Start as a top student and move towards the stars and the sea

Ning Chen also had some impressions of this matter. After all, if every teacher was assigned a room directly, the school's expenditure would be too high.

Of course, this method is indeed a real benefit. You can buy this school district house at a price that is more than half cheaper than outside. No teacher will refuse such a good thing.

After talking about Ning Chen's stay in school, Xu Zhou asked:

"Ning Chen, what topics are you working on now?"

"Well... I haven't done anything yet." Ning Chen answered truthfully.

"Aren't you going to continue with your mathematics project and iron-based superconductivity project?"

"The research topic on the Navier-Stokes equations has been partially solved, but the submitted paper has not yet yielded results. I have not yet found a clear idea on how to continue. The situation is similar with iron-based superconductors. I We are currently researching to see if there are any new entry points.”

In fact, this kind of scientific research gap is very normal for scientific researchers.

What's more, Ning Chen's current standards for selecting topics are very high. Unless the research value is relatively high, or it is a topic that he particularly likes, he will not easily start research on a topic.

"That's right...it doesn't matter. You have made so many research results anyway, so it is normal for you to adjust a little for a while."

After a while, Xu Zhou seemed to remember something again and said to Ning Chen:

"Ning Chen, I have a research direction here. If you are interested, you can try to study it and see if there is any good entry point."

Xu Zhou usually does not often recommend topics to Ning Chen, because Ning Chen almost always has endless research topics. Xu Zhou gives Ning Chen more space to do research freely.

After hearing Xu Zhou's words, Ning Chen became somewhat interested.

"Well, Teacher Xu, please tell me."

"Okay. I have done some research on nanomaterials before. One of the nanomaterials is called TiO2 nanotube array. I feel that there are many research directions..."

Ning Chen is no stranger to the material "TiO2 nanotube array".

As a researcher in materials science, Ning Chen must have a certain understanding of various nanomaterials.

Moreover, Xu Zhou had published several papers on this material before, and Ning Chen had also studied it, and knew that this was indeed a good research direction.

TiO2 nanotube array is an array structure with nanometer size, composed of regularly arranged TiO2 nanotubes.

The diameter of these nanotubes usually ranges from tens to tens of nanometers, and the length ranges from hundreds to several microns.

TiO2 nanotube arrays have certain application value in many fields such as electrochemical energy storage, electrocatalysis, supercapacitors, electroanalytical chemical carriers, electrochemical sensing, and fluid mechanics testing.

After listening to Xu Zhou’s introduction, Ning Chen said:

"Mr. Xu, I also think this is indeed a good research direction. I will study the knowledge about TiO2 nanotube arrays carefully these days to see if I can find any good inspiration."

"Okay, I can recommend some related papers to you. You can study it yourself when you go back. If you have any questions, you can ask me at any time. Although this research direction is not easy to be published in the main journals of "Nature" and "Science", as long as The results are outstanding enough, so there is no problem in publishing a top journal in materials science."

Ning Chen does not publish every paper in the main journals of Nature and Science. In fact, these two academic journals are only relatively influential and may not necessarily be more professional than other more academic journals.

After returning home in the evening, Ning Chen found the papers recommended by Xu Zhou and started studying them by himself.

…

Shuimu University.

Jingzhai Tower.

In the morning, Qiu Chengtong habitually opened his mailbox and wanted to deal with the emails he had accumulated.

These emails were sent by students, other teachers, and some journals asked Qiu Chengtong to serve as a reviewer for the journal.

Because he was really busy with his daily work, Qiu Chengtong had to reject review invitations from many journals.

At this time, Qiu Chengtong found an email from the "Journal of the American Mathematical Society".

After opening the email, Qiu Chengtong discovered that it was a reviewer invitation sent to him by the Journal of the American Mathematical Society.

"Journal of the American Mathematical Society? It looks like this should be a good paper."

Although we still don’t know what the content of the paper is, as long as the paper can pass the preliminary review by the editor of the Journal of the American Mathematical Society, it at least means that the editor is quite optimistic about the paper, and at least the overall level will definitely not be too bad.

Qiu Chengtong also very much hopes that he can be more exposed to some of the latest mathematical research topics so that he can always be connected with cutting-edge research.

Thinking of this, Qiu Chengtong decided to accept the invitation of the Journal of the American Mathematical Society to serve as a reviewer.

Shortly after Qiu Chengtong responded to the email and expressed his willingness to serve as a reviewer, the Journal of the American Mathematical Society sent the manuscript of this paper.

With anticipation, Qiu Chengtong opened the paper attached to his email.

""Solutions to a Special Type of Navier-Stokes Equations"?"

After seeing the title of this paper, Qiu Chengtong always felt that there was some coincidence.

Because a few months ago, Qiu Chengtong once told Ning Chen and suggested that Ning Chen try to study research topics related to the Navier-Stokes equation.

Qiu Chengtong thought, this paper could not be written by Ning Chen, right?

But Qiu Chengtong felt that this possibility was unlikely.

Because normally, when journals invite reviewers, they will try to avoid having too close a relationship between the author of the paper and the reviewers.

Although Qiu Chengtong and Ning Chen were not teachers and students from the same school, Qiu Chengtong had written a letter of recommendation for Ning Chen to the Journal of the American Mathematical Society after all.

Even if they don't know the relationship between the two, at least they know that they know each other.

In order to ensure the fairness of this review, the author's name was hidden in this paper. Qiu Chengtong did not think so much, but focused on the content of the paper.

Unconsciously, Qiu Chengtong was immersed in the content of this paper.

Qiu Chengtong realized that this was a paper of extremely high research level, and even he would have difficulty reading it.

In addition, Qiu Chengtong also always felt that this paper had a very strange feeling, and some of the writing methods seemed to be the same as that of a certain person.

It wasn't until Qiu Chengtong finally read the main content of this paper that he understood why he felt this way.

"This paper... I'm afraid it really came from Ning Chen's hand!"

Apart from Ning Chen, Qiu Chengtong found it hard to believe that any mathematical researcher in the current mathematics community could write such a paper.

Coupled with various other reasons, Qiu Chengtong felt that more than 80% of the author of this paper was Ning Chen.

If this is indeed the case, Qiu Chengtong is obviously not suitable to serve as a reviewer of this paper.

Thinking of this, Qiu Chengtong responded to an email to the Journal of the American Mathematical Society and asked if the author of this paper was Ning Chen.

…

Journal of the American Mathematical Society.

Journal editor Abi Moyle also felt a little overwhelmed after receiving the email reply from Qiu Chengtong.

"Professor Qiu Chengtong actually saw that this paper came from Ning Chen... In this case, it will be difficult to continue the review work."

In fact, Abi Moir did not want to invite Qiu Chengtong as a reviewer for this paper at first, because Qiu Chengtong had written a letter of recommendation to Bang Ningchen before, so he should avoid suspicion when reviewing the paper.

But during the review process, Abi Moyle encountered some unprecedented situations.

Except for Simon Donaldson, the other reviewers invited by Abi Moyle all stated that they were unable to evaluate the results of this paper.

Because the content of this paper is too obscure, with their ability, they are unable to accurately judge whether the various research results in the paper are correct, so they can only regretfully give up the review work.

You know, these two reviewers are also experts in the field of mathematics.

Although they are not Fields Medal winners like Simon Donaldson, they are also mathematics professors at the world's top universities, and there is no problem with their abilities.

In desperation, Abi Moyle had to look for some more capable mathematics experts, so Qiu Chengtong entered Abi Moyle's choice.