The bio-based polymeric materials research group led by Professor Jin Zhu and Associate Professor Haining Na has devoted great effort to the toughening of PLA over the past few years. 

Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering cooperated with Shenzhen Institute of Peking University, made a research progress on CFRTP/metal laser joining.The mathematical model was established to calculate the distribution of temperature, and the width, depth, thermal defect of the joint were predicted.

In the past few years, Prof. Aiying Wang and her group in Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Related Technologies, CAS, carried out hybrid researches of computations and experiments on the manipulation and development of various DLC films. 

In order to investigate the mechanism of texture formation in RE-lean nanocomposite Nd2Fe14B magnets, Prof. Chen and his group in Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE, CAS) have introduced Nd-Cu eutectic alloy into grain boundary by controllable grain boundary diffusion. 

the soft magnetic materials team in Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIMTE, CAS) has developed new multistage pulverization technique .