The main research fields include high efficiency design, preparation, structure and property characterization, and development of new materials with potential applications, in the energy conversion and sustainability related materials such as mechanoluminescence materials for smart sensors, supercapacitor materials for energy storage，thermoelectric and other energy conversion materials for energy harvesting, scintillation crystals, glasses and transparent ceramics for medical imaging and high energy particle detectors, phosphor materials in LED technique. The researches in recent years have also been extended to sustainable smart hybrid sensor materials in application in sustainable energy devices and visual- and electro-sensor devices; Carbon-Dots and their polymer composite materials; Au nano-particles for medical treatments; nanocomposite sensors for electrochemical detections of poisonous chemicals.