The Science editorial department was as busy as ever.
They received a large number of manuscripts from all over the world every day, but less than one-tenth of them were eventually published in the journal.
Compared to being an editor, Warren felt like his job was more like a gold miner. He had to filter out novel and groundbreaking theses from a large number of manuscripts and hand them over to appropriate reviewers.
There was no doubt that this was a great job, because this job changed the entire world.
However, at the same time, this was also a boring job.
As for why …
Because Science was one of the top journals in the academic world, it was too famous.
In order to be published here, the authors would do anything. Because of this, they could see all kinds of "breakthroughs" every day.
To be honest, even editors like them, who only had one foot in the academic circle, couldn't judge the correctness of the thesis. They could only refer to the identity of the author, their university or research institute, past submission records, and other information to determine whether a thesis was qualified for peer review.
Like usual, Warren made himself a cup of black coffee before he started work. He then opened his work email and received the theses that had been reviewed by the technical editor.
When he looked at the emails, he couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle.
"I think the technical department should develop some new functions for our office software …"
"Like what?" asked Brock, who was working on his work.
Warren said angrily, "For example, before the thesis is sent to us, calculate the cumulative impact factor of the author's previous submission records and the academic ranking of the research institute, then sort the thesis."
Brock smiled and said, "That's a good idea, but it seems a bit unfair to those unknown authors."
"Why does it matter? We're Science, shouldn't we use a more scientific method to screen our manuscripts? " Warren mercilessly dragged a thesis into the recycle bin. He then said, "Some theses are just a waste of time."
After killing one thesis, he quickly moved on to the next one.
The second Warren saw the title, he couldn't help but curse in his heart.
Lithium-sulfur batteries again!
The last thesis also claimed to have solved the shuttle effect, but it was researching solid electrolytes. Honestly, there was nothing wrong with the solid electrolyte research, but there were some obvious mistakes in the thesis. Even an editor like him could see them.
He was about to throw up from reading these kinds of theses recently.
Warren subconsciously looked at the author and the research institute. He was thinking about how many minutes he should spend on this thesis when he suddenly froze.
The author's name seemed familiar …
When he looked at the research institute, he saw that it was Princeton University's Frick Chemistry Laboratory.
Then, Warren discovered something even more surprising.
He didn't just submit one thesis, but two …
Warren silently looked at the calendar on the corner of his desk.
He remembered that it had only been half a year since Science highlighted the modified PDMS material paper published in Nature. He couldn't believe that only half a year was enough time to write another paper on the same level as the "modified PDMS material" paper.
After solving the problem of the lithium dendrites, he solved the shuttle effect?
This was too exaggerated!
However, because of Lu Zhou's academic reputation, Warren still paid enough attention to this thesis and began to read it line by line.
Then, he was faced with a dilemma.
It was lunchtime, and Brock, who was sitting at the next desk, stood up. He was about to eat lunch.
Suddenly, he noticed that his colleague next to him was staring at the screen with his eyebrows furrowed. Out of curiosity, he walked over and stood behind Warren to take a few glances at him.
"Lu Zhou? The Princeton professor? "
Warren meticulously looked at the thesis and said, "Yeah, I don't think there's another professor in Princeton with such a weird name …"
Brock said, "I can't believe it, it's only been half a year … And he submitted two theses at the same time?"
"And it's lithium-sulfur batteries. Obviously, he did something big," said Warren as he stared at the computer screen. He spun the pen in his hand and said, "Two theses. One of them is about the effect of the specific surface area and pore size of hollow carbon spheres on the diffusion rate of polysulfide compounds. The other thesis is about the HCS-1 hollow carbon sphere material. The two theses are related, the former focuses on theory, and the latter focuses on application … What should I do?"
Brock hesitated for a second and said, "I think Professor Lu's academic reputation is trustworthy. How about we let the reviewer decide whether or not the thesis is qualified to be published?"
Warren said, "I know, but the question is, who is the reviewer?"
This was indeed a difficult problem.
Brock also had a troubled look on his face.
"The HCS-1 hollow carbon sphere material thesis is fine, many carbon nanomaterials professors have the ability to review it, but this other thesis …" He thought for a bit and couldn't think of a suitable candidate.
Find a mathematics professor, there weren't many people interested in organic chemistry. Find a big name in the field of organic synthesis, there weren't many people who could understand Lu Zhou's thesis.
In the organic materials industry, there were a lot of people working on carbon nanomaterials, and there were a lot of research teams working on hollow carbon spheres. However, there were too few people working on computational materials.
Many of them eventually became coders, and their annual salaries more than doubled. Among those who didn't forget their original intentions, there were very few who became big names.
Because of the miraculous birth of the modified PDMS material, Lu Zhou was regarded as a god by his colleagues in the computational materials field. They all hoped that Lu Zhou would save them, just like how David Shaw saved computational chemistry.
It was difficult to find a professor who was qualified to review Lu Zhou's thesis.
Brock thought for a second and suggested, "How about we contact Professor Bawendi?"
"But is he in the field of carbon nanomaterials?" Warren frowned and said, "I heard that he's been very busy recently, and he has declined many journal review invitations."
Brock said, "But he's been a reviewer for Professor Lu twice, so he's the only one who knows Lu Zhou's thesis better. Or do you have a better candidate?"
"Then I'll write him another letter." Warren hesitated for a second and immediately made a decision. He dragged the two theses into a folder used to store important manuscripts.
He never doubted whether or not these two theses were qualified to be published.
If the shuttle effect could really be contained by the HCS-1 material, then this result would undoubtedly be groundbreaking.
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