Professor SONG Jian from the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences, Germany, visited the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), on July 24. During his visit, he gave a lecture entitled Coating Materials for High Performance Electrical Contacts. Professor SONG Jian was invited by the R&D Center of Lubricating and Protecting Materials of the LICP.

In his lecture, Professor SONG Jian introduced his group’s work on noble metal thin films for contact materials, the relationship between anti-wear property and service life of thin films, the improvement of the anti-wear property of thin films through alloying of noble metal, addition of hard ceramic nanoparticles and soft polymer nanoparticle.

Professor SONG Jian is giving a lecture.

Introduction to Professor SONG Jian:

Professor SONG Jian received his Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc.) degree in Precision Engineering from the Technical University Braunschweig, and Dr.-Ing. (PhD) degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kassel in 1985 and 1990 respectively. Since 2003, he has been a Professor and Head of the Precision Engineering Laboratory at the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences in Lemgo, Germany.

Professor SONG Jian received The Research Reward of the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences in 2010. He is the Chairman of the Committee for Optical and Electronic Interconnection of VDE/VDI-GMM (Microelectronics, Mechatronics and Precision Engineering Society of the German Association of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the German Association of Engineers). He is a reviewer of German Research Foundation (DFG), Industrial Research Foundation and Journal of Plastics Technology. He is also a reviewer of Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad (German region). He is the author, co-author, editor and co-editor of five books and author of more than sixty papers. He is also an inventor of six patents.