Distinctive and Advantageous Research Fields

(1) Advanced Forming and Processing of Metals: control of solidification microstructure of new wear resistant steels and ceramic composite materials, continuous extrusion, directional solidification, semi-solid forming, additive manufacturing of metal parts, laser surface treatment;

(2) Nonferrous and Precious Metals: Cu, Al and Ti and their alloy designs, development of deep processing and precision forming technologies, breakthrough technologies in precious metal electronic materials, precious metal catalysts, precious metal superalloys, precious metal purification and recycling;

(3) Photoelectric Functional Materials and New Energy Materials: new illumination materials, display materials, communication, optical storage materials, Si- and Cu-based solar energy thin film batteries, energy saving composite electrodes, high performance battery materials;

(4) Special Powder Materials: new functional materials powder, preparation of precious metal powder, high performance soft magnetic materials, precious metal electronic materials;

(5) Materials Design and Computational Materials: first principal calculation and molecular dynamics simulation of physical and chemical properties of new functional materials; performance of materials under special service environment, property evolution and failure of materials in service, improvement of materials properties and optimization of materials.

Innovative Research Team