From May 23 to 26, Wu Yucheng, Party Committee Secretary of TYUT, went to Germany for academic exchanges.

During the visit, Wu Yucheng first attended a seminar themed on “Materials for Sustainable Energy Development” (an International Symposium on Energy Collection Materials and Devices) at the University of Cologne (UoC), and made an academic report entitled “Research Progress in Preparation and Characterization of the Second-phase Strengthening of W-based Composites for Future Fusion Reactor”. In his report, he introduced the research progress in achieving good thermal conductivity and high-quality plastic behavior in W-based composites by adding second-order particles (Y2O3 or TiC) to produce powdery ultra-fine composites and then increasing their hardness through cold isostatic pressing, conventional atmosphere sintering and rolling deformation, etc.; and pointed out that “optimizing the preparing process of W-based composites and deforming them to improve and strengthen their thermal and mechanical properties” will be the main research direction in the future.

On 25 May, Wu Yucheng visited the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of UoC and discussed in depth the processing and utilization of energy materials with Prof. Guenter Schwarz and Prof. Sanjay Mathur. He introduced TYUT’s latest progresses in new materials research, made a joint plan for future research cooperation, and witnessed the signing of the academic exchange agreement between the two universities.

Afterwards, Wu Yucheng visited Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (OVGU) on May 26 and exchanged views with Helmut Weiß , Vice President of OVGU on research and teaching cooperation.

This visit is one of the important results of TYUT’s promotion of the “reform, innovation, and achievement” discussion, a specific effort to align itself with the “double first-class” international education standard, and a major research related foreign affair activity of the discipline of materials science of TYUT in the critical year for the construction of the “double first-class” university. It is of great significance and has far-reaching influence on improving the research excellency of one of major “double first class” disciplines of TYUT, and on internationalizing TYUT’s education.