We are glad to annouce an exciting news (on behalf of) our Fellow, Professor Gletier.

According to Professor Gleiter, The Chinese Government has decided to start up a new research center at Shenyang in new field of research, the  nanoglasses. In fact, this new field  was initiated by Professor Gleiter's group a few years ago and it is now recognized by inviting him to start up the new research center of the Chinese Government at Shenyang. 

This new center with the name Herbert Gleiter International Institute will be one of the three largest research centers in China. 

Herbert Gleiter received his Ph.D. in Physics and was a Post Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University and MIT. In 1973, Gleiter became Chair Professor of Materials Science and founded in 1988 today’s Leibniz Institute of New Materials at Saarbruecken, Germany. In 1994, he was appointed President of Research and Technology of the Research Center Karlsruhe, Germany, and 4 years later he became the Founding Director of the Center’s Institute of Nanotechnology. In 2012 the University of Nanjing founded the “Herbert Gleiter Institute of Nanoscience” and appointed him as the Institute’s Founding Director. Prof. Gleiter’s received more than 40 prizes. Among them the most highly reputated awards in Germany, the Leibniz and the Max Planck Research Prize and the Cothenius Medal, the most prestigious award of the German National Academy of Sciences. Seven universities awarded him honorary doctorates. He is a Member of 12 Academies of Science and/or Engineering. By the end of the 70’s he and his research group opened the way to a new kind of materials, called today nano-crystalline materials. In fact, today more than 800 papers are published annually in this area of Materials Science and about 6 to 8 international conferences on nano-materials are organized every year. One of his pioneering papers on nano-crystalline materials has been cited so far more than 4000 times. 

In recent years, Herbert Gleiter expanded the field of Materials Science by developing nanostructured non-crystalline materials that are called today nano-glasses. Nano-glasses can be produced with atomic structures and/or with chemical compositions that cannot be generated in the form of the crystalline materials or in the form of the glassy materials we have today resulting in new properties of nano-glasses. The utilization of these new properties permits the development of new technologies In other words, nano-glasses may open the way into a “glass age” that would be based on the new properties of nano- glasses, similar to the bronze or iron age that were based on the new properties of bronze or iron when they were discovered.