I Have a Research Support System

After modifying some content, the total number of pages of Xu Qiu's graduation project increased by two more pages, reaching 120 pages, and the number of words counted by WORD also reached 68,932 words.

Back in the dormitory at night, Xu Qiu caught a glimpse of two roommates, Tao Yan and Ren Bin, who were working hard on their graduation project.

Neither of the two roommates has published SCI or Chinese core articles, so they are not as relaxed as Xu Qiu. They only need to translate their own work. Instead, they have to sort out the experimental data and try to tell a complete story through a series of arguments. story to come. Fortunately, some time ago, with Xu Qiu's help, they all straightened out their writing ideas, and now they just need to spend time to slowly perfect them.

In the past few days, it is estimated that the senior students in the whole school are busy with their graduation projects. Most of them have no motivation to work before the deadline.

However, having said that, from the submission of the opening report at the beginning of March to the deadline of the graduation project on May 21, the time in between is only two and a half months. If you paddle for a few days or occasionally, you may not even recognize the instruments in the research group...

For this reason, some university professors suggested extending the time for the graduation project to one academic year and raising the assessment standards, but it did not arouse much response.

After all, only the science and engineering majors of top universities have a relatively high proportion of students taking postgraduate entrance examinations, postgraduate studies or going abroad for scientific research, but in all universities across the country, this proportion is insignificant. Most college students go to the society after graduation, enter the workplace, and become a screw.

If you rashly increase the difficulty of graduation, it will definitely cause a strong backlash. On the one hand, doing scientific research also requires talent. Most people are not suitable for scientific research. The average education level, domestic universities often use the concept of "wide entry and wide exit".

In the end, colleges and universities tacitly set a low graduation standard for college students, allowing most people to graduate smoothly. As for scientific research, the school will also arrange various scientific and technological innovation projects for college students and provide financial support. Second, even freshmen can enter the research group for internship.

Many systems are flawed, but they are the optimal results found under various balances.

Just like the college entrance examination, people know that there are various problems in it, but it is still the fairest assessment method at present, allowing ordinary people to have a slight chance to achieve a class transition. Although the probability is not high overall, and the reality will use various methods to beat a person back to the original class, but compared to the probability of winning 10 million in the lottery, it is still a little higher.

Ren Bin took the initiative to say hello: "My thesis is finally 28 pages long, and it's so difficult to make it up to 30 pages."

Xu Qiu smiled and suggested: "It's really not possible, write more of the introduction part."

"But now my introduction almost accounts for half of the total number of pages, so I can't add more..." Ren Bin said helplessly: "The picture is already large enough, and if it is enlarged, it will exceed the boundary of WORD. I still quote For a few documents, try to get an extra page, and then see if you can say a few more words in the discussion part, make a page out, and pile up the total number of pages to 30 pages."

"Come on." Xu Qiu encouraged.

"Xu Qiu, have you finished your graduation project?" Tao Yan asked.

Xu Qiu glanced at Tao Yan's computer screen, and it was Tao Yan's graduation project on it, with a total of 39 pages and 16,427 words, and he replied casually: "It's almost finished, I will go over it with our tutor tomorrow, a total of 120 pages. "

Tao Yan: "..."

Ren Bin: "..."

Tao Yan: "I want to be quiet."

Ren Bin: "The number of pages I dare to love is a fraction of yours."

After chatting with his roommates, Xu Qiu returned to his desk, opened his graduation project, and made the final revisions.

Monday, 9:50 am, material one 218.

Teacher Wei probably had a social event yesterday, so he didn't show up in the office all night. He also came a little late this morning, which caused the group meeting to be delayed by 20 minutes.

In addition, there were only seven people in today's group meeting, and Sun Wo didn't come.

Sun Wo's graduation project was completed last Thursday, and he had a look at it with Mr. Wei. The nearly three-month exchange career came to an end.

His graduation project is quite satisfactory, only 36 pages, mainly related to the tin-based perovskite material he made, the highest efficiency is just over 1%, but UV-vis, XRD, SEM and other characterization data are all complete, in Wu Feifei With the help of , the analysis was also completed.

For the next time, Sun Wo will stay in the school where he was an undergraduate, preparing for graduation-related matters. When he comes back next time, it should be after graduation.

As for why he chose to run away before the group meeting, he knew the reason.

The group meeting officially started. Wu Feifei reported first as usual. She sorted out the experimental data of "two-dimensional perovskite material based on isobutylamine organic spacer layer". The current device efficiency has been optimized to 8.0%, and various characterizations have been supplemented. Most of them are writing articles now.

After listening to her report, Wei Xingsi nodded in satisfaction and asked, "When is the light source test this time?"

Chen Wanqing replied instead: "At nine o'clock on Thursday night, I have completed the safety audit."

Wei Xingsi thought about it for a while, and said, "This time, send someone over to learn how to test perovskite... Oh, Sun Wo has already gone back, then Wu Feifei, you can go with them."

Wu Feifei nodded in response: "Okay."

The nickel nanowires that Duan Yun sent back to the manufacturer before were confirmed to have a problem. The manufacturer has reissued a new batch of nickel nanowires, and in order to show sincerity, they doubled the amount. For Yun, it doesn't mean much, after all, the scientific research funding is not his, but the time he wasted because of the material problem is real.

Although Duan Yun is very angry, he has no good solution. On the one hand, he does not know many material companies that produce nanowires. The company he cooperated with before is already the best one based on comprehensive evaluation. If he decides to change In the case of a new company, it cannot ensure that the materials are good every time, and it may be even worse. After much deliberation, I can only grit my teeth and continue the experiment, and be careful when encountering problems in the future, so as not to capsize twice in the same place.

At the same time, Duan Yun reported on the work of "thermoelectric devices with one-dimensional and two-dimensional nanomaterials added".

The current results can't publish very good articles, at most it is the second district like ACSAMI. On the one hand, there are still some similar works. After all, the idea of ​​adding one-dimensional and two-dimensional materials is not difficult to think of. The article is generally novel, and on the other hand , the performance of the thermoelectric device he obtained is relatively moderate.

In any case, it can be regarded as initial progress.

Wei Xingsi didn't make things difficult for him too much, but casually encouraged him a few words.

Tian Qing's Chem. Soc. Rev. review proposal has been reviewed by two editors, and has passed smoothly. The other journal company has sent a formal invitation to draft, so you can write boldly with confidence.

Although this kind of solicited article is also sent out to peers for review, as long as the writing is not too bad, there is basically no problem with the publication of the article.

Last week, Chen Wanqing synthesized two non-fullerene acceptor materials based on ICIN structural units, IDT-BT-ICIN and IDT-T-ICIN. On Sunday, Xu Qiu helped to prepare a batch of devices with a maximum efficiency of 5.2%.

This value is not bad, at least it shows that the senior sister has been busy for half a month without creating a pile of rubbish, which is more than enough for the group meeting, and if it takes another month or two to supplement other experimental representations, After writing a good article, you can post an article about the second district.

However, Chen Wanqing said that "the second district will not be launched", and the structure must be optimized to see if there is any opportunity to achieve further breakthroughs.

Xu Qiu sighed secretly from below: "The former killer of the second district, now he doesn't like the article of the second district. It won't be a few days after the experiment fails, so it will be 'the second district is really fragrant' again."

Wei Xingsi was also a little surprised by this: "Do you have any plans?"

"Introduce a side chain on the thiophene unit, which can be an alkyl side chain, or introduce a heteroatom..." Chen Wanqing replied.

When making the device on Sunday, Xu Qiu had a brief discussion with his senior sister, told her about the problem of "material solubility", and also told her the improvement route he thought of before. It was moved to the group meeting intact.

"Hmm..." Wei Xing thought for a while, then turned to look at Xu Qiu, and said, "Xu Qiu, what do you think?"

"I agree with senior sister's idea." Xu Qiu replied, complaining inwardly, this is what I proposed, what else can I think?

"Then let's do this." Wei Xingsi made a decision directly, and then said, "Xu Qiu, is your graduation project finished?"

"It's finished." Xu Qiu nodded.

"Come and see me in the afternoon, and I'll help you through it." Wei Xingsi said.

"By the way, there is such a thing." Wei Xingsi sat up suddenly, and said seriously: "I had dinner with some teachers in the department yesterday, and I found out that this year there is a Natural Science Foundation project for international cooperation with Sweden. The project is three The annual time limit and the domestic funding do not exceed 400,000. We can cooperate with Lund University in Sweden to write a book on the charge dynamics of solar cells, focusing on organic photovoltaics, and also involved in some perovskites.

The deadline for material submission is September, and it is too late to start writing now. I think you and Wu Feifei are mainly responsible. "

Although Xu Qiu had written the annual report of the fund before, he had never been in contact with the fund application. It was similar to writing a review plan, which was a scientific research plan for the next three years. He now had a lot of scientific research ideas in his mind, so he didn't Too much stress.

Xu Qiu and Wu Feifei looked at each other, nodded at the same time, and agreed to the matter.