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Chapter 227 Redstone Technology Expert?

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"Chen Cai?"

"Are you coming to MC to seek refuge with me again?"

With the previous experience of accidentally recruiting two MC villagers, [Swindler] and [Breeding Expert], Chen Jue felt extremely familiar with this newly refreshed big-nosed villager.

He already has two of the Crouching Dragon and the Phoenix, and now a young unicorn or a young tiger appears, wouldn't it help his career to continue to take off?

So Chen Jue immediately switched into Steve mode, opened the other party's status bar and took a look.

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[Villager: Chen Cai (Redstone Technology Expert)]

[Health: Hearts x20]

[Attack power: 5~6 (when holding a fireworks rocket)]

[Recruitment limit: 1. Random recruitment is generated when certain conditions are met; 2. The profession is unique and cannot be changed; 3. Recruitment cannot be refreshed using the Easter egg gameplay. ]

[Skin: Not enabled]

[Introduction: A friendly creature, a redstone technology expert in the village, possessing the most powerful scientific research technology in my world! In addition to emeralds and trading, it can provide players with 100% loyal service. ]

[Motto: Give me a set of redstone, and I will light up the world! ]

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"Fuck!"

"Are you an expert in redstone technology?" Chen Jue almost fainted after reading the other party's status introduction.

The [Redstone] in MC does have enough bugs in the game. This one material has three properties: conductor, energy, and information transmission.

Compared with traditional gold, silver, copper and iron, even the existing composite materials of mankind are ten thousand times more powerful.

But the problem is that this kind of heaven-defying MC material does not exist in the real earth.

Even if he searched all the villagers' shops, Chen Jue couldn't buy a piece of [Redstone].

With the emergence of a professional villager with dragon-slaying skills, Chen Jue didn’t know how to arrange for him to work for him.

"Yes, boss. I am good at scientific research related to redstone."

"I just had a conversation with Chen Nong and have already mastered most of the information about this world. So far, there is no trace of redstone in this world. Fortunately, there is this lithium element that can be used as a substitute, and through material compounding, it can barely take into account most of the functions of redstone." The big-nosed Lao Cai seemed to see through Chen Jue's thoughts, holding up the [Lepidolite] and explained patiently.

"Compound materials?"

Chen Jue's expression changed when he heard this, as if he had heard a very awesome technical term.

The so-called material composite is to use advanced material preparation technology to optimize the combination of material components with different properties to form a composite material with a new formula.

The Earth has existed for billions of years, and the necessary material elements have been discovered by humans as early as the beginning of civilization.

However, how to study and utilize these material elements has troubled mankind for thousands of years.

It was not until the explosion of modern science and technology that countless composite materials entered people’s daily lives.

Composite materials are usually divided into two categories: 'metal' and 'non-metal', such as alloys, synthetic resins, rubber, ceramics, carbon fiber, glass fiber, etc., affecting all walks of life in human society.

Take the several lithium battery samples in the wooden house in the village, for example, they are products of composite materials.

"Lao Cai, do you mean that you have already thoroughly studied lithium?"

"Can the existing materials be used to optimize the compounding of 'lithium'?" Chen Jue's expression began to become unusually interesting.

He had thought of this plan before when he discovered that lithium battery materials could temporarily replace redstone powder.

Unfortunately, the activity of lithium alone is too strong, only slightly lower than that of sodium.

Once used to replace [redstone] to lay circuits, or serve as an energy supply.

The slightest contact with water or active gases such as oxygen can easily cause an explosion.

So Chen Jue temporarily piled up the materials such as [lithium particles] refined by the MC [furnace] in the box, waiting to restart the research when he had free time.

He never expected that the problem that had troubled him for such a long time would be solved by specially recruited villagers with the profession of "Redstone Technology Expert"!

This made Chen Jue a little overjoyed, and he hurriedly urged it to produce some results. Not long after, the big-nosed old man, who had just arrived on Earth, pointed to several lithium battery samples that had been dismantled in a wooden house in the village and said, "Boss, I just studied it and found that a very small part of the electrode materials in these batteries can be combined with lithium elements."

As he spoke, Lao Cai took out a black film smaller than a fingernail and handed it to Chen Jue.

As the MC subtitles appeared, Chen Jue was stunned.

[Graphene fragments: artificial products, allotropes of carbon, with excellent electrical conductivity and optical properties in terms of physical properties. ]

“It’s actually graphene!”

"You're going to combine this with lithium?"

"That... isn't that a graphene lithium battery?" Chen Jue was so excited that his voice rose a few notches.

Because when he was referring to the situation of the battery industry related to new energy vehicles, he had seen cutting-edge research on graphene batteries in several domestic and foreign magazines.

Companies like Nanotek Instruments in the United States, Graphenano in Spain, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and laboratories of several 211 key universities in China have all developed experimental graphene batteries on a small scale.

Whether in terms of charging and discharging speed or battery capacity, graphene batteries are far superior to traditional lithium batteries such as ternary lithium and lithium iron phosphate on the market.

The reason why it is not popular is that graphene is too expensive!
The market price of high-purity graphene is around 3000 yuan per gram. This is the result of the improvement of preparation technology and the increase in graphene production in recent years.

When the price of a cutting-edge material is too high, its commercial properties will be greatly reduced.

As a result, the current mainstream battery manufacturers will at most take very rare industrial-grade graphene films and put them into the positive and negative electrodes of the battery to enhance the charging and discharging speed of the electrodes.

Once graphene and lithium materials are compounded, Chen Jue couldn't imagine how much such a battery would cost.

Anyway, as soon as you hear the name, you know that ordinary consumers cannot afford it.

However, after learning that [Redstone Technology Experts] could prepare composite "graphene-lithium" materials, Chen Jue couldn't contain his excitement.

Regardless of the cost, let’s build one and test its performance first.

Even if it cannot be put into large-scale commercial use, it would be fine to leave it for yourself to modify some personal equipment in the future.

So Chen Jue called Wu Bo, the head of the purchasing department of the Magic Cube Group, that night and said, "Old Wu, help me purchase a batch of high-purity graphene from the market as quickly as possible!"

"The price doesn't matter. As long as it can be delivered to the Rubik's Cube Factory within 2 hours, each employee involved in this will receive a month's salary as a bonus! Hurry, it's urgent!"

Wu Bo was shocked when he saw the incoming call reminder: "Okay, Chairman! I'll find it for you right away."

Motivated by the money, the purchasing department employees who had originally returned to their newly allocated dormitory houses to rest became excited after learning about the new side quest released by their boss.

After all, those guys who went to Shanghai to participate in the exhibition, as soon as they came back, started to publicize in the company's small group that they had received 6 months' basic salary and bonus, which made many colleagues who were not included in the list very angry.

Especially for the purchasing department, they usually don't get the chance to attend exhibitions.

It was a rare opportunity to get a "branch line", so he started to mobilize his connections to help Chairman Chen Jue find information.

Graphene is not difficult to buy. You can find it everywhere if you search on Taobao.

But Chen Jue needed it urgently, and it would definitely be too late to buy it elsewhere.

Finally, after casting a wide net, I finally bought two kilograms of canned powder in the laboratory warehouse of Chashanwen University at a price 50% higher.

When two large cans of graphene were delivered to the Rubik's Cube factory, Chen Jue threw them to Lao Cai and asked him to start the performance.

The big-nosed villager reached out and unscrewed the lid of the jar, took a deep sniff inside, and his eyes glowed green.

Then he took out a set of 64 lithium particles from the box and threw them into the workbench to create lithium ingots in a 3×3 layout.

Chen Jue was afraid that this thing would explode, so he didn't dare to synthesize it at all.

But when I saw Lao Cai grabbing the [lithium ingot], submerging it in a pool of 'infinite water' dug out from the side, and cutting it with a wire saw.

This terrifying scene frightened Chen Jue so much that he leaned back tactically: "Fuck! Lao Cai, aren't you afraid of detonating this piece of lithium if you cut it like this?"

Lao Cai sharpened the saw and explained, "Boss, this pool is filled with 100% pure water. It doesn't dissolve any gas or impurities. Even if you throw the most active metal in it, it won't react."

In addition, this [Redstone Technology Expert] also commented on the [Lithium Ingot] pieces in his hand that were cut into the size of a mobile phone, saying that this thing was processed by the MC [Furnace] and [Workbench].

It has already departed from the state of elemental lithium refined by human technology.

Not only is there no impurities, but the arrangement structure of the internal lithium elements is also very stable.

If it weren't for the fact that Chen Jue, the demon Steve, was nearby, Lao Cai wouldn't even need to use the pool of "infinite water" for fear of "disturbing" the demon. He could just process and cut it directly.

(End of this chapter)