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Xu Qiu asked: "Then what happened after that?"

Mu Xue turned her head and glanced at Xu Qiu, and replied: "I went to Tsingbei University, freshman is a normal admission, sophomore I participated in Tsingbei University's 'Break into the World Program', and went to MIT (MIT) for exchange. One year, basically went to the laboratory over there for a year, and finally published an SCI article, a small article in the second district."

After a pause, Mu Xue continued: "The junior finished the rest of the courses and wrote a review article at the same time, which was published on AFM. During the summer vacation, he went to the Shanghai University for research. At that time, I came to Modu Comprehensive University as an exchange student to do my final project, and published a few articles with my uncle."

After Xu Qiu listened to it, he finally understood how Mu Xue got into the national award defense.

At the same time, I secretly sighed in my heart that there are so many resources from a good background. I went to three places in four years of university, and they were all top universities.

Like Qingbei University's "Enter the World Project", Xu Qiu had heard of it before.

This overseas exchange program requires you to contact foreign scholars yourself, not arranged by the school.

For students, since they have already entered Tsingbei University, which is ranked around 20 in the world, they must go to the top 10 universities in the world, such as MIT, Stanford (Stanford), and Berkeley (Berkeley).

But if it's an ordinary college student with no connections, how can it be possible to contact the bigwigs who went to such a top school? Many opportunities don't exist for them.

Although the culture of connections abroad is not as long-standing as that in China, it still exists.

The more typical one is the recommendation letter system. If you want to study in a beautiful country, you need a recommendation letter.

The identity of the person who wrote the recommendation letter will have a great impact on the final result.

For example, if you hold a few letters of recommendation from Nobel Prize winners or school managers, and she holds a letter of recommendation written by Uncle Wang next door, the weight is naturally different.

Mu Xue asked suddenly: "By the way, how are you preparing for your defense? Can I have a look at your PPT?"

"Yes." There was nothing to avoid, Xu Qiu casually clicked on the defense PPT on the desktop, and flipped through a few pages.

Mu Xue looked at the two Grand Slam AM articles and a "Nature" sub-journal on the PPT, plus a lot of academic achievements listed later, and was stunned:

"These are all your jobs?!"

"En." Xu Qiu nodded calmly.

"Amazing, amazing," Mu Xue exclaimed, "When I exchanged with MIT at Qingbei University, I never met an undergraduate student as strong as you."

Mu Xue joked again: "Fortunately, I am number 13, in front of you. If I am number 15, I will definitely change the number plate with you, otherwise the pressure will be too great."

Xu Qiu responded with a smile, then pointed to Mu Xue's computer, and said, "Where's yours?"

"Then... I'll make a fool of myself." Mu Xue hesitated for a while, and finally opened her defense PPT.

Xu Qiu took a look and found that Mu Xue's PPT had a similar format to his, and also included three masterpieces.

At the end, all the academic achievements are listed, a total of three papers with one work in one area, two papers with two works in one area, and one paper with three works in two areas.

Her three masterpieces, one of which is the AFM review, was officially published within one year, so it can be used for awards.

The other two articles were published on Appl. Surf. Sci. (ASS) as the first author.

The ASS journal is the second section of the big category that Wu Feifei complained about before, and the subcategory has one section, two sections, and three sections. Because the subcategory related to materials is one section, it is counted as one section journal, which is also One of the few journals with a low impact factor (impact factor 3-5) recognized by the Department of Materials.

Although AM and ASS are journals in the same area, there is still a big difference in their grades. In terms of influence, AM is definitely far stronger than ASS.

It’s very simple. More than 90% of people in the field of mixed materials know about the journal AM “Advanced Materials”, and even most researchers in the fields of chemistry and polymers have heard of it more or less. AM is a top journal in the field of materials.

As for the journal ASS, many scholars in the field of materials, including Xu Qiu, would have never heard of this journal if it hadn’t been recognized as a district in the department’s awards.

Of course, Xu Qiu would definitely not expose the fault on the spot, saying that ASS is not as good as AM, but encouraged him: "Come on, I hope you can win the award."

"Thank you, let's work hard together." Mu Xue responded politely, with constant associations in her heart:

‘The country is really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. My two ASS articles are the first one. Although I did the experiments myself, Uncle Mu Zhengchuan contributed a lot from the topic selection to the experimental design, to the polishing and revision of the final article. '

‘In addition, Xu Qiu is already so strong. He has written nine articles, all of which are of such high quality as AM and NC. Will the two seniors from the same research group who came with him just now be even more powerful? '

'Uncle Mu Zhengchuan said that my three articles in the first district, according to the practice in the past, must be able to win the National Award, but in this situation, can I really win it? '

'Uncle will definitely not lie to me, so where is the problem...'

At this time, Teacher Gao Xiang's voice came: "No. 13, which one of you is No. 13."

"I am." Mu Xue raised her hand, then took two deep breaths, and adjusted her state. It can be seen that her psychological quality is still relatively good.

Mu Xue left the laptop to Xu Qiu to take care of, and then followed Gao Xiang into 401.

It was Xu Qiu's turn to defend next, so instead of opening the "Joule" draft file to continue writing, he checked the current time, and it was only a little over now, and the National Award defense was much faster than the scheduled time.

Besides him, there was only one other person left in the classroom, a boy, who should be the one who got number 15 by lottery.

Xu Qiu glanced at the other party and realized that he didn't know him, so he said silently in his heart; "Oh, lucky dog. (lucky little guy)."

After a few minutes, Mu Xue came out of room 401.

Xu Qiu entered the venue and took a good look.

Room 401 of Cai 2 is the layout of a conference room. There is a podium and a rectangular table below it, which is similar to meeting room 301 of Cai 2, but the area of ​​Cai 2 401 is much smaller, only about 40 square meters.

More than a dozen teachers were looking at Xu Qiu with piercing eyes. Gao Xiang briefly introduced Xu Qiu's information to the teachers: "Xu Qiu, direct Ph.D. student, first grade."

Several old acquaintances, including Wei Xingsi and Zhou Xuexue, nodded at Xu Qiu.

The other teachers' eyes lit up when they heard Gao Xiang say Xu Qiu's name.

Some of them may not know Xu Qiu, but now they basically know Xu Qiu's name.

After all, Xu Qiu and Han Jiaying published so many high-quality articles during their undergraduate studies.

The names of the two "legendary undergraduates" have been spread within the Department of Materials Science and Technology, and it has become a good story.

Especially Xu Qiu, in terms of academic achievements alone, has already been able to crush less than half of the teachers in the Materials Department.

After debugging the equipment, Xu Qiu began his defense speech generously: "Hi everyone, I am Xu Qiu, a direct Ph. My main research direction is organic solar cells..."

After self-introduction, Xu Qiu operated the laser pointer and turned the page with a "wow", and the cover article, highly cited article logo, and hot article logo came into everyone's eyes.

"Next, I will introduce my three masterpieces this year..."

"The first work, we developed a highly crystalline polymer donor material named PCE11, this work was selected as the cover article of AM, and it is currently a highly cited and hot article, with more than 60 citations in real time ..."

"The second work, we developed a 3D-PDI molecule, published in "Nature Communications", broke the efficiency world record in the field of PDI at that time, and revealed..."

"The third work, we developed an ADA-type non-fullerene acceptor ITIC, the article was officially accepted for two months, and it was also selected as the cover article of AM. It is also a currently highly cited and hot article, with real-time citations It has reached more than 38 times..."

Under the stage, Wan Yousheng, Sun Yifan's mentor, sat with Wei Xingsi.

The relationship between the two of them is not bad. They both returned to China as "Qingqian" at the beginning, but Wan Yousheng's scientific research ability is relatively strong. He returned to China with several articles in the major sub-journals of "Nature", and now he has been rated as "Yangtze River".

Wan Yousheng looked at Xu Qiu, then at Wei Xingsi, and asked in a low voice, "These jobs in your group?"

Wei Xingsi spread his hands: "The main work was done by Xu Qiu himself, and I didn't contribute much."

"Awesome," Wan Yousheng gave a thumbs up, and then said with emotion: "I feel like your group can win three national awards this year."

Wei Xingsi was in high spirits: "It's necessary, and it might be four national awards. I still have a student for the master's class."

"Old Wei, you are really immodest." Wan You responded with a smile. He came here for a doctoral student and a master student in the group this time. He thought that the two people in the group would be sure to win the national award.

But now after listening to the previous report, he feels that the doctoral student in the group is not so stable, because the doctoral student only has two Small, one JMCA and one AFM, according to the school’s algorithm, one article is one, and three are two. District, may not be able to enter the top eight.

At this time, Xu Qiu on the stage had finished introducing his *** work, and it took about two minutes to enter the final results display page.

Xu Qiu stayed on the first page of the results, that is, the page that mainly lists his articles, and then switched to the second page of the results.

Finally, he switched the PPT back to the previous page of the results, and said: "The above is the main content of the national award defense. Teachers, please ask questions."

There was no sound from the audience, and everyone looked around, but no one took the initiative to ask questions.

In the end, it was Zhou Mathematics who came forward: "Student Xu Qiu, please talk about the prospects for the field of organic solar energy."

Xu Qiu just happened to be writing a review of "Joule" recently, so this question is a sub-question for him. He talked eloquently: "I think that in order to realize the application in the field of organic photovoltaics in the future, the urgent problems to be solved include..."

After talking eloquently for two minutes, he directly used up the question time.

Zhou Mathematics nodded and commented: "The speech is very good... If the other teachers have no problems, let's invite the next classmate."

Xu Qiu didn't know whether Teacher Zhou understood or not, anyway, he spoke very happily.

"Thank you, teachers." Xu Qiu bowed politely, then left 401 directly, went to the next room 402 to get the computer bag, returned to Material 1 216, and waited for the announcement of the result.

The selection of the National Award is relatively fast.

After the master students' defense in the afternoon, the teachers participating in the evaluation discussed on the spot, ranked directly according to the scores, and gave a public list.

In addition to the fact that the Institute of Equipment has a doctorate and a master's degree each, and there is no need for an oral defense, there are a total of seven national awards for the master's degree in the Department of Materials. Wu Feifei was second, Chen Wanqing was fourth, and Mu Xue was eighth.

Four people from Wei Xingsi's group were selected for the national award defense, and all four won the national award with high scores!

Xu Qiu even won the first place among doctoral students as a direct Ph.D. student!