Aiming at solving the strategic S&T issues related to the future and long-term development of the nation, all CAS institutes are required to make a “One-Three-Five” plan for their strategic research directions. “One-Three-Five” plan means One Positioning, Three Major Breakthroughs, and Five Key Cultivating Directions. The One Positioning should clarify each CAS institute’s main research areas, unique features, and core competitiveness and should be distinctive in comparison with other CAS research institutes; Three Major Breakthroughs indicate major basic, strategic and prospective S&T innovative achievements to be made in the next five to ten years. Five Cultivating Directions indicate research priorities with unique features to form a future competitive advantage and to make potential breakthroughs. Generally, each institute shall raise 3 breakthroughs and 5 priorities.

Three Major Breakthroughs of DICP
B-1.1: Elementary Reactions in Energy Related Processes (SKLMRD)
B-1.2: Catalytic Reactions in Energy Related Processes
B-2: Coal-Replacing-Oil Technologies
B-3: Key Materials and New Technologies in Flow Batteries for Energy Storage

The international panel of experts came to assess the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) in meeting the goals of the “One-Three-Five” plan from November 24-26, 2013. The summary of the panel’s assessment of SKLMRD’s accomplishments is presented below:

DICP’s research on the dynamics of chemical reaction in the gas phase and at surfaces is world-class and builds upon a long history of work in these directions developed within the State Key Laboratory on Reaction Dynamics. These efforts have led to an exceptionally detailed understanding of reactions involving three, and more recently four and more, atoms. The extension of these experimental and theoretical capabilities to fundamental processes in photocatalysis is also first rate and contributes to the development of a fundamental understanding the elementary processes involved in the photochemical splitting of water on oxide surfaces. These efforts will be very well served by the free-electron laser being built at DICP’s satellite campus.