bar.

Qi Ruixiang just realized what kind of monster he had created. This little block, it can't be called a 'battery' at all, it should be called an 'energy block'.

Yes, it's the kind of energy block in science fiction that can drive a huge spaceship with just one box or one box, or even just a small piece!

And to charge this energy block, I am afraid that it is not possible to use a super-large hydropower station or thermal power station to serve it. At the very least, it has to be a nuclear power plant. This is Qi Ruixiang's initial view in his heart.

Little did he know, however, that he was only half right.

This thing is indeed an energy block. It's just that in the universe, this is only the most elementary energy block.

Despite being the most rudimentary in the universe, it could only exist in science fiction before Earth. To recharge it quickly, it really can only be a nuclear power plant. But ordinary nuclear fission power stations are very reluctant to charge it. The only thing that can charge it normally is a nuclear fusion power station.

And the fusion power station still exists only on Chen Yue's future blueprint. Deuterium, the main fuel for fusion power plants, is also being collected.

After the energy block was made, the company didn't tell Qi Ruixiang anything, but just asked Qi Ruixiang to continue to make this kind of thing every day and try to make it as small as possible.

Because it is not easy to manufacture, Qi Ruixiang has only made less than twenty pieces now.

In addition to lithium boride, an important material related to boron is a non-metallic polymer called carbon boride.

Carbon boride is more than 1,000 times harder and stronger than steel, and can be mixed with some of the heavy metals at the back of the periodic table to create the strongest weapon shells.

Of course, it is said to be the most robust, but in fact, it is just enough to meet the minimum requirements of astronautics.

All the strange materials presented through Qi Ruixiang's hands all illustrate a fact: the Star Group is not on the earth, but in the vast universe!

After Qi Ruixiang had such an understanding, he was full of expectations for this. As a pure scientist, he also hopes that he can enter the universe and discover more unknown things.

So he automatically and consciously wanted to keep all the secrets for the company, and refused to talk to Zhao Kewei about anything other than photonic chips.