Chapter 552 Future Chemistry
The evening breeze is gentle, and the lakeside cafeteria is surrounded by bright yellow street lights, and the willow branches sway slightly on the shore.
A jade plate hangs on the lake water. Many students from the astronomy department set up astronomical telescopes on the shore and look at the jade platform from afar.
At this time, the golden mirror was round, and there were no Qing'e and Xuantu in Guanghan Palace. However, the wonderful idea of the ancients to run to the moon became the spirit of the current people to land on the moon.
The bright moonlight shines on the lake surface, and complements the lights on the lakeside streets.
Xie Qing and Cheng Cunwu held the dining plate and sat in a small pavilion, enjoying the moonlights of the street lights of Bell Lake while enjoying the delicious food on the dining plate.
Looking at the students in the Astronomy Department and watching the moon, Cheng Cunwu took a sip of red bean soup and said with a smile: "Aqing, do you think this ordinary astronomical telescope can see the Guanghan Palace base in Yuhaihong Bay?"
"It should be impossible. There are only 5 cabins in Guanghan Palace base. Although it will be expanded to 7 cabins in the future, the volume is not too large. Professional high-precision astronomical telescopes may be able to see blurred outlines."
Cheng Cunwu sighed longingly: "Maybe our generation will witness the emergence of the moon-faced city."
"It's early!" Xie Qing wiped his mouth and explained with a smile: "The supply of the moon base is a big problem unless industrialization technology is solved in the lunar environment."
Cheng Cunwu nodded helplessly. Both of them studied materials and naturally understood the problems.
Although humans have achieved industrialization within Blue Star, the industrial technology within Blue Star is impossible to copy on the moon.
The different gravity of the planet alone is enough to cause huge differences, not to mention the problem of heat dissipation in a sub-vacuum environment, and the lack of some minerals on the moon itself.
Especially the triacid and dibases needed in chemical reactions, as well as water, polymer organic matter, and these raw materials are either lacking raw materials on the moon or needing readjustment of synthesis technology.
Overall, although it is not started from scratch to achieve large-scale industrialization on the moon, it is absolutely very difficult, no less difficult than establishing the first industrial system in China back then.
Even if the production of raw materials such as water, triacid and dialkali are achieved, the subsequent process still needs to be adjusted and studied. This is not a modification of one or two links, but a adjustment of a complete set of chemical industry.
Unless humans can realize artificial gravity and artificial ecosystem, the problem is that these two technologies also require the support of the chemical industry. The artificial ecosystem is better. Artificial gravity can only be simulated in super-large space stations by centrifugal force.
As for the artificial gravity technology in science fiction movies, based on the technology foundation of human beings at this time, it’s better to take a shower and go to bed!
If it were possible to create gravity, Huang Xiuyuan would have taken it out long ago and he would have made a big chemical energy launch vehicle. Isn’t the anti-gravity spacecraft good?
Therefore, under the low gravity environment of space, the difficulties of chemical synthesis technology require new technologies and new ideas, and traditional synthesis technology is increasingly unable to adapt to the interstellar era.
After eating the last piece of black pepper chicken chop, Xie Qing eliminated a plate of food and burped:
"belch!"
Cheng Cunwu also ate almost the same.
The evening breeze on the lakeshore is slightly cool, and more than a dozen large and small wind turbines standing in the lake water are slowly rotating under the southeast wind.
Suddenly, a street light flashed lightly and darkly. After more than ten seconds, the light bulb seemed to have a problem and it was completely extinguished.
Xie Qing looked at the extinguished street lights and stared quietly in a daze, and a thought emerged in his mind.
light……
Light bulb...
"What's wrong?"
Xie Qing, who woke up, did not answer anything, but pushed the plate away, took out the notebook he carried with him, and logged into the official website of Suiren Academy Journal.
He entered his student ID and immediately searched papers such as "electric field", "photochemistry", and "synthesis" in the journal Suiren.
At this time, Cheng Cunwu also moved his chair and looked at Xie Qing's notebook to see what the other party was doing.
A series of papers pop up on the page of the notebook, including papers within the Suiren Department and related papers from domestic and foreign scholars.
Electric field chemical synthesis technology is indeed a new direction in recent years, but this technology is not mature at present and there are not many systematic theories.
He read the titles and overviews of more than 200 papers and found that none of these papers formed a system. The research projects of scholars or scientific research groups in this direction seemed very scattered and difficult to integrate and relate.
Occasionally, some highlights are also concentrated on the synthesis of individual compounds or a certain synthesis link.
"You want to study electric field synthesis?"
Xie Qing thought for a while and replied: "Intuition tells me that electric field synthesis is the future of chemical synthesis in the interstellar era."
"How can I see it?" Cheng Cunwu asked curiously.
"A very simple truth is that the reaction chain of traditional chemical synthesis technology is too long, which increases the conditions and restrictions. It is difficult to go to the moon now. In the future, we will have to go to asteroids, Mars, and various cosmic environments. According to the traditional chemical synthesis technology route, wouldn't we need to customize a solution in one place?"
As Xie Qing said, the complex synthesis path of traditional chemical synthesis technology will definitely be unacceptable in the interstellar era.
If you really customize a set of synthesis technology in one place, then materials scientists and chemists will probably go crazy.
Now the synthetic technology on space stations and in lunar bases is enough for them to have a headache.
Cheng Cunwu frowned slightly: "But nowadays, there are very few types of compounds that can be synthesized in electric fields. In my impression, it seems that it is limited to a few compounds."
"That's why it's worth our research!" Xie Qing smiled.
Hearing this, Cheng Cunwu was stunned. He instantly reacted: "This makes sense."
This kind of unpopular direction has not been studied by many people, and it is easier to produce results. Unlike popular directions, a lot of people are doing related research and there is a possibility of a crash.
"The idea of electric field synthesis is to use current, voltage, electromagnetic force, to replace chemical bond changes in chemical reactions and simplify the synthesis path." Xie Qing continued:
"In electric field synthesis, the influence of gravity in it can be weakened and the use of various catalysts and intermediate compounds can be reduced. This is the correct way for future chemistry."
Cheng Cunwu suddenly said: "Mr. Huang also has some electric field papers, and it seems that there is also photocatalytic synthesis technology."
Xie Qing, who knew this well, nodded: "Yes, I have read Mr. Huang's thesis many times, which shows that this direction is not impossible to go."
The more the two of them discussed, the clearer the ideas became.
Before we knew it, the jade rabbit gradually became west.
Cheng Cunwu only realized that it was half past the morning, so he spread his hands and joked: "Continue to discuss tomorrow, I don't want to die suddenly."
"Haha, OK." After Xie Qing finished speaking, he also saved some of the contents of the two people discussing in his notebook.
The two of them carried their notebooks and walked towards the dormitory area. There were not many pedestrians in the campus at 1:00 a.m., and it was not too cold under the large dome.
The development of human society may be like these casual thoughts and occasional inspiration to build incredible technology.
Xie Qing's thoughts flashed with inspiration have already planted seeds at this time. What kind of flowers can bloom in the future require them to water them with their efforts and wisdom.
Chapter completed!