The top student must be diligent

Wang Li said, and then he continued his survey mission.

Seeing his vigorous and resolute appearance, Xiao Yi couldn't help but sigh, this is their soldier, right?

At this moment, his mobile phone suddenly rang.

He took a look and saw that it was a call from "Nature".

I think it's about the paper.

Now the results of the ten laboratories are out. According to the previous agreement, it is estimated that the copyright transfer agreement will be issued.

However, just before he was about to answer the phone, he suddenly frowned and thought about it.

That's not right. If "Nature" wants to inform him about the acceptance of the paper, why call directly?

Generally speaking, it should be notified directly by email, right?

This call is really unnecessary.

Could it be...?

After thinking for a moment, he still answered the phone, but clicked the recording button.

Then, the words of Skip, the editor-in-chief on the other side, confirmed his guess.

Xiao Yi's brows immediately frowned: "So, what you mean is that you want to breach the contract? This is different from what we agreed before."

"Professor Xiao, this is it. If you agree, this year's Nobel Prize may be awarded to you. You know, this new superconductor undoubtedly verifies the value of the XSC theory, and the Nobel Prize in Physics is very fond of such results."

Skip said hurriedly.

However, hearing the other party's words, Xiao Yi was silent for a moment, and then said: "Nature, Nature, what did I do to make you disrespect me so much?"

Skip: "I..."

Xiao Yi didn't let her continue, and said directly: "That's it, I won't say anything else."

Without nonsense, he hung up the phone.

He was not angry in his heart, or it was not worth him to be angry about it.

It can only be said that these people really think that the Nobel Prize is something very important.

As for the economic value, according to the report, the global superconductor material market size is at least around 8 billion US dollars each year, and as superconductors are used more and more, this size will inevitably rise steadily, not to mention the new FeSe, which will inevitably further expand the scope of use of superconductors, and its future sales scale, 5 billion US dollars is just a conservative estimate.

And the Nobel Prize is only 10 million Swedish kronor, which is about 900,000 US dollars.

Choose between these two...

Well, Xiao Yi remembered a classic multiple-choice question he had seen before: Beijing University admission letter and 10 million, which one do you choose?

In addition to the economic value, that is the other party's way of thinking.

Do you think a Nobel Prize can make him surrender?

Shaking his head, he said no more, and returned to his office and started writing emails.

The content of the email was to ask Nature to withdraw his previous article "Coupling Model of Electron Density Wave and Spin Density Wave: High-Temperature Superconductivity Mechanism" and all reports on his achievements in Nature, such as when he proved the twin prime conjecture and the Goldbach conjecture, Nature had reported on this matter.

Although these articles have been published and there is no academic fraud, it is basically impossible to withdraw them.

However, this is also a statement.

In the future, he will definitely not submit to Nature again.

Well...

I will simply not submit in the future.

He thought about it and decided to post any achievements on his personal website in the future. It happened that since he became a professor at the University of Science and Technology, he also built his own personal website and would not consider submitting to other journals in the future.

Soon, the email was completed and he sent it to the editorial department of Nature.

Of course, this is not over yet. In order to avoid the other party from turning the tables, he must first occupy the high ground of public opinion.

Therefore, it is necessary to write an article to explain the reasons for this matter.

Well, it is probably a short essay?

He shook his head with a smile, and then he began to write.

...

That night, Xiao Yi's article titled "Nature has lost its credibility as a top journal" quickly spread.

Suddenly, the academic community, which was shocked by the new FeSe superconductor, suddenly shifted its attention to this matter.

A world-class scientist publicly criticized a world-class top journal?

Such a shocking melon immediately attracted the attention of people all over the world.

Then, after understanding the reason, "Nature" was accused and abused by almost half of the scientific community.

Since it has been negotiated, why did it breach the contract?

This is good, it deserves to be criticized by Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yi's influence is now quite large worldwide, and of course there are quite a lot of people standing up for him.

In addition, "Nature" is also caught up in public opinion turmoil because of the super fraud incident about Alzheimer's disease and the retraction storm of room-temperature superconductors some time ago. This incident has put "Nature" into an unbearable situation.

Nature's old rival, Science, was so happy that it started to stir up trouble everywhere, and even wrote an article in the new issue of Science, titled "Nature not only wants your article, but also your money". In addition, it called on Xiao Yi to submit his paper to them in the future.

Just when the whole world thought that this was the only thing, it was suddenly discovered that Xiao Yi's personal website also released a recording, which was the content of the phone call between Skip and Xiao Yi.

The Nobel Prize hinted in Skip's words added fuel to the fire.

You are the editor-in-chief of Nature, and you still know about the Nobel Prize?

The Nobel Prize, whose fairness has long been questioned, was also dragged down because of this recording.

For a time, the entire scientific community became a mess.

And the headquarters of Nature was even more chaotic.

With a "pop", a glass was smashed directly to the ground.

Skip said angrily: "Fuck! Damn Science, if Xiao Yi's paper was submitted to them, they would be scolded! They are still gloating!"

Across from her was their CEO, Lanka Warner, an old professor in his sixties.

Warner also had a headache.

If Xiao Yi was just a relatively outstanding scientist, this matter would not have such a big impact.

But the problem is that Xiao Yi is a scientist who has made history, whether in mathematics, physics, or even materials science.

Not to mention that he has now developed a perfect superconductor, which is at the core of people's attention.

This is too destructive to their Nature.

"You shouldn't have called him." Warner accused.

"How do I know Xiao Yi will react so strongly?!" Skip spread his hands: "Besides, it was Davis who asked me to call! He said it was the intention of the U.S. Department of Energy!"

Warner said angrily: "Then you should have told me! Why bypass me?"

Skip said: "Davis also called me without you as the CEO! Why did you come to me? You went to him! Go to the Americans!"

The two began to shirk responsibility.

At this moment, the door of the office was suddenly opened, and an assistant who came in said: "The Nobel Prize Committee called..."

The two people in the office suddenly had a headache.

Warner said: "I really don't know what you think! How can you hint at the Nobel Prize to others like this?!"

Skip said: "How could I have thought that Xiao Yi actually recorded it? And Davis asked me to talk to Xiao Yi about the Nobel Prize!"

"I..." Warner was even more annoyed. Suddenly, his heart was probably twitched by anger. He quickly covered his heart, and then took out a quick-acting heart-saving pill from his pocket and drank it.

However, at this time, good news came again.

Another person ran into the office and said, "Now 11 scientists have said that they will no longer submit articles to our "Nature".

Perhaps because the quick-acting heart-saving pills had not yet taken effect, Warner, an old man in his sixties and seventies, fainted directly.

"Oh my god! Mr. Warner!"

For a while, the office was in chaos.

...

Chapter 192 The next goal: solid-state lithium batteries

As time went by, the matter of Xiao Yi's anger against "Nature" was also fermenting, and it became one of the topics of conversation among the entire academic community.

It is conceivable that for a long time in the future, the number of submissions to "Nature" will most likely decrease as a result, and a considerable part of them will be absorbed by "Science".

In particular, quite a number of scholars followed Xiao Yi and said that they would no longer submit articles to "Nature".

According to statistics, at least more than 100 scholars have said so.

Many of these scholars are well-known experts in various fields, and have published numerous papers in various top journals, and some even have an H-index of 100.

However, what makes Nature a little nauseous is that some of these scholars have never been heard of, and have never published papers in the three major SNC journals before.