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 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.     

An Analysis of the Function and Status of CAS in National Nanotechnology Research

NB I C, n a m e l y n a n o sc i e n ce &nano-technology, biotechnology & bio-medicine (including genetic engineering),information technology (including computing andcommunications) and cognitive science (includingcognitive neuroscience) are universally regarded asfour R&D disciplines to critically influence humanlife in the near future. Providing technological ground-work for the latter three’s healthy development,nanoscience and related technologies now becomethe most active S&T frontiers…     

An Analysis of the Function and of CAS In National Nanotechnology Research

NBIC, namely nanoscience & nano-technology, biotechnology & biomedicine (including genetic engineering), information technology (including computing and communications) and cognitive science (including cognitive neuroscience) are universally regarded as four R&D disciplines to critically influence human life in the near future. Providing technological groundwork for the latter three's healthy development, nanoscience and related technologies now become the most active S&T frontiers in the world today.     

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

Berlin witnesses agrand reunionbetween Chi-nese and German scien-tists to commemorate the30th anniversary of the re-warding cooperation be-tween the Chinese Acad-emy of Sciences (CAS)and Max Planck Society(MPS) in Germany. A se-ries of celebrations wereheld on Nov. 8 and 9, 2004to mark this historicmoment, not only renewing oldfriendships but also seeking newapproaches to higher quality ofcollaboration.The jubilee program began onNov. 8 with a Sino-German forumtitled Networking for Sci…     

Sino—German MPI Partner Group Wins Praises from Experts

At an evaluation meeting heldrecently at the CAS Insti-tute of Metal Research(IMR) in Shenyang, a panel of in-ternational experts fully confirmedthe achievements scored over thepast three years by a Sino-GermanMPI fr Metallforschung PartnerGroup at IMR.Group leader Dr. Lu Ke re-ported to the evaluation committeeon the progress of research activities,team organization from 1999 to 2002and its future plans. The primaryresearch subjects of this group arenano-structured materials and re-l…     

BP Group and CAS institute to co-establish an energy lab in Dalian

The CAS Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics(DICP)and BP Group will join efforts to set up an Energy Innovation Laboratory(BP- DICP EIL)at DICP.The agreement for the new initiative was signed by DICP Director ZHANG Tao and BP Group Vice President Tony Meggs on 5 December,2007 in Dalian. According to the agreement, BP will donate $3 million to the new lab,which will be part of the forthcoming National Laboratory for Clean Energy Sources.In addition,the company promises to annually contribute no less than ...