Bridge Building Challenge
Build a span from interchangeable parts and load it until it fails.
Future Materials
Shape-memory alloy, aerogel and carbon fibre under the visitor's hand.
Crystal Structure
Build a lattice from magnetic balls and see why a crystal cleaves.
Robot Show Stage
Four arms perform a synchronised routine behind a glass wall.
3D Printing
An open-frame printer running a live part layer by layer.
Infrared Vision
A thermal camera reveals heat that the eye cannot see.
Nanorobotics
A scaled-up model of a drug-carrying nanobot inside a blood vessel.
Fiber Optics
Bend light around a curve and send a signal down a fibre bundle.
Why are engines getting bigger and bigger?
As the "heart" of an aircraft, the performance of an aircraft engine directly determines its flight capability.
Quantum Laboratory
The research team composed of Pan Jianwei, Lu Chaoyang and Liu Naile from the Institute of Quantum Information and…
Positive and negative electrode materials of batteries
The key to battery technology innovation lies in the innovation of positive and negative electrode materials.
Rare earth luminescent materials
Rare earth luminescent materials are a type of functional material that rely on the special electronic structure of…
Quantum Center
At the end of the 19th century, classical physics faced challenges in explaining microscopic phenomena, such as the…
semiconductor material
Semiconductor materials are a type of solid material with conductivity properties between good conductors (such as…
Carbon family
The allotropes of carbon refer to different forms of elemental carbon, such as diamond, graphite, fullerene, carbon…
Memory alloy art installation
In 1932, Swedish scientist Oland first observed the "memory" effect in gold cadmium alloys, which means that after…
Automatic engine
The power of the exhibit "Automatic Engine" comes from the unique response of shape memory alloy to temperature.
Self-healing concrete
Self healing concrete is an experimental concrete that can repair cracks on its own, containing dormant bacterial…
Blue Whale No.2
The exhibits showcase the offshore operation process of Blue Whale II to visitors, allowing them to understand China's.
High-voltage discharge
High voltage discharge is the process of using Tesla coils to raise the voltage to a high level of several million…
Carbon fiber composite material
Carbon fiber composite materials are high-performance materials made by combining carbon fibers with resin matrices…
AIE fluorescent material
This exhibit introduces the unique characteristics and wide applications of aggregation induced luminescence (AE)…
Martensitic transformation
Martensitic phase transition refers to a displacement type phase transition characterized by no compositional…
Hardness comparison
Hardness is the ability of a material to resist local pressure from hard objects on its surface.
The Frontier Technology line runs to 291 models; 77 of them have studio imagery and are listed above. The rest are catalogued by model and quoted on request — send us a theme and a floor plan and we will return the matching set with dimensions and power requirements.
