Start as a top student and move towards the stars and the sea

Thinking of this, Ning Chen hurried to the headquarters of Xingchen Technology Company to find lunar soil samples containing these new materials.

Seeing Ning Chen suddenly coming over, the people in the company quickly greeted Ning Chen politely.

"Mr. Ning, you are here."

"Well, I need to take some lunar soil samples and take them to the laboratory of Shengzhou University for research."

With Ning Chen's power in Xingchen Technology, he can naturally take away these lunar soil samples at will. However, Ning Chen also specially formulated strict rules before. No matter who he is, he must go through normal procedures before he can borrow these samples. Lunar soil samples.

Ning Chen didn't want to break these rules casually, so after completing the process normally, he came to the laboratory where these lunar soil samples were stored.

When dummies mined lunar soil samples on the moon before, they did not just mechanically dig some soil in one place, but mined it in several different areas.

This method can provide a more comprehensive understanding of the geological composition of the lunar surface and maximize the efficiency of this lunar exploration project.

After entering the laboratory, Ning Chen began to hesitate.

Because in front of Ning Chen, dozens of different lunar soil samples were displayed.

Even though Ning Chen had completed the normal sampling process, he would not borrow all the lunar soil samples at once.

Thinking of this, Ning Chen didn't bother to analyze anymore and directly asked Xiaozhi to screen out the soil samples containing these new substances.

[Master, the lunar soil samples in the experimental boxes No. 12, 16, 22, 27 and 35 all contain this new type of material. You can choose any sample from them and take it back for study】

These numbered lunar soil samples have not been studied by Ning Chen. Seeing what Xiaozhi said, Ning Chen took back sample No. 12 first.

Returning to his laboratory, Ning Chen immediately began to analyze the lunar soil sample impatiently.

After measuring the material composition, Ning Chen found some abnormalities.

"This substance... is really a substance that has never appeared on Blue Star. And I kind of understand why Xiaozhi specifically reminded me like this." Ning Chen said to himself.

If he followed the inspiration provided by this substance to Ning Chen, it would be entirely possible for Ning Chen to create some new substances and achieve incredible application effects.

Because this substance is very special, Ning Chen could not immediately name it based on its material structure.

However, Ning Chen understood that the most important reason why this substance is so special is the titanium contained in it and the special formation conditions.

Ning Chen tentatively called it "lunar titanium" and tried to extract this material and study it carefully.

According to human estimates of the moon, titanium is very abundant on the moon, accounting for about one percent of the moon's mass.

However, not all titanium on the moon will appear so special. In fact, Ning Chen and others also discovered some titanium-containing materials in the lunar soil before, but they were not completely consistent with the titanium just discovered.

Ning Chen felt that perhaps only the sample extracted from one of the areas contained this special titanium.

Titanium itself is a substance that is widely used, including in the aerospace field, medical field, chemical industry, etc., and has many application spaces.

And studying this new type of "lunar titanium" may help Ning Chen create a more powerful "super titanium".

After analyzing the properties and characteristics of this "lunar titanium", Ning Chen first determined the first research direction.

"Let's study the direction of memory materials first. This is a research direction that I have not done before."

The so-called memory material, also commonly known as shape memory alloy, is a magical substance that can restore the original shape of the material after various deformations.

The reason why this research direction came up is because when Ning Chen analyzed this "lunar titanium", he found that it has a very special phase change effect.

This special phase change structure can achieve shape change and recovery through stress-induced phase change or temperature-induced phase change.

Of course, because this "lunar titanium" is naturally formed, its shape memory effect is not strong enough for application, but Ning Chen can follow this direction and redesign the structure of the material to develop more powerful properties. Material.

In the evening, after returning to his room, Ning Chen prepared to think about the design of this material.

Compared with being in the laboratory, Ning Chen is often in a better state in his own room, which allows Ning Chen to think without any distractions.

After several hours of concentration, Ning Chen finally completed the design of the new material structure and predicted its possible synthesis scheme.

Just like the special structure of this material, Ning Chen's expected synthesis method of this material is also very special.

If it weren't for the discovery of "lunar titanium" on the moon, Ning Chen would never have thought that materials could be synthesized in this special way.

Of course, although Xiaozhi has passed his modeling processing capabilities and approved Ning Chen's synthesis plan, to prove that Ning Chen's plan is indeed correct, it still needs to be verified through experiments.

The next day, Ning Chen came to his laboratory and called everyone together to prepare to explain his experimental plan.

If he wanted to complete this experiment more quickly, Ning Chen's strength alone was still insufficient, so it was best to need the help of others.

In fact, after learning about Ning Chen's upcoming meeting, other members of Ning Chen's laboratory also felt very excited about what project Ning Chen was going to do this time.

In recent days, Ning Chen has not done many materials science projects. This is not because Ning Chen has neglected the research of materials science. It is just that many materials science experiments are difficult to arouse Ning Chen's research interest.

The research project that interests Ning Chen will definitely not be an ordinary project, and its research significance will even be subversive.

On the way to the laboratory, Xu Zhou whispered his guess to others.

"I think the project that Teacher Ning wants to do this time is probably related to the substances found in the lunar soil samples. During this time, Teacher Ning has been studying the soil samples brought back from the moon, and he must have made some new discoveries. "

As always, Xu Zhou understood Ning Chen's thoughts very well. If Ning Chen heard these words of Xu Zhou, I wonder what he would think in his heart.

When everyone gathered in the laboratory, Ning Chen briefly chatted with everyone before talking about the core issues of the meeting.

"Since this time, we have studied the soil samples brought back from the moon and discovered several new substances. These new substances will be of great help to our research in materials science, so today I call you When we come together, I just want to have an in-depth exchange of future research plans with you..."

After listening to Ning Chen's words, Commander Yuan, Sui Feng, Pierce and others all looked at Xu Zhou in unison, their expressions a bit subtle.

Obviously, Xu Zhou once again successfully guessed what Ning Chen was thinking. The man who claimed to be "the person who knows Ning Chen best" did not disappoint everyone.

What they didn't know was that Ning Chen had keenly seen the micro-expressions on everyone's faces and deduced the inside story from them.

"It seems that you have already guessed what I want to say next. Teacher Xu, please share your thoughts."

Suddenly his name was called by Ning Chen. Xu Zhou also knew that Ning Chen had guessed what they were discussing in private, so he had no choice but to say:

"Teacher Ning, even if we have some ideas, we probably won't be able to tell you anything specific before we get the lunar soil samples. Besides, Teacher Ning, you have already called us, so you must have a detailed plan in mind. "

Xu Zhou and others had indeed never come into contact with these lunar soil samples before. Although Ning Chen brought the samples to his laboratory, he only studied them himself first.

After all, there may be some important information hidden in these lunar soil samples. Before understanding them in detail, Ning Chen still cannot easily hand over the samples to others.

Without saying anything else, Ning Chen directly projected his computer screen onto the big screen and explained his thoughts.

Just like what Xu Zhou said just now, Ning Chen had indeed made a detailed plan, but Ning Chen didn't say it too directly, lest everyone think that Ning Chen just came to them to explain the task.

And when everyone saw the content on Ning Chen's computer screen clearly, they were all very surprised.

Xu Zhou said excitedly: "Teacher Ning, you mean that we can create more powerful titanium materials based on the 'lunar titanium' found in lunar soil samples?"

"Yes, this is indeed my idea. The structure of this 'lunar titanium' is very special. This phase change structure is something I have never seen before. We can follow this direction to create our ideal New titanium materials in

As he spoke, Ning Chen displayed the detailed structure of this "lunar titanium" on the big screen.

Everyone looked at this phase change structure on the big screen with blank expressions.

In fact, those who can be in this laboratory, except Sui Feng, are all national or even world-class materials experts. The phase change structure that they have never seen before is indeed not an ordinary phase change structure.

Ning Chen even used Xiaozhi's information retrieval function to search all the substances recorded on the Blue Star, but still could not find a similar phase change structure.

This has basically proven that based on the environment on a blue star, it is almost impossible for this kind of material to form naturally.

On the moon, this kind of material can exist naturally, which means that the special environment on the moon has caused the emergence of this phase change structure.

Immediately afterwards, Ning Chen continued to control his computer with the mouse, displaying a new material structure in front of everyone's eyes.

"Please see, this is my latest designed substance. Since this is a very powerful titanium alloy, I will temporarily call it 'super titanium'."

Ning Chen's core idea for designing this "super titanium" comes from the special phase change structure of titanium discovered on the moon.

Of course, Ning Chen still added a lot of his own ideas to make this "super titanium" have more powerful properties.

Everyone looked at the new material structure designed by Ning Chen and frowned, thinking carefully.

Less than a minute later, Pierce said:

"Teacher Ning, does the material you designed... have a very powerful shape memory function?"

After hearing Pierce's words, everyone couldn't help but look sideways in Pierce's direction, and continued to think along Pierce's train of thought.

With Pierce's reminder, Xu Zhou, Yuan Shuai, Sui Feng and others quickly understood the reason why Pierce made such a conclusion.

Ning Chen was very satisfied with Pierce's quick response. He was worthy of being Pierce's most proud disciple.

"Yes, as Pierce just said, the biggest feature of this 'super titanium' material is that it indeed has a very powerful shape memory function. Simply put, when you impact this material, it It can still be restored within a short period of time, and it is a new type of material full of science fiction concepts..."

Although there are already some shape memory materials in the world, most of these materials do not have such strong shape memory capabilities. When subjected to a large impact force, this property is easily damaged, and they cannot be said to be truly mature. shape memory materials.

However, the "super titanium" material designed by Ning Chen is enough to reach the level of mature application. Even in the very harsh environment of space, it can still maintain shape memory properties stably.

After listening to Ning Chen's explanation, everyone felt that there was indeed no problem with Ning Chen's design in theory.

At this time, the most critical issue is how to create this material.

"Teacher Ning, how should this material be synthesized?" Sui Feng suddenly asked.

This is the real doubt in Sui Feng's heart. Speaking of it, Sui Feng has no idea at all about the synthesis method of this material.

In fact, this is not only the doubt in Sui Feng's mind, but also the doubt in the minds of several other teachers.

After all, the structure and properties of this material are very special. Even if you look at the entire Blue Star, you cannot find anything similar to it.

Seeing the confused expressions on everyone's faces, Ning Chen smiled and said:

"Actually, the core idea is very simple, which is to simulate the extreme environment in space to make it possible to form this special phase change structure. This is a material synthesis method that we have never used before. Even I have to do it in Explore it bit by bit..."