Chapter 550 Future Chemistry

The evening breeze blows gently, and bright yellow street lights are shrouded next to the Lakeside Canteen, and the willow branches on the shore are slightly swaying.

A jade disk hangs on the lake. Many astronomy students have set up astronomical telescopes on the shore to look at the Yaotai.

At this time, the golden mirror is perfectly round, and there are no Chang'e and Xuantu in the Guanghan Palace. However, the ancient people's wonderful idea of ​​flying to the moon has become the spirit of today's people to fly to the moon.

The bright moonlight reflects on the lake and complements the lights of the lakeside streets.

Xie Qing and Cheng Cunwu took their dinner plates and sat in a small pavilion, admiring the moonlight of the street lights in Bell Lake while enjoying the food on their plates.

Watching the astronomy students 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 the Rainbow Bay of the Rain Sea? ?”

"It shouldn't be possible. The Guanghan Palace base only has 5 cabins. Although it will be expanded to 7 cabins in the future, the size is not too big. A professional high-precision astronomical telescope may be able to see the blurry outline."

Cheng Cunwu sighed longingly: "Perhaps our generation will witness the emergence of cities on the moon."

"It's early!" Xie Qing wiped his mouth and explained with a smile: "The supply of the lunar base is a big problem unless the industrialization technology in the lunar environment is solved."

Cheng Cunwu also nodded helplessly. Both of them studied materials science, so they naturally understood the difficulties involved.

Even though humans have achieved industrialization inside Blue Star, it is impossible to copy the industrial technology inside Blue Star to the moon.

The different gravity of the planet alone is enough to cause vastly different results, not to mention the heat dissipation problem in a sub-vacuum environment, and the moon itself lacks some minerals.

In particular, the three acids and two bases required in chemical reactions, as well as water, polymer organic matter, etc., these raw materials, either the moon lacks raw materials, or the synthesis technology needs to be readjusted.

Overall, although it is not starting from scratch to achieve large-scale industrialization on the moon, it is definitely very difficult. It is no less difficult than establishing the first industrial system in China.

Even if the production of raw materials such as water and three acids and two bases is realized, the subsequent processes still need to be adjusted and studied. This is not a modification of one or two links, but an adjustment of the entire chemical industry.

Unless humans can realize artificial gravity and artificial ecosystems, the problem is that these two technologies also require the support of the chemical industry. Artificial ecosystems are better. Artificial gravity can currently only be simulated using centrifugal force in super-large space stations.

As for the artificial gravity technology in science fiction movies, given humanity’s technological foundation at this time, it’s better to just go to sleep!

If it were possible to create artificial gravity, Huang Xiuyuan would have taken it out a long time ago, and also made a shitty chemical energy launch vehicle and anti-gravity spacecraft, wouldn't it be great?

Therefore, in the low gravity environment of space, the difficult problems of chemical synthesis technology require new technologies and new ideas. Traditional synthesis technology is increasingly unable to adapt to the interstellar era.

After eating the last piece of black pepper chicken steak, Xie Qing wiped out a plate of food and burped:

"belch!"

Cheng Cunwu had almost eaten.

The evening breeze on the lakeside is slightly cool, and a dozen large and small wind turbines erected in the lake are slowly rotating in the southeast wind.

Suddenly, not far away, a street light flickered on and off. After more than ten seconds, the light bulb seemed to have a problem and went out completely.

Xie Qing looked at the street lights that went out, and fell into a daze in silence. An idea emerged in his mind.

light……

Bulb……

"What's wrong?"

After waking up, Xie Qing did not answer anything. Instead, he pushed the plate away, took out the notebook he carried with him, and logged into the official website of Suiren Academic Journal.

He entered his student ID number and immediately searched for papers on "electric field", "photochemistry", and "synthesis" in the Suiren Journal.

At this time, Cheng Cunwu also moved his chair and looked at Xie Qing's notebook to see what the other party was doing.

On the page of the notebook, a series of papers popped up, including papers within the Suiren Department and related papers by domestic and foreign scholars.

Electric field chemical synthesis technology is indeed a new direction in recent years, but this technology is not yet mature and there are not many systematic theories.

He read through the titles and overviews of more than 200 papers and found that none of them 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 there are some highlights, which focus 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: "My intuition tells me that electric field synthesis is the future of chemical synthesis in the interstellar era."

"Why do you 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. Now it is very difficult to go to the moon. In the future, we will have to go to asteroids, Mars and other cosmic environments. According to For the technical route of traditional chemical synthesis, doesn’t it mean that one place has to customize a set of plans?”

As Xie Qing said, the complex synthesis paths of traditional chemical synthesis technology will definitely not be adapted to the interstellar era.

If one place really customized a set of synthesis technologies, then materials scientists and chemists would probably go crazy.

The current synthesis technology on the space station and in the lunar base is enough to give them a headache.

Cheng Cunwu frowned slightly: "But with current electric field synthesis, there are very few types of compounds that can be synthesized. In my impression, it seems to be limited to a few compounds."

"That's why it's worthy of our study!" Xie Qing said with a smile.

Hearing this, Cheng Cunwu was stunned, and he reacted instantly: "This makes sense."

This unpopular direction does not have many people researching it, and it is easier to produce results. Unlike the popular direction, where a lot of people are doing relevant research, a crash is likely to occur.

"The idea of ​​electric field synthesis is to use current, voltage and electromagnetism to replace chemical bond changes in chemical reactions and simplify the synthesis path." Xie Qing continued:

"In electric field synthesis, we can weaken the influence of gravity and reduce the use of various catalysts and intermediate compounds. This is the right path for future chemistry."

Cheng Cunwu suddenly said: "Mr. Huang also has some electric field papers, and it seems that he also has photocatalytic synthesis technology."

Xie Qing, who knew this well, nodded: "Yes, I have read Mr. Huang's papers many times, which shows that this direction is not impossible."

The more the two of them discussed, the clearer their ideas became.

Unknowingly, the Jade Rabbit is heading west.

Only then did Cheng Cunwu realize that it was early in the morning. He spread his hands and joked: "We will continue the discussion tomorrow. I don't want to die suddenly."

"Haha, okay." After Xie Qing finished speaking, he also saved some of the contents of the discussion between the two in his notebook.

The two of them carried their notebooks and walked towards the dormitory area. At one o'clock in the morning, there were not many pedestrians on campus. It was not too cold under the large dome.

The development of human society may be due to such casual thoughts and occasional inspirations that build incredible technologies.

And Xie Qing's flash of inspiration has already planted the seeds. What kind of flowers can bloom in the future will require their efforts and wisdom to water them.

As the night progressed, there was a faint sound of breathing in the dormitory, but the information in my mind more or less turned into a strange dream.

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