Key Laboratory of Inorganic Coating Materials consists of inorganic thermal control coatings group and plasma sprayed coatings group. The laboratory focuses on the research and development of high performance inorganic coatings, including fundamental research and small batch production.

Functional coating materials research is one of the most important direction in Shanghai Institute of Ceramics. A lot of coating series, such as thermal control coatings, thermal barrier coatings, high temperature oxidation-resistant coatings, anti-wear coatings and biocompatible coatings, have been developed in the laboratory since 1960s. These coatings are widely used in variety of industries like aeronautics, astronautics, clinical medicine, chemical engineering and manufacture, which in turn brings good social and economic benefits. In the near decades, the laboratory fulfilled more than 100 research projects, and 70 items of which owned the scientific and technical awards by national, Chinese Science Academy as well as Shanghai municipality. More than 280 papers have been published in international scientific journals and conferences. The laboratory also possesses advanced coating deposition equipments, such as Sulzer Metco air/vacuum plasma spraying system, digital magnetron sputtering, Leybold APS 904 thermal vapor coating apparatus.

The laboratory has an efficient research team of about 40 staffs, including 1 academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, 6 professors, and 11 associate professors.

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