Chapter 390 Research on New Materials
Perficott spent a little time to achieve mass production of carbon fiber and carbon 60 in his laboratory.
After all, she chose to use carbon as the base, and there is also a correlation between carbon 60 and carbon fiber in terms of technical iteration and research.
To put it more simply, as long as the carbon 60 is arranged in a line, a line that is long enough to act as a fiber can be called carbon fiber.
Of course, this is not the case with carbon fiber in practical applications, but it does not prevent carbon 60 from really being made into carbon fiber, but generally speaking people call it carbon nanotubes.
The use of carbon nanotubes to make carbon fibers is also a cutting-edge topic in materials science in the original world. Although some results have been achieved, it has not yet reached the stage of technological maturity.
So in this "little time" of Purficott, he used fantasy alchemy to equalize the technological generation gap of at least two hundred years between this world and the original world.
But for Purficott, this research result is meaningless, because it does not enable her to open the Jade Record.
These are just two new materials, not a new technology that can be widely used.
Just like Purficott's steam core was useless, she had to install the steam core into the steam knight armor.
Carbon 60 is indeed very powerful, but unless Purficott uses it to make carbon nanotube fibers and then uses it to create ultra-light steam knight armor, otherwise this will be considered "" in Jade Record's evaluation criteria. useless".
Perficott certainly knows this, so her subsequent research direction is to metallize the carbon 60 and carbon fiber that have been obtained without changing any material structure and properties.
This is simply not feasible in the original world, because it completely goes against science.
If Perficott said this in the original world, she would only be regarded as a fool or a liar.
But in this world, because of the existence of alchemy, all this has become possible.
Especially in the hands of Purficott, the master of alchemy who mastered the Alchemy of Fantasy and the Philosopher's Stone, it is not difficult to do this.
The only problem was that Purficott was unhappy with simply metalizing the carbon fiber.
Although the performance of carbon fiber is slightly reduced after metallization, and once it reaches the melting point of the metal, it will melt into a puddle and lose all its special properties, but it is still a good material.
Just using fiber as a material to build the Steam Knight Armor is equivalent to using these metal carbon fibers to weave and process them, and then you can get the material shape you want.
This is actually the main way people used carbon fiber in the original world. After all, if you want to make reasonable use of fiber, weaving is a good choice.
But this is too inconvenient for Purficott.
After all, you can’t possibly do the same to a floating city, right? How big of a loom is needed? You can't say that you use small pieces of material to splice it, right?
You must know that the floating city is a city. I have never heard of a city made of small pieces of cloth.
And even if this is feasible, the mass of a city is amazing. Even if it is all made of this ultra-light metal carbon fiber, its weight will reach an astonishing weight. This is even for carbon fiber In itself, it will be a huge burden.
A little carelessness may cause the entire floating city structure to collapse.
It is precisely because of this that Purficott hopes to obtain a metal material that can be flattened and rounded at will, rather than a limited material that can only exist in the form of "fiber".
At this point, Purficott's research progress was slightly stuck. Although her strength and research ability are not weak, and she has the blessing of artifacts such as Jade Record and the Philosopher's Stone in hand, this research problem is indeed not a problem for her.
But Purficott did encounter some problems in her research, which stalled her research progress until they were solved.
The biggest problem why this situation occurs is the molecular structure of carbon 60.
As mentioned before, the molecular structure of carbon 60 is a ball composed of 60 carbon atoms, which determines that its structure is stable and also determines that this material can easily produce new compounds after being combined with other elements.
This is no big deal to Carbon 60 in the original world. After all, it is just a new material in the laboratory. Just study it slowly and find ways to use it.
But for Purficott’s new material, this is a bit fatal.
She is going to use this new material to make the Steam Knight Armor and the Floating City. The material is not stable enough and will produce new compounds, which is fatal to the Steam Knight Armor and the Floating City.
After all, no one can guarantee that the new materials used to build the main axis or important support columns of the floating city will not cause the structure of the floating city to collapse due to reactions with other elements to produce new compounds.
So during the period when Purficott was stuck in research progress, he had been trying to solve this problem.
First of all, the easiest way is of course to start with the structure of carbon 60, either breaking the original carbon 60 molecular structure, or using it to create materials with a new structure.
The former means that Perficott needs to overthrow all existing research progress and start over, which will undoubtedly cause huge losses.
Perfect would not do this unless it was absolutely necessary.
And the latter? Isn’t that how carbon fiber is made?
Arrange countless carbon 60 footballs in a linear line, and then use their easy-to-combine characteristics to combine all the carbon 60 with each other to finally form a stable line. This is carbon fiber.
So after going around and around, we are back to the starting point.
This is obviously not what Purficott wants.
And when Purficott encountered research problems, good news came from the Witch Workshop.
Under the leadership of Weier, the Witch Workshop has successfully completed the fractionation of petroleum and successfully obtained the first synthetic fiber.
Although this synthetic fiber material has only been produced in the laboratory so far, the progress is extremely gratifying compared to the previous results that have not been satisfactory to neighbors.
This made Purficott feel very happy, but also had an urge to compare.
After all, she has always been the strongest and best alchemist in the empire. Even though she was not recognized before she became famous, since she became the Earl of the North, especially when she was destroyed with thermobaric bombs, After becoming the capital of three countries, this name basically disappeared.
Under such circumstances, Purficott naturally had no opponent, or an opponent who could make her feel comparable to herself.
But now the appearance of Weier, the former legendary alchemist, gave Purficott the feeling of meeting an opponent, which made her want to compete with Weier.
(End of this chapter)