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MPS/CAS Partner Groups have become an important backbone of Sino-German collaboration, and they are considered to function as a nucleus for defining topics for the envisaged next generation of cooperation — as seen from the following reports and future plans.
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MPS/CAS Partner Group on Cosmology
Jing Yipeng/Gerhard Börner |
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The Partner Group does research in cosmology, focussing on the quantitative modeling of the structure and evolution of galaxies and galaxy clusters, the pattern of galaxies and of larger structures.
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MPS/CAS Partner Group on Nanostructured Materials
Lu Ke/Manfred Rühle |
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As one of the first Partner Groups which were initiated to foster scientific exchange and interaction between the Max Planck Society (MPS) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Partner Group led by Lu Ke was established on April 1, 1999. During the past five years, the group has received substantial support from the CAS for equipment and from the MPS for personnel and travel expenses.
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MPS/CAS Partner Group on Colloid and Interface Science
Li Junbai/Helmuth Möhwald |
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The Partner Group on Colloid and Interface Science is based on the International Joint Laboratory, established in the former Beijing Institute of Photographic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and was incorporated into the Center for Molecular Science of the Institute of Chemistry, CAS in 1999.
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MPS/CAS Partner Group on Interfacial and Amorphous Structures in Advanced Ceramics
Gu Hui/Fritz Aldinger |
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The scientific work of the Partner Group is aiming to comprehend the fundamental properties of internal interfaces that play a key role in the microstructure development and in the thermal, mechanical, and functional properties of ceramics.
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MPS/CAS Partner Group on the Development of Mechanical Knowledge in China
Zhang Baichun/Jürgen Renn |
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China’s long and continuous cultural tradition offers scholars the special opportunity for cross-cultural studies in the long-term development of science. The Partner Group focuses on an exemplary case of such long-term development, the development of mechanical knowledge in China from antiquity to the early modern period.
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MPS/CAS Partner Group on Nanotechnology in Catalysis
Bao Xinhe/Robert Schlögl |
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The first contact between Bao Xinhe and the Fritz Haber Institute (FHI) of the Max Planck Society goes back to 1989, when he was a Humboldt Scholarship holder in Germany. He worked at the FHI with Gerard Ertl on the surface and catalytic properties of Ag-cluster until 1995, when he returned to China and joined the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The cooperation with the FHI continued in 2000, when a Partner Group was established under the leadership of Robert Schlögl and Bao Xinhe.
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MPS/CAS Partner Group on Radio Astronomy
Han Jinlin/Richard Wielebinski |
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The Partner Group does research on cosmic magnetic fields using radio astronomy methods. Magnetic fields are found in every astronomical object: the Earth, the Sun, planets, stars, pulsars, the Milky Way, nearby galaxies and in distant radio galaxies. The role of the magnetic fields in the cosmic universe has not been well investigated, mainly because of the difficulties of their observation.
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MPS/CAS Partner Group on Plant Molecular Physiology and Signal Transduction
Xue Hongwei/Lothar Willmitzer |
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Rice is mankind’s most important food crop — the staple diet for half of the world’s population — and is also tremendously important for Chinese food production. Hence, understanding how rice grows and interacts with its environment, which often adversely affects plant development and crop yield, is of prime importance.
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MPS/CAS Partner Group on Geometric Analysis
Li Jiayu/Jürgen Jost |
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The Partner Group works on topics in geometric analysis in cooperation with the corresponding research group at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig.
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MPS/CAS Cooperation on Solid State Chemistry
Zhao Jingtai/Rüdiger Kniep, Yuri Grin |
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The cooperation between Zhao Jingtai and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids was initiated immediately after the research field Inorganic Chemistry (headed by Rüdiger Kniep) started its work in Dresden. The first contact was established when Zhao Jingtai came from the Xiamen University as a Max Planck fellow. At that time, the chemistry of the intermetallic compounds of rare-earth metals was chosen as a topic of joint investigations with Yuri Grin. Later, the solid state chemistry of the borophosphates was added to the program of concerted research in the group of Zhao Jingtai and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids.
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MPS/CAS Cooperation on Stratigraphy, Vegetation and Climatic Development
Sun Ge/Volker Mosbrugger |
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The research project between the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, CAS (NIGPAS), the Research Center of Paleontology, Jilin University, the Geological Survey No.1, Xinjiang and the Institute of Geology, University of Tübingen deals with the Mesozoic biota and stratigraphy of the Junggar Basin, located in the Xinjiang Autonomous Uygur Region in Northwest China.
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