The Institute of Fine Chemicals (IFC) was established in 1985 authorized by the Ministry of Education of China. As a division of IFC, Laboratory of Advanced Materials was selected as Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education of China in December 12, 2003. The IFC possesses about 1200 m2 well-equipped laboratories (60 fume hoods) with a wide range of the latest equipments and techniques, such as 1H/ 13C NMR (Brücker AM400), LC-MS, HPLC (HP 1100), GC (HP 6890), FTIR (Nicolet 380), TLC (Shimadzu/Japan), Absorption spectrometer (Cary 100 Varian/ USA), Luminescence Spectrometer (Varian/USA), Fluorescence Lifetime Spectrometer (Edinburgh LifeSpec-Red), and etc.
  

The Institute of Fine Chemicals carries the spirit of Innovation and Scientific Research. In the past decade, IFC has undertaken 1 National Base Research 973 Program and 2 sub-projects of the National Base Research 973 Program, 2 State 863 Projects (including 1 Key Projects), over 50 projects of Natural Science Funding of China, 6 projects for International Cooperation Program, over 30 Basic Research Project of Shanghai Science and Technology Commission. Over 50 research papers are published per year and over 30 patents have been authorized until 2013.

In recent decade, 3 doctors have received the “National Hundred Outstanding Doctoral Thesis” award (2001, 2006, 2008). Currently, there are more than 150 master degree candidates, 50 Ph.D candidates as well as 5 post-doctors.

Faculty Members:
Institute of Fine Chemicals has 17 professors, 13 associate professors, including 1 academician of Chinese Academy of Science, 2 chair professors of the Cheungkong Scholars Program, 2 National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China, 1 enlisted in New Century Outstanding Support Program, 1 selected for National “Millions of Talents Project”.

Research Fields:
Organic Electro/Optic Functional Materials (Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, Supramolecular Chemistry, Molecular Machines & Switches, Fluorescence Sensors, Organic Luminescence Emission Devices)
Organic Functional Dyes and Pigments
Photo-Catalysis (TiO 2 Nano-Materials, Photo-Catalysis, Environmental Pollution Control)
Synthetic Methodology (Unsymmetrical Synthesis, Green Catalysis, Ultra-wave Synthesis, Organometallic Chemistry)
Saccharide Chemistry
Surfactants

Awards & Honors:
First Prize of Shanghai Natural Science Award, 2006
Second Prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award, 2006
Third Prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award, 2003, 2005
Second Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award, The Ministry of Education, 2003
Second Prize of National Science and Technology Progress Nomination Award, The Ministry of Education, 2005
First Prize of Shanghai Technological Invention Award, 2006
Second Prize of Shanghai (Basic Theory) Technology Progress Award, 2004
Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation for Science and Technology Progress Award, 2006
National Hundred Outstanding Doctoral Thesis (2001, 2006, 2008)