Established 1982 Academic staff 193 Founded 1982 Postgraduates 200 | Director Meng, Guo-Wen （孟国文） Motto 确實 拓新 求真 恊力 | |
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The Institute of Solid State Physics (ISSP, Chinese: 固体物理研究所; pinyin: gùtǐ wùlǐ yánjiūsuǒ) is one of over a dozen divisions comprising the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (Chinese: 合肥物质科学研究院; pinyin: héféi wùzhì kēxué yánjiūyuàn), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS, Chinese: 中科院; pinyin: zhōngkēyuàn) situated in Hefei, Anhui. The ISSP was founded in March 1982 by the world-renowned solid-state physicist and metallurgist T. S. Kê (葛庭燧); it now employs over 200 staff members, has combined facilities of over 25,000 square meters of laboratory space, and is a training base to over 200 graduate students in the fields of condensed matter physics, materials physics and chemistry.
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The ISSP is research intensive in the areas of nano-materials technology, novel functional materials, computational physics, internal friction and defects of solids, materials physics under extreme environments, environmental and energy nanomaterials, nuclear engineering and special metallic materials. Most of its research is funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province and the private sector. The ISSP also has close ties with the University of Science and Technology of China in both R&D and training of graduate students.