1）金属材料的辐照效应
2）先进核能材料的设计与研发
3）软物质材料的结构转变与弛豫机制

主持国家重点研发计划、基金委重点项目子课题/面上项目/青年项目、安徽省杰青等项目。近年来主要从事核聚变堆金属材料的辐照损伤机制、微结构设计与性能调控研究工作，以第一或通讯作者身份在Nature Materials、Acta Materialia、Nuclear Fusion、Journal of Nuclear Materials等期刊上发表SCI论文40余篇，论文总引用1000余次；合作申请发明专利8项；软件著作权 6 项。

一、代表性论文列表
1)Jie Hou, Xiang-Shan Kong, Xuebang Wu*, Jun Song*, and C. S. Liu, Predictive model of hydrogen trapping and bubbling in nanovoids in bcc metals , Nature Materials, 2019, 18, 833-839.
2)Xuebang Wu, Yu-Wei You, Xiang-Shan Kong, Jun-Ling Chen, G. -N. Luo, Guang-Hong Lu, C. S. Liu, Zhiguang Wang, First-principles determination of grain boundary strengthening in tungsten: Dependence on grain boundarystructure and metallic radius of solute , Acta Materialia, 2016, 120, 315-326.
3)Xuebang Wu*, Xu Zhang, Z.M. Xie, Xiangyan Li, C.R. Miranda, C.S. Liu*, Insight into interface cohesion and impurity-induced embrittlement in carbide dispersion strengthen tungsten from first principles, Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2020, 538, 152223.
4)Xu Zhang, Xuebang Wu*, ChunJu Hou, Xiangyan Li, C.S. Liu*, First-principles calculations on interface stability and migration of H and He in W-ZrC interfaces, Applied Surface Science, 2020, 499, 143995.
5)Y.W. You, X.S. Kong, Xuebang Wu*, C.S. Liu*, Q.F. Fang, J.L. Chen, G.N. Luo, Clustering of transmutation elements tantalum, rhenium and osmium in tungsten in a fusion environment, Nuclear Fusion, 2017, 57, 086006.
6)Y.W. You, X.S. Kong, Xuebang Wu*, C.S. Liu*, J.L. Chen, G.N. Luo, Bubble growth from clustered hydrogen and helium atoms in tungsten under a fusion environment, Nuclear Fusion, 2017, 57, 0160006.
7)X.S. Kong, Y.W. You, X.Y. Li, Xuebang Wu*, C.S. Liu*, J.L. Chen, G.N. Luo, Towards understanding the differences in irradiation effects of He, Ne and Ar plasma by investigating the physical origin of their clustering in tungsten, Nuclear Fusion, 2016, 56, 106002.
8)Xuebang Wu, X.S. Kong, Y.W. You, C.S. Liu*, Q.F. Fang, J.L. Chen, G.N. Luo, Z.G. Wang, Effects of alloying and transmutation impurities on stability and mobility of helium in tungsten under a fusion environment, Nuclear Fusion, 2013, 53, 073049.
二、主持的项目列表
1)国家重点研发计划-磁约束核聚变能发展研究专项：CFETR 钨基材料界面调控与抗辐照性能的关联性研究
2)国家自然科学基金大科学装置联合基金重点项目子课题：离子辐照/LBE腐蚀协同作用引起铁铬基合金结构演化的机理研究
3)中国科学院青年创新促进会优秀会员人才项目，2020.01-2022.12
4)安徽省杰出青年科学基金：聚变堆先进钨基材料界面调控与性能提升
5)中国科学院合肥物质科学研究院院长基金：面向 EAST 和CFETR 核聚变堆先进偏滤器材料和部件的研制与应用
6)国家自然科学基金面上项目：胶体与湿颗粒体系的聚集行为及其结构转变的力学谱研究
7)国家自然科学基金面上项目：非晶态聚合物的链段耦合弛豫与粘弹性研究
8)国家自然科学基金青年项目：高聚物熔体的液-液转变及其物理机制研究

安徽省优秀博士论文奖
中国科学院青年创新促进会会员、优秀会员