Silicon Valley

Henry sends Samus to a secret base in Africa. There, he will receive the best treatment and training. He will be included in the Gene Umbrella X-Files like the list of the other 107 people. As for the identity information in reality, Henry will erase it as much as possible!

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As the time draws nearer, it seems that people are paying more attention than ever to the announcement of the Nobel Prize.

Television and newspapers reported frequently, and the voice of Henry winning the award was the highest on the Internet. However, a high voice does not mean that you can win an award. The winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature are often unexpected, choosing unknown authors.

On December 10, 1995, the Nobel Prize was finally announced. Henry was still too young, and the winner was someone else. He is Seamus Heaney, an Irish poet who has published numerous collections of poems, awarded the Nobel Prize for his poems with lyrical beauty and ethical depth that elevate the wonders of everyday life and the living past. Bell Prize for Literature.

Henry asked people to buy two of his poetry collections to read, read them for a while, and then put them aside. It was not his style.

At this moment, the outside world felt sorry for Henry.

Netizens questioned the impartiality of the Nobel Prize judges. But in fact, the criteria for judging the Nobel Prize for Literature are mostly related to the literary, artistic and multiple works of the work. The novels written by Henry are basically bestsellers, and the literary quality is definitely less. Therefore, the probability of winning the award is extremely low.

Fortunately, Henry was mentally prepared, not very disappointed, and even accepted an interview with reporters. During the interview, Henry smiled slightly in front of the camera: I didn't feel any disappointment. After all, I'm still young. I didn't succeed this time. I'll keep working hard next time!

Netizens praised: Henry Williams is so optimistic!

Henry Williams is our inspiration!

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In fact, Jin Wu was barefoot, and no one was perfect, and Henry was still a little unconvinced in his heart. Therefore, he has to make a big move and win a Nobel Prize in Physics next year! Henry decided to get graphene out, which shocked the entire technology world.

Graphene is both the thinnest material and the toughest, with a breaking strength 200 times higher than the best steel. It could be a substitute for silicon, making ultra-tiny transistors that will be used to produce future supercomputers. Replacing silicon with graphene, computer processors will run hundreds of times faster!

Plus, graphene is almost completely transparent, absorbing only 2.3 percent of light. On the other hand, it is so dense that even the smallest gas atoms (helium atoms) cannot penetrate (naturally, sperm can't penetrate... God gave man the technology to make graphene, and he used it to make condoms) . These characteristics make it ideal as a raw material for transparent electronics, such as transparent touch displays, light-emitting panels, and solar panels.

As a new type of nanomaterial with the thinnest, the strongest strength and the strongest electrical and thermal conductivity, graphene is called black gold and is the king of new materials. Scientists predict that graphene will completely change the 21st century, even extremely. It is possible to set off a disruptive new technology and new industrial revolution sweeping the world!

In the past life, there are roughly four most common methods of graphene production: mechanical exfoliation, redox, SiC epitaxy, and CVD vapor deposition. It just so happened that Henry knew all four of these methods! Henry intends to directly industrially produce a large amount of graphene, taking the lead in the aerospace field and the new energy battery industry. Once the graphene super battery is successfully developed, Henry dares to build a Tesla car for you, believe it or not! ! !

However, the difficulty of making graphene can be described as not small. Taking into account current technical considerations, Henry decided to use the redox method.

The limitation of the mechanical glass method is that the obtained product is a mixture of graphene with different layers, so it is difficult to prepare single-layer graphene on a large scale, and the production efficiency is low.

The SiC epitaxy method has high requirements on equipment, which cannot be met at present, but this is the way to produce high-quality graphene.

Although CVD is the most likely method to achieve industrialized production of high-quality, large-area graphene, it also has high technical requirements.

The redox method is simple in operation and high in yield, but the quality of graphene is slightly worse!

In the past life, the most common method for producing graphene was the redox method. At that time, chlorine-based and manganese-based oxidants were commonly used in redox methods. The preparation time was more than ten hours, and toxic gases and heavy metal pollution were also generated. Intermediates such as manganese oxide were also prone to explosion.

Just before Henry's crossing, that is, in 2015, Chinese scientists discovered a new, cheap and non-toxic iron-based oxidant. The 'running' speed of this oxidant molecule is very fast, and it can quickly penetrate into the interior of graphite like a wedge , allowing the graphite to delaminate quickly. Oxygen is generated in this process, which helps to 'top' open layers of graphite, which speeds up the preparation, and can be completed in only one hour, and even the quality of the product has been greatly improved!

Henry can completely use iron-based oxidants to make graphene, making the technology of making graphene surpass nearly 20 years and suddenly rise to the technical level of 2015! Of course, the quality of graphene produced by this method still cannot be compared with that produced by SiC epitaxy and CVD.

You can't go up to the sky in one step, after all, technology is still gradual, and Henry can open the plug-in to this level, it's pretty awesome, isn't it?

I published the simplest method of making graphene by mechanical exfoliation, and I won a Nobel Prize by the way. The redox method is kept by myself, and I can make a fortune... Henry murmured while putting Holding a red wine glass, Graphene is like a catfish. If it is released, it will stimulate many industries and make it develop rapidly. At the same time, I also need more talents to study graphene. Not all are good... Besides, have you ever been afraid of robbing other people for talent? (Henry grinned: I have been to Lanxiang for further study...)

The preparation method of graphene is basically there, but how to do it still needs to be studied. Henry just knows a general idea. He is a network engineer, not a graphene expert.

On December 25th, the WilliamsX laboratory established a super material company, and Henry transferred many experts and professors in this field from other companies. Then, Henry gave them a lecture on the research direction of graphene and which oxidant to use.

Everyone was stunned when they heard it, and when they reacted, they seemed to think that the plan Henry said was really feasible, and called Henry a genius.

The quiet establishment of the super material company has not attracted the attention of the outside world. Henry also didn't want to announce his plans to the outside world, just keep a low profile, and a low profile is king. Henry has been helping out at Supermaterials for a while. During this period, Star Wars Episode 1 was released. Major newspapers and media reported it one after another, and for a while, it received rave reviews, and Star Wars Episode 1 scored as high as 9 points on the IMDB website.

Everyone in the industry knows that Star Wars Episode 1 is definitely another movie with a super high box office.

Henry only paid a little attention to this, and then continued to invest in the development of graphene.

The total number of employees of Super Materials Company is more than 1,200. The new factory is located in the suburbs northwest of San Jose, with an area of ​​100,000 square meters. For Henry, SuperMaterial is very important, and it is related to the development of the future space program. Also building a space station, Henry decided to build an inflatable space station. This inflatable space station can greatly reduce the construction cost of the space station.

Henry plans to have Supermaterials build a capsule made of high-strength synthetic fibers that folds into a 2-meter-long tube when the rocket lifts off. After successfully docking with the space station, it will inflate and become a capsule with a diameter of 3 meters, a length of 4 meters and a volume of about 16 cubic meters.

Henry also intends to create a larger inflatable living module with an internal capacity of 2100 cubic meters for 16 people, and even Henry wants to use this method to create a tourist city on the moon and even Mars! Of course, the premise is that this high-strength synthetic fiber is stronger than the metal shell of the capsule. At the same time, it can withstand the impact of a variety of objects, including cosmic rays and space junk.

Then, as the thinnest and strongest in the world, graphene cannot penetrate even the smallest gas atoms, and its breaking strength is 200 times higher than that of the best steel. space capsule, will it work?

(To be continued ~^~)