--The Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials, Ministry of Education of China, was authorized in August, 2000. The first time evaluation by the Ministry of Education of China was in 2002. The recent evaluation was in 2007, and the laboratory was estimated as “Excellent” by the Ministry of Education. The current leader of the laboratory is Professor Zuoren Nie, from the College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Technology. The current chairman of the Academic Committee of the laboratory is Professor Liquan Chen, the Academician of the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. |