2019年11月14日，《中国日报》（China Dialy）对我校进行了整版专题报道，在其中《Innovation-driven success》专栏中，我院于盛旺教授和他的超硬材料团队作为我校努力创新的典型案例进行报道。

文中指出：“Having support from their university means that many faculty members have strived to innovate. For example, Yu Shengwang, 45, a professor at the university’s institute of new carbon materials, is leading his team to make diamond products from coal-bed methane, a gas produced while mining for coal. The transformation is an efficient utilization of the gas because coal-bed methane would pollute the environment if emitted directly to the atmosphere, according to Yu.”