2014 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2014 Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC 2014) was held from 9-13, 2014, in Detroit, Michigan. This is the international top-level conference in manufacturing industry with more than 550 participants.

Prof. Jian Zhang having developed in synthesis and catalytic reaction of new carbon nanomaterials (CNTs), was invited to give an presentation entitled “Surface Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes: Concepts and Applications”. His lecture reviewed the surface functionalization methods in the literature, and showed their investigation on the interaction mechanism of the functional CNTs in some typical catalysis and environmental protection routes, and affection on catalytic performance in oxidative dehydrogenation and oxygen reduction reaction adsorption amount of SO2 by the doped N atoms.

Professor Jian Zhang from NIMTE was invited to give a scientific visit to Fritz-Haber Institute of International Max Planck Research School in Berlin, Germany from September 15th to 19th.

Chinese and German scientists play a worldwide pioneering role in this field of molecular sieve membranes, especially Prof. Aisheng Huang at NIME and Prof. Juergen Caro at Leibniz University Hannover. The two chemists Huang and Caro are also linked by a personal friendship dating back 6 years ago when A.S. Huang stayed together with J. Caro at Hannover University.

On Nov 18, Dr. Aziz Ikhlef, Chief Technology Officer of FMI Medical Systems Company, visited NIMTE and gave a presentation.

Invited by Dr. Wenwu Zhang, Prof. Jian Wang, the group leader of Laser and Intelligent Energy Field Manufacturing of Zhejiang University visited NIMTE and gave two talks On November 18, 2013.

NIMTE SOFC group offers high quality anode supported cells and stacks with amazing prices.

The 4th China-Europe Symposium on Biomaterials in Regenerative Medicine (CESB2013) was held in Sorrento Italy, on July 1-4, 2013. Prof. Aiguo Wu from NIMTE was invited to give an oral presentation at this conference and act as a session Chairman.

The 4th Asian Biomaterials Congress (ABMC4), hosted by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HK-UST), was held at a beautiful oceanfront campus of HK-UST in Clearwater Bay of Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong on June 26 to 29, 2013. Prof. Aiguo Wu and Prof. Zheyu Shen from NIMTE were invited to participate at the congress and give an oral presentation.