New lab a formula for success

French researcher praises expansion of top university's facilities

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Marie-Jean Thoraval has recently been kept busy by the relocation of his laboratory to the new campus of Xi'an Jiaotong University in Shaanxi province.

His current lab, located on the Xingqing campus of the university in downtown Xi'an, the capital of the province, is 70 square meters. The new lab in the Western China Science & Technology Innovation Harbor in the Xixian New Area of Xi'an, is more than double that at 150 square meters.