His research focuses on the reuse of solid wastes, new ecological building materials. Specifically, his study includes the preparation of ecological building materials and high value-added materials by using red mud, coal gangue, steel slag, tailings, fly ash, blast furnace slag, electrolytic manganese slag and other industrial solid wastes.
He has been responsible for or participate in more than 30 government research projects, and completed more than 20 enterprise projects as the PI. He has published more than 130 papers in Journal of Hazardous Materials, Journal of Cleaner Production, Chemical Engineering Journal, etc. Additionally, He has applied over 40 Chinese national invention patents and 30 of them have been authorized.