Institute of Materials Research

homepage  Institute of Materials Research  Overview

Overview

  • "Building a global center for research in functional materials"

    Goal

    We leverage the industrial advantages of Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta region to achieve breakthroughs in bottlenecks in materials applications and to promote the transformation of energy and information technology through structural and functional integration, intelligent materials and devices, and green manufacturing processes. 

    Our pioneering research and innovation in high-performance materials are applied to the fields of energy, information, health, and aerospace. We aim to provide world-class training for research and industrial talents in the field of new materials and build a global center for research in functional materials and devices.



    Research Areas

    Our five research areas include: low-dimensional materials and devices, energy materials and devices, material design and computation, information functional materials and devices, and biomedical materials and devices.

  • overviews

    • Low-dimensional materials and devices:
      Research on nanomaterials such as zero-dimensional quantum dots, one-dimensional nanotube and nanowire, two-dimensional graphene and other two-dimensional atomic crystals for the development of flexible and multifunctional high-performance devices.
    • Energy materials and devices:
      Rechargeable lithium power batteries and systems, wearable energy storage devices, generation, conversion and utilization of renewable energy, heat transfer and thermal management materials, and other areas to improve performance and reliability of energy storage devices.
    • Material design and computation:
      Material computation and design, structure and performance prediction, electron microscopy of microstructures, as well as topics such as atomic-scale visual analysis of crystal defect configurations and high-throughput computing.
    • Information functional materials and devices:
      Research on smart piezoelectric materials, sensing materials, spintronic materials, bio-electronics and more for smart/information materials and devices, multiferroic materials and novel magnetoelectric devices with ultra-low power consumption.
    • Biomedical materials and devices:
      Research and development of tissue engineering materials, biological information devices, nanomedicine engineering, biomedical material processing, and bionic materials to meet the demands of an aging society.

Resources