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On Friday morning, Xu Qiu received an email from Mr. Wei. He submitted AM's PCE10: ITIC system and has returned the review comments.

The AM review process was relatively fast this time, almost a month, unlike the previous PCE11 article that Xu Qiu had to wait for two full months.

The returned review comments are only two comments from reviewer 1# and reviewer 3#. The reviewer 2# doesn’t know whether he has no time to review the manuscript, or the comments have been eliminated by the editor.

Both opinions are positive, one of which is recommended to receive directly, and the other lists five small questions, which are not difficult to answer and do not require additional supplementary experiments.

Xu Qiu was not too surprised. Although Xu Zhenghong and his colleagues raised the upper limit of the efficiency of ADA in the field of non-fullerenes to 11%, at this stage, most of the efficiencies of other ADA systems are still hovering around 5% or 6%.

Therefore, for ITIC, a relatively new non-fullerene material with a photoelectric conversion efficiency of 8%, it is not difficult to publish AM.

Influenced by Wei Xingsi, Xu Qiu has also developed the habit of guessing the identity of the other party every time he gets a review opinion. The two reviewers this time, judging from the language style, he judged that they are all colleagues in China. .

Xu Qiu blindly guessed that one of the opinions came from Xu Zhenghong's research group that developed the IDTBR series, because the other party blew up a wave of IDTBR series members in the review comments, and, when submitting the manuscript, Wei Xingsi suggested reviewing the manuscript Xu Zhenghong and Gong Yuanjiang are also written in the person column.

Gong Yuanjiang should not have been selected as a reviewer, otherwise, based on his relationship with Wei Xingsi, he would probably come over and send a letter saying, "Your article is in my hands."

However, now that we have cooperated with Gong Yuanjiang based on Mo Wenlin, Gong Yuanjiang will no longer be used as a reviewer for articles published by Wei Xingsi, because generally SCI journals will avoid it when selecting reviewers. Scholars who are in the same institution as the contributor, and scholars who have published articles with the contributor.

As for why Xu Zhenghong was chosen as the suggested reviewer, on the one hand, the research systems of the two research groups are indeed related to a certain extent.

On the other hand, and the most important reason, Xu Zhenghong has a good reputation in the organic photovoltaic circle. He is a relatively pure scientific researcher and doesn't like to engage in those twists and turns.

Moreover, for scholars like Xu Zhenghong who have reached the top "Yangtze River" level, if they want to take a step closer to becoming a top academician, in addition to the rigid condition of having a vacant position at the top, they also need to drive the development of the entire field.

It is almost impossible for Xu Zhenghong to suppress other peers in the short term, but it is not in his long-term interests to achieve success in a field by relying on only one or two research groups.

In fact, it is similar in the system. Political struggles do exist. After all, the higher you go, the fewer positions there are. There are only a few people in the core of power. People with actual grades will definitely not be able to make it.

Even so, Xu Qiu still felt that it was a little risky to send the manuscript to a reviewer with a stake in it. At that time, I saw that someone's submission was rejected, and the rejecter was one of the reviewers they suggested, and they were conducting similar research with them.

Fortunately, the results are very good now.

In the afternoon, Xu Qiu wrote the opinion reply document with ease, revised the article, and sent it to Wei Xingsi to the editor.

In the evening, Xu Qiu and Han Jiaying were outside, watching the latest "Wu Shuang" movie, which told the story of making counterfeit US dollars.

Just when the plot reached the peeing point, Xu Qiu suddenly received a call from Teacher Wei.

Teacher Wei belongs to the kind of person who will call anytime whenever there is something to do, and then inform about something or arrange work.

At the beginning, Xu Qiu received calls during non-working hours, and he really felt uncomfortable, but later he figured it out. Anyway, if he is free or not busy, he will answer the phone and deal with it. If he is not free or lazy to work, then he will not answer the phone , or delay until working hours.

Xu Qiu hung up the phone and sent back a message: "Teacher Wei, it's not convenient to answer the phone now, what's the matter?"

Wei Xingsi: "Nothing, just to inform you that your AM article has been accepted."

Wei Xingsi: "Are you outside with Han Jiaying, pay attention to safety."

Xu Qiu's face was full of black lines. Teacher Wei is becoming less and less mentor-like. Originally, he wanted to reply "OK", but when he saw the latter line, he decisively deleted the two words he just typed.

Seeing the movement, the school girl next to him leaned over to Xu Qiu and asked in a low voice, "Senior brother, what's the matter?"

Xu Qiu turned off the screen of the phone and said, "It's nothing, the AM article in the morning was accepted."

"Amazing, brother~" Han Jiaying exclaimed in a low voice, and then said: "I don't know what will happen to the JACS we shared together?"

Xu Qiu said casually: "The efficiency of the H22 system has broken 10%, there must be no problem, and the calculation time should be fast, after all, the submission time of the two articles is about the same."

After watching the movie "Wu Shuang", the two reminisced about the plot, walked along Daxue Road for a while, and then went back to their respective homes.

Monday, group meeting.

Xu Qiu published an AM article and was happy to raise a bonus of 4,000 yuan.

Speaking of which, Xu Qiu was a little worried when he got the bonus, judging by the speed of posting articles in the group, whether Teacher Wei would be hollowed out in the end.

After all, his AM article of the ITIC system is the vanguard. After the summer vacation, the group will usher in a large number of articles in the field of organic photovoltaics.

However, after Xu Qiu thought about it, it shouldn't be so, because with the support of a large number of academic achievements, it will be easier for the research group to apply for funds later, and part of the bonus expenses can be covered by the labor costs in the fund.

Xu Qiu heard from Wei Xingsi that the National Natural Science Foundation of China will launch a non-fullerene-themed key project next year, and there will be two places. This is mainly thanks to Xu Zhenghong's IDTBR series. The signs of rising, if the ITIC system can suddenly emerge, Wei Xingsi may have a chance to get a share.

A key project, that is, a five-year budget of about 3 million yuan. The labor fee is usually about 10%, which is 300,000 yuan. Now there are less than 10 people in the big cats and cats. enough.

Even if you can't get key projects, it shouldn't be a big problem to get 800,000 in four years.

The group will begin.

Wu Feifei reported three two-dimensional perovskite systems using butanediamine, octanediamine, and hexamethylenediamine as organic spacers. The device efficiency is still only 5%, and there is no sign of further improvement.

Wei Xingsi suggested: "Wu Feifei, you should sort out your work quickly and apply for ACSAMI or CC before the holiday. After the holiday is over, find a new direction to do it, or consider doing your old job again and write a second essay. A review of dimensional perovskite, looking for inspiration from it."

In Teacher Wei's mind, Wu Feifei's comprehensive ability can be ranked second in the research group, second only to Xu Qiu. If she has been stuck in one system, it would be a waste if she can't produce results.

With her ability, writing a review can produce articles steadily, and it is not a big problem to publish a review a month.

Duan Yun is still writing ACSAMI's article, and he doesn't plan to open another system before the holiday.

Considering that Duan Yun will be graduating in a year, Wei Xingsi is not willing to deal with him anymore. Even if he can squeeze out a small article, it is meaningless compared with the large amount of achievements in the organic field.

However, the experimental equipment that has been built with great difficulty cannot be abandoned, so Wei Xingsi said: "You will graduate in one year, and I will not rush you for work, but you have to pass on the testing and characterization methods related to thermoelectricity. go down..."

His eyes swept over the few people in the group, and finally stopped, and said, "Wu Feifei, why don't you come and try to connect to the thermoelectric field of Joyun."

'The baby is bitter, but the baby doesn't say it. ’ Wu Feifei hesitated for a moment, then nodded in agreement: "Okay."

Tian Qing seems to have found inspiration after Ronald's visit, and new progress has been made in the research work on the charge transport of two 2D perovskite standard samples.

Chen Wanqing's article on IEICO is finishing up, and at the same time she is carrying out the characterization of the IEICO-4F system. Through PL and TRPL tests, she found that there is an obvious energy transfer phenomenon between PCE10 and IEICO-4F donor-acceptor in this system. I have found a new bright spot in my work.

Xu Qiu didn't have anything to report, and now he basically didn't need to report at the group meeting, and he directly told Wei Xingsi about any results.

The purpose of his participation in the group meeting is mainly to listen to other people's research progress, compare it with the results he previewed in his mind, and see if there is any room for improvement.

Last week, Han Jiaying was mainly writing about the two systems of H43 and PBDB-TS. This week, she plans to synthesize PBDB-TF and PBDB-TSF as PBDB-T derivative donor materials for two weeks, but the monomers are still available for the time being.

Her H43: IT-4F system has a relatively unique discovery, that is, the HOMO energy level difference between the donor and acceptor materials is very small, only about 0.1 electron volts.

If it is placed in a traditional fullerene system, such an energy level difference of 0.1 electron volts is difficult to achieve charge transport, and an energy level difference of more than 0.3 electron volts is usually required to achieve effective charge transport, which also makes it based on rich In the organic photovoltaic system of lenene derivatives, the open circuit voltage inherently has a loss of 0.3 volts.

The current photoelectric conversion efficiency of the device is as high as 12%, which proves that the non-fullerene system can carry out effective charge transport under the energy level difference of 0.1 eV, which is worth digging into.

Therefore, Han Jiaying sent a batch of samples to Feng Shengdong, intending to explore the TAS results, obtain direct evidence of charge transport between donors and acceptors, and then try to hit a wave of NC.

Similar to the "energy transfer" of the senior, the "small HOMO energy level difference" of the junior is a new bright spot that Xu Qiu found.

Their systems are all based on derivatives of ITIC or IEICO. If it is only efficient, they can publish good articles such as AM, JACS, and EES in the early stage. When there are more similar articles in the future, others may not buy it. It will type your article from AM to AEM, AFM, from JACS to CM, and from EES to JMCA.

However, if there are new highlights and high-efficiency support, then the probability of publishing a top journal of AM level will be much higher.

Wu Shengnan was sorting out FN-4F's articles while completing the six synthesis tasks Xu Qiu gave her.

Mo Wenlin continued to sort out the articles of the H22:ITIC:PCBM ternary system and deal with various chores at the same time.

These two people made two pots of soy sauce.