After arriving in the capital, Wang Hao went straight to the Aviation Materials Institute.
Because they had not said hello in advance, the Aviation Materials Institute was not prepared for this. Cao Dongming, who knew the news, went to call someone, which made the greeting team at the door seem more lively.
Qu Shigang and Ai Yongchuan, two old academicians, came over.
They also complained about Cao Dongming and said, "Academician Wang Hao is coming. Why didn't you tell me about such a big thing earlier?"
"That's right, if you know how to hang up a banner, just a dozen people like this..."
Ai Yongchuan looked around and said worriedly, "Don't let Academician Wang Hao think that we didn't entertain you well!"
"I just found out too."
Cao Dongming smiled bitterly and said, "Academician Wang came by car. He said he slept in the car that night and didn't bother me because it was too late. He just called and said he had arrived in the capital and wanted to come over."
"It's like a surprise inspection." Qu Shigang said depressedly, and then asked, "This time Academician Wang is here..."
"Our research, Qu Gui and I!"
Cao Dongming said with some pride, and continued, "Academician Wang said that our discovery was very important, so he decided to come and take a look."
"Cooperation with Academician Wang?"
"right."
Qu Shigang gave a thumbs up to Cao Dongming.
Ai Yongchuan joked, "It must be a big achievement to have Academician Wang travel a long way here. Dongming, you just won the third prize in science and technology. Do you plan to keep up your efforts and win the second prize this year?"
Everyone nearby laughed.
Cao Dongming also laughed twice, and knew that Ai Yongchuan was joking. How can it be so easy to win the Science and Technology Progress Award?
While a few people were chatting and joking, they heard a voice in the distance shouting, "Here we come."
They immediately moved forward to meet him.
A military vehicle drove over and stopped in the open space at the door. A guard with a gun came down from the co-pilot and helped open the side door.
Wang Hao got out of the car.
Qu Shigang, Cao Dongming and others immediately came over to greet them. Not only did they shake hands and exchange pleasantries, but Ai Yongchuan kept saying polite words such as "poor hospitality".
Of course Wang Hao didn't mind the poor reception. He directly mentioned the purpose of coming, "I came here this time for the research of Professor Cao and Professor Qu."
He suddenly thought of something and said with a smile, "By the way, it should be called Academician Cao."
Everyone else laughed.
Last year, Cao Dongming won the Scientific Progress Award and was elected as an academician of the Academy of Engineering. His personal achievements have been greatly improved.
Cao Dongming said a few polite words, and then talked about the research findings with Wang Hao.
Cao Dongming simply said before that he only knew that the research found a method to separate first-order iron, but he did not expect that Wang Hao would make a special trip to the Aeronautical Materials Institute.
Wang Hao's arrival in the capital was a big event.
It is no longer a few years ago. It is not easy to see Wang Hao. Even some high-level leaders go to Xihai specifically to see Wang Hao.
So knowing that Wang Hao came to the capital, some leaders sent people over in advance to wait.
As long as Wang Hao has finished his own business, he can quickly pull him over to talk about other things. Wang Hao doesn't have much time to stay in the Aeronautical Materials Institute.
Cao Dongming knew that Wang Hao had a tight schedule, so he simply took Wang Hao to the laboratory.
At this time, irrelevant people can only leave.
All projects of the Institute of Aeronautical Materials are confidential to a certain extent, not to mention the projects jointly researched with Wang Hao. Because of this, even Qu Shigang did not inquire specifically about the research content.
In the laboratory, Wang Hao met Qu Gui.
The main people in charge of this research are Cao Dongming and Qu Gui. Qu Gui is an outstanding talent recommended by Cao Dongming. He is only forty years old and has only an undergraduate degree. He received his graduate degree on the job. He started from the lowest level as an assistant technician. He quickly rose up the ranks step by step, and now he is also a researcher.
With a bachelor's degree, it is not easy to successfully stay in the Institute of Aeronautical Materials. If you study on the job as a graduate student and work as a researcher at the age of forty, you are naturally quite capable.
“It was also Professor Qu’s idea to conduct experiments with magnetized iron materials.”
Cao Dongming had no intention of taking any credit. He obviously admired Qu Gui very much. "At that time, Professor Qu said he would try using magnetized iron materials. I thought it was too extravagant."
He immediately smiled bitterly and said, "This is not a matter of funding. Even in our hospital, if you want to use magnetized iron materials, you have to apply. It is only magnetized materials, not extracted first-order iron."
Wang Hao nodded slightly.
First-order iron is very expensive, but magnetized iron materials are much cheaper.
Now in the international market, the selling price of first-order iron materials is US$800,000 to US$1 million per kilogram.
Magnetized iron materials are relatively expensive, but the main reason is that Annihilation Technology Company's manufacturing capacity is limited, and part of it must be used for external sales to achieve high profits, so the supply of materials to the domestic technology sector is also limited.
After discussing their ideas, Cao Dongming and Qu Gui introduced the experiment together, "Our furnace temperature is maintained between 1560 and 1600 degrees Celsius, and a special environment of high magnetism and high pressure is created."
"In this environment, we stirred in all directions and conducted experimental observations."
"Initially, we didn't find anything, but after the experimental material cooled and solidified, we tested it again and found that the content of first-order iron increased a lot at the edge of the material, while it dropped significantly in the center."
"Later, we conducted experiments and determined that unidirectional stirring will cause the first-order iron in the magnetized material to gather toward the edge..."
Wang Hao listened to the explanations of the two men and looked at the experimental report in his hand.
This is not a large experiment.
The 'magnetized iron material' Cao Dongming mentioned is only a small piece, and the furnace is also used in laboratories. It is very easy to create high-temperature, high-magnetic and even high-voltage environments.
Wang Hao put down the report in his hand, picked up a piece of solidified magnetized iron material, and observed it carefully. Of course, he found nothing.
He is thinking about a question--
Why does unidirectional stirring cause first-order iron to gather toward the edge under high magnetic, high pressure and high temperature environments?
What principles are involved?
In an environment of 1550 to 1600 degrees Celsius, conventional iron will melt at high temperature, while the melting point of first-order iron is higher and remains in a solid state.
But this is just theory.
The first-order iron in the magnetized iron material is absolutely uniformly distributed. The so-called "absolutely uniform" is based on microscopic atoms, and the overall content is only a little more than 2%.
When the melting point of conventional iron is reached, it is impossible to separate the first-order iron using only physical means of stirring. In other words, the high magnetic and high pressure environment plays a role.
“It still comes down to specificity.”
"Under a strong annihilation force field, the magnetic field emitted by the first-order iron elements is different, so the effects of the magnetic field will definitely be different..."
Wang Hao thought hard and pressed his forehead hard.
Although this is indeed the case in theoretical analysis, experimental studies have found nothing. It is impossible to distinguish iron elements from first-order iron elements using only magnetic fields.
"Also, high voltage..."
"Elemental iron, with its simple internal semi-topological structure, cannot explain anything."
"If it were an iron-based superconducting material, there would be no difference between first-order iron and conventional iron after melting, and similar discoveries would not be possible."
"So, how to make the effect of semi-topological structure manifest?"
Wang Hao thought of microsphere manufacturing.
To make microspheres, melted materials are placed in a specific solution and continuously stirred during the cooling and solidification process, so that the material can be separated into small balls.
"Is it possible to replace it with iron-based superconducting material and put it in the melted liquid of a superconducting material with a higher melting point?" His eyes suddenly lit up.
This idea has been around for a long time, but there has never been a clear idea.
Now Cao Dongming and Qu Gui's experimental discoveries have made him more clear about his research and development ideas, and at the same time, he also thought of many technical problems that must be overcome--
For the semi-topology to work, high-voltage energization must be maintained during the manufacturing process.
For superconducting materials with higher melting points, it is not easy to find suitable ones.
In addition, the problem of high magnetism must also be solved.
But no matter how many technical problems there are to overcome, the most important thing is to clarify the research direction. Wang Hao immediately explained, "Academician Cao, Professor Qu, please make a detailed report as soon as possible."
"This achievement of yours is very remarkable. It is very important to my research and to the manufacturing technology related to first-order iron."
Cao Dongming asked in confusion, "Isn't the manufacturing technology of first-order iron...extraction?"
Wang Hao smiled and said, "It's not just extraction, you will know it soon."
He didn't explain it carefully.
Cao Dongming asked, "Academician Wang, please tell me carefully. How important is it to win the third prize for scientific and technological progress?"
"this……"
Wang Hao said hesitantly, "I don't know if I can win the prize."
"However, with this result, it will definitely be no problem for you to study first-order iron and apply for ten or eight tons from Annihilation Technology Company."
"——?"
Cao Dongming and Qu Gui looked at each other and opened their mouths in unison.
First-order iron?
Ten tons, eight tons?
This is much more powerful than the Science and Technology Progress Award!
…
As soon as Wang Hao walked out of the Aeronautical Materials Institute, he was enthusiastically taken to the science and technology department.
Teacher Xu and several other leaders have been waiting for a long time, and one of them is a military leader who wants to talk about super stealth technology.
Wang Hao briefly explained the stealth technology and got news from the military leaders that the flight stealth test of Kongjian-2 had already been conducted once.
"everything is normal."
"It's as expected, except that when invisible, the aircraft cannot send signals to the outside world. At that time, I was worried that something unexpected would happen..."
"Over at the Radar Institute, Professor Shen Huiming's research is so important!"
When stealth technology is installed on an aircraft, you can intuitively feel the importance of data transmission. Even the simplest sending and receiving of signal instructions can at least ensure that the aircraft is operating normally instead of just waiting on the ground.
Wang Hao asked, "Is there any new progress in Professor Shen's research?"
The military leader said distressedly, "First-order shortwave can already be released and received, but the experimental equipment is too complicated. It will take a lot of time to manufacture the device and install it for use..."
"But it's already very fast."
"We always hope that any technology can be put into use immediately, so we are planning to use one Air Ship 2 for guidance at high altitude, and the other one can perform stealth missions close to the ground."
"This can be used cooperatively..."
Wang Hao is still very concerned about Kongjian-2. He talked a lot about it with military leaders, and then talked to others about research issues related to strong annihilation force fields.
Nowadays, the technology for generating strong annihilation force fields has reached a bottleneck in terms of strength. It is very difficult to study and improve it based on the existing foundation.
"If you use existing high-pressure hybrid materials, the strength can be increased by up to 0.5. This is only theoretical data, and the process requires a huge amount of time and resources."
“So it’s not worth the gain to continue studying it.”
"If you want to make a big improvement, you must start with technical principles or basic materials."
"And the first-order elemental materials have been determined to be useless."
Wang Hao talked a lot about the annihilation field technology, and also let several leaders who came specially to learn the information they wanted to know.
After that, only the leaders of the technology department remain.
Teacher Xu and Wang Hao chatted alone. They were already old acquaintances, and they just talked about daily things, "I heard that you are studying granular material technology recently? Going to the Aeronautical Materials Institute is also related to this, right? Is there any gain?"
Wang Hao said, "The harvest this time is not small, at least it confirms my ideas."
"Oh? Tell me?"
Teacher Xu suddenly became interested.
Wang Hao explained, "We are collaborating with Academician Cao Dongming and Professor Qu Gui. They used magnetized iron materials and found that under high temperature, high pressure and high magnetic environment, single stirring will cause first-order iron..."
"This discovery is very important."
"Theoretically, the specific external manifestation of first-order iron is excited magnetization, and under the influence of high magnetism and high pressure..."
"But in fact, there were no relevant findings in the experiment..."
"I think……"
"Ula Ula~~"
Teacher Xu pretended to be listening and nodded from time to time. In fact, he didn't understand anything.
He regretted it.
If there are any research results, wouldn’t it be nice to know the situation?
Why should we listen to explanations?
When Wang Hao took a breath and seemed to want to continue, Teacher Xu quickly interrupted and changed the topic, "Do you know about the last negotiation with Amrican?"
"I've heard of it, but I don't know the details."
"The talks fell apart."
Teacher Xu said, "They want to buy magnetized iron materials cheaply, or even at cost. The bargaining chip they bring out is a list of prohibited sales of high-tech products, but there are various restrictions."
"We proposed several key things that were stuck, but they were all rejected."
"From the negotiations until now, American's purchase orders for magnetized iron materials have dropped significantly. No, it should be said that it is the several companies that Groom Lake plans to cooperate with."
Wang Hao was a little confused, "They didn't buy it?"
"Or, it can also be understood that...the funds for this research plan are limited?" Teacher Xu laughed as he said it.
He shook his head and continued, "Actually, there are a lot of debates in the country about the manufacturing and research of first-order iron. The most important thing is the selling price."
“Too few are made and too expensive!”
"Academician Wang, do you think the price of magnetized iron materials should be appropriately reduced?"
The price reduction that Teacher Xu mentioned is aimed at both domestic and foreign markets.
The normal sales price of magnetized iron materials to foreign institutions is very high, and the supply price to domestic scientific research institutions is not too cheap.
This is inevitable, otherwise problems will arise.
In fact, similar situations have already occurred. Some scientific research institutions have obtained magnetized iron materials and resold them abroad through some private channels to obtain considerable profits.
Things like this are a big problem as long as they are found.
There has been one discovery now, but there may be many more that have not been discovered. Human beings will always take risks for huge profits.
Wang Hao thought for a moment and hesitated, "You shouldn't ask me about the selling price of magnetized iron materials, right?"
Teacher Xu said, "I want to hear your opinion on the research and development and future applications related to first-order iron. This is a direct question."
"You should also know that there is a lot of controversy about first-order iron."
"Because it's too expensive. It's expensive now and it will be expensive in the future. Your research report says that even if the strong annihilation force field is further improved, the first-order iron content will not increase significantly, right?"
"With this content, even if the magnetized iron material has zero cost and retail price, it can only be used in the most high-end technological fields in the future, which makes research in many directions meaningless."
This is the point of contention.
First-order iron is really too expensive, costing tens or tens of billions of dollars per kilogram. Even if the extraction technology improves and the price of magnetized iron materials drops to zero, it will still exceed one hundred thousand dollars per kilogram. One ton is one hundred million U.S. dollars. Compared with Gold is twice as expensive.
Such expensive materials cannot be widely used.
After Teacher Xu finished speaking with a sigh, he raised his head and found Wang Hao looking at him with a puzzled face. He touched his cheek with his hand and asked, "What's wrong?"
Wang Hao asked in confusion, "Teacher Xu, I just told you how to solve this problem, why do you still ask?"
"ah?"
Teacher Xu was stunned with his mouth half open.
He recalled carefully for a long time, but he still didn't expect when Wang Hao said something about the price of first-order iron.
He said tentatively, "Can you repeat it again? Maybe I didn't hear it clearly just now."
Wang Hao nodded and explained, "Academician Cao Dongming and Professor Qu Gui's new discovery is that under high temperature, high pressure and high magnetic environment, unidirectional stirring will separate first-order iron from conventional iron and spread to the sides..."
"First-order iron has specificity. Under a strong annihilation force field, the magnetic field excited by it will produce a resistance to strong field force..."
"This will lead to..."
"When first-order iron is separated from conventional iron, the protective properties of the magnetic field will be weakened and reduced, and more iron will be produced under the pressure of the field force..."
Teacher Xu rubbed his forehead vigorously and couldn't help but interrupt, "Academician Wang, Academician Wang, stop for a moment, stop for a moment, can you speak more simply?"
His expression even took on a pleading tone.
"All right."
Wang Hao nodded slightly, thought for a while and said, "To put it simply, we have a technology that can save the extraction process and quickly produce first-order iron in large quantities."
Teacher Xu waited for a long time, but before he could wait for the next sentence, he asked in surprise, "Is it over?"
"Is it over?"
"That's all gone?"
Teacher Xu said and slapped his forehead hard. He was annoyed why he pretended to understand. If he had known better, wouldn't he have just asked?
I went through torture in vain...
its not right!
He suddenly reacted, opened his eyes wide, slammed the table, and shouted excitedly, "What? Mass production of first-order iron?"
"right."
"Is it first-order iron? Isn't it a magnetized material?"
"certainly."
