The Shanghai Institute of Ceramics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (SICCAS) was founded as the Shanghai Institute of Ceramic Chemistry and Engineering in 1959 and assumed its current name in 1984.
SICCAS is a comprehensive and unique organization engaged in advanced inorganic nonmetallic materials research. It has achieved outstanding results in pioneering basic research, innovation of high-tech materials and applied research.
Its main research areas include high performance ceramics and superfine microstructures, structural ceramics and composites, inorganic functional materials and devices, energy materials, inorganic coatings, artificial crystals, biomaterials and tissue engineering, environmentally friendly materials, the analysis and characterization of inorganic materials, and the technological study of industrial ceramics and ancient Chinese ceramics.
SICCAS has received 49 national-level awards, as well as hundreds more CAS, ministerial and provincial awards for a total of more than 400 scientific and technical prizes. It has about 650 valid patents, ranking it among the top 10 institutes in China. In addition, the number of citations of SICCAS papers indexed by SCI places SICCAS among the top 10 institutes in China in that category. SICCAS also publishes the Journal of Inorganic Materials, which is one China?s key academic periodicals and is cited by SCI.