I Have a Research Support System

December 24th, Christmas Eve.

After the six people in the laboratory had dinner together, Xu Qiu and Han Jiaying parted ways with the others at the entrance of the canteen in the North District.

The two of them returned to the first floor of the material, Duan Yun walked towards the North District Gymnasium, while Chen Wanqing, Wu Feifei, and Tian Qing went back to their dormitories to rest.

Reach room 216.

The school girl walked to her seat first, and picked up her light pink cloth schoolbag.

"Brother, this Christmas Eve gift for you." She took out an apple in a gift box from her bag and handed it to Xu Qiu.

Xu Qiu subconsciously took the apple, and then thanked him habitually.

He has a vague concept of festivals, even if it's a birthday, he can only handle it for a while, and has rarely received holiday gifts since he entered university.

Of course, this has a lot to do with his relatively narrow social circle and being single for a long time.

Staring at the apple in his hand, Xu Qiu began to think that the school girl probably didn't have any other ideas about giving him a gift.

He looked around, and Han Jiaying placed an apple gift box on the desks of the others.

From the appearance, it is exactly the same as the one in his hand.

He faintly felt a little lost, after all, who doesn't want to be the special and favored one.

However, he soon felt relieved, and shook off the distracting thoughts in his mind, and started to unpack the gift box.

In Xu Qiu's impression, the apples on Christmas Eve are to be eaten on the same day, implying peace.

After the packaging was removed, the inside of the gift box was a big red apple, which looked good, and there was a piece of paper next to it.

He hurriedly took it out to check, it was a handwritten greeting card, which read:

"Congratulations: my brother is successful in scientific research, and post more articles." There is also a small heart drawn on the back.

Xu Qiu looked up, just in time to meet the gaze of the school girl, and the two looked at each other.

He quietly put the greeting card in his inner pocket.

Just a greeting card doesn't mean much.

Without thinking about it, he took the apple, went to the faucet in the room, rinsed it, rubbed the skin, then dried the water on the surface in the sink, and took a big bite.

The entrance is sweet and the aftertaste is endless.

When he was a child, he also spent some time in the countryside. Fruits with skins such as apples and pears were handled in this way, without being so particular.

I still remember that my mother told him at that time that "the nutrition of an apple is in the skin, and it is best to eat it with the skin on."

After taking a few more bites of the apple, Xu Qiu suddenly remembered a detail.

Among the apples that Han Jiaying took out, there were four on the table, plus the ones in his hand, there were five in total. In other words, the school girl herself didn't have any.

"The apple tastes good, by the way, didn't you buy it for yourself?" Xu Qiu asked.

"I, I forgot about mine." Han Jiaying stuck out her tongue.

"Hmm..." He took another bite of the apple and said vaguely.

Thinking about it carefully, it is really weird to give yourself a gift.

Xu Qiu quickly finished the apples, put on a coat casually, and said, "I'll go out for a while."

"Yeah." Han Jiaying responded with anticipation in her expression.

...

The fruit shop closest to the first floor of the material is "North District Fruit Shop", which is opened on the only road connecting the North District and the headquarters.

There is a lot of traffic here, the rent is naturally very expensive, and the prices are of course also high. On average, it is about twice as expensive as outside, so it is also called a black shop by the students.

Unless there are special circumstances, Xu Qiu will not buy fruit at the fruit shop on campus.

However, now is a special case.

Xu Qiu walked for less than five minutes and arrived in front of the fruit shop in the North District.

In a conspicuous place in the store, there are rows of apples in gift boxes.

The shop owner greeted him with a smile. The boy came at this time, and there is a high probability that he can make a deal.

"Boss, how do you sell this apple?" Xu Qiu asked, pointing to the apple gift box.

"Twenty yuan each, how much do you want?" The shop owner asked unhurriedly.

As expected of a black shop, the usual price is black enough, but now it has risen to 20 yuan each during the festival.

Xu Qiu complained to himself, but he still gritted his teeth and said, "One, two... Let's say eight."

Originally, he just wanted to buy one for Han Jiaying as a gift in return.

Later, I thought that my senior sister had helped him a lot, and I should buy one for her because of emotion and reason.

I also considered that since I bought it for my senior sister, the other members of the research team should not be left behind, after all, they are still good to him.

And the members of the research group gave it away, so Teacher Wei must also give it away.

Although he may not care much about these things at his age, he would at least be happy to receive a holiday gift.

What's more, most of the time, it is Mr. Wei who distributes benefits to the members of the research group, such as daily fruits, snacks, dinner parties and the like.

It seems that except for Teacher's Day, when the group spent more than 300 joint ventures to buy an indoor landscape crop for Mr. Wei, that is, a higher-end potted plant, no holiday gifts were given to him.

Finally, there are two roommates. The undergraduates have passed these years safely. I must thank the roommates for their kindness and arrange one for each of them.

In this way, the number of Apple gift boxes increased from one, two, to eight.

Xu Qiu thought to himself, anyway, he just received the 5,000 yuan bonus for publishing an AM article, and after inviting guests twice, there are still about 4,000 yuan left, so it’s okay to spend one or two hundred for extravagance.

As for himself, he didn't think about it.

These apples have a lot of "festival value" attached to them, obviously at a substantial premium.

It's okay to give it as a gift, but it hurts to eat it yourself.

While he was thinking, the store owner had already packed the apple gift box and put it in a red plastic bag.

"A total of 160 yuan, scan the QR code or pay in cash?" The shop owner still said calmly.

"Cash."

Xu Qiu handed over the money, took the plastic bag, and carried it all the way back to 216.

Before entering the door, he grabbed a gift box and held it in his hand. After entering the door, he handed it to Han Jiaying and said at the same time:

"For your Christmas Eve gift, I didn't prepare a greeting card in advance, so I wished you a verbal blessing. I also wish the junior girl a successful scientific research and publish more articles."

"Thank you, brother~" Han Jiaying happily accepted the apple, then she rolled her eyes and said:

"By the way, senior brother, your blessing is a bit careless. Why is it exactly the same as what I said?"

Xu Qiu put down the plastic bag in his hand and spread his hands; "I can't help it. There are so few blessings related to scientific research. It's quite appropriate to post more articles. If it's Senior Sister Chen Wanqing or Senior Brother Duan Yun, I can still wish them success. Graduation is not like a wedding blessing, you can talk about a lot, such as growing old together, happy marriage for a hundred years, having a baby early and so on."

"Okay." Han Jiaying seemed to reluctantly accept the reason, and did not continue to argue. She opened the gift box, took out the apples inside, and rinsed it under running water first.

Afterwards, he carefully peeled off the skin of the apple with a fruit knife, then took a small bite, and said, "Well, the one given by senior brother is really delicious."

Xu Qiu smiled and nodded. Although fruit shops are expensive, at least the quality is acceptable.

...

The day after Christmas Eve is Christmas, one of the most important holidays in the West.

Teacher Wei had stayed abroad for a long time before, so he followed some of the foreign habits and gave the research group students a one-night vacation on Christmas night.

Xu Qiu heard from the seniors that apart from Christmas, Halloween night is also a holiday.

It just so happens that this year's Halloween falls on a Saturday, so it just doesn't matter.

Regarding the plan for the evening, the six-person team in the laboratory discussed it, and finally decided to eat and play board games as usual.

Because everyone in the research group is relatively well-behaved, and there is no one with a rich nightlife.

If Tao Yan was present, maybe he would give a different plan.

So, after the holiday at 5:30 in the evening, Xu Qiu and the others first went to the nearby business district and ate Dunjiang provincial cuisine.

I ordered a large table of dishes, including big plate chicken, Napa Liyong, Shihezi Liangpi, mutton hand-picked rice, flamed goat skewers, milk rice, and flavored fried naan.

70 yuan per person, the price/performance ratio is not bad, but it is a bit vegetarian.

At exactly seven o'clock, when they were about to finish eating, they happened to catch up with a folk dance performance.

The diners in the restaurant all cast curious glances at the Xinjiang girl in shiny clothes, and Duan Yun watched with gusto.

After the meal, Xu Qiu and the others found a board game shop on Daxue Road called "Maid's Board Game".

It is said that there are indeed maids in this store, but the prices are not cheap, and they usually go out during the day. When they go at night, the maids are off work.

So they obediently found a private room, chose a normal set meal of 40 yuan per person, and played until after eleven o'clock in the evening.

Teacher Wei seldom participates in this kind of laboratory activities similar to group building, and only provides funding. Occasionally, he will call halfway to inquire about the situation.

According to his words, "It's more suitable for young people to play together. You can't let go after I pass by."

Objectively speaking, this is indeed the case.

...

Recently, the overall pace of scientific research in the research group has slowed down a lot.

In the past, the two glove boxes in the group, especially the spin-coating glove box, were used continuously for 12 hours, but now they are only used for about 6 hours a day.

On the one hand, after a busy semester and the holiday approaching, people will inevitably have the idea of ​​paddling.

On the other hand, Xu Qiu and Han Jiaying were busy testing on public platforms of departments and schools, and seldom did experiments in the laboratory.

In the past two weeks, under Xu Qiu's leadership, Han Jiaying's two jobs have basically completed the data.

The school girl is also preparing to write her first article.

Fortunately, she has never lagged behind in literature reading. Although the amount of reading is not as good as that of Chen Wanqing and Xu Qiu, there are still hundreds of articles.

And her English is not bad, and she has a lot of advantages in writing articles.

But even so, it would take her a month to write the first article, after all, it was the first time.

From the time point of view, it is just right to submit the article before the holiday.

Speaking of articles, the articles submitted by Xu Qiu and Chen Wanqing each received news this week.

His work is "PBT4T design, synthesis and optoelectronic application", the journal he submitted to is ACSAMI, and the return opinion is "no need to modify, it is recommended to accept it directly".

The remuneration is the same as the one that Wu Feifei submitted to CM. Generally, the directly accepted articles have the opportunity to be published in higher-level journals, that is to say, the submission is low.

This result was a little unexpected, but understandable.

Because Xu Qiu's idea at the time was to publish this work as soon as possible to avoid being intercepted by others, so he really voted low, in order to publish it early and take advantage of the pitfalls first.

Walk in the path of others and leave them nowhere to go.

Xu Qiu's several articles this year went well.

So far, two minor revisions have been made, one has been accepted directly, and all three have been successfully published.

He is also considering whether to be more aggressive in the selection of journals when submitting articles in the future.

Submitting an article is essentially a game between the author and the editor of the article.

The author's appeal is simple. The higher the grade of the journal in which the article is published, the better, and the faster the article is published, the better.

The editor's appeal is relatively complicated.

On the one hand, I hope to keep the manuscripts as much as possible. As long as the manuscripts are retained, it is a stable business for the journal company, which involves the author's page fee and the reader's reading fee.

On the other hand, it is also necessary to maintain the overall level of the journal and not drop too much.

Therefore, the author generally votes from high to low, such as AFM being rejected, switching to JMCA, and then switching to ACSAMI in this order.

Of course, there are normal people, and naturally there are some metaphysical authors who submit from low to high. ACSAMI rejects, votes for JMCA, is rejected again, and then votes for AFM.

However, there are not many such people, because they will eventually be taught to be human by reality.

Chen Wanqing's work is "Design, Synthesis and Optoelectronic Applications of Ternary Conjugated Copolymers Based on BDT, TT, BT", the journal he submitted to is JMCA, and the feedback returned is a minor revision.

Under normal circumstances, the editor did not directly reject the manuscript for the first time, but gave a revised opinion, which means that he still agrees with the work to a certain extent.

As long as you revise according to the opinions, there is more than 80% chance that it will be published smoothly in the end. The specific difference is nothing more than one revision or multiple revisions.

Therefore, when she first saw that Xu Qiu's article was directly accepted, and then saw the results of her own minor revisions, she was only slightly depressed for a while, and the corner of her mouth put on a smile again.

After receiving this JMCA, she will have three articles for District 2, plus the one she is currently writing, she will be able to make up four articles.

Now she is just halfway through her doctoral career, and she has no worries after graduation, and she has a lot of leeway in the remaining time.

During this time, Chen Wanqing was also considering the next research direction.

Maybe it's time to consider sprinting for an article in the first area of ​​SCI, and you can't always be the king of mouth.

It is necessary to break out of the comfort zone of "ternary blending and ternary copolymerization" and find a new field.

For example, non-fullerene systems?

However, non-fullerenes have also been working for more than ten years, and they have not been able to challenge the status of the traditional fullerene system. Does it mean that this road itself is not feasible?

Tangled...