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Abstract:
In scientific experiments, it is common to observe ‘strange’ or ‘abnormal’ minor phenomena. Out of curiosity, some researchers make substantial efforts to repeat experiments to investigate and explore these anomalies, eventually uncovering important discoveries. These new discoveries may become key to solving major scientific problems. In other words, they may significantly contribute to the development of general theories and pictures of challenging scientific problems. However, some researchers may treat these minor phenomena as experimental errors or insignificant unknowns and simply ignore them, thereby missing a potentially important discovery. Such discoveries often deviate from the initially designed research objectives, yet they may be even more significant. Of course, recognizing these clues requires a certain level of perception, but this kind of perception can be gradually cultivated. The same holds true in glass science research. In this lecture, I will share with students several examples from my own glass research to show how those easily overlooked phenomena can turn into important scientific discoveries. I hope these examples will be helpful for your own research. Of course, students also have many examples we can discuss together.
About the speaker:
Yuanzheng Yue is Professor of Chemistry and leader of functional amorphous materials at Aalborg University, Denmark. In 1995, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science from Technical University of Berlin, Germany. His research focuses on disordered materials, including inorganic glasses, glass fibers, metal-organic framework (MOF) glasses, metallic glasses, and amorphous energy storage and insulation materials. He is Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, the Danish Academy of Natural Sciences, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the European Ceramics Society, and the Society of Glass Technology (UK). He is a recipient of the Corning Outstanding Paper Award in 2011 and 2015. He received the Dalton Horizon Prize in 2025 for his pioneer work on MOF glassesm and the N.F. Mott Award in 2026 for his outstanding contributions to glass science.
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