Interfacial Electronic Properties

Reviewers requested supplementary calculations? Nat. Commun. Reviewer Comments Interpretation – Two Rounds of Responses and In-Depth Supplementary Calculations

When submitting to top journals, the most difficult step is often not producing the results, but rather providing sufficiently strong mechanistic evidence when reviewers press for "why." When reviewers from top journals raise rigorous questions about your physical mechanisms, how can theoretical calculations help you revive your work? This article will analyze a study on LLZTO solid electrolyte modification published in Nature Communications by Professor Liu Wei's team at ShanghaiTech University, along with their reviewers' comments. It will examine how the authors, facing continuous questioning during the review process, strengthened their arguments layer by layer, and, through first-principles calculations (DFT) and finite element simulations (COMSOL), gradually integrated the initially scattered results into a self-consistent and complete mechanistic loop.