1）先进核能工程材料
2）多尺度计算模拟
3）辐照损伤机理与辐照环境下液态金属腐蚀

主持科技部重点研发计划项目，国家基金委重大研究计划课题、重点基金、面上项目，中科院ADS先导专项子课题等项目10余项。主要从事高性能核能工程材料方面的研究。近年来在Nat. Mater., PNAS, PRL, Acta Mater., Nucl. Fusion, J. Nucl. Mater.等杂志发表学术论文200余篇，论文引用3000多次，H-index为30+等。

一、代表性论文列表
1)Jie Hou, XiangShan Kong, Xuebang Wu, Jun Song, C. S. Liu, Predictive model of hydrogen trapping and bubbling in nanovoids in bcc metals, Nature Materials, 18, 833-839 (2019).
2)Yichun Xu, Yange Zhang, Xiangyan Li, Wei Liu, C.S. Liu, Qianfeng Fang, Huiqiu Deng, Zhiguang Wang, The adsorption and dissolution properties of iron surfaces in liquid lithium and lead under a fusion environment, Journal of Nuclear Materials, 524, 200-208 (2019).
3)YuWei You, Jingjing Sun, Xuebang Wu, Yichun Xu, Tao Zhang, Ting Hao, C.S. Liu, Interplay of solute-mixed self-interstitial atoms and substitutional solutes with interstitial and substitutional helium atoms in tungsten-transition metal alloys, Nuclear Fusion, 59(2), 026002 (2019).
4)J. Hou, X.S. Kong, J. Sun, Y.W. You, X. Wu, C.S. Liu, J. Song, Hydrogen bubble nucleation by self-clustering: density functional theory and statistical model studies using tungsten as a model system, Nuclear Fusion, (2018).
5)Jingjing Sun, B.S. Li, Yu-Wei You, Jie Hou, Yichun Xu, C.S. Liu, Q.F. Fang, Z.G. Wang, The stability of vacancy clusters and their effect on helium behaviors in 3C-SiC, Journal of Nuclear Materials, 503, 271-278 (2018).
6)Yu-Wei You, Jie Hou, Jingjing Sun, Xiang-Shan Kong, Xuebang Wu, C.S. Liu, J.L. Chen, The behaviors of helium atoms in tantalum, rhenium and osmium, Journal of Nuclear Materials, 499, 1-8 (2018).
7)Xiangyan Li, Yichun Xu, Guohua Duan, Jingjing Sun, Congyu Hao, Yange Zhang, Wei Liu, C.S. Liu, Q.F. Fang, On the possibility of universal interstitial emission induced annihilation in metallic nanostructures, Journal of Nuclear Materials, 500, 199-212 (2018).
8)Guohua Duan, Xiangyan Li, Jingjing Sun, Congyu Hao, Yichun Xu, Yange Zhang, Wei Liu, C.S. Liu, Surface-structure dependence of healing radiation-damage mechanism in nanoporous tungsten, Journal of Nuclear Materials, 498, 362-372 (2018).
9)R. Liu, Z.M. Xie, J.F. Yang, T. Zhang, T. Hao, X.P. Wang, Q.F. Fang, C.S. Liu, Recent progress on the R&D of W-ZrC alloys for plasma facing components in fusion devices, Nuclear Materials and Energy, 16, 191-206(2018).
10)Zhang Tao, Wu Xuebang, Xie Zhuoming, Li Xiangyan, Liu Rui, Wang Xianping, Fang Qianfeng, Liu Changsong, The progress and outlook of W-ZrC alloy as plasma facing component, Materials China, 37(5), 322-330 (2018).
二、主持的项目列表
1)科技部国家磁约束核聚变能发展研究专项课题：辐照缺陷热力学与动力学行为
2)基金委重点项目：多场耦合环境下聚变堆第一壁材料W-ZrC服役行为的基础研究
3)基金委面上项目：纳米晶铁抗辐照损伤性能动力学蒙特卡洛(OKMC)模拟研究
4)科技部国家磁约束核聚变能发展研究专项项目：聚变堆材料辐照损伤与自修复机理及在材料制备中的应用
5)基金委面上项目：实验时间尺度下纳米晶铁抗辐照损伤性能模拟研究
6)中科院战略性先导科技专项“未来先进核裂变能-ADS嬗变系统”子课题：ADS相关结构材料性能数值模拟研究
7)科技部国家磁约束核聚变能发展研究专项项目：实验与计算模拟相结合研究辐照损伤和氢氦效应机理

2008年获安徽省自然科学二等奖
安徽省青年科技奖