University secures 12 NSFC grants

In the 2025 National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) evaluation results, the university obtained 12 approved projects, setting new records in both the total number of projects and funding amount. Notably, it achieved its first-ever grant from the Outstanding Young Scientists Fund for International Scholars.

Key laboratory for battery materials and devices

The Faculty of Materials Science has been approved to establish the “Longgang District Key Laboratory for Power Battery Materials and Devices.” The laboratory will focus on all-solid-state batteries, new-system batteries, and hydrogen/ammonia fuel cells, aiming to tackle key technologies in materials and devices.

SMBU approved for two China-Russia joint labs

The university has successfully secured two National Key R&D Program projects from the Ministry of Science and Technology: the “China-Russia Joint Laboratory for Nanostructured Optoelectronic Functional Materials and Devices” and the “China-Russia Joint Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Algorithms and Applications (Co-construction).” This marks a significant breakthrough in the university’s high-level international scientific cooperation.

Materials science team publishes key findings

A research team from the Faculty of Materials Science, as the first affiliation, published innovative research on chromium-substituted strontium ferrite submicron particles in the journal Materials Horizons (IF=0.7). Professor Lev Trusov and senior lecturer Evgeny Gorbachev are the lead authors.

Novel method featured in top materials journal

Professor Lev Trusov’s team from the Faculty of Materials Science published groundbreaking research in the journal Materials Horizons (IF=0.7), introducing thermogravimetric analysis under a gradient magnetic field as an efficient quasi-in situ method for studying magnetic phase formation.