Using high-school chemistry knowledge he used ionic bonding to create physical changes, which allowed his team to discover the world's first high-temperature superconductor effective at temperatures above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen.
他利用高中化學的知識，改變化學元素的離子鍵，造成物質物性的改變，也讓他所屬的團隊發現史上第一個溫度高於液態氮蒸發溫度的高溫超導體，一度成為諾貝爾獎熱門候選人。