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Although he had already sentenced this manuscript to death in his heart, Xu Qiu still read the other party's manuscript completely in a responsible way.

Unfortunately, I didn't find any other highlights. The main innovations of this article are similar to Xu Qiu's AM - new materials, high efficiency, and high crystallinity.

Moreover, JACS journals have very strict restrictions on the length of the main text, so the experimental data reported in the main text is not as detailed as Xu Qiu's AM.

The first unit of this work is a research group of the University of Hong Kong, which can be regarded as a large research group in the field of organic photovoltaics. The corresponding author is Yan Hu.

When Xu Qiu read the literature, he also saw the name of Yan Hu many times. He produced a lot of articles every year, and also published several articles in the big sub-journal of Nature - Nature Optics.

Unexpectedly, it crashed with the experiment of their research group.

As for the editor sending the article to Teacher Wei, it was expected.

There is a high probability that the editor retrieved the AM published by Xu Qiu in the literature database.

Because their submission time is later than the time when the electronic version of Xu Qiu AM’s article is online, and the process after the article is received is first the author’s proof, finalizing the final version, and then waiting for about a month before the electronic version of the article will be online. Finally, wait a few months before the official release.

When the article enters the online version, other researchers can search for the corresponding article from the corresponding journal, but there is no issue or volume number at this time, and the corresponding issue and volume number will only be available after it is officially published.

Xu Qiu couldn't help sighing: Without our AM, it would be no problem for them to send a JACS for their work.

And if they can submit their manuscripts earlier, before our electronic version goes online, maybe the manuscripts will not reach us. After all, ACS and Wiley are two companies with different databases. It is also possible that they will be published at the same time as our articles of.

But now that the articles are in our hands, their work is considered useless, and they may only have to revise them again, and then publish the article in the second district to return to blood.

Chen Wanqing said with emotion: Now I understand Mr. Wei, why he always emphasizes 'do scientific research to be fast'. Scientific research is not only competing with the sky, but also competing with other researchers.

That's right, but you can't blindly pursue speed and neglect the quality of work. After all, it's rare for people to compete with others and collide with experiments. Xu Qiu paused and said:

I guess they should also be doing some horizontal research based on PCE11 at the same time, which will definitely overlap with our other work. If they discover side chain regulation, P3T, P5T, and special light absorption spectral phenomena, these related researches will All of the articles are covered by us, will their boss be so angry that they will cut off the project?

There is a high probability that the car will still crash, but our articles are almost published, so it has nothing to do with us. Chen Wanqing said: They are really slow, slow.

Xu Qiu continued to discuss with his seniors and juniors for a while, and then began to write the review comments for rejecting the manuscript.

This is much easier to write than the big and small changes. It took him a few minutes to complete it, with only a short paragraph:

The author designed and synthesized a highly crystalline polymer donor material PffBT4T-2OD, and used it in organic solar cells under the fullerene system, and the highest photoelectric efficiency can reach 10.16%. However, similar results have been There have been related reports: Adv. Mater., DOI: xxx. Therefore, from the perspective of the novelty of the article, I don’t think this work is enough to be published in a high-level journal like JACS.”

Then he sent the written opinion document to Mr. Wei by email.

...

After dealing with the review of the article, it is the turn of the non-fullerene review. Now that I have received the exact answer from the editor, I can start writing.

Considering the relatively heavy workload of the review, Xu Qiu and Chen Wanqing discussed it and decided to follow the previous method of writing the proposal.

Split an entire project into several modular tasks, and finally integrate them.

In addition, they also brought the junior girls into the team that wrote the review. The three of them worked together, and the rankings were Xu Qiu, Chen Wanqing, and Han Jiaying.

Because the new journals that have not been published in the JCR division can only be regarded as four districts when evaluating awards and graduation reviews, so the attribution of this article is not particularly important.

For the initial division of labor plan, Han Jiaying is responsible for the summary of the second part of the PDI classification materials, Chen Wanqing is responsible for the second part of the summary of the A-D-A classification materials, and Xu Qiu is responsible for the summary of the N2200 series and other series of materials. After the second part is completed, Xu Qiu Integrate the content into the text, and then discuss the division of labor in the next stage.

Since Han Jiaying didn't have much contact with the review, Xu Qiu was afraid that something might go wrong with her, so she taught her a lesson before the official start of work:

When citing literature, it must be detailed, but in the text, it is not necessary to write out what each job does, just pick out a few typical jobs under the corresponding sub-category.

As for the picture part, the molecular structure of the material needs to draw a big picture, including all the materials involved.

As for other pictures, most of them can match the content of the text and directly quote pictures from other people's work. You can quote the whole picture or only part of the picture in a picture. This depends on the specific needs. Reorganize and become pictures in your own articles.

This is the particularity of the review, original pictures are not required, but it is a little troublesome to quote other people's pictures, that is, to obtain the corresponding re-creation permission.

You don’t have to worry too much, you can apply for it on the journal company’s website after writing it. Most of the papers published in SCI journals have already authorized this permission to the journal.

Any content in the article, including pictures and text, can be recreated and quoted, provided that the source is indicated and not used for commercial purposes.

The school girl nodded repeatedly, and summarized the main points of Xu Qiu's words, and recorded them in the experiment notebook.

In addition to writing the review, Xu Qiu also planned the experiment on Monday to synthesize the simplest PDI-2 molecule. The raw materials are perylenetetracarboxylic dianhydride and 3-aminopentane.

...

Monday morning.

Because the research team just held a group meeting after returning from vacation last Wednesday, so today is mainly a supplementary report.

Chen Wanqing talked about the updated research plan. Teacher Wei's opinion was similar to Xu Qiu's, and he also questioned whether the design is too complicated.

However, although the synthesis of the route he designed was difficult, at least it was feasible, and the raw materials used were relatively cheap, so he did not forcefully dissuade it.

Moreover, Wei Xingsi also understands that in order to achieve breakthroughs, it is necessary to design synthetic materials independently, and the materials that can be purchased from optoelectronic companies are all thoroughly researched by others.

Duan Yun also mentioned a research idea of ​​PVDF composite metal nanowires, which requires the purchase of silver, nickel, and cobalt nanowires. The initial experiment costs about a few thousand dollars, so he asked Mr. Wei to apply for funding.

With a big wave of his hand, Teacher Wei approved it, and added another sentence: A lot of money has been spent, you have to do it well and produce results as soon as possible.

Okay, okay. Duan Yun responded with a smile, and he didn't know if he listened.

The group meeting ended early in only half an hour.

At half past ten, Wei Xingsi came in a hurry and appeared at the door of 216.

Chen Wanqing didn't hear anything, she was watching the show and was caught straight, but Teacher Wei only glanced at her, then turned to Xu Qiu and said:

Your AEM news has come, major changes, I roughly read it to make up some experiments, I forwarded the email to you, please take a closer look, we will study it later.

Okay. Xu Qiu agreed, and the plan really couldn't keep up with the changes. Originally, he planned to take the school bus at 11:30 to Zhangjiang to do the synthesis, but now his synthesis plan had to be delayed again.

However, this is good news. The opinion has changed drastically, and the probability of the article being finally accepted is still very high.

Everyone cast envious eyes one after another, it's another SCI section one!

I haven't graduated from my undergraduate degree yet, so I will immediately write two articles for the first area, two for the second area, and several articles by the second author and the third author.

Moreover, in terms of the quality of the article, only Wu Feifei can compare with him in the lab now, and her EES and CM are both in the first district.

But Wu Feifei had a workload of more than two years, while Xu Qiu only joined the group for less than a year.

However, no one felt jealous because of it.

After all, when it comes to scientific research, the students in the group don't have any conflicts of interest among themselves.

There is no such thing as if you post more articles and one area, I will post fewer articles, each depends on its own ability.

In fact, looking at the entire scientific research circle, it is also carried by everyone in sedan chairs. Most of the time, it is about win-win cooperation, and it is rare that there will be no contact with each other.

Unless, like Xu Qiu, he steals a big article from Yan Hu's group, but this is considered a special case, and it rarely happens.

If Yan Hu's heart is not broad enough, it is still possible for him and Wei Xingsi to become enemies.

But it doesn't have too much influence. The big deal is that every time you submit a manuscript, you can fill in Yan Hu in the column of reviewers you don't want to meet.

...

After laughing with the research team for a while, Xu Qiu turned his attention to the review comments of his AEM article.

There are a total of three opinions, two positive and one negative, editorial opinion: big change, revision time: within 20 days.

The negative one is suggesting to switch to AELM, the writing is somewhat subjective, yin and yang, and the style of writing looks like a foreigner. He also mentioned the AM article posted by Xu Qiu, to the effect that you have already posted the AM article, this job is not suitable Another post on AEM, AELM is more suitable for it.”

Xu Qiu naturally refused. Although there is a letter difference between AEM and AELM, the influence of the journal is much worse. AEM is the top of the first district, and AELM is just an ordinary second district.

There is no need to reply or thank you for this kind of opinion, just ignore it.

Overall, the editor is relatively optimistic about this article. Otherwise, high-quality journals like AEM may sometimes reject the manuscript directly with a negative opinion.

You must know that the power of editors is very great.

On the one hand, the reviewers are selected by him. Faced with the articles that he does not want to pass, he deliberately handed over the articles to those reviewers who are more strict, that is, with a high rejection rate.

On the other hand, he can ignore the comments of some reviewers. For example, he has received three comments, two of which are not satisfactory, and he can directly send one of his satisfactory comments back to the author.

At this time, what the author sees may be the opinion of reviewer 3, and he may wonder where are reviewers 1 and 2?

There are two other positive opinions on the article, one minor revision and one major revision.

The one with minor changes seems to be a domestic reviewer with a high probability, and the review comments are more templated.

The few questions raised are relatively easy to correct, including modifying pictures, supplementing text descriptions, and correcting wrong words, and do not involve supplementary experiments.

The one that has been changed is obviously a foreigner, at least a research worker who has lived in an English environment all year round, and his language style is somewhat slang.

In his opinion, in addition to some routine problems that are relatively easy to correct, he also asked for three additional experiments.

One is the HOMO/LUMO energy level distribution diagram under DFT analysis, the other is the logarithmic coordinate diagram of the dark J-V curve, and the other is the TRPL data. Of course, the corresponding description part is also required to be supplemented.

DFT analysis, Xu Qiu only did P4T once before on Mr. Wei's big computer without fluorine atoms, and the advanced version with fluorine atoms was done in the simulation laboratory.

This is very simple. Use CHEMDRAW to draw the molecular structure diagram and run it on Teacher Wei's big computer.

The four systems only need to be done once, because the side chain has little influence on the result, and no matter how long the side chain is, it is replaced with a methyl group in the simulation process.

For the J-V curve of the dark state, Xu Qiu and the others will test each time before testing the bright state, and the original data are all there.

However, logarithmic coordinates are generally not used, and only a dark-state curve with normal coordinates will be placed on the side of the bright-state J-V curve in the text.

The main reason is that the logarithmic coordinate diagram of the dark J-V curve will not be analyzed. This is a relatively old theoretical analysis method that was popular more than 20 years ago and only occasionally appears in the current literature.

Each field will have popular test representation methods in different time periods.

Including DFT, which was popular in the early years, is a method that does not appear much now.

The GIWAXS experiment that few people did in the early years has now become one of the standard experimental methods in the field of organic photovoltaics.

It can be seen that this reviewer has probably worked in the field of organic photovoltaics for many years, and still retains some early experimental habits.

But in any case, people have made these suggestions, and if possible, we should try our best to make revisions according to the opinions.

Because if the article is revised and then submitted for review, there is a high probability that these reviewers will remain.

In addition, this AEM article is originally an Article type article, unlike the AM article which is a Communication type article, the experimental data should indeed be more detailed.

Of course, although the problems mentioned above are a bit troublesome, they are still relatively easy to solve.

The most critical question now is what to do with TRPL, which is an instrument that is not available in the laboratory.