Global Industry Will Enter The Era Of Carbon Materials &Nbsp; &Nbsp; Usher In A New Climax Of Human Economy.

Just as archaeologists use the new and Paleolithic to divide the two stages of human prehistory, today we can use the alternation of two chemical elements to describe the material revolution that is taking place.

The last decades of twentieth Century are the age of silicon.

In twentieth Century, regardless of silicate and cement as building materials such as silicate, silicon based integrated circuit is still bustling single crystal or polycrystalline silicon solar photovoltaic components.

In twenty-first Century, carbon dominated.

In November this year, China's first carbon fiber light sport aircraft with completely independent intellectual property rights, "red gulls", was put off at the Zhuhai Aviation Industrial Park. The net weight of this aircraft is only 280 kilograms.

In the low altitude airspace of kilometers or so, from Zhuhai to Wuhan, Sanya, Changsha and other cities, it only needs 80 liters of 97 or 98 gasoline, and it can be easily flying for four or five hours.

The domestic carbon composites prototype car was also exhibited at the industrial exposition held in Shanghai.

Not only in China.

In the field of aeronautical materials, Airbus 320, 380 and Boeing 787 use carbon composites as the structural materials inside the aircraft to reduce the weight of the aircraft itself. The corresponding way is to reduce fuel consumption during the flight and achieve more green flight.

Of particular concern is the enthusiasm of the world electric vehicle manufacturer represented by BMW on the carbon fiber composite electric vehicle.

BMW has announced the production of carbon composite electric vehicles in 2012, and invested heavily in manufacturing carbon fiber manufacturing enterprises in the United States, and set up corresponding fiber braid and molding companies in Germany.

It is foreseeable that the future mainstream electric vehicles will be made of carbon composites.

Other applications of carbon fiber also include blades for wind power generation.

If we take into account the pollution and comprehensive energy consumption of traditional silicon based materials, such as cement, glass and iron and steel industry from mining to finished products, the advantage of carbon materials will be more obvious.

Of course, the beneficiaries of the traditional material interest chain will list various rebuttal reasons for their defense. Taking the high-end aircraft engine as an example, today's aviation kerosene driven aircraft, whether turbojet or turbofan engine, will challenge the new type of electric or magnetic driven aircraft represented by solar energy and other clean energy, just as today's car engines are being replaced by new motors.

The key material supporting the mainstream aircraft engine will inevitably turn to a new generation of structural material system.

The coming generation of photovoltaic materials is also based on carbon based organic optoelectronic materials such as thin film materials, using quantum effects to improve energy conversion efficiency.

Unfortunately, due to the fact that the mainstream photovoltaic materials are not considering the vicious competition of environmental costs, the price is too low, which leads to the slow emergence of new photoelectric materials, and even forced to cancel the production plan, and only retain the R & D capability.

When the noise comes to an end,

Finally, it is necessary to point out that the application of carbon nanotubes is also worthy of attention and devotion.

Take the current popular touch screen as an example, now the mainstream touch screen uses rare earth elements as the surface film material, and the preparation of carbon nanotubes films also shows good application potential.

The potential of other carbon structures in quantum communication is even more exciting.

From the perspective of industrial capability, industrial clusters related to carbon are also being nurtured and grown.

The Silicon Valley in California, USA, as a symbol of human high-tech enterprise cluster, has had a tremendous impact on global technology in the past 30 years.

We have reason to build a new carbon Valley as a new landmark for technology in twenty-first Century.

I personally believe that the industrial output value of the global "carbon Valley" in the next 20 years can at least be the sum of the total output value of the iron and steel industry, the glass industry and the pulp and paper industry, and the production of building materials, furniture, clothing, pportation and food factories made of carbon composites, so as to emerge as new drug carriers and artificial organs.