State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials. Its predecessor was established in 1963 by academician Zhou Huijiu and academician Tu Mingjing, who moved westward. It was assessed as excellent in 2018. It is the only national laboratory in the field of materials science in China focusing on the research of material mechanics. After more than 60 years of development, it has made a series of breakthroughs and landmark achievements in the field of material science and engineering.State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials has laid out four key tasks in response to the national major demand for material structure performance relationships: deformation phase transformation and strengthening of metal materials, design, preparation and service behavior of high-performance coatings, multi-scale structural control of functional and structural integrated materials, and multi field evolution and in-situ characterization of material micro and nano structures. At the same time, in order to strengthen the service to major national strategic needs, the laboratory has closely cooperated with national laboratories such as Suzhou National Laboratory, jointly established off campus industry university research bases with China General Nuclear Power Corporation and other groups, and jointly created military civilian integration innovation platforms with China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation and other groups. At present, the laboratory has formed an internationally influential innovation team led by Academician Sun Jun, with 60 national level talents as the backbone, strong research and development capabilities, and the courage to undertake major national tasks.
The laboratory has undertaken a number of important national scientific and technological tasks, represented by the National 973 Program, the National Natural Science Foundation Innovation Research Group, the National Key R&D Program, and major national defense and military projects, and has achieved fruitful scientific research results. The "Application Basic Development Technology of Low Carbon Martensite" completed by the first unit won the first National Science and Technology Progress Award. In recent years, the laboratory has published a series of original research papers represented by Nature (7 papers) and Science (12 papers) as the first author or corresponding author; As the first completion unit and the first completion person, we have won 11 National Science and Technology Second Prizes, 1 of China's Top 10 Scientific Advances, and 1 of China's Top 10 Scientific and Technological Advances in Higher Education. In terms of achievement transformation, we have overcome multiple material technology bottlenecks that have hindered the development of related fields in China, making outstanding contributions to scientific and technological development, national economy, and defense construction.