Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE), as a research institute affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), was officially co-founded in 2004 by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the People’s Government of Zhejiang Province and the People’s Government of Ningbo Municipality. Later NIMTE was granted with the titles of Ningbo Institute of Industrial Technology and Zhejiang Institute of Industrial Technology respectively in 2009 and 2015 to boost local economic development. As the first state-owned research institute in Zhejiang Province, NIMTE has dedicated itself to strengthening cooperation with industries and research organizations in fields of new materials, advanced manufacturing, new energy and biomedical engineering, and to integrating research and technology with high-tech industrialization.
Today NIMTE has more than 1,100 staff, including over 400 overseas high-level talents, 4 Academicians of CAS and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), 7 winners of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. The institute has 10 master/doctor degree programs, 3 postdoctoral research stations and serves approximately 2,250 students.
Based on the advanced research facilities worth approximately 1.1 billion yuan, a total of four support platforms, i.e., public testing, professional R&D, engineering and advanced manufacturing, has been established in NIMTE. The institute has built 43 scientific research platforms at the national, CAS, as well as the provincial and ministerial level, including the Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Devices of CAS, Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Related Technologies of CAS, National Engineering Laboratory for Carbon Fiber Preparation Technology, National Engineering Laboratory for Rare Earth Permanent Magnet Materials and Application Technology, etc., and is responsible for over 6,800 projects. With over 3,600 patents issued and over 10,400 papers published, NIMTE has actively implemented world-leading innovation.
The institute has been working in extensive collaboration with over 1500 well-established industries and over 250 renowned institutions, benefitting from significant technology transfer. The institute has transferred 93 major technologies in total to enterprises, including large-size monocrystalline diamond, amorphous soft magnetic strip, elastic electronic sensing and devices, and graphene-based heavy-duty anti-corrosive coatings, etc.
NIMTE values international partnership and considers internationalization as one of its key focal points. The institute encourages all types of international exchange and cooperation, including joint research, visiting research fellows, postgraduate exchange or joint education, sharing of experimental facilities, etc. The institute offers ample support for international researchers and short-term visiting scholars from all over the world. Currently, it has established long-term exchange programs and cooperative relationships with over 200 universities and research institutes from over 30 countries and regions.
NIMTE welcomes opportunities for cooperation with international peers and partners with whom we share common interests in materials science and technology.
In the future, NIMTE will further unite its efforts, remain true to its original aspirations, and strive to construct an institute featuring first-class talent teams, a first-class policy environment, first-class research and innovation platforms, first-class research achievements and outputs, first-class disciplinary competitiveness and first-class self-development capabilities, evolving into an indispensable scientific research institution for national S&T research and leading regional economic innovation-driven development.