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Chapter 390 Research on New Materials
It took Perfect a little time to achieve mass production of carbon fiber and carbon 60 in its own laboratory.

After all, she chose to use carbon as the base, and there is a connection in technology iteration and research between carbon 60 and carbon fiber.

To put it more simply, as long as carbon 60 is arranged into a line, a line that is long enough to act as a fiber, it can be called carbon fiber.

Of course, carbon fiber in actual applications is not like this, but it does not prevent carbon 60 from being made into carbon fiber. It’s just that people usually call this thing carbon nanotubes.

Using carbon nanotubes to make carbon fiber is also a cutting-edge topic in materials science in the original world. Although some results have been achieved, it has not yet reached the stage of technological maturity.

Therefore, with this "little bit of time" of Perfecto, he used fantasy alchemy to make up for the technological gap of at least two hundred years between this world and the original world.

But for Perfect, this research result is meaningless because it cannot enable her to open the Emerald Record.

These are just two new materials, not new technologies that can be widely applied.

Just like it was useless for Perfect to create a steam core, she had to install the steam core on the Steam Knight Armor.

Carbon 60 is indeed powerful, but unless Perfect can use it to make carbon nanotube fibers and then use it to create ultra-light steam knight armor, it will be "useless" according to the evaluation standards of the Emerald Jade Record.

Perfect certainly knows this, so her future research direction is to metalize the already obtained carbon 60 and carbon fiber without changing any material structure and properties.

This would never work in the original world because it completely goes against science.

If Perfect had said this in her original world, she would have been considered a fool or a liar.

But in this world, because of the existence of alchemy, all this has become possible.

Especially in the hands of Perfect, a master alchemist who masters fantasy alchemy and the philosopher's stone, it is not difficult to do this.

The only problem was that Perfect wasn't happy with simply metalizing the carbon fiber.

Although the performance of carbon fiber decreases slightly after metallization, and once it reaches the melting point of the metal it will melt into a pool and lose all its special properties, it is still a good material.

Simply using fibers as materials to build Steam Knight armor is equivalent to weaving and processing these metal carbon fibers to obtain the desired material shape.

This is actually the main way people in the original world use carbon fiber. After all, if you want to make reasonable use of fiber, weaving is a good choice.

But this is too inconvenient for Perfect.

After all, you can't do the same thing to a floating city, right? How big a loom would that require? You can't just use small pieces of material to piece together, right?
You know, the floating city is a city. I have never heard of a city being made of small pieces of cloth.

And even if this is feasible, the mass of a city is staggering. Even if it is all made of this ultra-light metal carbon fiber, its weight will reach an astonishing level, which will be a huge burden even for carbon fiber itself.

The slightest mistake could lead to the collapse of the entire floating city structure.

It is for this reason that Perfect hopes to obtain a metal material that can be flattened or rounded at will, rather than a limited material that can only exist in the form of "fiber".

At this point, Perfect was a little stuck in her research progress. Although she was strong and capable in research, and had the blessing of artifacts such as the Jade Record and the Philosopher's Stone in her hand, this research problem was indeed not a problem for her.

But Perfect did run into some problems in her research that stalled her progress until they were resolved.

The biggest problem for this situation lies in the molecular structure of carbon 60.

As mentioned before, the molecular structure of carbon 60 is a ball composed of 60 carbon atoms. This determines that its structure is stable and also determines that this material can easily produce new compounds after combining with other elements.

This is harmless to the carbon 60 in the original world. After all, it is just a new material in the laboratory. We just need to study it slowly and find ways to use it.

But for Perfecto's new material, this is a bit fatal.

She wants to use this new material to manufacture steam knight armor and floating city. The material is not stable enough and will produce new compounds, which will be fatal to the steam knight armor and floating city.

After all, no one can guarantee that the new materials used to build the main axis or important supporting columns of the floating city will not react with other elements to produce new compounds and cause the structure of the floating city to collapse.

So during the time when Perfect was stuck in his research progress, he had been trying to solve this problem.

First of all, the simplest method is of course to start from the structure of carbon 60, either breaking the original carbon 60 molecular structure or using it to create materials with a new structure.

The former means that Perfectoct needs to start all its existing research progress over again, which will undoubtedly be a huge loss.

For Perfect, she would not do this unless it was absolutely necessary.

And the latter? Isn't that how carbon fiber is made?
Arrange countless carbon 60 footballs in a linear pattern, and then use their easy-to-combine characteristics to allow all the carbon 60 to combine with each other to eventually form a stable line, which is carbon fiber.

So after going around in circles, I'm back to the starting point.

This was obviously not what Perfectoct wanted either.

And when Perfect encountered difficulties in his research, good news came from the Witch Workshop.

Under Wei'er's leadership, the Witch Workshop has successfully completed the distillation of petroleum and successfully obtained the first synthetic fiber.

Although this synthetic fiber material has only been produced in the laboratory, the progress is already very encouraging compared to the previous results that have not achieved satisfactory results.

This made Perfect feel very happy, but also gave rise to an urge to compete.

After all, she had always been the strongest and most outstanding alchemist in the empire. Even though she had not been recognized before she became famous, this title had basically been preserved since she became the Earl of the North, especially after she destroyed the capitals of three countries with thermobaric bombs.

Under such circumstances, Perfecto naturally had no opponent, or no opponent that she felt could compare with herself.

But now the appearance of Wei'er, the former legendary alchemist, made Perfecto finally feel like she had met an opponent, which made her want to compete with Wei'er.

(End of this chapter)