Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Princeton's chemistry majors, though not as famous as physics and mathematics, rank 15 globally. If it's precise enough to be organic, the ranking needs to be a little bit forward.

Especially the Frick Chemical Laboratory, which was built 11 years later, is one of the top chemical laboratories in North America. While cattle in the field are no better than TOP1's MIT, hardware conditions are not too far behind.

A lot of people think Princeton doesn't have a fancy lab, but it's just a beautiful misunderstanding. At Ivy League, Princeton's alumni club is definitely rich and generous. And that can be seen from the $400,000 annual salary on the ark.

Introduced by Witten, the Ark met Professor PaulJ. Chirik of Princeton University.

Although he looks young, the professor is definitely a bull in organic chemistry. And just this year (16 years), he just won the U.S. President's Green Chemistry Challenge Award for a paper in Science.

The “1 +1” speculation of Godebach in mathematics is famous, and similar difficulties exist in organic synthesis, such as the famous “2 +2” problem.

The olefin ring addition reaction is very common in organic synthesis, and the famous Diels-Alder [4π +2π] ring addition reaction is the formation of a six-membered ring under thermal conditions from diene (4π) and olefin (2π).

However, another seemingly simpler reaction of [2π +2π] olefin ring addition to form a cyclobutane ring would not be so easy. Owing to the limitations of orbital symmetry, this reaction often requires photochemical reaction conditions to be activated, but this reaction pathway is often inefficient and poorly specific.

And Professor Chirick, in his 15-year article Science, proposed an entirely new way to solve this problem —— using iron catalysts to convert simple feedstock olefins into cyclobutane structures under warm and warm conditions.

Industry is known to be interested in this technology, and the related patents have rewarded the professor with millions of dollars.

When he learned that the Ark was interested in computational materials, Professor Chirick immediately showed a keen interest in him and invited him to his lab.

In the magical place of Princeton, there may be historians drawn to the past for mathematics or physics, but few mathematics professors at the top of the discipline despise chain are willing to go and study other things, even if many things are more expensive than mathematics.

“Although the status of this emerging discipline of computing materials is on the rise, a lot of people studying this piece end up in Silicon Valley doing graphic processing, so why would you be interested in this direction?” A cup of coffee was handed to the ark, and Professor Chirick asked curiously after inviting him to sit down.

“Because mathematics is an interesting thing, and I'm going to try to make it shine in a wider field than just mathematics in this ivory tower.” The ark laughed.

“You have a unique point of view," Chirick leaned back on the chair and smiled, “and every time I argued with a professor at the Institute of Higher Studies, they would face to face telling me that math should be pure. ”

“They're right, mathematics is pure. In my personal view, however, the tools developed by pure research do not necessarily have to be used to solve pure problems,” Ark laughed, paused for a moment and continued, "In fact, I had been involved in similar projects before I went to North America, just because I was too busy to continue. To finish my research, I'd like to borrow some experimental equipment. ”

In fact, mostly for writing papers, the design method of the target product is already patented, and even similar experiments have been done in Kim Dae's lab.

But he's now a professor at Princeton, and for the credibility of his thesis, he has to do it again. Materials differ from mathematics in that they must be marked with the location of the experiment and the number of the experimental equipment, etc.

If he uses data from a year ago and is still on the other side of the Pacific, he is likely to be suspected of fabricating the data and not being able to pass the review. Because the academic editor responsible for peer review is not responsible for "duplicate experiments”, these details can only be strictly checked.

After all, you can't ask someone to take the time to review your manuscript and pay for it yourself to do it again.

All judgments are based by default on the contributor's absolute honesty with the data he/she provides, and are guaranteed by his/her academic reputation. So occasionally, some papers get published, they get excited, they get more peer attention, and they end up being withdrawn from the journal.

This is the most common case in the biological field, because many biological experiments are truly casual.

Looking at the list of equipment taken out by the Ark, Professor Chirick pulled the drawer wide open.

Knowing that the experimental equipment and materials listed in the list were not dangerous, he was relieved to leave the keys in his hands when he learned that the ship had experimental experience.

“No problem! Use it, but be careful when experimenting. ”

He stuffed the key in his pocket, and the ark laughed and said, "I promise you, the equipment you lent me was what it looked like before the experiment, what it looked like after the experiment. ”

“No, I mean, don't break yourself,” Chirick joked, "I'd rather have something wrong with the instrument than with you, or the people at the institute of higher learning would tear me apart. ”

Ark Haha laughed and left a “definitely not” and got up and said goodbye.

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Relevant experiments have been done on the ark once, and I repeat, it is nothing more than a light vehicle familiar road.

Design test processes, collect data, indicate the use of material numbers, even the location and time of the experiment, etc.

Technically, this was the first attempt by the Ark to write a material thesis.

Although SCI for computational materials had previously been issued, it was strictly an applied mathematics paper, a mathematical model of the ratio of cement materials to carbon nanotube materials by calculation alone, and did not involve a specific experimental part.

But a lot of things are actually connected.

As long as you learn the format, writing a paper is not difficult for an ark.

It took two days, stayed up late and did two sets of experiments. On the third day, the ark slept until noon. After waking up, it sat at the desk and started editing the paper to the computer.

[Title: Polydimethylsilane Stable Interface Film for a High Performance Lithium Battery Anode]

[Abstract: This paper assumes that polydimethylsilane feedstock, by such operating means as etching of hydrofluoric acid, obtains an improved polydimethylsiloxane nanopore film and covers the surface of the anode material by spin coating method. Through SEM electroscopy, it is found that the PDMS film has a nanopore structure, which can provide an effective transmission channel for lithium ions and effectively suppress the growth of lithium branches...]

Looking at the beginning of the paper, the ark nodded satisfactorily.

Although he could write more exaggerated with the sensational effect of this invention, the cowhide blows too big to give the reviewer a bad impression.

Besides, he is a very new person in the field of materials science, and people who do materials research don't necessarily know him.

Once the title and abstract have been written, the ark begins to write parts of the body.

Unlike a mathematical paper that says it will also wrinkle your eyebrows, the ark occasionally rethinks when entering the mathematical problem proof process into the computer to see if those "obvious” questions are “obvious” or not.

But the material thesis, the experimental process, he's already in the mind, and the data is irreversible, and writing is naturally cloud-flow.

After a full three days, the Ark finally completed its thesis writing and checked it from beginning to end to make sure there were no major problems.

As for the choice of contributory journals, after some careful consideration, he eventually chose Nature's sub-journal Nature-Chemistry as the goal of his contribution, influencing factor 25.87.

Such professional articles are more appropriately published in the subjournal than in the main journal, which favours the nature of science.

The legendary rate of return on Nature is as high as 90%, and only one of the ten contributors can successfully publish.

Even at this rate, the Ark felt it necessary to challenge itself.

Log into the Contribution website, fill out your profile, and click Upload.

Thinking of the more than twenty influencing factors, the corner of the ark's mouth can't help but make a smile.

Undoubtedly, this is the most influential of all the journals he's ever pitched.

Soon, however, the ark's eyebrows did not have to be slightly frowned upon.

I don't know if it's an illusion, he always feels...

Seems like a loss?