Chapter 127: Nano-coat
Space Hub, Xinghai Technology branch.
Considering the convenience of various space science research in the future, taking advantage of the completion of the tri-titanium alloy processing plant, Fan Ren was the first to enjoy the benefits brought by establishing an ore refining and processing system factory in space.
The building materials needed for the massive Xinghai space laboratory could be directly processed and cut at the processing plant, and because there is no gravity in space, the cost required for transportation of these originally high-mass tri-titanium alloy building materials was extremely low.
Precisely because of this, various projects on the current Space Hub were unfolding on a grand scale.
Not only Xinghai’s large laboratory, but also the space dock construction plant that Fan Ren had been longing for began ‘breaking ground’.
His previous studio had long been demolished and redesigned into a Xinghai Space Hub branch building with office functions.
In the future, Xinghai Technology’s office work will gradually be transferred to this brand-new building.
Benefiting from several quantum communication satellites paired with the abundant computing power of graphene chips, most of the current global communication system has switched to this ultra-low latency communication method that can directly connect to the Moon and Mars.
In addition, under Xinghai’s massive investment regardless of cost, the development speed of the Space Hub is advancing by leaps and bounds.
At the same time, precisely because of the advantage of the natural oxygen-free environment, a large portion of high-tech companies in Great Xia are now starting to ponder moving their company research and development laboratories to space.
For example, the Kyoto Optical Instruments Research Institute, which had previously cooperated with Fan Ren, had long ago, under the strong financial resources support of Guo Xin Technology, built their own optical equipment laboratory at the Space Hub through Xinghai Technology.
In the Xinghai Laboratory, Fan Ren and a group of researchers transferred from various departments were nervously staring at a human body model.
Fan Ren tirelessly checked the equipment again, and finally stepped back from the human body model.
Not far away, by the workbench.
A’dai was absent-mindedly watching this scene. Although he was very confident in this experiment, his mind was full of data code that ordinary people could hardly understand.
“First experiment, start.”
As Fan Ren’s words came, A’dai didn’t even glance at the human body model and casually pressed the start button.
Immediately after, a dense layer of gray substance began to emerge on the human body model in front of everyone.
Very quickly, this black substance directly covered every inch of skin on the human body model’s entire body.
From the images transmitted by the camera capturing the details, the eyes, ears, and nose of the human body model were not spared, all completely sealed by the black substance.
Fan Ren carefully observed for a while. Over there, although A’dai was distracted, his hand movements did not stop.
After a series of operations, the display screen immediately showed the human body model’s various data panels.
Body temperature, 36.5 degrees.
Other vital signs data were all blank.
This was because the first test was on a human body model, which itself did not have other vital signs.
Glancing at A’dai over there who was muttering to himself, Fan Ren amusingly walked over and patted his shoulder.
“Let me do it.”
“Ah, no need, Boss, I can do it.”
A’dai came back to his senses and grinned without stepping aside.
“Don’t get distracted. We’ll talk about that matter later.”
“Okay!”
Hearing this, A’dai’s expression instantly perked up. Without needing Fan Ren to say anything, he glanced at the gray all-over human body model over there, then at the vital signs monitoring panel, and immediately pressed rapidly with his hand.
“Attention, starting to extract oxygen, external temperature increased to 200 degrees Celsius.”
As his words fell, the gray substance on the human body model seemed to wriggle slightly, then became slightly redder.
There were no further changes after that.
“Current environment oxygen content 0%, temperature 200°. Current model state is all normal, lacking internal oxygen supply.”
A’dai reported the data aloud. He was extremely confident in the results of this experiment to begin with, so he was the calmest at this moment.
But the others were different. Looking at this gray all-over human body model, they couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration.
Nanorobot coat, the new technology that can directly replace thick and heavy space pressure suits in the future.
It was also the research result of Fan Ren after nearly a year since entering the Space Hub.
In this nanorobot coat research, Fan Ren did not rely on the system’s support. It was completely based on graphene, plus radio technology, and finally with A’dai’s help, a high-tech product research that was truly independently completed in the full sense.
Nanorobots already have certain practical application domains in human life.
However, most are used in medical and microscopic domains, and the usage amount at one time is at most about one gram even if calculated generously.
Where would it be like Fan Ren, using an amount that exceeded the total of most previous laboratories in one go.
Just on one human body model, nearly 5 kilograms were used.
The idea of researching this nano-coat had actually existed for a long time. Ever since he and Liu Jun went to the Lunar Base earliest, seeing the astronauts doing outdoor work having to put on and take off heavy outdoor spacesuits every time they entered and exited the base, Fan Ren had this idea from then on.
But since this research process did not have the system’s help, it was also the slowest progressing research he had done in so many years.
Taking over a year and consuming considerable resources, the first experiment was finally completed.
At this moment, looking at the gray-black human model, a satisfied expression appeared on his face.
In his design, this nano-coat used countless massive amounts of robots only hundreds of nanometers in size, obtaining energy through the human body’s own magnetic field, and then controlled by external radio equipment terminal to issue commands to these robots.
They normally hide in the lower layer under the human skin surface. When needed, they emerge to the outer skin layer through the molecular spacing between skin, and then form a seamless sealed environment through a special arrangement.
At the same time, these nanorobots can also decompose residual oxygen in the atmosphere to provide the oxygen needed by the human body.
The only flaw now is that it cannot provide an oxygen source in a vacuum environment.
The current solution is only to additionally carry an oxygen tank on the back.
However, compared to previous heavy spacesuits, the advent of this technology will absolutely make humans working in space environments more convenient.
The same applies to the Lunar Base.
Once the nano-coat research succeeds, the first batch will be equipped to the outdoor mining personnel at the Lunar Base.
Only afterwards will it gradually be popularized among various astronauts in space.
“Test ended, experiment successful.”
Fan Ren smiled and signaled A’dai to end this experiment.
Although the nano-coat was initiated under Fan Ren’s leadership, without A’dai’s provided intelligent control system, it would basically have been impossible to complete.
Looking at A’dai’s eager expression, Fan Ren somewhat annoyedly rubbed his forehead.
