His research involved the synthesis of aromatic/aliphatic liquid crystalline copolyesters as orthopaedic applications. From 2001, He moved to the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of Philipps-University Marburg to continue the topic of copolyesters as biomedical applications with a Long-term cooperation project supported by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Dr. Chen has been honored number of titles and awards during past years. Dr. Chen is the council member of Chinese Chemical Society and standing director of The Jiangxi Society of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. His research project regarding photorefractive polymers has been awarded “second class prize of science and technology in universities of China” in 2001. The results on polymer solar cells have been awarded twice with the 2nd Class Prize of Natural Science in Jiangxi Province in 2007 and 2012 (Rank 1). Meanwhile he has obtained the 3rd Class Prize of Technological Invention in Jiangxi Province in 2011 (Rank 1). So far he has more than 80 papers published in international journals with high impact factor, such as Chemistry of Materials, Macromolecules, Advanced Functional Materials, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Polymer Chemistry, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Biomacromolecules, Journal of Materials Chemistry, and so on. He has been invited to address speeches more than 20 times in Singapore, Frankfurt, Changchun, and Beijing. Since 2003, he has started to review papers for Macromolecules and Chemistry of Materials. His main research interests have ever been focused on many fields such as polymer solar cells, direct methanol fuel cells, and polyelectrolytes lithium ions batteries.