Super Island Tycoon

Chapter 192: Chapter 192: Improved Technology!

In fact, the technology embargo really exists. Many Western countries have imposed embargoes on some high-tech technologies. If these technologies are leaked to other countries, scientists would be charged with treason.

The so-called technology embargo, however, is strictly speaking easy to break because Hua Country does not lack talent. Even if there is a technology embargo, it can be overcome through research efforts and self-study.

But there are some things that can only be imported.

The most direct reason is the issue of material production.

Technology is one part, and materials are also a very important part!

Jiang Cheng immediately thought of dozens, even hundreds, of new materials suitable for the era and with a wide range of applications.

Choosing the right one from so many materials is a headache.

If anyone in the scientific research field knew what Jiang Cheng was thinking, they would probably die of envy—Is this a mistake? It’s like an emperor having hundreds of dishes to choose from at each meal, worrying about what to eat today! What do we beggars get?

Of course, no one could possibly know what Jiang Cheng was thinking.

In fact, besides the hundreds of new materials, Jiang Cheng had other options, such as rare materials he invented, but they hadn’t spread—They worked but didn’t spread.

Why? Of course, it’s because the extraction technology is too difficult, making the extraction cost too high, the expense too great, the technology too advanced, and completely unsuitable for large-scale promotion!

Moreover, there is imperfection!

Any material has its flaws, and these flaws easily make these materials doomed to be unpromotable!

For Jiang Cheng, as long as he could come up with new extraction technologies and improvement techniques, the difficulty of extraction would reduce from high to low, costs would decrease significantly, and with a certain degree of improvement, it would easily popularize such materials, thereby obtaining huge benefits!

In fact, this method is better. Introducing new materials, although it can garner various honors and awards, persuading others to promote these new materials is a very troublesome thing. After all, humans are creatures of habit, and a new type of material born finds it hard to gain their approval in a short time.

With some existing materials, proven effective, but where extraction technology is limited preventing large-scale promotion, as long as there is new extraction technology, making extraction easy and improving it, you can easily replace the original market, complete the promotion in a short time, and gain everyone’s approval.

Thinking of this, Jiang Cheng nodded slightly.

He utilized the Black Technology System to extract all technologies.

In this field, there are hundreds of new technologies, involving various materials and areas.

For example, super silicon modification technology can more perfectly simulate the body’s muscles.

For example, titanium alloy improvement technology can drastically reduce the manufacturing cost of titanium alloys!

But Jiang Cheng didn’t look at these things; he continued to search—What kind of technology is most suitable for this situation?

Jiang Cheng wasn’t anxious. This wasn’t a small matter and couldn’t be rushed.

Soon, Jiang Cheng found the right method.

”Graphene” improvement technology.

The term graphene, if you don’t know this field, is easy to get stuck on. What is it? In daily life, one knows nothing at all!

However, people with a bit of understanding in industrial materials have basically heard this name!

In the 21st century, many have predicted that the next few decades will be the era of graphene!

This new material will completely change some existing situations in the market!

What is graphene?

Graphene is a two-dimensional carbon film with only one atomic thickness.

This is a magical material!

Currently, all chips in the world have a limit width—silicon’s limit is 7 nanometers. It is increasingly approaching the edge, but graphite is only an atom thick, so it is at the forefront of technological revolution. Of course, this is still far from the chip manufacturing technology in Jiang Cheng’s Black Technology System that can fuse with the soul.

But even so, in the 21st century, this is still an astonishing scientific discovery.

There is a well-known business leader in Hua Country who once said this: ”In the next 10 to 20 years, there will be a technological revolution!”

”I think the biggest disruption of this era will be the Graphene Era and the Silicon Era!”

Even now, though it’s a bit of a stiff statement, graphene hasn’t truly caught on, but the potential of graphene must be taken seriously.

Graphene neither depends on the quantity of graphite nor the nature of graphite: It has high conductivity, good flexibility, and high mechanical strength, looking like a thing of the future.

If you list the potential uses of graphene—protective coatings, transparent flexible electronic components, ultra-large capacitors, etc.—the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to the discoverer of graphene!

In short, graphene is the first material discovered to be composed of a single layer of atoms. Carbon atoms are interconnected in a hexagonal grid. The graphite in pencils is equivalent to countless layers of graphene, and carbon nanotubes are rolled-up graphene tubes.

In Hua Country’s graphite-related manufacturing companies, many are actually, according to preliminary statistics from relevant authorities, as of August 2016, there are over 400 enterprises engaged in the research and development, production, application, and other related businesses of graphene, accounting for about three-quarters of the world’s graphene enterprises, mainly located in the Pearl River Delta and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.

In this field, Hua Country occupies the mainstream position in the world.

This is a good thing.

If graphene technology can really be popularized, Hua Country will be far ahead of the world. But it’s also a bad thing, as some people use graphene as a means of financing, which is not a good phenomenon.

Once graphene is not fully popularized and does not become the mainstream material within ten years, the current graphene market will become a bubble market.

Graphene will be labeled as a failure!

The main reason why graphene cannot be fully promoted in the market currently has two aspects.

The first reason is the technical aspect, because it is really difficult, so extracting standard graphene is very expensive, and there is no way to promote it on a large scale.

Secondly, the current graphene itself has not been optimized and has many defects. Before finding optimization, it is almost impossible to completely promote these defects.

So, if Jiang Cheng does not intervene, in a few years, 90% or more of the 400 graphene companies on the market will go bankrupt, and the graphene market will be completely destroyed as time passes.

Jiang Cheng is completely different from these enterprises; he has mastered graphene optimization extraction technology and can produce a lot of graphene in a very short time.

In terms of optimization, it is fundamentally different from the original graphene. It can be easily used to create single-layer, double-layer, and multi-layer graphene of various sizes.

Additionally, for the same graphene, the graphene produced by Jiang Cheng is of much higher quality!