Six years ago, with the establishment of the Shenzhen Guangqi Institute of Advanced Science and Engineering with five returnees, the slightly mysterious word of metamaterials entered the public's field of vision. What metamaterials can do and what business areas can be expanded have become hot spots in the industry and academia.
On April 8th, the 2016 Metamaterials Academic and Application Seminar hosted by the State Key Laboratory of Metamaterial Electromagnetic Modulation Technology and undertaken by Shenzhen Guangqi Advanced Institute of Science and Engineering was held in Chengdu, and nearly 100 top experts in the field of metamaterials research and application in China attended the meeting to exchange views on the progress, challenges, trends and prospects in this field. Experts believe that with metamaterials being listed as a field of vigorous development in the 13th Five-Year Plan, the industry will usher in the spring of development, and metamaterial technology will promote the cutting-edge research and practical application of China's cutting-edge equipment, which will have a subversive impact on these fields. This seminar marks that China has become an indispensable and powerful force in the field of global metamaterials, and China's metamaterials have begun to enter an important period of comprehensive leap, and are in a critical stage of transformation from breakthrough research results to practical applications.
Metamaterials are special composite materials or structures that acquire extraordinary physical properties that conventional materials do not possess by designing them in an orderly structure at key physical dimensions. Metamaterials are a strategic frontier technology of international attention, which has been evaluated by the American "Science" magazine as one of the ten most significant scientific and technological breakthroughs of mankind in the past decade, and is an important technical means of electromagnetic wave modulation.
China also attaches great importance to the development of metamaterial technology, and has supported metamaterial research in projects such as the 863 Program, the 973 Program, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and major special projects for new materials. Relying on its advantages in the field of metamaterials, Guangqi has participated in a number of key projects and become a model for the development of military-civilian integration. After six years of development, Guangqi's leading position and benchmarking role in the field of metamaterials in China's metamaterials have been widely recognized. The State Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Modulation Technology for Metamaterials and the Secretariat of the National Technical Committee for standardization of electromagnetic metamaterials technology and products are located in Guangqi, and the world's first national standard in the field of metamaterials " Electromagnetic Metamaterials Terminology " , led by Guangqi , will be implemented on October 1, 2016.
In March 2016, the outline of the 13th Five-Year Plan proposed: vigorously develop intelligent materials such as shape memory alloys and self-healing materials, and nano-functional materials such as graphene and metamaterials. This means that metamaterials have officially risen to the level of national strategy. Xinhua News Agency reporter summed up the 100 major projects and projects that China plans to implement in the next five years contained in the 13th Five-Year Plan, and metamaterials are prominently listed.
How to maintain China's leading edge in the field of metamaterials in the fierce international competition has become the focus of attention of the experts attending the meeting. The seminar was presided over by Colonel Luan Dalong of the Academy of Military Sciences. Dr. Zhao Zhiya, member of the Academic Committee of the State Key Laboratory of Metamaterial Electromagnetic Modulation Technology and vice president of Guangqi Research Institute, combined with the development practice of Guangqi, made a specially invited report on the development and industrialization application of metamaterial technology.
Dr. Zhao Zhiya pointed out that metamaterials are developing in the direction of multi-field intersection, involving physics, chemistry, engineering, materials and other disciplines. Countries actively promote the application of metamaterials in cutting-edge equipment, the United States, Russia, Japan and other countries and NATO, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, the United Kingdom BAE Systems, Japan's Mitsubishi Group and other institutions have long supported the research and application of metamaterials, the US military took the lead in applying metamaterials to a new generation of weapons and equipment, the U.S. Secretary of Defense Office (ASD-R&E) listed metamaterials as one of the "six subversive basic research areas", The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) defines metamaterials as "strong growth areas," and the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) lists metamaterials as one of the "top ten key areas." According to n-tech Research, an authoritative research organization in the United States, DARPA's investment in the field of metamaterials increased by 75% in 2015.
Zhou Shaoxiong, director of the Academic Committee of the State Key Laboratory of Metamaterial Electromagnetic Modulation Technology and chief engineer of Antai Science and Technology, said that in just a few years, China's metamaterial technology field has come from the initial stage, from a non-consensus concept, step by step to today, from non-consensus to gradually reach a consensus, in basic research, material research, technology, applications and other aspects have embarked on the fast track, in the international leading position.
In addition, Dr. Lan Chuwen of Tsinghua University, Dr. Zhou Tian and Dr. Xiong Wei of Guangqi Research Institute, Duan Zemin, researcher of AVIC Hefei Aerospace Physics Technology Co., Ltd., Professor Ma Yungui of the School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering of Zhejiang University, Associate Professor Wang Jiafu of Air Force Engineering University, and Professor Cheng Qingsha of Southern University of Science and Technology made keynote speeches on the basic principles of metamaterials and the research progress and engineering progress in stealth, wave absorption and thermal radiation regulation. Experts said that China has led the development of the global metamaterial field and has independent intellectual property rights and discourse rights. Metamaterial technology will promote the cutting-edge research and practical application of China's cutting-edge equipment, and have a disruptive impact on these fields.
Yang Wei, member of the Academic Committee of the State Key Laboratory of Metamaterial Electromagnetic Modulation Technology and deputy chief engineer of AVIC Group, said that the seminar provided an opportunity to think about metamaterials together and envision metamaterials, hoping that metamaterials can achieve a wide range of industry applications and enter thousands of households.
Leaders, experts, scholars, teaching and scientific research personnel from the Navy, Air Force, Army, relevant academies and universities, scientific research institutions, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Southern University of Science and Technology, and other local universities, research institutes, and related enterprises attended the seminar and exchange. (Correspondent: Tian Shaoxing)
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