Chapter 555: Preparing to recruit troops and buy horses

Song Yao nestled in Xu Qingzhou's arms and looked at the messages with him. Seeing the fans urging Xu Qingzhou to go out and show off, she despised: "Look at your image in the fans' hearts."

"I am clearly just sharing my life normally."

Xu Qingzhou curled his lips and retorted, looking at the comments with School Beauty Song.

Although he often shares his life with netizens, there was no need for the patent fee matter this time. It's fine to joke about ordinary things, but money matters are not good.

He hadn't checked Weibo for a while, and he had gained another 200,000 fans.

In the group, everyone was still chatting, until... Xu Zhengyang spoke.

Xu Zhengyang: "Old Xu has suddenly become the richest among us."

Kong Xianbo had already finished his instant noodles and was lying lazily on the bed.

Seeing this message, he also agreed somewhat. Just as he was about to type to agree, he saw another message pop up behind Xu Zhengyang's avatar: "Unlike me, my family only has a few Sihe courtyards and a few buildings."

Kong Xianbo: "..."

This dog thing's showing off is still as stiff as ever.

Zhai Ziqiang: "..."

Xu Qingzhou: "If everyone were in the dormitory now, my size 43 slippers would already be on your face."

Kong Xianbo: "Objective, hitting the nail on the head."

After Xu Qingzhou, Kong Xianbo, and Zhai Ziqiang jointly denounced Xu Zhengyang, he put down his phone, hugged the fragrant and soft body, and planned to take a nap.

10 minutes passed.

Song Yao climbed up from Xu Qingzhou, her face stinking, and kicked her way back to her throne.

Playing with feet, pinching these and those, that's fine, but this guy's dog claws were actually gradually exploring and moving downwards...

It's broad daylight, and there's still serious business to do.

Xu Qingzhou was still unsatisfied, squinting at the girl tidying her clothes: "If you want to... okay, okay, I won't say it, Teacher Song, you can't suppress yourself..."

"Xu Qingzhou!"

In June, the summer heat grew stronger.

Xu Qingzhou's little life was quite leisurely; he had already finished the paper on the 2nd.

At the desk.

"Done. Now the biggest problem is which journal to submit to."

According to his thoughts, there are currently two options available.

The first is *Physics Reports*, which he has already submitted a few papers to. It's an old acquaintance, and the benefit is that the manuscript review speed is very fast.

As for the second one, the world's top journals *Nature* and *Science*, choose one of the two.

The former emphasizes breakthroughs in basic science, such as new physical mechanisms and material theoretical models, while the latter focuses on technological innovation, such as interdisciplinary engineering applications and solving major practical problems.

But the problem is, he has two papers in hand, one leaning towards theory and one leaning towards technology.

Xu Qingzhou gently turned the signature pen in his hand and thought for a moment. He didn't struggle much and finally set his sights on *Nature*.

In terms of influence, it seems there is no difference which one he submits to.

As a former regular of *Nature*, having been reborn, he must publish a *Nature* paper first.

The review cycle is estimated to be relatively long, but it doesn't matter. He doesn't need to publish SCI to complete scientific research tasks now, so he can wait slowly. Anyway, the patent is already in hand.

"Let's do it."

Xu Qingzhou didn't waste time, directly opened the *Nature* official website, and started filling in the submission information. It took an afternoon to get the application information done, and he packaged the paper and submitted it to *Nature*.

After uploading the paper and resting for 1 day, he started the long-idle lithium dendrite experiment.

June 4th, morning, laboratory.

Xu Qingzhou first checked all the instruments. The superconducting thin film experiment had stopped, but other research groups had come to use it. Seeing that the equipment was fine, he debugged it, put on safety goggles, and prepared to operate.

All the steps were well-known by heart.

First, cut the lithium foil with stainless steel scissors in the glove box, then wipe the surface lightly with a dust-free cloth dipped in dimethyl carbonate, transfer the sample to a glass bottle, and fill it with argon for storage.

Use tweezers to place the components in order, from the negative electrode shell to the negative electrode, and then to the separator soaked in electrolyte...

Of course, many details were added during the period, such as increasing the ALD thickened coating to 5nm, and in the electrolyte, FEC increased to 5wt%...

The whole process was smooth and flowing.

After 1 hour, Xu Qingzhou put the new sample together with the two groups made yesterday and walked out of the laboratory. After the battery is packaged, it needs to stand for 12 hours to allow the electrolyte to fully soak the electrodes.

Carson and the others had already arrived and were sitting and chatting.

It was mainly Carson and Ma Ersi discussing how the atmosphere of the newly opened bar was, while Sun Simin was listening quietly on the side, occasionally laughing and adding a few words.

"Professor, good morning."

"Good morning. I have already finished reading all your papers."

Xu Qingzhou sat down and opened his laptop, "The overall level has reached the submission standard, but unfortunately, my standard is slightly higher. If I were to score it, it would only be 70 points."

"Oh, the professor is as strict as ever."

Ma Ersi wailed.

Carson patted Ma Ersi on the shoulder and said: "Buddy, calm down. I guarantee that compared to having those tricky reviewers send it back and ask for revisions, you will prefer the professor finding problems for you."

Having studied for these years, he understands even more how rare and precious it is to have a professor teach like this, guide the paper, strive for perfection, and impart valuable experience.

At the very least, apart from his former boss, only the Professor Xu in front of him could have this patience.

Ma Ersi remembered some bad experiences and sighed: "Okay, I have experienced that kind of pain... I am ready, Professor."

"I am very happy to see you have such realization. Alright, now let's talk about Carson's paper first. You two sit for a while."

Xu Qingzhou signaled Sun Simin and Ma Ersi to sit first, and then brought up Carson's second paper, "In the fourth part, I suggest adding synergistic optimization of doping concentration and superconducting performance, and increasing the stress compensation model design..."

11:30 AM.

After explaining the details that needed to be modified in the papers to everyone, Xu Qingzhou took the new samples to the laboratory of Building 13 of the Materials Department.

He had reserved the equipment for today.

First, analyze the reversibility and reaction kinetics of lithium deposition and stripping, evaluate capacity decay and cycle life, and at the same time record the lithium dendrite growth process through cryo-SEM, and also monitor the lithium deposition process in real-time to generate images.

He had been doing experiments intermittently for several months and had already established a corresponding mathematical model, but there was actually still no key breakthrough in the inhibition of lithium dendrites.

To be precise, the current experiments were all collecting data. In terms of battery performance, it could only rank at the bottom among current mainstream laboratories, just an average level.

Xu Qingzhou was already satisfied that the samples made by taking time out occasionally could reach the current level.

In fact, many new ideas popped up during the whole experiment process, but unfortunately, there was no time to verify them one by one now.

Recruitment matters were also being pushed forward intensively.

On June 6th, after docking with Xu Qingzhou on the recruitment details, the official website of the Kyoto Institute of Materials published the recruitment information.

Soon, Kyoto University updated the recruitment of the institute synchronously.

Xu Qingzhou certainly wasn't idle either, forwarding the recruitment information on his Weibo for the first time.

And added: "Recruiting talents, the requirements are not high, everyone is welcome to sign up."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 556 =====