It had been quite a while since I found those Arc Reactors at Ivan's place.
Shimizu had also been researching these Arc Reactors for a long time.
However, until now, he hadn't been able to decipher the technology to manufacture Arc Reactors based on the samples he had on hand.
This was purely a difference in technological levels.
Shimizu's attainments in the field of mechanical physics were actually quite high now. Although there was still a big gap between him and geniuses like Tony Stark who were ahead of the times, the knowledge and technology he had mastered through various channels were definitely ahead of most scientists.
In these past few months, Shimizu had also received most of Norman Osborn's scientific research achievements from his lifetime. With the technological foundation of the entire Osborn enterprise as support, he still couldn't replicate the Arc Reactor.
Apart from Ivan, who had a family background and whose father assisted Howard Stark in developing the Arc Reactor, almost no one in the entire Marvel world could crack this little gadget that Tony Stark made from dismantled missiles in a cave.
But he wasn't without gains.
He had roughly figured out most of the principles of how the Arc Reactor works. Even if the relevant technology couldn't achieve these principles, the byproducts researched in the process were valuable enough.
Under normal circumstances, extremely harsh conditions are required to achieve nuclear fusion.
Nuclear fusion in nature, such as in the sun, occurs naturally under high temperature and high pressure environments.
Because high pressure conditions like those on the sun cannot be formed on Earth, man-made nuclear fusion basically relies on absolute high temperature—a typical example is the hydrogen bomb, which is detonated by the high temperature generated when an atomic bomb explodes.
Another example is the Tokamak device, which has an internal temperature as high as 100 to 150 million degrees Celsius. The principle is to heat the plasma inside to this level through induced current, high-energy particle injection, and radio frequency heating using electromagnetic waves of specific frequencies, and to control these plasmas with magnetic fields.
In short, whether it's high temperature or high pressure, it's all to increase a large enough amount of energy to overcome the electrostatic repulsion between atomic nuclei, that is, the Coulomb barrier.
Howard Stark ingeniously developed a black technology among black technologies in the last century.
Amplification of the quantum tunneling effect.
In classical physics, if a particle's energy is not enough to cross the potential barrier, it will be reflected back. But this is not the case in the microscopic world.
At the microscopic scale, particles exhibit wave properties, and their wave function undergoes exponential decay within the barrier region, but it does not completely return to zero. Therefore, particles have a certain probability of "tunneling" through the barrier and appearing on the other side.
This is the quantum tunneling effect.
Howard Stark integrated various methods to amplify the quantum tunneling effect, making it easier for particles to pass through the Coulomb barrier and achieve nuclear fusion.
For example, using muon-catalyzed fusion, or using ultra-strong laser fields to reduce the width of the potential barrier in an instant.
These are all pretty dark technologies.
But the darkest one, and the most important, and the one that sounds the most outrageous, is that Howard Stark researched the technology of using metal lattices to reduce the potential barrier.
By chemically filling hydrogen atoms into the metal lattice, it helps the hydrogen atoms approach the distance required for nuclear reaction, reduces the reaction barrier between hydrogen atoms, greatly amplifies the quantum tunneling effect of hydrogen and its isotopes, amplifying it to the point where cold nuclear fusion can be easily generated at room temperature, and it is extremely safe.
Howard Stark researched many metal materials, and even vibranium was used for research. Finally, he concluded that the metal lattice of palladium metal is the most suitable.
This itself is also an extremely excellent hydrogen storage material.
This also answered one of Shimizu's doubts.
That is, why the power of the Arc Reactor is ridiculously high, but the battery life is so short.
Because the cold nuclear fusion of this thing occurs through hydrogen atoms and their isotopes filled in palladium metal. The number of hydrogen atoms is greatly restricted.
Of course, Howard Stark also proposed a solution for this, speculating on the existence of an isotope of palladium, but limited by the times, he left it to future generations to create.
Tony Stark, on the other hand, added a lot of things on this basis, not only creating this palladium isotope, but also successfully miniaturizing the reactor.
It's just that understanding the principle is one thing, Shimizu couldn't fill the hydrogen atoms into the metal lattice of palladium metal in the correct way.
Whether it's the simplest high temperature and high pressure treatment, or electrochemical filling, he had tried it all.
He could fill a small amount of hydrogen atoms into it, but in a single unit cell, the density of hydrogen atoms was not high, and it couldn't achieve the effect he wanted at all.
As a supporting technology for the Arc Reactor, Shimizu could directly move it to his armor and puppets, reducing the consumption of Chakra, amplifying attacks, increasing flight speed, and greatly enhancing the efficiency of energy utilization.
"Watos, put these things away, put them back where they were, and seal the seventeen palladium-hydrogen combination scheme."
Shimizu rubbed his eyes tiredly and stretched.
"OK, Sir."
No mistake, one first, one hair, one inside, one content, one is, one look!
A cold synthesized electronic sound rang from the speaker above Shimizu's head.
Watos, that is, WATOS.
Is the result of Shimizu's reverse cracking of Luther's LEXOS with the help of Cisco and Victor.
As an artificial intelligence, Watos is still in a relatively early stage. Even if Shimizu fed it a lot of training data and equipped an entire room of servers to provide computing power for it, this thing would occasionally go crazy and misunderstand Shimizu's meaning, turning into an artificial idiot.
But in most cases, Watos is still quite useful. At least in the field of scientific research, it can bring some assistance to Shimizu.
"Sir, you have a missed call. It was from Mr. Menken thirty minutes ago. You told me to reject it at the time."
"Menken? Call back. By the way, tell Jorge to bring me a cup of coffee."
Shimizu yawned wearily and sat in the recliner.
Long-term high-intensity mental activity made him a little tired.
"Okay, sir."
In just a few seconds, the sound of the phone being connected came from the speaker above Shimizu's head.
"Walter, you finally answered the phone."
Menken's voice sounded even more tired.
"What's the matter?"
"Connors' Rebirth Serum has been successful, but many people are eyeing it. Thanks to Connors, I've already identified a dozen spies hidden in the company."
"Are the people behind those spies troublesome?"
