MPS/CAS Partner Group on Cosmology

The Partner Group does research in cosmology, focussing on the quantitative modeling of the structure and evolution of galaxies and galaxy clusters, the pattern of galaxies and of larger structures.     

MPS/CAS Partner Group on Radio Astronomy

The Partner Group does research on cosmic magnetic fields using radio astronomy methods. Magnetic fields are found in every astronomical object: the Earth, the Sun,planets, stars, pulsars, the Milky Way,nearby galaxies and in distant radio galaxies. The role of the magnetic fields in the cosmic universe has not been well investigated, mainly because of the difficulties of their observation.     

MPS/CAS Partner Group on Geometric Analysis

The Partner Group works on topics in geometric analysis in cooperation with the corresponding research group at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig.     

MPS/CAS Partner Group on Nanostructured Materials

As one of the first Partner Groups which were initiated to foster scientific exchange and interaction between the Max Pianck Society (MPS) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Partner Group led by Lu Ke was established on April 1, 1999.During the past five years, the group has received substantial support from the CAS for equipment and from the MPS for personnel and travel expenses. Extensive and productive collaborations between the research staff and students of the Partner Group with several professors (departments) in the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research (MPI-MF) have led to significant advances in synthesis,mechanical properties, melting and superheating of nanostructured metals. The research is well recognized internationally and a substantial number of publications in high quality, peer-reviewed journals (including Science and Physical Review Letters) have resulted.     

MPS/CAS Partner Group on Colloid and Interface Science

The Partner Group on Colloid and Interface Science is based on the International Joint Laboratory, established in the former Beijing Institute of Photographic Chemistry,Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and was incorporated into the Center for Molecular Science of the Institute of Chemistry, CAS in 1999.     

MPS/CAS Partner Group on Plant Molecular Physiology and Signal Transduction

Rice is mankind's most important food crop - the staple diet for half of the world's population - and is also tremendously important for Chinese food production.Hence, understanding how rice grows and interacts with its environment, which often adversely affects plant development and crop yield, is of prime importance.     

MPS/CAS Partner Groups in China

MPS/CAS Partner Groups have become an important backbone of Sino-German collaboration, and they are considered to function as a nucleus for defining topics for the envisaged next generation of cooperation - as seen from the following reports and future plans.     

MPS/CAS Partner Group on the Development of Mechanical Knowledge in China

China's long and continuous cultural tradition offers scholars the special opportunity for cross-cultural studies in the long-term development of science. The Partner Group focuses on an exemplary case of such long-term development, the development of mechanical knowledge in China from antiquity to the early modern period.     

MPS/CAS Partner Group on Interfacial and Amorphous Structures in Advanced Ceramics

The scientific work of the Partner Group is aiming to comprehend the fundamental properties of internal interfaces that play a key role in the microstructure development and in the thermal, mechanical, and functional properties of ceramics.     

An MPG/CAS Partner Group Set Up at USTC

The Max Planck Society (MPG) and CAS have recently decided to set up a partner group at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), which is located in Hefei,capital of east China's Anhui Province.     

Prospects of CAS/MPS Cooperation

In the next 20 years, collaboration between the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (MPS) will meet with great strategic opportunities. We should seek the chance to innovatively improve our cooperation. This could include further improvement of the mechanisms,expansion of areas, actively seeking new patterns, and strengthening our research on science and technology foresight.     

MPS/CAS Cooperation on Solid State Chemistry

The cooperation between Zhao Jingtai and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids was initiated immediately after the research field Inorganic Chemistry (headed by Rüdiger Kniep) started its work in Dresden. The first contact was established when Zhao Jingtai came from the Xiamen University as a Max Planck fellow. At that time, the chemistry of the intermetallic compounds of rare-earth metals was chosen as a topic of joint investigations with Yuri Grin. Later, the solid state chemistry of the borophosphates was added to the program of concerted research in the group of Zhao Jingtai and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids.     

MPG, CAS Set Up a New Partner Group

Max Planck Society (MPG) and CAS recently set up a Partner Group on First-Principles Theory of High-pressure Oxidation Catalysis at the CAS Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP).     

CAS/MPS partner group makes fruitful achievements

After five years of development, a partner group between CAS and Max Planck Society （MPS） on interfacial and amorphous structure in advanced ceramics has scored encouraging progress, commented members of the Scientific Advisory Board of the group, which convened on 15 April in Shanghai.     

CAS Researcher Win International Catalysis Award

Prof. Li Can, a CAS member and director of the State Key Laboratory of Catalysis at the CAS Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, received the International Catalysis Award at the 13th International Catalysis Congress (ICC)held from July 11 to 16 in Paris.     

CAS Researcher Wins International Catalysis Award

Prof. Li Can, a CAS member and director of the State Key Laboratory of Catalysis at the CAS Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, received the International Catalysis Award at the 13th International Catalysis Congress (ICC)held from July 11 to 16 in Paris.     

中国科学院在我国纳米科技研究中的作用与地位分析

本文结合我国、中国科学院纳米科技研究的发展历程,从研究项目的组织与实施、研究资源的优化与整合及研究成果的获得与影响等各方面对中科院在我国纳米科技研究中的作用与地位进行了分析,同时提出了中科院乃至我国在纳米科技研究领域中存在的问题与建议,希望能对我国未来纳米科技发展有所裨益。     

CAS, MPG Set up New Partner Groups in Shanghai

CAS and the Max Planck Society (MPS) for the Advancement of Science have established two more partner groups in China. On August 3, CAS President LU Yongxiang and MPS President Peter Gruss were present at the inaugural ceremony of the groups in Shanghai.     

CAS and MPS Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Cooperation in Germany

Berlin witnesses a grand reunion between Chinese and German scientists to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the rewarding cooperation between the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Max Planck Society (MPS) in Germany. A series of celebrations were held on Nov. 8 and 9, 2004 to mark this historic moment,not only renewing old friendships but also seeking new approaches to higher quality of collaboration.