Institute of Inorganic Materials is a key discipline of Materials Physics and Chemistry in Zhejiang Province and a key discipline of Inorganic Chemistry in Ningbo City. There are 12 professors (researchers), 5 associate professors (associate researchers) and 5 lecturers (assistant researchers) in this institute, and all team members have doctoral degrees. There are more than 70 graduate students in the institute. In the past ten years, the Institute has undertaken many vertical projects such as National Support Program, National 973 Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Major Science and Technology Special Projects of Zhejiang Province, and more than 10 horizontal projects commissioned by domestic enterprises and institutions.

The institute has been awarded the second prize of Science and Technology Progress by the Ministry of Education, three second prizes of Provincial Science and Technology Progress, one second prize of Provincial Universities' Excellent Scientific Research Achievements, the Gold Prize of the Eighth “Internet Plus” National Competition, the Silver Prize of the Thirteenth “Challenge Cup” National Competition, and one second prize of Science and Technology Progress of Ningbo Municipal Government. The main research direction of the Institute of Inorganic Materials

The main research direction of the Institute of Inorganic Materials is located in inorganic non-metallic functional materials, involving optoelectronic functional crystal materials, rare-earth permanent magnet materials, nanoporous materials, non-ferrous metal materials and other disciplines, with solid structure-material properties-device application as the basic academic concept, not only deployed in the inorganic functional materials, the synthesis and structural characterization of the new substances and basic research, but also deployed in the inorganic functional materials. With the basic academic concept of solid structure-material performance-device application, we have deployed basic research on synthesis and structural characterization of inorganic functional materials, and also focused on major technological development of high-performance inorganic materials by means of industry-university-research, and so far, we have obtained a series of research results with significant academic innovation and technological application. In recent years, the Institute has focused on the following important topics: (1) the growth and device applications of nonlinear optical crystals, laser crystals, scintillation crystals, semiconductor crystals, piezoelectric crystals, relaxation ferroelectric crystals and other optoelectronic functional crystals; (2) the preparation, performance and application of scintillation ceramics, piezoelectric ceramics and piezoelectric thin films; (3) the structure, performance and preparation of rare-earth permanent magnets; (4) preparation, functionalization and use of carbon nanostructures in the production of high-performance inorganic materials. structure preparation, functionalization and its application in fuel cell catalysts; (5) construction of photocatalysts and their application in environmental purification; (6) preparation and application of inorganic-organic composite nanoporous materials; (7) preparation of luminescent materials and their application.