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The national award defense requires that each selected student must invite a supervisor to come. A total of nearly 30 candidates with doctorate and master degrees were selected, so there is no shortage of review teachers.

Of course, there must be repetitions. For example, Wei Xingsi had three doctoral students and one master student selected.

In addition, some large research groups may have six or seven people selected, and the big boss will come here in person, or only send a small boss to come.

In fact, there are only a dozen research groups capable of winning the National Award every year, and the research groups whose supervisors are associate professors and lecturers are basically useless.

It’s not that they look down on lecturers and associate professors, but objectively, their scientific research resources are very different from ordinary professors, and they are even more incomparable with “Qing Qian”, “Jie Qing” and “Yangtze River”.

In the field of scientific research, it is basically difficult to produce results without burning money and without funds.

For example, if the Department of Materials Science and Technology can publish AM and NC-level journals, the supervisors are all professors, and the research teams of associate professors and lecturers are not enough to publish an ordinary one.

In China, if you want to take the road of scientific research, the normal way is to graduate with a Ph. , set up a research group independently, and slowly develop, at least in the initial stage, the start-up capital of more than one million can still be obtained.

And if you stay in China all the time, even if you mix with lecturers and associate professors, the start-up capital of ordinary green pepper scholars may be only 100,000, or a few hundred thousand, and then applying for a general project of 800,000 for four years will be laborious. It will be really difficult to apply for some provincial projects, one or two hundred thousand.

Unless the boss during the doctoral period is very NB, the top Yangtze River or the academician level, the kind who doesn't worry about funding, you can rely on the big boss to get funding.

However, if this is the case, he will also be branded as the big boss, and it will be difficult to be independent. He can only wait for the big boss to retreat to the second line before he can have a chance to take the top position.

This wait may be ten years...

Of course, this is for most ordinary scientific researchers. If you are very strong and have the ability to publish CNS or a major sub-journal of Nature, then you can stand on your own when your wings are hardened.

As for whether doing so will cause enmity with the original big boss, it depends on whether the original big boss is open-minded enough.

In the scientific research circle, it is easy to talk about achievements. Even if the development in China is restricted due to various reasons, you can go abroad to do business.

Xu Qiu, Chen Wanqing, and Wu Feifei sat near the door of room 402, and they could see the movement of room 401 opposite.

As it was approaching twelve o'clock, the teachers in charge of the defense review came one after another, and there were some familiar faces: Wei Xingsi was holding a briefcase, and Zhou Xuexue was holding a glass thermos cup with a little red inside.

Although the other teachers, Xu Qiu, are not so familiar, they have basically attended their classes and can call each other by name, such as Yang Zhenhua, the boss of the counselor Bao Wei, Mu Zhengchuan, Mu Xue's mentor, and Wan Wan, the mentor of Sun Yifan. sound.

The undergraduate counselor Yu Qiang did not come over. After all, Yu Qiang is an associate professor, and it is very normal for his students not to be able to enter the national award defense.

Teacher Gao Xiang began to call out: Student No. 1, Classmate No. 1.

Xu Qiu and Wu Feifei turned their heads and encouraged: Sister, come on.

Chen Wanqing nodded slightly, and held up the number plate: No. 1, here it is.

Afterwards, the senior sister left her seat, followed Gao Xiang's guidance, and entered Room 401.

After everyone gets their number by lottery, the number is kept in their own hands. Teacher Gao Xiang didn't count who has the number. In theory, students can exchange numbers with each other.

The senior sister originally wanted to switch with Xu Qiu, but then she changed her mind, avoiding it would make her suffer even more, so she went straight to it.

Xu Qiu glanced around at the other students, some were chatting with each other, bragging about business, some were carrying laptops, watching the speech PPT and muttering words in their mouths, and some were closing their eyes and resting their minds, wandering away.

Xu Qiu also took out his laptop, opened the draft file of the Joule review, and chatted with Wu Feifei casually while writing the article.

The two were still discussing Chen Wanqing's chances of winning the prize at the beginning, and then the topic changed to views on two-dimensional perovskite.

Xu Qiu talked eloquently: You can try stacking. The light absorption of the current two-dimensional perovskite is blue-shifted compared with the three-dimensional perovskite, and the band gap becomes larger. For long-wavelength red light and near-light The absorption ability of infrared light becomes worse, and it can be combined with near-infrared organic photovoltaic materials, such as IEICO-4F...

Although Xu Qiu does not intend to get involved in the field of perovskite for the time being, he has a lot of knowledge about the field of perovskite through the usual group meetings, and it is easy to make some suggestions.

At this time, there was the sound of the door opening, and Chen Wanqing came out from Room 401.

Xu Qiu checked the time, only four and a half minutes had passed, and the progress was relatively fast.

However, when the senior sister wanted to return to 402, she was stopped by teacher Gao Xiang and told that students who had completed their defense could not return.

Chen Wanqing nodded to Xu Qiu and Wu Feifei, then shook the phone, indicating chat on WeChat, and then walked directly to Caiyi.

Wu Feifei: How is it?

Chen Wanqing: There are more than a dozen teachers in the defense review. After I finished the PPT, they asked me about my views on the field of organic photovoltaics, whether it has application value, and where are the main difficulties. I thought they would ask questions about experiments. As for the details, I didn’t ask, so I prepared for nothing.”

Wu Feifei: It's normal, it's not a Ph.D. graduation defense.

Wu Feifei: By the way, what's Wei Xingsi's reaction down below?

Chen Wanqing: There wasn't much reaction, I didn't speak the whole time, maybe it was to avoid suspicion.

Chen Wanqing: I've already returned to 216, you guys work hard.

After that, Xu Qiu and Wu Feifei discussed some details about the new idea of ​​2D perovskite.

Xu Qiu said: The preparation of stacked devices is of course the most suitable, but the difficulty is relatively high. In the early stage, you can also try a non-stacked structure, such as directly on the perovskite effective layer, and then directly spin-coat a layer of organic Try the effective layer, anyway, the organic solvents chlorobenzene and chloroform cannot dissolve the perovskite material below, if you find that the performance has improved, then find a way to explain the experimental phenomenon.”

In addition, even if organic materials cannot be used as an effective layer, there is still a chance as a transport layer. For example, ITIC and other materials can be used to replace PCBM and C-60 transport layers traditionally used in the perovskite field. This has definitely not been tested by anyone. With a slight improvement in device performance, you can write a small article, and with the current popularity of perovskites, a small article may be at the weaker level.

Wu Feifei entered Xu Qiu's idea into the memo on the phone, and said, I'll ask Yu Ya and Yan Hu to try it out when I get back.

Gao Xiang called his number one by one, and finally it was Wu Feifei's turn.

Leaving 402, Wu Feifei walks gracefully.

Entering 401, Wu Feifei pushed the door very chicly.

Leaving 401, the smile on Wu Feifei's face was very happy.

As time went on, there were fewer and fewer people in the room.

The progress of the national award defense was quite fast. It said that it took five minutes for each person, but in fact it took about four minutes.

Xu Qiu concentrated, waved his hands, and converted the thoughts in his mind into words and input them into the computer.

At this time, Xu Qiu heard a noise beside him. He looked up and found that it was Mu Xue walking over, holding a silver-white thin fruit laptop in his hand.

Mu Xue smiled and pointed to the seat next to Xu Qiu. Seeing that Xu Qiu did not refuse, she sat down and asked, Xu Qiu, were those two seniors from your research group?

Well, they are Ph.D. 3rd and Master-Ph.D. Ph.D. 2nd. Xu Qiu responded casually, pressing Ctrl+S to save the file, and clicking X to close the draft file.

When working outside, in order to prevent unpublished work from being leaked out, Xu Qiu usually does not let others see what he wrote.

This is also one of the reasons why he usually likes to sit in the corner. It is safer to have a shelter.

Although this article is a review, it is not a big problem if the secret is leaked, but he still subconsciously carried out the secret operation.

Mu Xue asked, Xu Qiu, what's your number?

Xu Qiu said, Number 14, what about you?

Mu Xue spread out the number paper in her hand: Coincidentally, I am number 13, just in front of you.

It's quite a coincidence. Xu Qiu responded, and then threw out the question he had been asking all along: By the way, Mu Xue, you are an undergraduate student at Qingbei University, why...

Mu Xue said with a smile: You mean why don't I stay in Qingbei University to study as a graduate student?

Xu Qiu nodded, and Mu Xue explained: Mu Zhengchuan is my uncle. Doctoral students can't use their immediate family members as their advisors, but uncles can. And in the college entrance examination, my score reached Qingbei University There is no admission score, so I went to Tsingbei University as an undergraduate.”

Xu Qiu was puzzled: Since Mu Zhengchuan is your uncle, why isn't his undergraduate degree at Shanghai University? It's troublesome to run around, isn't it?

Mu Xue continued to explain: At that time, I also wanted to stay in Shanghai University directly. After all, my middle school is the high school attached to Shanghai University, but my uncle said that the gap between Shanghai University and Qingbei University is still very large. of.

He said that the domestic TOP2 will always be TOP2, there is no dispute, but the specific ranking of the third to fifth has always been controversial, the reason is that the gap between the top two and the third to fifth is very large, it is T0 and T0 A difference of .5, half a notch off.

He thinks that I can get a better education and have more opportunities to go abroad for exchanges by studying at Qingbei University as an undergraduate.

Xu Qiu nodded and asked casually, Are there many students going to Qingbei University every year in the High School Affiliated to the Comprehensive University of Magic City?

Mu Xue thought for a while and said: We had a total of 20 people who went to Qingbei in that year, and the number of people in Shanghai ranked third in Shanghai. The number one was Hua Er High School. I remember there were about 48 people in Shanghai. There are also about 40 middle schools.”