Advanced materials of Shanghai University: key structural materials of nuclear power plants (non-radiation), carbon/carbon composite materials and special fiber materials, amorphous alloy materials, new special steels and superalloys, battery materials, magnetic materials, superconducting materials, etc. It involves the research and development of new materials and new processes in the fields of information, energy, environmental protection, corrosion and protection, and related problems of materials in engineering application.

1, metal material direction:

Tool and die materials and their surface technology, automotive metal materials (steel plate, aluminum alloy, structural steel), material alloy design and thermodynamic and kinetic calculation, high-performance metal steel materials, metal hot working and its numerical simulation, metal solidification theory and microstructure control technology.

2. Direction of electronic materials:

Thin film electronic materials, information function composite materials, photoelectric materials and devices, intelligent materials and systems, nano materials and devices, advanced ceramic materials, energy conversion materials.

3, iron and steel metallurgy direction:

Refining of metal materials, melt treatment and analysis, numerical simulation of machining process, treatment and utilization of wastes in machining process, application of electromagnetic field in material processing and preparation, electrochemistry, preparation of high-clean metal materials, metal solidification theory and continuous casting technology, preparation of high-performance structural and functional materials, titanium alloy casting and high-temperature alloy forming, powder metallurgy, artificial intelligence, processing of gold and nonferrous alloy materials.

4. New display direction:

New display device, photoelectric device, third generation photoelectric device, thin film device, organic light emitting device, quantum dot device, thin film transistor.