Experts from Tsinghua University and BUCT Visit Tiangang Xingtai Incubation Base

On the afternoon of July 1, a delegation comprising Guo Baohua, Director of the Polymer Research Institute and the Polymer Laboratory of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Tsinghua University, Zhang Junying, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering of Beijing University of Chemical Technology and Director of the Adhesive Materials and In-situ Curing Technology Laboratory, and Yang Junjiao, Professor at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, together with Associate Professor Zhang Xiao'a, visited the Tiangang Xingtai Incubation Base for on-site exchange and inspection. Luo Daoyou, Chairman of the incubation base, and Liu Gang, General Manager, among others, accompanied and received the visitors throughout.

During the site visit, General Manager Liu Gang introduced the base's construction planning, public technology service platform, pilot and scale-up spaces, as well as possible cooperation models and project positioning. Relying on a team with rich operational and industrial-service experience, and on solid software and hardware, professional technology and investment and financing platforms, the incubation base will provide entrepreneurs with comprehensive, multi-level support, and accelerate the aggregation of industrialized achievements.

Experts such as Guo Baohua and Zhang Junying spoke highly of the base's advanced and complete professional testing and research means and its fairly well-equipped pilot and scale-up achievement-transformation platform, considering it an ideal place to leverage the capital's scientific and technological resources for achievement transformation - both the core value of the incubation base and a scarce resource for the innovation of molecular science into new polymer materials in the Beijing region, which must be protected, maintained and enhanced. They hoped to combine the innovative processes and equipment of the incubated enterprises to help them complete the whole process of independent innovation and enhance the service-support capability and visibility of the professional incubator; and to use Tiangang Group's recognized key laboratory for polymer-material life evaluation and testing center, together with the innovative new technology methods and advanced instruments and equipment of Tsinghua University and Beijing University of Chemical Technology, to jointly build a first-class domestic research and testing center and innovation base. At the same time, they hoped the incubator would strengthen innovation and entrepreneurship cooperation and exchange with universities, pool resources from all parties, promote the transformation and implementation of university-enterprise scientific and technological innovation achievements, and actively push forward in-depth school-enterprise cooperation, so as to provide excellent industrial incubation achievements for Beijing and even the whole country.

At the end, Luo Daoyou, Chairman of the incubation base, stated that the base will make full use of the technological-achievement resources of the capital's universities and research institutes, focus on strategic emerging industries and key materials, select optimal projects and teams, and actively provide professional incubation services; with an overall-planning and phased-implementation strategy, it will create a good working and living environment for incubated entrepreneurial enterprises and talents; and with the strong support of governments at all levels and policies as a catalyst, it will provide precise services for enterprises and build a new ecosystem for enterprise innovation and development.

About the Experts

Professor Guo Baohua, Doctoral Supervisor

Currently Director of the Polymer Research Institute of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Tsinghua University, Professor Guo graduated from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Tsinghua University and served as a visiting scholar at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the New Jersey Institute of Technology; he formerly served as Deputy Director of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Tsinghua University. He has led and undertaken a number of national '863' and '973' programs, Natural Science Foundation projects, and 'Support Plan' projects. His main research fields are high-performance polymer materials, environment-friendly polymer materials and biomedical polymer materials. He serves as Deputy Director of the National Technical Committee for Standardization of Bio-based and Degradable Plastics (TC380), and has participated in the drafting and review of almost all relevant national standards for fully biodegradable plastic products. He has conducted 20 years of continuous research in environment-friendly polymer materials. As principal investigator he undertook the major national '863' project 'Bio-chemical Combinatorial Synthesis Technology of Poly(butylene succinate),' the key Natural Science Foundation-CNPC joint-fund project 'Synthesis and Properties of Bio-based Polyesters Based on Structure-Function Design,' and general and major enterprise-cooperation Natural Science Foundation projects, and built the world's first 10,000-tonne production line for poly(butylene succinate); the preparation technology of bio-based succinic acid and the polymerization technology of poly(butylene succinate) have reached internationally leading levels. This research achieved the industrialization polymerization technology of fully biodegradable plastics PBS and PBAT, developed highly efficient composite catalysts, and adopted an innovative melt polycondensation process. It established molecular-structure design, processing-performance control and degradation-performance control technologies for fully biodegradable plastics. He has published more than 150 papers, of which more than 100 are indexed by SCI, and has applied for and been granted more than 20 invention patents. Awards: 'Study on Melt Chain Extension of Poly(butylene terephthalate)' won the Second Prize of Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Progress; 'Basic Research on the Structure, Modification and Molding Application of Biomedical Polymer Materials' won the Second Prize of the Technology Invention Award of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association; 'Innovative Achievements and Promotion of Vitreous Surgery' won the Second Prize of the Chinese Medical Association Science and Technology; '10,000-tonne Industrialization Technology of Fully Biodegradable Poly(diacid diol ester)' won the Second Prize of the Technology Invention Award of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association.

Professor Zhang Junying, Doctoral Supervisor

Currently Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering of Beijing University of Chemical Technology, and Director of the Adhesive Materials and In-situ Curing Technology Laboratory, he is mainly engaged in the teaching, research and development of high-performance thermosetting resins, synthetic adhesive molecular design and preparation, and in-situ curing technology. He has studied epoxy-resin synthesis, curing mechanisms, metal adhesion, and the relationship between hygrothermal aging and properties, and obtained the law of interaction. His research results have been applied in building reinforcement, aircraft repair, rail bonding, metal bonding, electronic potting, and composite materials. In the field of silicones he studied cyclics polymerization, POSS synthesis, moisture-curing mechanisms and influences, structure and temperature resistance, and hygrothermal aging, for use in sealing and composite-material preparation. In UV curing he studied raw-material synthesis and UV-curable coating preparation, for use in the protection of solar cells and glass bonding. In the instant-adhesive field he studied monomer synthesis, stability and heat resistance. In hot-melt adhesives he studied the formulation, structure and properties and coating processes of SBS, SIS and petroleum-resin hot-melt adhesives, already applied in automotive interior decoration, label paper, clothing and medical fields. He has led and undertaken a number of projects of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, the national '863' program, national and Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation projects, military '863' pre-research projects, Beijing Municipal projects, Sinopec projects, and a number of domestic and international cooperation projects; his research results have been applied in the development and production of China's aerospace vehicles and weapons. He has published more than 100 papers, applied for 14 patents and been granted 6. He authored 'Fundamentals of Adhesion' and 'Acrylate Adhesives,' and co-authored 'Functional Adhesive Formulations: 700 Examples,' 'Environmentally Friendly Adhesive Formulations: 800 Examples,' 'Epoxy Adhesives,' 'Urea-formaldehyde Adhesives,' and 'Environmentally Friendly Adhesive Raw Materials and Typical Formulations.'

About the Tiangang Xingtai Incubation Base

The Tiangang Xingtai Incubation Base covers a total area of 101 mu. Based on the industrial planning of Beijing Municipality and Daxing District, relying on more than two decades of accumulated complete scientific and technological innovation platform, basic public-service support capability and physical space, and making full use of the abundant scientific research achievements of Beijing's famous universities, major institutes and expert teams as well as the company's advantages of many years of close and extensive cooperation with experts in the new-materials field, it brings together multi-party resources to build a world-class international innovation and entrepreneurship 'incubation' and 'acceleration' platform, focusing on 'key materials' and supporting the development of advanced manufacturing, hydrogen energy, aerospace, biomedicine and other related industries. It incubates, accelerates and invests in a number of high-tech 'little giant' and 'unicorn' enterprises. At the same time, it gives full play to Daxing's 'new national gateway' positioning and the company's established international-cooperation resource advantages to build a platform for the two-way domestic and international industrial interaction of new-materials-related high-tech achievements and talents. Through the construction of transformation, upgrading, incubation and acceleration bases, it drives the development of the regional innovation and entrepreneurship environment and the upgrading of the industrial structure, provides new momentum for the development of Beijing and Daxing District, and makes new contributions to local economic and social development.