School of Materials and Energy (SME) has a provincial key lab (Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Soft Condensed Matter), a provincial engineering lab (Guangdong Provincial Engineering Laboratory of Storage Materials and Devices) and a provincial international cooperation base (Guangdong Province’s Microfluidic Technology and Application International Cooperation Base for “Greater Bay Area”). SME also has a Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Materials, 9 R & D centers of Guangdong Province and 15 professional laboratories.

    Since 2015, SME has undertaken more than 376 projects, including 77 National Nature Science Foundation, the actual scientific research outlay reached 178.42 million RMB. SME has published more than 525 SCI papers, including the papers published in Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Joule and Energy & Environmental Science and 14 papers ESI highly-cited papers. 559 invention patents were applied, including 131 authorized and 11 PCT patents. One patent has won the National Excellence Award. 2 projects have won the second prizes of Guangdong Science and Technology Award and 1 project has won the second prizes of Guangdong Technology Invention Award.

    With the assistance of David A Weitz, who is the Academician of the American Academy of Science and professor of Harvard University, the "China Soft Materials Academic Annual Conference" was founded. In addition, we have seized the development opportunities of the “Belt and Road” and “Greater Bay Area”, and undertaken the key projects of the Guangdong Science and Technology Plan, the “Belt and Road” science and technology cooperation project.