The Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering focuses on soft matter systems as its research subject. By applying multidisciplinary integration spanning chemistry, chemical engineering, materials, biology, and environment, it addresses critical scientific and technological challenges in energy, environment, and life science fields. The Program adopts an integrated science-engineering approach for talent cultivation, offering five primary academic tracks: Chemical Engineering and Technology, Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Environmental Science and Engineering, and Bioengineering.

The discipline of Materials Science and Engineering achieved significant milestones in its development: it obtained the authority to award Master's degree in 1982 and Ph.D degree in 1986, was designated as a national key discipline by the State Education Commission (then named Polymer Materials) in the same year, established a postdoctoral research station in 1990, gained the authority to award Ph.D degree in its primary discipline in 2000, was recognized as a key primary discipline of Beijing Municipality in 2008, with its Materials Science sub-discipline as a national key discipline.

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