On 30th November 2017, Dr. Juergen DAHLHAUS, the Senior Vice President of BASF, and Dr. Bernd SACHWEH, Vice President, Fine Particle Technology & Particle Characterization of BASF, visited IPECAS and had a face-to-face discussion about the joint research project with Prof. Jinghai LI, Prof. Guanhui MA, Prof. Ning YANG and other researchers from EMMS research group. During the meeting, Prof. Jinghai LI gave a presentation on the topic of Perspectives on Meso-Science, then the two parties made an in-depth discussion on Meso-science. After the meeting, Dr. Juergen DAHLHAUS and Dr. Bernd SACHWEH had a lab tour of VPE Lab and state key lab of biochemical engineering.

BASF is one of the largest chemical plants in the world, its broad portfolio ranges from chemicals, plastics, performance products and crop protection products to oil and gas. With major investments in Nanjing, Shanghai and Chongqing, as well as numerous sites around the country, BASF is the largest foreign investor in China’s chemical industry, and maintains the BASF Asia Pacific Innovation Campus (Shanghai) as a global and regional research and development hub.