1) original
Originality means innovation, clever ideas, new concepts, new synthesis strategies and new experimental methods. For example, conventional molecular sieves are all synthesized by hydrothermal method, and some people use other media (such as ionic liquids) to synthesize molecular sieves for the first time, which is originality.
Knowing this requirement will help you understand your work objectively. For example, there are four different situations in catalytic research:
-Synthesis of new catalysts and new reactions by new methods (all three are new)
-Synthesis methods, catalysts and reactions are two new ones.
-One of the synthetic methods, catalysts and reactions is new.
-Synthetic methods, catalysts and reactions are all old.
Objectively analyzing which of the above situations your article belongs to will help to avoid wasting time by submitting it indiscriminately.
2) the importance of the result
The importance of the result is that the result is important. For example, the conventional synthesis of a drug takes 30 steps, and finally it takes one ton of raw materials to produce one gram of product, which brings many toxic and harmful by-products, and the target product can treat AIDS; Now a synthetic expert has synthesized this drug in a new way. It only takes three steps, and 10 grams of raw materials can be used to synthesize a high-purity product.
3) Surprise of the result
In other words, report unpredictable and strange results. For example, when someone carries out an organic chemical reaction, he thinks he can get predictable conventional products; However, it has been found that diamond can be produced at room temperature by accidentally adding some substances. For another example, oxygen generally exists in the form of O2, but someone has obtained O4 in some way, and this molecule has never been reported in textbooks. For another example, the catalytic reaction of general organic compounds follows a certain reaction mechanism, which has been explained in many reviews. Now it is found that an organic reaction is completely interrupted to become carbon atoms, and then higher alcohols are generated; Or this kind of organic matter is polymerized to produce polymer first, and then decomposed to produce higher alcohols.
4) universality
In other words, the article does not focus on the details of a science, but inspires people who do other chemistry topics, so that future generations can carry out follow-up work and be widely quoted by future generations. For example, a brand-new reaction in organic chemistry was discovered, which initially proved that the reaction was also established after changing the reactant molecules, and various useful molecules could be produced. In this way, future generations can use this new reaction to design various functional organic molecules and play a role in drug synthesis and material synthesis.
5) popular and well written
It is to make things and importance clear in popular language, and to be proficient in writing skills. If the writing is very professional and the eyes are full of dark molecular formulas and peaks, it is not easy to hit the target. Explain the idea of the experiment, the main points to be emphasized and this article in descriptive language.
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The importance of how to do follow-up research in the future.
6) the correctness of scientific research
In other words, no matter how clever the idea is, it can't be published without experimental confirmation.
Above all, the first point is "originality". If there is no originality, you can make up for it with several other conditions.
Compared with the journals of the German Society of Applied Chemistry, the long articles of the American Chemical Society lack some original and surprising results, and emphasize more on the systematicness of work and the high quality of experiments, and emphasize more on various experimental methods to do interdisciplinary experiments, such as physical chemistry to study biochemistry. For example, in an article, nano-catalysts were synthesized by inorganic method, characterized by modern instruments, and the catalytic reaction of generating new energy was studied, and the experimental results were explained by quantum chemical calculation.
Naturally, science magazines are more demanding. In addition to the above characteristics, they also emphasize the correctness of the so-called direction, that is, the "right path." For example, a scientist has invented a new astronomical telescope and found that there are alien sites in a galaxy, so this (my virtual) theme is suitable for nature and science; ; For another example, there is no specific medicine for leukemia at present. If someone can invent a method to treat leukemia within a week and clarify its molecular mechanism, such a theme (my virtual) is suitable for nature and science.