1）功能纳米材料构筑新方法的探索
2）微纳结构材料新性能的基础物理与化学问题研究
3）微纳结构材料在环境与能源领域的应用

主持和参加相关纳米材料研究的国家重点基础研究发展计划(973计划) 项目、国家重点基金项目、国家自然科学基金面上项目、中科院先导 （A类）、中科院科研装备研制项目、安徽省重点研发与开发项目等各类项目共12项。长期从事纳米材料与纳米结构的研究，重点发展功能纳米材料合成新方法的探索，研究其在环境与能源领域的应用中的基础物理和化学问题。近年来在Advanced Materials, Applied Catalysis B, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nano Energy, Chemical Communications和ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces等杂志发表学术论文200余篇，论文引用8000余次，获授权发明专利30多项，H-index为52等。

一、代表性论文列表
1.Chun Chen, Ruoyu Fan, Miaomiao Han, Xiaoguang Zhu, Yunxia Zhu, Haimin Zhang, Huijun Zhao, Guozhong Wang, Tunable synthesis of imines and secondary-amines from trandem hydrogenation-coupling of aromatic nitro and aldehyde over NiCo5 bimetallic catalyst, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2021, 280, 119448.
2.Zeyang Li, Ruoyu Fan, Zhi Hu, Wenchao Li, Hongjian Zhou, Shenghong Kang, Yunxia Zhang, Haimin Zhang, Guozhong Wang, Ethanol introduced synthesis of ultrastable 1T-MoS2 for removal of Cr(VI), Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2020, 394, 122525.
3.Wenchao Li, Ruoyu Fan, Hongjian Zhou, Yinfeng Zhu, Xu Zheng, Mengyu Tang, Xiaosi Wu, Chengzhong Yu, and Guozhong Wang, Improving the utilization rate of foliar nitrogen fertilizers by surface roughness engineering of silica spheres, Environmental Science Nano, 2020, 7, 3526-3535.
4.Yanping Su, Zeyang Li, Hongjian Zhou, Shenghong Kang, Yunxia Zhang, Chengzhong Yug, Guozhong Wang, Ni/carbon aerogels derived from water induced self-assembly of Ni-MOF for adsorption and catalytic conversion of oily wastewater, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2020, 402, 126205.
5.Ruoyu Fan, Zhi Hu, Chun Chen, Xiaoguang Zhu, Haimin Zhang, Yunxia Zhang, Huijun Zhao, and Guozhong Wang, Highly dispersed nickel anchored on a N-doped carbon molecular sieve derived from metal-organic frameworks for efficient hydrodeoxygenation in the aqueous phase, Chemical Communation, 2020, 56, 6696-6699.
6.Weikang Wang, Haimin Zhang, Shengbo Zhang, Yanyan Liu, Guozhong Wang, Chenghua Sun and Huijun Zhao, Potassium-Ion-Assisted Regeneration of Active Cyano Groups in Carbon Nitride Nanoribbons: VisibleLight-Driven Photocatalytic Nitrogen Reduction, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2019, 58(46), 16644-16650.
7.Wanbing Gong, Qinglin Yuan, Chun Chen, Yang Lv, Yue Lin, Changhao Liang, Guozhong Wang, Haimin Zhang, Huijun Zhao, Liberating N-CNTs Confined Highly Dispersed Co-N-x Sites for Selective Hydrogenation of Quinolines, Advanced Materials, 2019, 31(49), 1906051.
8.Na Sun, Zeyang Li, Xian Zhang, Wenxiu Qin, Cuijiao Zhao, Haimin Zhang, Dickon H. L. Ng, Shenghong Kang, Huijun Zhao, and Guozhong Wang, Hierarchical Porous Carbon Materials Derived from Kelp for Superior Capacitive Applications, ACS Sustainable Chemistry &Engineering, 2019, 7, 8735-8743.
9.Yanyan Liu, Miaomiao Han, Qizhong Xiong, Shengbo Zhang, Cuijiao Zhao, Wanbing Gong, Guozhong Wang, Haimin Zhang, Huijun Zhao, Dramatically enhanced ambient ammonia electrosynthesis performance by in-operando created Li-S interactions on MoS2 electrocatalyst, Advanced Energy Materials, 2019, 9, 1803935.
10.Ruoyu Fan, Chun Chen, Miaomiao Han, Wanbing Gong, Haimin Zhang, Yunxia Zhang, Huijun Zhao, and Guozhong Wang, Highly Dispersed Copper Nanoparticles Supported on Activated Carbon as an Effcient Catalyst for Selective Reduction of Vanillin, Small, 2018, 14, 1801953.
11.Chun Chen, Ruoyu Fan, Wanbing Gong, Haimin Zhang, Guozhong Wang, Huijun Zhao, The catalytic behaviour in aqueous-phase hydrogenation over a renewable Ni catalyst derived from a perovskite-type oxide, Dalton Transactions, 2018, 47, 17276-17284.
二、主持的项目列表
1、国家基金面上项目：基于微/纳结构SiO2/Fe空心球的结构增强去除痕量重金属的行为研究
2、国家重点基础研究发展计划 (973计划) 项目 - 纳米专项：微/纳米材料对重金属重度污染土壤修复的原理及其示范
3、国家基金面上项目：薄膜梯度扩散技术中捕收相微/纳结构材料的构筑及与无机离子作用的机制
4、国家重点研发计划纳米科技重点专项：功能纳米材料催化材料设计与除污染技术
5、国家基金面上项目：多孔结构二氧化硅负载营养物质材料的制备及其在作物体内传输机制研究

2011年获“安徽省第三届优秀博士论文”指导教师
2019年度获安徽省自然科学二等奖（排名第一）