In 2013, Prof. Xuedong Wu’s Group at NIMTE prepared Patterned tailored hydrophobic films designed by synergy effect of electrochemical deposition and chemical deposition. The film morphology changes and the roughness of film surfaces gradually become bigger with the increased solution temperature. The gradually increased film roughness leads to the film’s hydrophobicity c...

Recently, a research group led by Professor Feng Huang at NIMTE，has significantly improved the hardness of magnetron sputtered VN coatings by alloying with AlN. Specifically, using a reactive magnetron co-sputtering process in which elemental vanadium (V) and aluminum (Al) were separately driven by dc and pulsed-dc power supplies, they obtained a series of metastable V1？x...

The researchers from NIMTE, recently developed a new technique to improve the coercive force of the magnets.In their research, the ions bombardment was employed to act on magnets, and the coercive force can be elevated obviously by controlling the energy and dose of ion bombardment. 

Recently, Professor Hua Li’s group, developed a novel HA/graphene-nanosheet (GN) composite coating deposited by vacuum cold spray (VCS) for biomedical applications. Bioceramics like HA-based composites are usually used as biocompatible coatings on metallic alloy implants. The researchers managed to synthesize HA-GN nanocomposites by a wet-chemical approach followed by VCS c...

Associate professor Baomin Wang, who is from the Key Lab of Magnetic Materials,investigated electrical transport behavior of ultra-thin manganite thin films under different strains. Firstly, they fabricated high-quality epitaxial La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 thin films on different single crystal substrates by using pulsed laser deposition (PLD).Subsequently, they studied electrical trans...