Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 112 Graphene Superconducting Materials

"Old Zhao, you've been in a bit of a mood lately, if you have anything to say, I'll help you refer to it!"

Zhao Wei's mood did not improve with the passage of time, Zhong Cheng had to face this problem.

"Ugh!"

Zhao Wei sighed, lowered his head dejectedly, he couldn't pretend in front of Zhong Cheng anymore.

Zhong Cheng didn't speak, and after a while, Zhao Wei said painfully: "It's been so many years, I finally found someone who looks up to me, and others like me."

"But her family hates this, hates that, hates me for not being good-looking, I don't want to talk about my marriage history, and they say that our income from military industry is not as good as setting up a cigarette stand. I am so aggrieved. !"

Although Zhong Cheng was angry, he still comforted him: "Old Zhao, don't think so much, as long as Li Mei agrees, you will get married on the company's side, no matter what her family thinks, and then you can work with them slowly. thought work."

"But Li Mei really cares about what her family thinks!"

Zhao Wei said helplessly: "She is the only daughter in the family, and her parents are against our matter, she is in great pain!"

"This?!" Zhong Cheng lost his grasp, "Then what should we do?"

"Zhong Cheng, don't worry. I'm in a much better mood after telling you this. Let's take a look again. I will pay attention not to let my emotions affect my work."

Zhao Wei patted Zhong Cheng on the shoulder to reassure Zhong Cheng.

Zhong Cheng thought, can I rest assured?

But how to solve this kind of thing?
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In 2014, America's GDP ranked first in the world with a GDP of US$15 trillion, China's GDP ranked second in the world at US$12 trillion, and the third-ranked Orient's GDP was less than US$4 trillion.

The rapid development of China's economy is rapidly narrowing the gap with the United States, and accelerating the expansion of the distance with the countries behind. It has been a few years since China's economic aggregate has surpassed that of the United States.

There is not much time left for Zhong Cheng and his researchers on the military industry front, and China's national defense technology level must be improved as soon as possible.

Three days later, Zhong Cheng and Liu Yuzhu returned to the power battery factory of the Red Star Electric Car Company.

I haven't been here for more than half a year. The first phase of the power battery factory has reached the scheduled target of annual output of 500 million sets of power batteries. The second phase of the project has been completed and the equipment is being debugged for trial production.

The staff of the power battery factory has also expanded from the original 100 people to nearly [-] people. The people come from some related units of the national defense and military industry front, and the age structure is very young.

The leadership team of the power battery factory headed by Zheng Yilun and Chen Qiang warmly welcomed Zhong Cheng back.

Zheng Yilun said that they have received a notice from the group company and will fully support Zhong Cheng's research and development project.

Chen Qiang joked that Zhong Cheng was welcome to come to the power battery factory to do R&D work without the company's notice, but he had to bring his people along and learn from them.

Then Zheng Yilun said that due to the slowdown in the sales surge of China's electric cars, the second phase of the expansion project of the power battery factory will be postponed.

If Zhong Cheng's research and development results are to be mass-produced, the plant and equipment of the second phase project can just be used, which will save a lot of trouble.

The "ambition" of the second phase of the project is three times that of the first phase of the project, taking into account the development needs of the next decade or so. Although the equipment is only prepared for a complete line of equipment, the factory building is ready-made up.

Zhong Cheng was moved. If the Donghai project starts, can't it just borrow the second phase of the power battery factory?

The Jingwei UAV itself is not big, and its output is limited. The level of confidentiality is similar to that of Kuafu's power battery, which is just right.

And because the expansion is postponed, there will be a surplus of reserve personnel in the power battery factory, which can be directly transferred to the drone production factory, and the staff can be saved.

But Zhong Cheng didn't say it directly. He and Zheng Yilun couldn't decide this kind of thing. Even Red Star Company couldn't make a decision. They would bring it up together when the project team submitted the "Donghai Project Plan".

3 month 20 day.

Zhong Cheng and Liu Yuzhu officially took root in the power battery factory laboratory and started the research and development of pure graphene superconducting materials.

In order to simplify the name and keep confidential, Zhong Cheng, at the unanimous request of everyone, chose a name for the pure graphene superconducting material: Xiyang material.

This name corresponds to Chaos Alloy, which is one of the main constituent materials of the Jingwei UAV.

The name of Xiyang comes from ancient Chinese legends.

"Xi" means growth, and the soil refers to the soil that can grow and expand by itself. In ancient times, when a great flood flooded the sky, Dayu's father, Gun, stole the soil from Emperor Yao and used it to block the flood.

Since there is already a complete soil material manufacturing process provided by the system, and the source of the original calcium intercalation graphene material manufacturing process is the same, the manufacturing process is very similar.

Zhong Cheng only added a small amount of test equipment to conduct tests on the production of soil materials.

It's still an old problem. The production process of the soil material provided by the system is based on the environmental conditions of the 9527 parent star.

Therefore, Zhong Cheng can't use it directly like he used the calcium intercalation graphene material to make the process at the beginning. He can't make this mistake a second time.

He must sum up the production process suitable for Blue Star's environmental conditions in advance before mass production, so as to reduce the difficulty of production and reduce the production cost.

He and Liu Yuzhu started the boring experiment process again, which was actually a trial and error process, and he hoped this would be the last time.

As long as the photonic computer is developed and its performance reaches his expected goal, these boring experiments can be simulated in the photonic computer, regardless of the speed, at least no one needs to follow it all the way.

They can wait for the test results while doing other work, and the savings in test costs are considerable.

However, such a supercomputer composed of photonic computer technology has a computing speed that is at least 100 times that of the current supercomputer to be meaningful.

Otherwise, it will take years or decades to wait for a test result, so it is better to conduct manual tests directly.

The soil material is a perfect version of the calcium intercalation graphene material, which has real superconducting properties, and the latter is only a transitional material. Using the large mass of calcium atoms as the cornerstone of the material not only simplifies the production process conditions, but also reduces the production cost. significantly reduced.

Zhong Cheng estimated during the experiment that the production cost of the soil material is more than 10 times that of the calcium-intercalated graphene material. If the cost reduction brought about by the mass production of the latter is considered, it should be about 12 times.

Therefore, soil materials cannot replace the latter to enter the civilian market in the short term, and can only be used in military or scientific research fields where cost is not considered.

However, the performance of soil materials is incomparable to the latter. Leaving aside the magical properties of superconducting materials, even the environmental conditions for use have dropped significantly.

From minus 80 degrees Celsius and 150 times the standard atmospheric pressure of the calcium intercalated graphene material, the environmental conditions drop to minus 30 degrees Celsius and 50 times the standard atmospheric pressure.

Although it has not yet met the requirements of room temperature superconductors, it is already close to the highest level of superconducting technology and can be mass-produced.

(End of this chapter)