“新材料界面科学与工程”实验室于2004年建立并成为山西省重点实验室，2005年经国家教育部批准成为省部共建教育部重点实验室，2008年1月，实验室顺利通过教育部验收，正式成为教育部重点实验室。新材料界面科学与工程教育部重点实验室是在太原理工大学材料科学与工程学院、材料界面山西省重点实验室、太原理工大学分析测试中心、太原理工大学-富士康材料研发中心和山西省新材料工程技术研究中心等基础上发展起来的。中国工程院院士、武汉理工大学姜德生教授担任实验室学术委员会主任。

实验室以太原理工大学材料科学与工程一级学科博士学位授权点（其中材料加工工程学科为国家级重点学科、材料学学科为山西省重点学科），材料科学与工程博士后科研流动站为支撑，目前实验室拥有固定成员82人，其中教授32人，副教授36人，博士生导师32人，40岁以下的中青年研究骨干36人，占比44%。实验室围绕材料中的界面结构（形态、成分、相结构、晶体结构、原子和电子结构等）与材料本征性能之间关系展开研究，发现新现象、新规律，获得新性能，建立新理论，制备满足高服役性能要求的新材料。目前，本实验室聚焦碳基功能新材料、多相多界面高分子材料、新金属材料制备与加工、纳米团簇及其多孔框架材料和半导体光电材料与器件五个主要研究领域。本实验室致力于建设成为国内外知名的材料界面研究中心和高端人才培养基地，为全国的经济建设和山西地方经济的转型发展提供服务。实验室承担了包括“973”计划项目、“863”计划项目、国防科工委民口配套项目、国家自然科学基金重大研究计划项目、国家和省级自然科学基金面上项目和青年项目等在内的200多个科研项目。实验室成员在国内外主流杂志上发表论文1000余篇，SCI他引次数为3000余次；编著和教材18部；授权多国发明专利200余项；获2009年国家技术发明二等奖1项，2014年国家科技进步二等奖1项，另获其他省部级一、二等科技奖14项。同时，实验室已与国内外多所科研院所建立了广泛而深厚的学术合作伙伴关系，如中科院物理所、北京大学、清华大学、香港理工大学、香港浸会大学等。

“Laboratory of Interface Science and Engineering in Advanced Materials” was set up in 2004 as a key laboratory of Shanxi Province, and it was approved to be the Key Laboratory Co-sponsored by Ministry of Education, China and Shanxi Province in 2005 and then Key Laboratory of Interface Science and Engineering in Advanced Materials (Taiyuan University of Technology), Ministry of Education was founded in 2008. Our laboratory was developed on the basis of College of Materials Science and Engineering of Taiyuan University of Technology (TYUT), Key Laboratory of Materials Interface of Shanxi Province, Testing and Analysis Center of TYUT, Center of Materials Research and Development of TYUT-Foxconn Co. Ltd. and Shanxi Research Center of Advanced Material Science and Technology. Prof. Desheng Jiang in Wuhan University of Technology is acting as the director of the Academic Committee.

The key laboratory is supported by the primary discipline doctoral programs and Postdoctoral Research Station of Materials Science and Engineering of TYUT. The laboratory has totally 82 staff, including32 professors, 36 associate professors, and 36people of them are younger than 40. The main research objective of our laboratory is to study the relationship between materials interface structure (i.e. morphology, composition, phase structure, crystal structure, atomic and electronic structures, etc.) and properties, discover new phenomena and laws, synthesize materials with novel properties and build new theory. The main research directions and areas include: photoelectronic materials and devices, carbon-based energy materials and advanced metals materials, etc.. Our laboratory is dedicated to develop as a world-renowned materials interface research center and high-level talent training base, to service for the economic construction of China and the economic transformation of Shanxi Province. The projects were/are undertaking by our laboratory include: 973 and 863 National Key Fundamental Research Programs, Key Project and Programs Granted by the National Natural Science Foundation and Provincial Natural Science Foundation, etc.

More than 1000 articles have been published in SCI academic journal, and cited more than 3000 times by others researcher in their SCI papers. 18 textbooks and academic books have been published. More than 200 invention patents have been authorized by P.R.China and USA. 1 the 2nd Prize of National Award for Technological Invention, 1 the 2nd Prize of the National Award for Sci-Tech progress and 11awards of provincial level were awarded.

We have built up extensive and deep cooperation and communication with domestic and international academic institutions and universities, such as Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Hong Kong Baptist University, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, etc.