National Natural Science Foundation of China
The ISSP is research intensive in the areas of nano-materials technology, novel functional materials, computational physics, internal friction and defects of solids, materials physics under extreme environments, environmental and energy nanomaterials, nuclear engineering and special metallic materials. Most of its research is funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province and the private sector. The ISSP also has close ties with the University of Science and Technology of China in both R&amp;D and training of graduate students.