Introduction to 2 State Key Laboratories

Hunan University has tremendous strength in research. It has been equipped with 2 state key laboratories, 1 national engineering technology research center, 5 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 5 provincial or ministerial-level engineering technology centers, 17 key laboratories of Hunan Province, and 13 provincial-level social science research bases of Hunan Province. Hunan University has formed powerful research groups in the fields of chemistry engineering, civil engineering, architectural design, mechanical manufacturing and vehicle automation, mechatronics and automation, technology of computer application, materials science and engineering, and environmental engineering; management science and engineering, international trade, finance, accounting and so on are playing an important role in their fields of scientific research; and social science research is also developing promisingly.

The State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacturing for Vehicle Body (ADMVB) was approved to be set up in September of 2006 by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China. Affiliated with Hunan University, ADMVB is one of the important research bases supported by national top-priority investment and construction.

The main research directions are vehicle styling and aerodynamics, design and optimization of vehicle structure, theory of vehicle CAE and its applications, vehicle safety and human body injury biomechanics, material and manufacturing for vehicle body. The emphasis is placed on the original and systematic research to develop the key basic theory and technology of design and manufacturing of vehicle body.

Now ADMVB covers an area of 5,000 square meters in Hunan University and holds an innovation and experiment base of 10,000 square meters in Langli Industry Park of Changsha City.

The State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics

With the approval from Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, was set up at Hunan University in July of 2001.

The major research areas of the laboratory include nanometer and molecule scale bioanalysis, chemo/biosensing technologies, new detection techniques in life science aswell as chemometrics. Over 300 important projects from the national and the provincial governments have been undertaken or accomplished at the laboratory. More than 600 papers are included in SCI in the past five years from the laboratory. The laboratory has also obtained the following top research achievements: the second-class National Natural Science Award, the third-class National Natural Science Award, the fourth-class National Natural Science and Technology Progress Award as well as numerous Science and Technology Progress Award from Ministry of Education and Hunan Province. The analytical chemistry discipline of the laboratory has been authorized by Ministry of Education as the National Key Discipline.