An Austrian delegation on advanced materials visited the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMR, CAS) and had a Roundtable with researchers of IMR on Jan. 20th 2016.

The Austrian delegation is composed of 26 representatives of Austrian major enterprises, universities and institutes led by Counsellor Helmut Spitzl from S&T Section of Austrian Embassy and Mr. Alexander Pogany from Austrian Ministry of Transport Innovation and Technology.

On the roundtable, both Chinese and Austrian partners exchanged their research development and interest. They conducted lively discussions on advanced carbon, materials process, functional films, heat treatment, surface technology, ceramics and biomaterial. Several cooperation plans were proposed particularly in the field of research hotspots between China and Austria in the next 5 years.

During the visit, the Austrian delegation also had a lab tour in Technical Support Division and other relevant labs.

Counsellor Helmut Spitzl from S&T Section of Austrian Embassy(Imaged by IMR)

Prof. Yang Rui, the Director of IMR, gives a welcome speech(Imaged by IMR)

Prof. ZHANG Jian, the deputy director of IMR makes a brief introduction of IMR(Imaged by IMR)

Prof. REN Wencai introduces the research development of Graphene(Imaged by IMR)

Prof. CHEN Xingqiu introduces the research development of computational modeling(Imaged by IMR)

On the Roundtable(Imaged by IMR)

On the Roundtable(Imaged by IMR)

Lab tour(Imaged by IMR)