Prof. J.M.D. Coey, a world renowned scholar in condensed matter physics and magnetic, visited the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), on May 13. Accompanied by Prof. LIU Weimin, director of LICP, Prof. Coey visited the researching park, exhibition room, State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication and State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis and Selective Oxidation. Prof. Coey’s visit is a part of the Einstein Professorship Program of the CAS.

　  After the visit, Prof. Coey delivered a lecture entitled “Organic Spin Electronics” which reviewed the recent progress in obtaining room-temperature magnetoresistance in an exchange-biased spin valve with various organic spacers. Then Prof. Coey had a discussion with the researchers and postgraduates of LICP. The lecture session was chaired by Prof. HAO Jingcheng, a visiting professor of LICP.

About Prof. J.M.D. Coey

　  Prof. Coey is a member of the Royal Irish Academy, a fellow of the Royal Society, and a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1966 and received his doctoral degree from University of Manitoba in 1971. He has been working for the Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, since 1978.

　  Prof. Coey's research interests are magnetic, electronic, and structural properties of solids, spin electronics, amorphous materials, physical properties of minerals, magnetoelectrochemistry. In recent years, the laboratory he led has published over 600 papers in Nature, Science, Phys. Rev. Lett and other influential journals, and about 10 works in magnetic and spin electronics.

About the Einstein Professorship Program

　  The Einstein Professorship Program is initiated by the CAS in 2004. Einstein Professorships will be awarded each year to 20 distinguished international scientists actively working at the frontiers of science and technology, for conducting lecture-tours to China. It aims to strengthen science and technology links, cooperation and exchange between CAS scientists and respective Einstein Professors and their laboratories, and enhance the training of future generations of scientists in China.

Prof. Coey gives the lecture

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In the exhibition room

In the State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication