I Have a Research Support System

On Sunday, after the "Natural Energy" article was submitted, Xu Qiu's work was temporarily cleared.

Although his next work ideas are relatively clear, he wants to be lazy when he is free.

Xu Qiu was no exception. He opened the Qidian website with ease, and screened the novels of "more than 2 million words", intending to find a book that suits his eyes and read it at will.

Xu Qiu has a habit of reading novels. He basically only focuses on the 2 million+ words, and then reads them all at once without following up on them. Whether there is an ending or not, it doesn't matter to him.

Moreover, he reads fast, if he browses at full speed at peak speed, he can read more than 2 million words in a day.

So much so that when Xu Qiu first came into contact with online literature in his freshman year, it only took less than a year, and the total number of words read has exceeded 100 million.

Of course, this kind of reading speed is basically like reading a book and forgetting a book, unable to remember any plot.

For example, now he can only vaguely remember what "the power of learning, three stages!".

At this moment, the familiar BGM sounded, and Wei Xingsi appeared at the door of 216.

Xu Qiu silently X dropped the webpage, sighed inwardly, looked up and exchanged glances with Mr. Wei.

Wei Xingsi: "I'm here, you understand."

Xu Qiu: "You're here, I understand."

It seems that a new job is coming again, but what are you going to do this time?

Well, you'll find out later.

Wei Xingsi waved his hand and said, "Xu Qiu, Wu Shengnan, you two come here."

The three of them entered Room 218, Wei Xingsi sat down at the desk, and said: "There are still three months until the end of the year, I call you over here, mainly to talk about the project application, the middle school written by you and Wu Feifei before Xu Qiu Rui STINT is considered a small project, this time we will apply for two big projects.”

Wei Xingsi was overwhelmed and explained: "One of them is the Outstanding Youth Fund. As you all know, I will be 45 years old in a few years, and I will no longer be able to apply for 'Jieyou' or 'Yangtze River'. Just this year Because of Xu Qiu, our group has achieved a lot, so after thinking about it, I plan to hit 'Jie Qing'."

Xu Qiu was not surprised by the news, he had heard Mr. Wei and Feng Shengdong talking about this before, and Wu Shengnan nodded calmly.

Wei Xingsi took out two bottles of seabuckthorn juice from the refrigerator, handed them to Xu Qiu and Wu Shengnan, and then continued:

"Just now I had a chat with Gong Yuanjiang on the phone. He is both a 'Yangtze River' and a 'Jieqing', and he is quite experienced in this aspect of application.

"He told me that the application for the Outstanding Young Scholars Program is different from the general general program. The selection of the Outstanding Young Scholars Fund is more about the accumulation of past work. It is not appropriate to introduce the research work to be carried out too specifically, as long as the general direction No problem, as long as there is some novelty and innovation.

"To be too specific sometimes will be picked out by others. After receiving the funding from the outstanding youth, you can explore freely. If you limit yourself too rigidly, you will encounter "deliberate" people in the inspection later, and the explanation will be more long-winded.

"This is roughly the case. The deadline for application is early March next year. I plan to let you, Wu Shengnan, be the lead writer. Xu Qiu, you are responsible for the general direction. Do you have any questions?"

"I'm fine." Wu Shengnan responded immediately. As a paid postdoctoral fellow, he had long been mentally prepared for such a thing as helping the boss write the essence.

"Yes." Xu Qiu also replied. For him, he is now a student, and it is good if he can learn something.

If you want to take the road of scientific research in the future, you will definitely encounter the matter of applying for a fund. Now writing for Wei Xingsi is to gain experience for yourself, and you will avoid a lot of detours when the time comes.

After all, now is an era when the smell of wine is also afraid of deep alleys. No matter how brilliant the work is, if there is no way to show it to others, it is zero.

Because when others are reviewing, it is impossible for all researchers in the same field. There will always be about half of the researchers in other fields. How to write the project so that people in other fields can understand it also feels very NB, is a very important skill.

Of course, having said that, one force can break all laws.

If there are more than a dozen CNS and "Nature" major sub-journals published as first or corresponding authors in the historical research results, even laymen can understand it, this is a big boss.

Xu Qiu unscrewed the cap of the glass bottle of sea-buckthorn juice, took a sip, and felt that the taste of sea-buckthorn juice was a bit weird, sweet and sour, and it was different from other common juices.

At this time, Wei Xingsi's voice came again:

"The other project is a key project. About non-fullerene acceptors, Xu Zhenghong first suggested it to the academic department, mainly because their IDTBR system has made a breakthrough, and the efficiency has reached 11%.

"Later, after peer review, screening, and review by the academic department, this direction has been officially confirmed. Not long after the guideline came out, there are a total of two places. The application deadline for this project is similar to that of the outstanding youth project, and it will also be in March next year.

"The key project is a total of 3 million direct funding for five years. The funding is very strong. I am afraid that our group will not be able to afford it if we apply alone, so we plan to cooperate with Gong Yuanjiang and the others. If we can apply, they will share about 1 million. We divide about 2 million.

"However, there is a problem. Ordinary general projects do not require on-site defense, they only need to pass peer review, while key projects and outstanding youth projects still need on-site defense after peer review.

"In this case, if both applications are successful, you will need to defend two consecutive rounds, and the pressure will be relatively high, but this will be a matter of later."

Wei Xingsi said this, smiled and continued:

"In addition, if the key projects are applied jointly by multiple parties, they must have their own division of labor, that is to say, the research contents of multiple parties must not overlap and must complement each other.

"Considering this, I had a brief discussion with Gong Yuanjiang. They have a good foundation in making small molecule donor materials, and they posted an AM just now.

"So for this key project application, let them be responsible for the development of small molecule donor materials, we are responsible for the development of non-fullerene acceptor materials, and the development of polymer donor materials, so there are just three parallel research directions.

"Well... I'll be in charge of this project for the time being. Let's discuss it after Xu Qiu."

"Okay." Xu Qiu nodded in response. In fact, he and Wei Xingsi usually have a lot of academic exchanges.

For example, Wei Xingsi, after reading the new organic photovoltaic related literature, will print it out and give it to Xu Qiu, and then Xu Qiu will distribute it to the four girls under his command. At the same time, he will discuss with Mr. What are your peers doing, what do you plan to do next, how are the girls doing recently, and whether they are paddling.

Occasionally, Wei Xingsi was able to come up with some original insights, including the test of exciton diffusion distance. In fact, Xu Qiu was inspired by Teacher Wei.

After all, Wei Xingsi's research on organic photovoltaics in the past ten years is not for nothing, and the title of "Qingqian" is not a fake, but has a certain level of scientific research, at least surpassing 90% of domestic professors.

The reason why Wei Xingsi seems to do very little, basically "has no voice", and the organic photovoltaic field in the group is basically completely delegated to Xu Qiu is because he is not a front-line scientific researcher after all.

When Xu Qiu's idea is feasible and can indeed produce results, he naturally doesn't need to forcibly change the experiment Xu Qiu is doing.

At this time, silently providing support and removing external obstacles in the scientific research process for Xu Qiu, such as materials, instruments, funds, etc., is what a mentor should do.

Sometimes doing nothing is the best choice.

If you intervene forcibly, you will do unnecessary things instead, and become a layman guiding an expert.

Wei Xingsi took out another bottle of sea buckthorn juice from the refrigerator, unscrewed the lid, took a sip, and said, "Hiss, why does it taste like this, it's the first time I bought this thing..."

He silently tightened the bottle cap again, got up to boil water to make tea, and said at the same time: "Later, take the remaining bottles of seabuckthorn juice and share them with the rest of the research group. Let's discuss about Jie Qing first." What do you think about the fund, Xu Qiu?"

Xu Qiu thought for a moment, then said: "After that, I mainly have two research ideas. One is to substantially modify the D unit in the center of the ITIC system, that is, the IDTT-like unit, including introducing nitrogen atoms and changing the side chain to sp2 heterogeneity. On carbon atoms, etc.; another idea is to prepare stacked devices... I think that for the Jieqing Fund, it is better to write about stacked devices.”

"Oh? Tell me more specifically." Wei Xingsi became interested.

"In terms of stacking, there are still three directions," Xu Qiu explained in detail:

"The development of near-infrared non-fullerene acceptor materials, the preparation of semi-transparent devices, and the preparation of stacked devices, the three directions are just in a progressive relationship."

"Specifically speaking, in terms of synthesis, Wu Shengnan can directly ask Wu Shengnan to take out the materials such as 4TIC and IHIC that she had previously conceived."

"Next, to further develop translucent devices, silver nanowires and thin-layer metal electrodes can be used as device electrode materials. There are not many people making semi-transparent devices at present, because the traditional system is fullerene, which is rarely matched with near-terminal materials. Infrared donor materials do not need to be translucent."

"Finally, we fully considered the light absorption complementarity, prepared stacked devices, set a small goal, and the efficiency exceeded 15%!"

This "15%" slogan, Xu Qiu yelled very loudly.

"Not bad, not bad," Wei Xingsi was also encouraged by Xu Qiu's momentum, full of praise.

Afterwards, he said to Wu Shengnan: "You can follow Xu Qiu's thinking and write out the first draft of the project first. Don't be in a hurry. Just finish it before January. We will correct it before the winter vacation and throw it away after school starts. .”

"Okay." Wu Shengnan agreed, and Wei Xingsi continued to ask: "As for the key projects, Xu Qiu, do you have any specific ideas?"

"Hmm..." Xu Qiu thought for a while and said, "If you want to win a bigger bright spot, you can think of the introduction of nitrogen atoms. Whether it is a donor or an acceptor, you can follow this idea to develop new structures. Unit, the problem is that the difficulty of synthesis may be relatively high; if the requirement is stable, then it is better to modify it based on the current structure. Although we have done a lot of work, if we dig carefully, we can always find some directions.”

Wei Xingsi fell into deep thought, and finally decided: "For the time being, let's follow the idea of ​​introducing nitrogen atoms. If it is specific, I will think about it later."

"Okay." Xu Qiu has no objection. Anyway, the project is finally applied in the name of Wei Xingsi, and his current status is considered a think tank.

After the discussion, Xu Qiu and Wu Shengnan returned to 216 with the remaining bottles of seabuckthorn juice.

In fact, Xu Qiu originally thought that he would be assigned as the lead writer of a project, but it turned out that this time he seemed to be making soy sauce.

However, this is also very good. He prefers to spend time on experiments, but in reality, it is difficult for a scientific researcher to spend all his time on scientific research.

Project application is something that every scientific research worker has to face, because without projects, there is no funding, and without funding, there is still a hammer to study...

In addition, master students and doctoral students have to attend classes and deal with a lot of things in the school;

As a postdoctoral fellow, you may not have any problems with school affairs, but you will most likely have to help your boss write applications for various funds and projects, and you don’t have much time for experiments;

After being evaluated as a lecturer, associate professor, or professor, you have to go to class again, and you also have to deal with a lot of things in the school, and there may be more things, such as attending academic conferences, participating in student defenses, and attending departmental meetings. Category.

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