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Hub Overview
Beijing is China's leading research-centered nanotechnology hub, driven by fundamental science and national institutions rather than manufacturing. Its flagship is the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, the country's dedicated national nanoscience institute, which sits alongside a dense Chinese Academy of Sciences ecosystem and two of China's strongest universities, Tsinghua and Peking University. Most of this is concentrated in the Zhongguancun and Haidian innovation district. The region is especially strong in nanoscience, nanomaterials, nanoelectronics, characterization, and advanced instrumentation.
Activity concentrates in Haidian and Zhongguancun in the northwest of the city, with additional academy and university research assets spread across Beijing. The hub is best understood as a national-scale science center: its nanotechnology base is driven by fundamental research, large shared facilities, and an enormous talent pipeline, with links out to advanced electronics, materials, healthcare, and industrial research. Beijing sets much of the research agenda that more manufacturing-focused Chinese hubs then build on. At many Chinese institutions, research groups appear mainly as individual faculty profiles rather than as standalone group pages, and much of the detail sits on Chinese-language pages, so the labs listed here understate the region's true research volume.
Research Map
Locations of nanotechnology research labs and companies across the Beijing area. Click any marker for the institution’s profile and to find hotels nearby.
Research lab
Company
Key Institutions
Beijing Graphene Institute
1 nano group
Beijing Institute of
1 nano group
Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences
1 nano group
Chinese Academy of Sciences
1 nano group
National Center for
1 nano group
Peking University
1 nano group
Tsinghua University
1 nano group
Research Labs & Groups
The following nanotechnology research groups and labs are based in the Beijing area.
Lab
Beijing
The Institute's aim is to develop green and mass production techniques to make low-cost graphene powders of different qualities, and to investigate properties of such graphene powders in electrical/thermal conductivity, anti-corrosion coating and mechanical reinforcement in strength and flexibility.
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Lab
Beijing
The institute conducts research in the areas of piezoelectronics, photonics and nanopiezoelectric generators and other related areas of basic and applied basic research.
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Lab
Beijing
The research directions of BNLMS include: (1) structure and transformation of matter; (2) materials chemistry; (3) nanoscience and nanotechnology; (4) polymer science and engineering; (5) chemistry in life science; (6) environmental and energy chemistry.
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Lab
Beijing
The research of NPDL focuses on nanoscale physics and nanoscale devices.
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Lab
Beijing
The national flagship institute for nanoscience and nanotechnology in China, conducting research in nanofabrication and nanodevices, nanomaterials and nanostructures, nanomedicine, and nanostandardization and measurement.
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University
Beijing
A university-level research center at Peking University developing carbon nanotube electronics and integrated circuits, including sub-10 nm carbon-based transistors and wafer-scale semiconducting nanotube array technology.
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University
Beijing
An interdisciplinary research center at Tsinghua University focused on nano and micro mechanics, with notable work in structural superlubricity, nanomaterials, and nano-enabled energy and environmental applications.
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Nanotech Companies
Commercial nanotechnology companies based in the Beijing area.
Materials
Beijing
A Beijing-based producer of quantum dot materials, including water-soluble and oil-soluble quantum dots, quantum dot concentrates, quantum dot films, and carbon quantum dots, for display, lighting, and biomedical applications.
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Materials
Beijing
A Beijing supplier of nanomaterials, including metal and oxide nanopowders, nano-TiO2, carbon nanotubes, and high-purity nanoceramics for research and industrial use.
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Products
Beijing
An integrated device manufacturer of silicon carbide (SiC) power devices, including SiC Schottky diodes, MOSFETs and power modules, with its own SiC wafer fabrication lines.
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Products
Beijing
A Beijing manufacturer of scanning probe and atomic force microscopes in the CSPM series, together with related analytical and laboratory instruments.
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Products
Beijing
A leading Chinese semiconductor process equipment maker, producing etch, PVD, ALD and CVD systems, oxidation and diffusion furnaces, and cleaning tools for integrated circuit and photovoltaic manufacturing.
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