主持完成了国家、省部委和国际合作科研项目35项。
主持:国家自然科学基金重大项目《微纳流控生化分析集成系统》,973项目课题《仿生智能纳米复合材料:智能材料体系界面中物质传输、能量转化规律》,国家自然科学基金面上项目《微流控芯片细胞电化学研究》等。
迄今已发表论文640余篇, H因子为46;
合编著译书6册,百科全书或专著4专章;
《21世纪化学丛书》和《10000个科学难题(化学辑)》主编。
1. Shao-Peng Chen, Xiao-Dong Yu, Jing-Juan Xu and Hong-Yuan Chen, Gold nanoparticles-coated magnetic microspheres as affinity matrix for detection of hemoglobin A1c in blood by microfluidic immunoassay, Biosens. Bioelectron. 26 (2011) 4779¨C 4784
2. Jing Wang, Yun Shan, Jing-Juan Xu, Hong-Yuan Chen, Surface-Plasmon Field-Enhanced Electrochemiluminescence from CdS Thin Films by Gold Nanoparticles for Ultrasensitive Detection of Thrombin, Anal. Chem., 2011, 83, 4004-4011
3. Wei-Wei Zhao, Pei-Pei Yu, Jing-Juan Xu and Hong-Yuan Chen, Ultrasensitive Photoelectrochemical Biosensing Based on Biocatalytic Deposition, Electrochem. Commun. 13 (2011) 495¨C497
4. Jing Liu, Hong Zhou, Jing-Juan Xu, Hong-Yuan Chen, An Effective DNA-based Electrochemical Switch for Reagentless Detection of Living Cells, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47 (15), 4388 - 4390