Academician Zhang Liqun: "Rubber" is a long-term success

The picture shows Zhang Liqun exchanging research work with students

Love rubber, persistent hard work

In 1986, 17-year-old Zhang Liqun was admitted to the Department of Plastics and Rubber Engineering of Beijing University of Chemical Technology

In 1995, Zhang Liqun graduated and taught at the school.

In 2001, Zhang Liqun returned to his alma mater.

Breakthroughs in the combination of production and research

After returning to China, Zhang Liqun reorganized the direction of scientific research, and refined that rubber research must ultimately be combined with three major goals-major national economic needs, major national strategic needs, and rubber science and technology development needs

Thermoplastic vulcanized rubber (TPV) is a material that uses the same properties as rubber, but has the same processing and recycling methods as plastics.

　　He led the team to achieve many breakthroughs in the field of rubber nanocomposites that have attracted the attention of the industry.

　　China's natural rubber consumption has been ranked first in the world since 2005, but its self-sufficiency rate is less than 25%

　　He also put forward the concept of bio-based engineering elastomers for the first time in the world, and led the team to create bio-based polyester elastomers, itaconate elastomers, soybean oil elastomers, etc.

　　He also led the team to invent a continuous, efficient, and green multi-stage screw dynamic desulfurization reclaimed rubber technology, and realized the construction and industrialization of a complete set of green production reclaimed rubber technology from 10,000-ton waste tires, and was included in the major energy-saving equipment promotion catalog by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; Established China's only production platform for hydrogenated nitrile rubber for special equipment, realized the independent supply of this material for the first time, and designed and developed a new material for liquid terminal functional hydrogenated nitrile rubber

　　In addition, epoxidized rubber, targeted cleavable cross-linked rubber, integrated circuit thermal interface rubber, artificial muscle elastomer, wearable intelligent response rubber parts.

　　Preaching and teaching industry forging echelon

　　In addition to his favorite scientific research work, Zhang Liqun also insists on taking the best state to teach undergraduates and postgraduates

　　Not only that, he worked closely with leading tire companies, large conveyor belt companies, rubber recycling companies, and wire and cable companies in China’s rubber industry to establish more than 30 school-enterprise joint research laboratories to attract companies to Beijing Chemical Industry The university has set up special scholarships, granting 1.

　　When it comes to achievements, Zhang Liqun is more willing to attribute the credit to the team, to his alma mater, and to the industry

　　Talking about the future, Zhang Liqun said: “Scientific research is almost not about skilled trades.

　　Academician resume

　　Zhang Liqun, born in Duolun County, Inner Mongolia in 1969, is a professor and doctoral supervisor of Beijing University of Chemical Technology, a distinguished professor of the "Yangtze River Scholars Award Program" of the Ministry of Education, a winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and the chief scientist of the national "973" project
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He is currently a member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Vice President of Beijing University of Chemical Technology
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The main academic leader in the field of rubber materials in China, he serves as the chairman of the tenth presidium of the China Rubber Industry Association, the director of the Expert Committee of the China Synthetic Rubber Industry Association, and the director of the Technical Committee of the China Tire Industry Technology Innovation Alliance
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He has led the team to work on the front line of scientific research for a long time, and has made many achievements in the fields of high-performance rubber nanocomposites, green rubber materials and special functional rubber materials, and has made important contributions to the high-quality development of China's rubber industry
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He has presided over more than 30 projects at the national, provincial and ministerial levels.
He won 2 second prizes of National Technology Invention Award, 1 second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 National Defense Technology Invention Award as the first completer, and edited 2 books and authorized 120 invention patents and 395 SCI articles published (corresponding author)
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It has been selected as one of the most academically influential mechanics by Elsevier in China for many years, and has won 5 international awards including the Sparks-Thomas Award of the Rubber Branch of the American Chemical Society and the Colwyn Medal of the British Society of Materials, Minerals and Mining
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