The Huairou Campus of the Institute of Physics (IOP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is located in the core area of the Huairou Science City, at the foot of the towering Great Wall and beside the beautiful Yanqi Lake. It is host to one Facility and Two Centers, namely Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility, which is a national major science facility, and two interdisciplinary research centers, the Center for Clean Energy and the Center for Materials Genome Initiative, which are jointly built by CAS and the Beijing government. The IOP Huairou Campus covers an area of about 230 mu, with a building area of 118000 square meters and a total investment of about 2.4 billion yuan. One Facility and Two Centers started construction in 2017 and finished construction in July 2020. They are now open to user applications from home and abroad. For details, please visit http://iop-hr.iphy.ac.cn/#/home.
Based on "One Facility, Two Centers," the institute has an integrated layout of basic research, applied research, transfer of scientific and technological achievements, and high-tech industry. It aims to build "One Facility, Two Centers" into a top-notch and world-famous user facility and platforms, promoting the development of the Beijing National Science and Innovation Center, and becoming an important national strategic foundation for basic and applied research into physical sciences.
Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility (SECUF), Huairou Science City, Beijing
The Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility is a national major science facility. After five years' construction, it has now become an international advanced user facility integrating extreme conditions such as ultrahigh pressure, ultralow temperature, strong magnetic fields, and ultrafast optical fields. It is able to expand the space for research into physical sciences, facilitate the discovery of new states of matter, new phenomena and new rules, strengthen China’s research into physical sciences and other related frontier fields, and strive for top-notch achievements in the discovery of new high temperature superconductors, unconventional superconductivity mechanism, core technologies of quantum computing, and super-fast regulation of properties.
The Facility covers an area of about 130 mu, with a building area of 48,000 square meters. It is now open to user applications from home and abroad. For details, please visit http://iop-hr.iphy.ac.cn/#/home.
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Center for Materials Genome Initiative (CMGI) and Center for Clean Energy (CCE), Huairou Science City, Beijing
The Center for Materials Genome Initiative is an advanced materials genome research center with large-scale and complete means. It is able to greatly improve China’s research capacity in new types of high temperature superconductors, advanced quantum materials, high-performance amorphous alloy and rare earth magnetic materials, shortening the period of process optimization, supporting China’s leap-forward development in basic research and applied basic research in material science, and producing international first-class achievements in areas such as high temperature superconducting mechanism, topology, and novel quantum phenomena.
The Center covers an area of about 54 mu, with a building area of 40,000 square meters. It is now open to users from home and abroad.
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As one of the first research platforms in Huairou Science City to start construction, the Center for Clean Energy focuses on energy storage, energy conversion and efficient energy utilization. The advanced facilities and equipment in the Center can help realize accurate analyses of structures, compositions, and physicochemical properties from atomic to macroscopic dimensions, and conduct high-resolution ex situ and in situ testing of key materials, devices, and systems in clean energy technologies under the protection of an inert atmosphere; carry out systematic non-destructive diagnosis, failure analysis, test and verification of important clean energy materials and devices that are currently being developed and applied; engage in forward-looking research and development of clean energy technologies with significant application prospects in the future. After completion, the Center will greatly improve the research and development level of clean energy materials and devices in China, promote the birth of original and transformative technologies of clean energy, and accelerate the transfer and transformation of achievements.
The Center covers an area of about 44 mu, with a building area of 30,000 square meters. It is now open to users from home and abroad.
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