The true value of a material is only proven over decades, even centuries, once it becomes embedded as the infrastructure of society. Just as the blue LED once transformed the world’s lighting, the quiet pursuit of “unknown crystals” and “new principles” in university labs today will become the industrial legacy that supports humanity a century from now.
How is the “pursuit of truth” — indifferent to business trends — elevated into the “standards” that define global industry? In this session, researchers at the forefront of materials science and solid-state chemistry come together to decode, from the perspectives of physics, chemistry, and AI, how basic research crystallizes into industrial legacy — and how the “lineage of science” should be carried forward. The foundation of manufacturing a hundred years from now already exists, quietly, in a lab somewhere today. The question is how we design its inheritance.
