Relying on its characteristic disciplines, the research strength of College of Light Industry, Textile and Food Engineering, Sichuan University has increased substantially. And scientific research level and total research funding also increase with years.

Total research fund was 13.475 million RMB in 2007, including 2.6 million for national scientific and technological project, 0.85 million for national “973 Project” and “863 Project” items, and 0.736 million, 0.40 million, 0.78 million, 0.238 million, 0.37 million, 0.49 million and 7.149 million for national natural science foundation, National Outstanding Youth Fund, Science and Technology Project, Ministry of Education (excellent doctoral thesis fund), Ministry of Education Project, Central Project, Province items and Enterprises Entrusted Items, respectively. And the total funds was 15.32 million RMB in 2008, including the funds of National Scientific and technology Project Items 1.43 million; National “973” and “863” Project 1.99 million; Ministries and Commissions Items 30 thousand; Natural Science Foundation of China 1.244 million; Ministry of Education Items 62 thousand; Province and Civic Projects 1.256 million; Enterprises Entrusted Items 9.197 million; Transfer of Progeny 0.1 million; Sichuan University Youth Sci-Tech Fund 20 thousand. The total funds reached to 22.162 million in 2009, in which 4.36 million for National Scientific and Technological Project, 0.577 million for National 973 and 863 Project, 2.69 million for Ministry of Science and Technology Items, 0.956 million for Natural Science Foundation of China, 0.284 million for Ministry of Education Item, 4.00 million Ministries and Commissions Items, about 1.929 million for Province and Civic Items, 6.835 million for Enterprise Entrusted Items, 0.15 million for International Collaboration Items and 0.35 million for Transfer of Progeny.

Regarding to the academic achievement, a total of 310 all classes of research papers were published in 2007, including SCI, EI index 62; overseas journal 7; international conference 42; national periodical 183; national conference 12; local journal 4; monograph 1 with 350,000 words; textbook 4 with 1,195,000 words; lecture 7 notes with 630,000 words. The total number of academic papers was 332 in 2008, including SCI, EI index 67; overseas journal 8; international conference 38; core journal 165 papers; national periodical 46; local journal 8; monograph 1 with 195,000 words; textbook 8 with 1,073,200 words. A total of 365 academic papers of various types had been published in 2009, including SCI, EI index 62; overseas journal 8; international conference 52; core journal 166 papers; national periodical 42; local journal 35; monograph 2 with 180,000 words; textbook 9 with 1,723,000 words.

A total of 9 awards had been received in 2007, including the first provincial prize 2, the second provincial prize 2; town hall-style award 4; participative prize 1. And there were 6 items of award in 2008, including the second ministry/province prize and other prize 5 items. Eight items awards have been received in 2009, all of which were participative prize.

The totality of authorized inventive patent was 9 items, 18 items and 12 items in 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively. And the number of applied patent was 4, 5 and 32 items during these three years. The totality of applied patent of utility model was 2 items in 2007, 1 item in 2009, and there were 1 item of authorized patent of utility model in 2008 and 2009, respectively. Besides, 31 items of inventive patent were applied in 2009.

◆Top Field

● Food Chemistry and engineering

● Health food

● Biotechnology and processing of food

● Processing and storage technology of agriculture products

● Functional textile materials

● Process technology of Ecological textile materials

● Exploitation of depollutive materials for environment

● Auxiliaries in dyeing

● Structure and functionalization of Clothing materials

● Designing and technology of modern clothing

● Leather Chemistry

● Animal albumen chemistry and histology

● Environmentally friendly theory and technology of clean leather manufacture

● Resource recycling of leather waste

● Leather chemical

● Technology of analysis and measurement in leather-making

● Surface and interface of polymers

● Manufacturing and processing of synthetic fiber

● Sizing agent in textile

● Waterproof industrial protective and woodware painting

Collaborative technology field

◆Processing and Storage Technology of Agriculture Products

Exploitation of Egg and Dairy products

Exploitation of Meat

Exploitation of Cereals, Oil and Foodstuffs

Exploitation of Condiment

Exploitation of Fruit and Vegetable

Storage Technology of Food

Integrated Utilization of Food Resource

◆Health Food

Research about resources with medicine and food

Extract, purify, structure analysis and modify of active constituent in food

Exploitation of new health food

◆Fermented Food

Breeding of Industrial Micoorganism

Fermentation Engineering

Food and Wine-making by Traditional Method

Microorganism Food and Drinking

Rich-nutrition Auxiliaries

Bio-enzymic preparations

Additives in Forage

Microbial Pesticide

◆New-type Textile Materials

Exploitation of new chemical fiber manufacture and industrialization application

Designing of thermo-plastic Elastomer

Molecular Design of degradable Biomedical Materials

Synthesis of fire retardant and application in textile materials

Manufacture of functional textile materials (fiber, texture and functionalization, etc)

Specific textile materials, i.e. stealthmaterial, thermostability, high strength materials, luminous textile materials, hydrophilic and oil-absorbing materials

Synthesis of antistatic agent and application in textile materials

Mulberry Fiber

Exploitation of collagen fiber

Developing of sun-proof textile

◆Application of Environmental Materials and Textile Materials in environmental protection

Research, development and application of carbon fiber

Preparation and eindustrialization xploration of active carbon materials

Preparation and modifying of photocatalyst, and mechanism of photocatalysis

Study on the mechanism of adsorption-liberation and load of photocatalyst nano materials on inorganic material, fiber and mouldingmixture

Application development of photocatalyst nano composite on purifying air, cleansing environment, antibiosis and deodorization, resolving organic matter, etc

Manufacture of polyphenylene sulfide and development of environment-friendly products

◆Dyeing and Finishing of textile and auxiliaries products

Functional finishing agent, i.e. anti-creasing agent, flame retardant, curing agent, waterproofing agent, anti-fouling agent

Treatment of liquid waste made in dyeing

Thickening agent used in new textile materials

Research about technical skill during dyeing processing

◆Clothing design and process

Dyeing and finishing of clothing CAD

Design of textile products

Design and technology of fashion clothing

◆Leather-making Technology

Development of new technology and leather products in leather-making process, such as processing of ostrich skin, comprehensive exploitation of slap-up pigskin products, manufacturing technology of leather with low chrome, hair-saving unhairing process with low sulphide and enzyme, chrome tanning non-pickling, special treatment of buttocks of pigskin, manufacturing leather with oil tanning, etc.

◆Clean technology in leather making

Clean technology including the manufacturing of back-suede pigskin garment leather, sheepskin garment leather, shoe upper leather, chrome-free cowskin automotive leather, chrome-free cowskin shoe upper leather, chrome-free shoe lining leather, and clean ecological technology of lambskin products

◆Chemical materials

The exploitation of low-toxic or non-toxic chemical materials, such as producing of separable synthetic tannin without sulfate, auxiliaries used in dyeing and fatliquoring, functional auxiliaries in leather making, high-return pigskin leather making and research of relevant materials, complex enzyme preparations and nano-assembly antibacterial materials, etc.

◆Collagen biomass and utilization of leather waste

Preparation of acellular dermal matrix, manufacturing of scaffold in tissue engineering, adsorbent from animal collagen, retanning agents and coating agent from scrap leather, collagen extracted from tannery offcut, etc.

◆Recycling and treating of tannery effluent

Recycling technology of waste water produced in leather making process, processing technic of effluent including waste liquor created at unhairing, reliming and chrome tanning process, industrial sewage in leather making, etc.

◆Exploitation of Waterproof industrial protective and woodware painting