针对特定疾病的病理特征和药物传输部位的解剖特点，从临床实践亟待解决的问题入手，建立具有刺激响应性、专一性识别功能含糖的苯硼酸聚合物、含糖光动力聚合物、有机/无机抗菌纳米复合材料等生物医用材料的功能化设计，系统深入评价材料的性能特征及其在生物医药领域的应用潜力。研究成果在Advanced Materials, Biomaterials, Chemical Science, Chemistry of Materials, Chemical Communications, Journal of Controlled Release, Nanoscale, Biomacromolecules, Acta Biomaterialia, Journal of Materials Chemistry, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces等期刊上发表SCI论文80余篇和申请专利1项。其中影响因子大于5.0有30余篇，文章被引用1800余次，H指数为27.
目前还担任Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Biomaterials, Small, Biomacromolecules, Journal of Controlled Release等国际期刊审稿人。