The design of the graphene combat suit was finalized, and soon the research and development work of the Xinghai scientific research team was on track.
With the support of super financial sponsor Xia Xu, everyone does not need to worry about funds and equipment. The necessary graphene and carbon sponge will naturally be negotiated and purchased by Xinghai Industry.
Without the unnecessary clutter, a group of geniuses gathered together to unleash powerful creativity. The entire research and development progress was astonishingly fast, and Xia Xu benefited greatly from the exchange and collision of different ideas.
A week later, the Hitech alloy he bought from the dark web was delivered.
He had thought there would be some relatively confidential way of doing the transaction, and even wondered if there would be some bullshit going on, but the reality made him laugh and cry, as this thing actually came by express delivery.
But think about it, it makes sense. After all, it's just a piece of alloy, not an illegal item, so there's no need to do anything fancy. At most, it would be enough to tamper with the delivery.
"Xia, what are you holding in your hand?"
Walker and others who were immersed in studying the graphene combat suit saw Xia Xu coming in with a courier box, and they all looked at him curiously.
"Good stuff, but keep it secret for now."
Xia Xu smiled mysteriously, without explaining anything in detail to Walker and the others, he went straight into an empty studio.
Zhou Ji and Walker are busy researching graphene combat suits, which is the most important thing, so Hitech Alloy will not let them distract their attention for the time being.
Moreover, he had already made plans on how to use Hyte Alloy. This alloy is extremely suitable for making thermal energy weapons. He planned to use it to make a knife that can perform high-temperature cutting.
This kind of weapon is actually not too technically difficult. To put it simply, it is just about heating the metal. The difficulty lies mainly in materials and energy. There is no need for Walker and others to use it. It is a good opportunity to exercise one's hands-on ability.
"As expected, some kind of alloy with tungsten as the main component..."
After returning with the Hitech alloy, the first thing Xia Xu did was to test the composition of this expensive alloy.
The result was as he expected. It was a tungsten alloy mainly composed of tungsten.
He had actually guessed this a long time ago. After all, the properties of Hitech alloy are actually highly similar to those of tungsten metal, except that it does not have defects such as tungsten's easy oxidation, and some of its physical properties are also better.
However, it is unrealistic to try to imitate it just by knowing the main ingredients.
Even adding trace amounts of different components to an alloy will have a huge impact on its performance. It is impossible to fully understand its composition, let alone confirm its specific proportions and processing technology.
Of course, Xia Xu didn't have any ideas in this regard. The purpose of testing was mainly to confirm the guesswork and grasp the actual material properties.
After learning a little and confirming that the previous description of the properties was genuine, Xia Xu began to draw the design and sent the Hitech alloy to a foundry under Xinghai Industry for processing.
The hardness and melting point of this stuff are too high. The equipment of the research team alone cannot handle Hitech alloy. The University of Science and Technology of China has no shortage of high-precision equipment, but it is impossible to set up a foundry in the school.
The alloy used to make the blade is actually forged and shaped, there is nothing much to say about this.
The core part of the thermal energy knife is the heating component, which is actually not difficult to do. Basically, simply turning on the electricity can make the Hitech alloy heat up.
Of course, this is just a description. It is impossible to be so rough. For the sake of speed and power consumption, the circuit needs to be carefully designed to control the current and voltage, and arrange them reasonably on the hilt.
Moreover, the thermal energy knife actually has a fatal difficulty - energy.
To be precise, it is a miniaturized energy source.
Today's human battery technology is actually very advanced. A battery the size of a shoebox is enough to power electric vehicles and electric cars for hundreds of kilometers.
However, the reality is that many aspects today are still inevitably strangled by energy, especially in miniaturized energy.
The energy problem of the thermal energy knife is actually simple to solve. You only need to carry a small backpack with a battery and connect it to the end of the handle to easily meet the energy consumption needs.
But you have to carry a battery backpack all the time and keep the wire connected to the hilt. This design is too stupid. Not to mention that someone might pull out the wire in actual combat, it is a hindrance just to wield it.
Xia Xu ruled out this option immediately without even thinking about it.
But the energy problem still needs to be faced.
Since the energy demand cannot be met, we can only sacrifice battery life helplessly.
Fortunately, the thermal energy knife he designed adopted the shape of the Miao Dao that he was most familiar with. The handle alone was 40 centimeters long, and if the width was slightly increased, there would still be a lot of internal space.
The 40-centimeter handle is made of hollow titanium alloy, and except for a small insulating layer and a heat insulation layer at the front end, it is fully loaded with batteries and circuits.
In this way, I can't say how much longer it can last, but at least it is more than enough to last for two or three minutes. After all, it takes a while for the Hitech alloy to cool down after being heated to two or three thousand degrees.
"Although the battery life data on paper is a bit short, the two or three minutes at a critical moment is actually enough to sustain a battle..."
Xia Xu comforted himself after finally finalizing the design.
Two or three minutes is actually enough to deal with a battle in most cases. Unless you are besieged by many people at close range, it is rare in reality that you can fight with others for two or three minutes.
Moreover, the high temperature state can only last for three minutes. It does not mean that you can't kill people without the high temperature. With the strength and weight of the Hitech alloy, it can become a fighting weapon even without the high temperature.
It's just the truth. Seeing his own work have such flaws, Xia Xu couldn't help feeling a little regretful.
"Victor may have miniaturized high-energy battery technology. Even if he doesn't, it should be easy for him to make it..."
Regretfully, such a thought inevitably flashed through Xia Xu's mind, but was quickly put behind him.
It was impossible to find Victor. If he really asked him, no matter what method he used, he could already imagine that guy's arrogant and pretentious look.
The Arachnid Predator was criticized for simply using commercial components from the Spot Group. If this had happened in the past, who knows how embarrassing it would have been.
Putting this idea aside, Xia Xu finished the design drawings and entered the manufacturing process.
He didn't need to worry about the blade, as it was made at the foundry. The hilt was also simple, as there was a laser 3D metal printer in the laboratory building that could be borrowed.
This instrument is different from 3D printers that use plastic materials. Its principle is to fill it with a large amount of metal powder, and then use lasers to accurately melt and solidify the metal powder, thereby "carving" out the corresponding metal parts. Even titanium alloys can be printed.
It only took a little while for a titanium alloy, silver-white hilt with grooves that looked very high-tech to be produced, and then there were the battery pack, circuit, and blade sent by the foundry...