The School currently hosts several provincial and ministerial research platforms, including the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Soft Condensed Matter. It possesses dozens of high-end instruments and equipment, such as transmission electron microscopes, field emission scanning electron microscopes, Raman spectrometers, in-situ analytical X-ray diffraction, etc. These are uniformly managed and shared among users.

In the past five years, the School has published 1,998 SCI papers in journals such as Nature Nanotechnology, Chemical Society Reviews, and Advanced Materials. The number of ESI highly cited papers has increased to 86. The School has also been granted 464 Chinese invention patents, 11 PCT patents, and 7 international invention patents.