Fundamental Research and Application Exploration of Optoelectronic Materials and Nanocomposite Materials of Rare Earth

This project is set in one of the international frontier research fields in inorganic solid chemistry.At present, the research in organic/inorganic hybrid materials and nanocomposite optoelectronic functional materials is under the spotlight in the realm of materials science; there remain quite a few difficulties hiding in the traditional synthesis methods.For instance, the reaction cycle is generally too long, rare earth luminescence components are covalently grafted onto the matrix network, and the stability and luminescence properties are quite poor.Hence, Prof.Zhang and his colleagues proposed a series of new methods and technologies through systematic studies to prepare organic/inorganic hybrid materials and nanocomposite optoelectronic functional materials, striving to solve those kinds of problems.Through many years' efforts, a scientific basis was established by the scientists for the design and performance of the materials, which is recognized of great practical significance.     

BAI Yilong honored with John Rinehart Award

Prof. BAI Yilong from the State Key Laboratory for Nonlinear Mechanics of CAS Institute of Mechanics has received the 2007 John Rinehart Award for his seminal contributions to the theories of shear-band formation and damage in materials and for his leadership in exploring dynamic behavior of materials in China.     

Functional Inorganic Materials with Complex Form: Construction, Self-assembly Principles and Property

There is a rich and long history of gaining inspiration from the nature for the design of practical materials and systems.Biominerals are well-known composites of inorganic and organic materials in the form of fascinating shapes and highly ordered structures existing in the natural world, such as pearl, oyster shells, corals, ivory, sea urchin spines, cuttlefish bone, limpet teeth, magnetic crystals in bacteria and human bones that are created by living organisms.During the past few decades, it has become one of the most influencing subjects in materials proteins, which involve in all the processes of multicell organisms, such as fertilization, differentiation, development, immunity, infection, and cancer.chemistry to explore new bio-inspired strategies for selfassembling or surface-assembling molecules or colloids to generate materials with controlled morphologies,     

A Fundamental Study and Applied Exploration of Some Novel Photo-functional Materials

This project focuses on fundamental problems in the interdisciplinary research of chemistry and materials, covering main achievements on fundamental study and applied exploration of novel photo-functional materials.Significant progress was made in the design and con- struction of special photo-functional molecules and complexes by implementation of this project. (1) Organic nanomaterials were investigated sys- tematically in this project, extending the particularity of nanomaterials from metal…     

A recipe for growing Escherian crystals

Architectural control of nanoparticles with welldefined shapes and the alignment of nanobuilding blocks into ordered superstructures have become the key issues in materials chemistry and nanotechnology since recent years, and copper monosulfide, as one of the important semiconductor transition-metal chalcogenides, has gained more and more attention in materials science due to its excellent optical, and electronic properties.     

Prof. Qiu Jianrong Honored with Otto-Schott Prize

Together with two Japanese researchers,Prof.Qiu Jianrong of the CAS Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics recently received the Otto-Schott Award. The awardees were selected for “their outstanding research achievements in the area of optical materials, especially for their pioneering work on femtosecond laserinduced microfeatures in glasses and the application of such novel materials to achieve new functionalities.”     

Distinguished Materials Scientist Passes Away at 98

正YAN Dongsheng,renowned materials scientist and Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,died in Shanghai on September 18,2016 at the age of 98.As a pioneer in advanced inorganic materials in China,YAN was among the most influential leaders in his field.He had also served as honorary director of the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics,CAS.     

Functional mesoporous materials in clean energy: an interview with Dongyuan Zhao

<正>National Science Review invited Prof. Dongyuan Zhao of Fudan University for an interview focusing on his team’s renowned research on functional mesoporous materials and energy-related applications. Prof. Zhao is a professor of chemistry and materials science, and a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his PhD in chemistry from Jilin University in 1990. He has since focused his research on the synthesis and structure of porous materials and molecular sieves.     

Polymer Materials

Since the second half of the 20th century, polymer materials have already become an essential part of our daily life. The use of polymeric materials has already exceeded that of metals and ceramics in terms of volume and is intimately connected     

Catalysis:facing the future——an interview with Gerhard Ertl and Avelino Corma

<正>Most of the chemical reactions used to produce the molecules and materials that our societies need——for example,in the petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries,the synthesis of plastics and other materials,and the production of foods and drinks——make use of catalysts.hese speed up the rate at which atoms and molecules rearrange themselves into new forms,and provide a degree of control over the shape     

The β-relaxation in metallic glasses

Focusing on metallic glasses as model systems, we review the features and mechanisms of the β-relaxations,which are intrinsic and universal to supercooled liquids and glasses, and demonstrate their importance in understanding many crucial unresolved issues in glassy physics and materials science, including glass transition phenomena, mechanical properties, shear-banding dynamics and deformation mechanisms,difusion and the breakdown of the Stokes–Einstein relation as well as crystallization and stability of glasses.We illustrate that it is an atractive prospect to incorporate these insights into the design of new glassy materials with extraordinary properties. We also outline important questions regarding the nature ofβ-relaxations and highlight some emerging research directions in this still-evolving ield.     

Data quantity governance for machine learning in materials scienceOA

Data-driven machine learning(ML) is widely employed in the analysis of materials structure-activity relationships,performance optimization and materials design due to its superior ability to reveal latent data patterns and make accurate prediction.However,because of the laborious process of materials data acquisition,ML models encounter the issue of the mismatch between a high dimension of feature space and a small sample size(for traditional ML models) or the mismatch between model parameters a...     

A Fundamental Study and Applied Exploration of Some Novel Photo-functional Materials

This project focuses on fundamental problems in the interdisciplinary research of chemistry and materials,covering main achievements on fundamental study and applied exploration of novel photo-functional materials.     

MPS／CAS Partner Group on Nanotechnology in Catalysis

The first contact between Bao Xinhe and the Fritz Haber Institute (FHI) of the Max Planck Society goes back to 1989, when he was a Humboldt Scholarship holder in Germany. He worked at the FHI with Gerard Ertl on the surface and catalytic properties of Ag-cluster until 1995, when he returned to China and joined the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The cooperation with the FHI continued in 2000, when a Partner Group was established under the leadership of Robert SchlogI and Bao Xinhe. The group is devoted to the application of nano-related technologies in catalysis, with emphasis on controlled fabrication and dynamic characterization of nano-structured metallic particles and porous materials. In the past years, the cooperation has focused on various carbon nanotubes with special aligned structure and well-defined silver nano-particles in mesoporous materials. The nanostructured catalysts show high performance in methane activation at low temperature and in     

Chemistry: A Science of Discovery and Creation

This article draws inspiration from the development of chemical science over the past 100 years,as well as its contributions to the advancement of other scientific disciplines and human civilization. It also highlights the rapid growth of chemistry in China and makes suggestions on its future development in the new era facing the challenges of energy,resources,materials and the environment.     

Comparative orotomy of the Archean Superior and Phanerozoic Altaid orogenic systems

We compare and contrast the materials and mechanisms of continental crustal growth in the largest preserved regions of Phanerozoic and Archean juvenile additions to the crust,to test for similarities or differences in the formation of continents through time.We accomplish this through a comparison of map patterns,lithological contents,and structural and metamorphic evolution of the Phanerozoic Altaid orogenic system of Asia,with the Archean Superior Province of the North American Craton,using a ...     

China starts largest ever paleoanthropology project

China is believed to be a country especially endowed with the fossils and materials related to early human evolution, next only to the African continent in terms of fecundity and systematism. These materials, including physical and cultural remains of huminids, their associated fauna and flora as well as prehistoric sites, are essential for probing the human origin and evolution. Yet, experts say that the studies of these fossils and artefacts are far from being adequate and perfect in China because they have been plagued by many weak points.     

SHI Changxu:China's Superalloy Hero

Prof.Shi Changxu(Chang-hsu Shih),laureate of the State Top Scientific and Technological Award for 2010,is regarded as a pioneer in the development of superalloys in China and a world-class master of materials science with excellent leadership and strategic insights.In the 1960s,he and his colleagues worked out the first generation air-cooled     

Promote Green Building, Facilitate Energy Effi ciency and Emissions Reduction, and Improve Habitat Environment

Green building here refers to the practice of creating structures able to best achieve effi cient and environmentally friendly use of resources (energy, land, water, materials) throughout the life-cycle so as to offer healthy, convenient and pleasant buildings for people to live and work in in harmony with nature. It has become a worldwide trend in the development of the     

CAS Develops Advanced Biomass Materials for Encrgy Storagc

Renewable biomass materials have important application prospect in the development of sustainable energy materials. In the vast blue ocean, there are abundant seaweed polysaccharides, chitin and other biomass materials. With these marine biomass materials, scientists have developed high performance energy materials which have important ecological, economic and social benefits.