The rise of nanometers

After a few hours' flight, Huang Xiuyuan and a dozen people got off the plane at Bingcheng Taiping International Airport.

After leaving the airport, we went straight to the headquarters campus of Harbin Institute of Technology. Suiren Company has set up a temporary office near Harbin Institute of Technology.

The sun shines brightly in Ice City in June, and the campus of Harbin Institute of Technology is full of green. Standing at the gate are several school management members and six or seven student union cadres.

They hung a banner at the door with some welcome slogans on it, and there was also an Ice City News interview vehicle where the photographer was debugging the equipment.

Those with sharp eyes soon noticed four taxis approaching one after another, and a young man got out of the car.

An old man from the school management, with his sharp eyes, immediately recognized the young man's identity. He walked a few steps forward and patted Huang Xiuyuan on the shoulder while laughing heartily: "Xiuyuan, you are a good boy. .”

"Uncle Liu, long time no see." Huang Xiuyuan was also smiling.

Everyone exchanged greetings, and then came to the auditorium. He delivered an impromptu speech for more than ten minutes, then donated 50 million to Harbin Institute of Technology, and then accepted an interview with Bingcheng News.

Time flies by and the sun is already setting outside.

After having dinner in the school cafeteria.

Huang Xiuyuan dismissed the others and met in the office with the old man who greeted him in the afternoon.

In the office, the old man asked happily: "Is your dad okay? I heard he went to the disaster area?"

Huang Xiuyuan, who was making tea, smiled and replied: "It's okay. It's an engineering support team organized by my company. My dad is just helping to take a look."

"He just has a stubborn temper. After you go back, tell him to come to Ice City this year no matter what."

"sure."

This old man's name is Liu Zhenting, and his father Huang Fuqiang was in the same army back then. Liu Zhenting was the regiment leader and his father was a guard.

Their troops participated in the counterattack in 1979. As one of the few survivors, the old man has been working at Harbin Institute of Technology in Bingcheng since he officially retired in 1990.

His father worked in the government for several years and then chose to start a business overseas.

When Huang Xiuyuan came to Harbin Institute of Technology, his father whipped him there. After all, he had to go from Lingnan to Bingcheng to study, and the weather alone was a big test.

Looking back, there is always a hint of unreality.

The old man and the young man stayed at home for more than two hours before Huang Xiuyuan finally mentioned the reason for his visit.

"Your company has developed a high-energy material? It is about 17 times more powerful than TNT? Are you kidding?" Liu Zhenting's eyes became serious.

Huang Xiuyuan also had a serious expression: "Of course it's impossible to joke, so I made a special trip here. I hope the school can help with testing and discuss how to deal with it."

"Where is the sample? Is it over there in Lingnan?"

Huang Xiuyuan explained: "The laboratory in Lingnan only has a few kilograms of samples. I have transported the production equipment to Bingcheng. As long as it is reassembled and the required raw materials are added, production can be restarted at any time."

Liu Zhenting didn't expect that he would move so quickly and the equipment would arrive in Bingcheng. He hurriedly asked: "What raw materials are needed?"

Huang Xiuyuan tore a page from his notebook and wrote down high-purity nitrogen, calcium carbonate powder, and sodium chloride powder.

After taking a look at the materials, he found that they were all ordinary materials. Liu Zhenting chose to believe Huang Xiuyuan, not caring about the dead of night, and notified many people overnight.

Early the next morning, it was still dark.

More than a dozen green pickup trucks and a group of soldiers with live ammunition surrounded the temporary warehouse and quickly moved the equipment in the warehouse without anyone noticing.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Huang Xiuyuan, who had had breakfast, took three engineers, accompanied by Liu Zhenting, and headed for the hills in the suburbs.

Among the traveling companions, there were six related engineers and teachers from Harbin Institute of Technology, all of whom were engaged in high-energy fuels and high-energy explosives.

Their minibus took many twists and turns until noon before arriving at their destination. This was a testing ground, or shooting range.

Had lunch at the base.

After a group of people got the batch of parts, three engineers from Suiren Company assembled them with ease.

Finally, Huang Xiuyuan took out the parameter chip and the hexagonal silicon oxide-graphene film from the suitcase he carried with him, and completed the most critical assembly.

Then he started the equipment and ran it for more than ten minutes. One of the engineers said to him: "Mr. Huang, production is ready."

Huang Xiuyuan immediately ordered: "Then start production."

"clear."

Engineers and teachers from Harbin Institute of Technology are also waiting eagerly. After all, 17 times the power of TNT sounds a bit unbelievable.

The nitrogen 20 production machine and passivation machine started working, compounding 15 hexagonal silicon oxide films. Under a specific voltage and vacuum negative pressure, plus a large amount of electrical energy, nitrogen 20 powder was quickly generated.

After more than two hours, hundreds of kilograms of passivating nitrogen 20 were produced and pressed into blocks of different sizes.

Then it is sent to the test site for detonation testing.

In a bunker, everyone was holding binoculars.

Several engineers from Harbin Institute of Technology were discussing quietly.

"How much is the first test?"

"0.1 kilogram." researcher Li Feng, who was deep in thought, replied casually.

"Lao Li, what do you think?"

"Theoretically speaking, total nitrogen ion salt can indeed reach this level of power, even more powerful, but..." He hadn't finished yet.

Suddenly there was an explosion in the distance, and the sensors in the sealed test room fed back a set of data. Everyone looked at it intently and suddenly became uneasy.

"Holy shit!"

"17.36 times the power of TNT."

"This thing is incredible."

Li Feng was also deeply shocked. As far as he knew, there was indeed a research project on total nitrogen ion salts in China, and there was a research institute in Jinling doing it.

In fact, high-energy materials are being developed at home and abroad. For example, metallic hydrogen, which has been very popular in recent years, is a very popular direction.

Similarly, total nitrogen ion salt is also a popular direction.

Just as everyone's thoughts were wandering, dozens of kilograms of passivated nitrogen-20 were detonated one after another in the test site.

In preliminary tests, according to different environments and different magnitudes, the tested power was about 16.87 to 17.62 times TNT, which was basically consistent with Huang Xiuyuan's data.

As a scholar of high-energy materials, Li Feng knew the terrifying potential of this material.

The power of passivating nitrogen 20 is powerful, and it can be produced on a large scale. The raw materials are cheap, so it can be cheap and high-quality.

He had seen the equipment. The film should be one of the key technologies. The chip was the process parameter, and the overall process should not be difficult.

He had an exchange with Huang Xiuyuan in the morning. The storage conditions of this material are not too harsh, and the detonation method is the same as that of TNT. Combined with these advantages, nitrogen 20 replaces TNT, which is basically a foreseeable result.

In the next half month.

Nitrogen 20 continues to be produced, and related experiments and tests are also intensively carried out.

Inside the base, many people came one after another, many of them big shots.

Within this half month, Huang Xiuyuan, on behalf of Suiren Company, signed a memorandum of comprehensive strategic partnership with Norinco through the matchmaking of Harbin Institute of Technology, as well as the patent authorization for nitrogen 20 and nitrogen 20 passivation process.

Norinco will pay Suiren Company a patent fee of 60 million per year to obtain patent authorization related to nitrogen 20.

At the same time, hexagonal silicon oxide-graphene films were purchased from Suiren Company. The purchase price for a single piece was 200,000 yuan, and the first batch of contracts was for 1,000 pieces, totaling 200 million yuan.

These collaborations are confidential.

At the same time, it also jointly established a high-energy fuel research project with Harbin Institute of Technology to develop the application of nitrogen 20 in rocket engine fuel.

These are just the visible gains, there are many invisible gains.