设计合成具有自主产权的新型有机半导体骨架与新型聚合物并以此申请了多项专利：其中以第一作者和第三作者的身份申请的两项国际专利（WO 2018104367, WO 2020078815）已经授权，并在欧洲、美国、韩国、日本等多个国家通过PCT途径申请了专利保护。其中以主要项目完成人的身份申请的专利（WO 2018104367）获得了全球最大的化工公司-BASF公司60万欧元的资助。
获教育部国家级高层次人才项目。
2016.12, Poster Award, KAUST Research Conference 2016: Emerging Concepts and Materials in Solar Energy Conversion, Kaust, Saudi Arabia.
2012.12, Poster Award, the Sixth ‘Moring side’ Chemical Biology Frontier Forum, Peking University
2023.06, IOP Trusted Reviewer, IOP Publishing.
2023.07, 三等奖，2023“创客广东”东莞市决赛
代表性成果
Aldol Condensation for the Construction of Organic Functional Materials. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed . 2023, e202311879. Xiuyuan Zhu, Jiayao Duan, Junxin Chen, Riping Liu, Ze Qin, Hu Chen* and Wan Yue*
19% efficient and stable organic photovoltaic enabled by guest nonfullerene acceptor with fibril-like morphology. Energy Environ. Sci . DOI: 10.1039/d2ee03483b. Hu Chen, Sang Young Jeong, Junfu Tian, Yadong Zhang, Maryam Alsufyani, Weimin Zhang, Sophie Griggs, Hanlin Hu, Stephen Barlow, Han Young Woo, Seth R Marder, Iain McCulloch, Yuanbao Lin* (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
Acene Ring Size Optimisation in Fused Lactam Polymers Enabling High n-Type Organic Thermoelectric Performance. J. Am. Chem. Soc . 2021, 143, 260–268. Hu Chen,* Maximilian Moser,* Suhao Wang, Cameron Jellett, Karl Thorley, George T. Harrison, Xuechen Jiao, Mingfei Xiao, Balaji Purushothaman, Maryam Alsufyani, Helen Bristow, Stefaan de Wolf, Andrew Wadsworth, Christopher R. McNeill, Henning Sirringhaus, Simone Fabiano and Iain McCulloch
The Effect of Ring Expansion in Thienobenzo[b]indacenodithiophene Polymers for Organic Field-Effect Transistors. J. Am. Chem. Soc . 2019, 141, 18806-18813. Hu Chen*, Andrew Wadsworth*, Chun Ma, Alice Nanni, Weimin Zhang, Mark Nikolka, Alexander M. T. Luci, Luís M. A. Perdigão, Karl J. Thorley, Camila Cendra, Bryon Larson, Garry Rumbles, Thomas D. Anthopoulos, Alberto Salleo, Giovanni Costantini, Henning Sirringhaus, Iain McCulloch
Dithiopheneindenofluorene (TIF) Semiconducting Polymers with Very High Mobility in Field-Effect Transistors. Adv. Mater . 2017, 1702523. Hu Chen*, Michael Hurhangee, Mark Nikolka, Weimin Zhang, Mindaugas Kirkus, Marios Neophytou, Samuel J Cryer, David Harkin, Pascal Hayoz, Mojtaba AbdiJalebi, Christopher R McNeill, Henning Sirringhaus, Iain McCulloch
