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In the next few days, the work to publish the journal Nature·Energy has been going on steadily.

At the same time, the review comments of several articles submitted by the research group before the summer vacation returned one after another this week.

Among them, Xu Qiu has two articles on IT-DM and IT-4F, and the journals he submitted to are AM and Angew respectively.

For the article in AM, there were two reviewers. One of the reviewers asked some simple questions, and finally suggested minor revisions or direct acceptance. The other reviewer also asked some simple questions, but in the end It is recommended to switch to AEM because the molecular structure of IT-DM is similar to that of ITIC, and the article lacks novelty.

In the end, the editor adopted the opinion of the second reviewer, suggested that the article be transferred to AEM, and then directly attached two links, corresponding to transfer and rejection of transfer.

This is an expected result. For top journals like AM, the number of articles that can be published each year in the same field is limited. In other words, if you publish more, others will naturally have fewer. Therefore, peer review When you do this, you will tend to be picky, and you will have higher requirements for novelty in your work, and you will be more lucky. For the same job, if you happen to meet two or three nice reviewers, you may pass the review. It has been drafted, but if there is a tough (strict) reviewer, it may be rejected or suggested to resubmit.

Especially for journals like AM with no shortage of manuscripts, basically as long as there is a negative opinion, the editor will reject the manuscript or suggest resubmission.

Of course, occasionally a third reviewer will be found for arbitration. How to do it depends on the mood of the editor.

Having said that, switching from AM to AEM like this is already the best result. The gap between the two journals is not big, and the impact factors are very close, both of which are around 20, which roughly correspond to T1 in the journal. And T1.25 level, so Xu Qiu and Wei Xingsi changed the text without much hesitation, and then directly transferred to it.

If the comments received are to be transferred to AELM, Energy Technology and other journals in the second, third and fourth districts, or other unknown new journals, then Xu Qiu and Wei Xingsi will definitely not agree, and either appeal or change the format and transfer to ACS Or RSC, vote for JACS, EES and the like.

Similarly, for example, if you submit a manuscript to Nature and you are transferred to a major sub-journal of Nature, most people will choose to accept it, but if it is transferred to NC, some people will choose to appeal.

Another Angew's article, luck is better, the final opinion is a minor revision, only need to answer some questions, add some unclear expressions in the article, without additional experiments.

In addition, there are three other AM articles in the group, one is Chen Wanqing's PCE10: IEICO system, one is Mo Wenlin's H22:ITIC:PCBM ternary system, and the other is Wu Shengnan's PCE10:FN-4F system.

Among them, the opinions of Mo Wenlin and the post-doctoral senior sister's two articles were greatly revised, and the time limit was 20 days.

The reason for the major change is that, on the one hand, the English level of the two of them is not high enough, they have been in the industry for a short time, and their understanding of organic photovoltaics is also weak. It is not impossible to make a small change, or even be accepted directly;

On the other hand, it is also because too many good articles have been published recently in the group. When you submit an article for a journal of AM grade again, some colleagues will put you under a magnifying glass, even if the innovation of these two works is not low. I also want to pick out a bunch of other problems for you. An article contains more than 3,000 words and hundreds of sentences. If you want to pick the bones, you can always do it.

Moreover, before the holiday, Wei Xingsi contributed nearly ten articles in a row, and revised the articles to the point of vomiting. Later, he was not as serious as he was at the beginning, and it was inevitable that there would be many mistakes and omissions.

Mo Wenlin and Wu Shengnan, although it is more troublesome to make major revisions to the article, but the probability of being accepted by AM after careful revision is quite high.

But Chen Wanqing was even more miserable.

That's right, my sister's AM submission was rejected again, and I missed AM again.

In terms of specific circumstances, similar to Xu Qiu, the editor suggested switching to AEM.

At that time, she almost cried when she received the news. She thought that this wave of AM would be stable before the summer vacation, but in the end...she chose to switch with tears in her eyes.

No way, she still has two derivative jobs of IEICO-4F/4Cl in her hand. If she doesn’t transfer to AEM now, it will be very difficult to sell the two jobs in her hand, and it may be delayed for a long time. It's more troublesome if it hasn't been cleaned up.

In fact, it is reasonable, if her job at IEICO is changed to another group, it should not be a big problem to post an AM.

But now because of the ITIC series, the group has been targeted by peers, so...

In other words, last time the IDT-ICIN system missed the chance of AM because Xu Zhenghong’s IDTBR material blocked its efficiency. This time, the IEICO system missed the chance of AM again.

A new week, Monday happens to be August 30th.

Not entering September also means that the new semester will start on September 6th.

In the past few days, the Handan campus has been relatively lively, because the students are undergoing military training, and the cafeteria at noon is basically full of boys and girls in military uniforms.

The time for military training is different for different colleges and universities. The time for the military training of the Magic City Comprehensive University is the sophomore year, which is usually arranged half a month before the start of the summer vacation.

According to Xu Qiu's personal experience before, the military training at the Shanghai Comprehensive University is very poor.

If students want to paddle, they can basically go to the hospital and open a case report to ask for leave. Girls pretend to be unwell, or they can leave the team directly to rest in the shade.

Moreover, the instructors who came from the army are very kind, they don't swear or hit people.

In addition, the school also takes great care of the flowers. If the outdoor temperature exceeds 36 degrees Celsius, it will be regarded as a hot weather, and the air conditioner will be blown directly in the classroom. In case of heavy rain, they will not be showered outside, and they will also gather together Go to the classroom to watch the promotional video.

Material one 218, group meeting.

After everyone applauded, Wei Xingsi began to distribute money.

Xu Qiu's two papers were accepted by Angew and AEM respectively, with a bonus of 6,000 yuan. Angew's level is similar to that of AM, but the impact factor is only in the early 10s. Compared with materials, chemistry is not very good. Water articles, the impact factor is natural Just lower.

The article by Chen Wanqing who re-submitted to AEM was also accepted, with a happy offer of 4,000 yuan.

At the beginning of the report, Wu Feifei has completed the review plan. While sorting out the literature, she is handing over work with Duan Yun to study cobalt nanowire-doped PVDF thermoelectric materials, but there is no progress for the time being.

The order of speeches in the group meeting was slightly adjusted, and Sun Wo was advanced one place, ahead of Tian Qing.

Sun Wo: Last week, I prepared a tin-based two-dimensional perovskite solution and spin-coated it. However, the coated film is not smooth and is still being optimized...

Wei Xingsi paused for a moment, then simply said: Wu Feifei, please help him when you have time.

He is planning to keep Sun Wo in a stocking state.

In fact, there is no way. The postgraduate graduate students recruited by foreign schools are somewhat similar to the situation of cross-field doctoral students. They only have three years, one year to read literature, familiarize themselves with instruments, one year to do experiments, and one year to prepare to find a doctor. Work, internship, defense, and usually go to class, don't have much time for scientific research.

Wei Xingsi has secretly decided in his heart that he will try his best to recruit graduate students in this school in the future.

For example, Tian Qing, a sophomore or junior who entered the group, even if she has been paddling, will have to work for five or six years. It would be more comfortable if she was a direct Ph.D. student.

Moreover, because Modu Comprehensive University belongs to the TOP5 in China, there are very few students from other universities that are also TOP5 come here, so the quality of graduate students from this school is generally slightly higher than that from other schools, at least in terms of English. It's not a shortcoming, but it's more difficult to say for those who come from other schools.

Tian Qing temporarily belonged to the organic photovoltaic team and began to report:

I tested the IDIC-4F last week for its exciton binding energy and exciton diffusion distance, which were 98 meV and 21.1 nm, respectively...

The results show that compared with IDIC, these two properties of IDIC-4F material are further improved. On the one hand, excitons are easier to be split into free charges after generation, and on the other hand, the survival of excitons in the effective layer film longer distances...

In addition, this week I plan to test the CEILV and TOF performance based on the J2:IDIC-4F system, and characterize the mobility, recombination and trap state information of the device.

Chen Wanqing continues to write two works in hand.

Xu Qiu briefly reported the progress of last week: TAS samples have been mailed to Feng Shengdong, ITIC materials have been mailed to Gong Yuanjiang, NIM testing is scheduled for next week, and the emergency time of the light source R-RoXS has been approved. Together with GIWAXS The appointment was in mid-September, exactly on the same day. In addition, I also performed basic characterization including UV-vis last week...

Last week Mo Wenlin conducted the test of exciton binding energy and exciton diffusion distance together with Tianqing, so Han Jiaying temporarily prepared devices for her: Last week, I mainly made devices of the J2:IDIC-4F system. After many repetitions, the efficiency It has stabilized at more than 13%, and can reach as high as 13.20%...

Wu Shengnan: Last week, the HOMO/LUMO energy levels of six ITIC derivative materials, IT-4F, IT-2F, IT-DM, IT-M, IT-4Cl, and IT-2Cl, were tested by cyclic voltammetry. It's a distribution map of their energy levels...

The results show that the introduction of electron-withdrawing halogen atoms such as fluorine or chlorine atoms lowers the HOMO/LUMO energy level, and at the same time the LUMO energy level drops more sharply, so the bandgap width of the final material is slightly smaller...

As for the methyl group introduced to donate electrons, the energy level of HOMO/LUMO will change in the opposite direction, and the energy level will increase. At the same time, the LUMO energy level will increase to a greater extent, so the band gap of the final material will be slightly larger...

In addition, Xu Qiu assigned the IDIC-M system just synthesized by the post-doctorate sister to Wu Shengnan. The performance of this system is slightly weaker than that of IDIC-4F, but it is also a system with an efficiency of 12%+nearly 13%. Without AM, there is still a chance to publish articles on AEM and AFM.

Speaking of it, the post-doctoral senior sister is still very hardworking. When she helped Xu Qiu synthesize, she lived in Zhang Jiang's office for several days, which saved Xu Qiu a lot of time. This is why Xu Qiu is willing to use the article Feedback to the other party in the form of the reason.

Take what you need.

PS: There should be some debts that have not been repaid this month, and there will be a few days at the beginning of next month, so ask for a wave of monthly tickets for next month in advance.