アクシデンタルな新物質探索研究

抄録

  The discovery of a new material is often accidental. In this small article, I would like to introduce the most memorable failures in the author's research career in the development of new materials, and also the success story that were the other side of those failures. Specifically, I will introduce the story about the quantum kagome antiferromagnet Ca-Kapellasite, which was born into the world at the moment of the failure during the flux removal in a crystal growth of the high-T_c cuprate superconductor. Failure and success are indeed two sides of the same coin, and I hope if I could tell even a little of the dynamism of success born from failure.