Supported by the National Unique Major----Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry was appointed as the provincial key discipline in 2012. Owning laboratories with an area of 5,400 square meters, sixteen large analyzing instruments worth more than thirty million RMB, it has set up a relatively perfect and advanced platform for scientific research analysis and tests. The discipline focuses on three unique areas: inorganic photoelectric functional materials, functional complexes and bioinorganic chemistry.

Now it has twenty eight members including nine professors, associate professors, seven lectures. There are also twenty two PhDs, one Technical Academic Leader of Henan province, one Technical Academic Leader of the Education Department of Henan province, one Excellent Teacher of China, and one Excellent Teacher of Henan Province.

In the past three years, the discipline team has undertaken and completed thirty projects including nine national ones, twenty one provincial ones and others below provincial level with total funding of over 8.83 million RMB.

The faculty have published 148 articles, among which, 115 are in core journals, eighty are collected by the Science Citation Index or the Engineering Index. They have hosted or participated in editing or writing two monographs, one college textbook, four teaching notes, and obtained twelve patents.