Bio-inspired Material and Chemical Industry is an emerging interdisciplinary field that centers on "learning from nature." It involves studying and mimicking the sophisticated structures, efficient processes, and intelligent functions of biological systems to innovatively design and manufacture a new generation of materials and chemical products, with the ultimate goal of achieving efficient resource utilization and sustainable development.
This program integrates knowledge from materials science, chemical engineering, biology, and physics. Key research areas include:
Structural Biomimetics: Learning from the microstructures of nacre, spider silk, and lotus leaves to create lightweight yet high-strength, self-cleaning, and damage-tolerant materials.
Process Biomimetics: Simulating highly efficient and mild natural processes like photosynthesis and biomineralization to develop green, low-carbon chemical synthesis routes and energy conversion systems.
Functional Biomimetics: Drawing inspiration from biological sensing, response, and adaptation capabilities to fabricate advanced functional materials such as intelligent drug delivery systems, self-healing materials, and artificial muscles.
Graduates will find excellent career opportunities in cutting-edge fields like advanced manufacturing, new energy, biomedicine, and environmental remediation. They are poised to tackle global challenges such as the energy crisis, environmental pollution, and health issues, driving the transformation of the chemical and materials industries towards a greener, smarter, and more sustainable future.
The Mechanical Engineering program deeply integrates mechanics theory with bionic principles, aiming to cultivate innovative talents proficient in biomimetic mechanics, bio-inspired design, and intelligent aircraft R&D capabilities. This program focuses on interdisciplinary research exploring natural organism movement mechanisms and modern engineering technologies, with particular emphasis on fluid-structure interaction mechanisms in biological flight and swimming and their engineering applications. Core research areas include: Bio-inspired Fluid Mechanics, Vortex Dynamics and Applications, Flapping-wing Aircraft Design. The curriculum foundation covers aerodynamics and computational fluid dynamics, while core courses include bio-inspired mechanical design, biomimetic mechanics, and micro-nano aircraft systems. Advanced modules feature intelligent materials and structures, along with numerical methods for fluid-structure interaction.
Through comprehensive training in "theoretical modeling-numerical simulation-experimental verification," students develop the capability to innovatively solve complex challenges in flow control and aircraft design. Graduates possess significant competitive advantages in aerospace and intelligent unmanned systems fields, qualifying them for cutting-edge work in bio-inspired aircraft design and flow control technology development.
This is an interdisciplinary research major that integrates research fields such as Electronic Information, Machine Learning, and Robotics. The research directions include: conducting integrated design and manufacturing of bionic robots and humanoid robots' structures and functions, carrying out reverse optimization design of bionic structures based on machine learning algorithms, establishing bionic structure design methods that surpass the performance of natural biological structures with deep learning algorithms and reinforcement learning mechanisms as the main body; conducting conformal electronic functional circuit integration based on three-dimensional surface transfer technology, revealing the morphology and binding energy regulation laws of the interface between bionic structures and functions, establishing effective conformal functional layer integration methods and strategies, and conducting research on the manufacturing and process of liquid metal-based three-dimensional flexible electronic devices. Through the training mode of "algorithm construction - structure optimization design - experimental verification - prototype mechanism production and application demonstration", it enhances students' innovative thinking ability and practical skills in applying AI algorithms to bionic structure design optimization, and enables them to engage in promising jobs such as bionic robots, humanoid robots, flexible soft robots, artificial intelligence, and embodied intelligence.
