最近审稿了一篇韩国人的论文，作者用他们的韩纸（Hanji，又称高丽纸）加工处理了一下用作电池隔膜材料。
且不说用纸做电池隔膜的早就早在2012年已经有相关文章发表了，这篇手稿里面使用的韩纸做的电池隔膜做成的电池性能也不行，不但不如当前主流的电池，也比过去几年其他纸材料做的电池隔膜性能差很多。
此外，这个韩国人在前言介绍里，大肆鼓吹他们的韩纸多么多么牛逼。
在第一轮审稿意见里，我就客观地给他提出了，与其他各类纸材料相比，用韩纸做的隔膜有什么优势，并建议他选取几种其他纸进行实验做一下对比。
结果作者不但没有进行实验，也没有进行合理的解释，只是一个劲的敷衍，单纯的说韩纸好，适合做隔膜。
于是我就在这二轮审稿意见里给他上了一课。
给他的评审意见如下：
“作者关于为什么没有使用其他纸进行实验研究的解释很没有说服力。以中国的宣纸为例，汉代中国人将造纸术传入朝鲜半岛，唐朝时（公元618年之后），朝鲜半岛出现了高丽纸。而宣纸始于隋唐以前（公元581年之前）。并且宣纸有纸中之王”的美称。宣纸的主要原料是青檀皮和沙田稻草，而韩纸的原料是桑树皮。宣纸的制作方法包括挑选、碾碎、蒸煮、浸泡、发酵、打浆、加入树糊后调和成纸浆，手工捞纸后将抄制好的纸张放置于阳光下晒干。韩纸的制作方法则包括去皮、蒸煮、浸泡、洗涤、晾晒、敲打、脱水、干燥、修整。因此，宣纸的制备工艺更加复杂，天生具有多孔结构、良好的吸湿性及吸液能力。这使得宣纸早在2012年就被用于研究加工制作电池的隔膜材料，（Journal of Power Sources 2012, 204: 149-154），并且性能优于商用的电池隔膜。”
审稿意见原文如下：
The author's explanation of why no other paper was used for experimental research is not convincing. Taking Chinese rice paper (also known as Xuan paper) as an example, during the Han Dynasty, Chinese people introduced papermaking techniques to the Korean Peninsula. During the Tang Dynasty (after 618 AD), Korean paper appeared on the Korean Peninsula. Xuan paper originated before the Sui and Tang dynasties (before 581 AD). And Xuan paper is known as the king of paper. The main raw materials for rice paper are green sandalwood bark and Shatian rice straw, while the raw material for Korean paper is mulberry bark. The production method of rice paper includes selection, crushing, steaming, soaking, fermentation, beating, blending into pulp after adding the tree pulp, and then placing the prepared paper in the sun to dry after manually picking up the paper. The production methods of Korean paper include peeling, steaming, soaking, washing, drying, tapping, dehydration, drying, and trimming. Therefore, the preparation process of rice paper is more complex, naturally possessing a porous structure, good moisture absorption and liquid absorption ability. This has led to the use of Xuan paper as a separator material for researching and processing batteries as early as 2012 (Journal of Power Sources 2012, 204:149-154), and its performance is superior to commercial battery separators. In 2018, carbon felt interlayer derived from rice paper was used for Li-S batteries, which enabled the batteries with a high capacity of 837 mA h g−1 at 2.0 C and a high initial capacity of 1073.4 mA h g−1 and good capacity retention of 824.5 mA h g−1 after 500 cycles at 0.5 C. CFSS interlayer also shows excellent anti-self-discharge performance. Rice paper-derived porous carbon as the interlayer material for advanced lithium–sulfur batteries, which has a specific surface 300.4 m2 g−1. It can productively curb polysulfide shuttle and boost the cycling performance and rate capability of the battery. The first capacity of Li–S battery with this porous carbon was 905.6 mAh g−1 at 1 C, and it maintained 464.8 mAh g−1 even over 500 cycles (Ionics 2022, 28, 3207–3215).
Therefore, compared to the reported paper driven interlayer material, Hanji derived interlayer material did not show any better advantages. Therefore, the innovation of this paper is very low. And the author did not conduct a comparative study on any other type of paper, so the research results are very unconvincing.