Engineering Research Center of Super Engineering Plastics of Ministry of Education was established in January 2001 and passed the acceptance of Ministry of Education in August 2004. This center was derived from Super Engineering Plastics Research Group of Jilin university established in the early 1980s, which has undertaken a lot of national research projects in the field of super engineering plastic since seventh five-year plan of china, such as the National Key Technologies Research and Development Program of China, the National High Technology Research and Development Program (863 Program), and the National Natural Science Foundation. As the Center had made numerous remarkable achievements in the aspect of research and industrialization of high-performance polymers, the National Development and Reform Commission approved the construction of the National & Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Synthesis Technology of High Performance Polymer in March 2015. The main research area includes:

1. Development of novel high-performance structural super engineering plastics.

2. Super engineering plastics matrix for highly thermostable and high performance advanced composite materials.

3. Poly (aryl ether ketone) and polyimide special adhesives, coatings, fibers and foams.

4. Poly (aryl ether ketone) and polyimide functional materials.

Until now, the center has been supported by more than 80 national and provincial research projects, with a total project funding of nearly 300 million yuan (RMB) and has established an energetic, innovative and cooperative research team. Four of the faculties have won the Trans-Century Talents Award of the Ministry of Education, and two of the faculties have been selected as Distinguished Professors of Changbai Mountain Scholars. The laboratory currently has 38 full-time members, including 16 professors, 9 associate professors and senior engineers.

The engineering research center has obtained a series of influential research achievements and has published more than 600 SCI papers, which have been cited more than 2,000 times. Besides, more than 160 national invention patents have been authorized. The Engineering Research Center has won national and provincial level science and technology award many times, including one Second Class Prize of State Technological Invention Award and three First Class Prizes of Provincial Technological Invention Award. Some achievements in scientific research have been successfully applied to civil high-tech and national defense fields, such as aerospace and aeronautics industries, automobile, high-speed railway vehicles, electronics and medical fields.

The center has synthetic laboratories and instrument rooms over 3,500 square meters, equipped with large and precision instruments worth over 40 million yuan. A pilot-scale experimental base more than 3,500 square meters has been built to meet the demand of the transformation of scientific research achievements. Every year, the research center recruits nearly 40 PhD and master graduate students to carry out scientific research work.

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