Professor AN Zhongfu designed and synthesized multiple series of one-component, pure organic phosphorescent materials with ultralong emission lifetimeinitially, whose excited-state lifetime can reach as long as several secondsunder ambient condition. He also developed a new-type data encryption method, ensuring the encryption to be observed by naked eyes. Up to now, he has published over 20 papers on Nature Materials, Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Chemistry-A European Journal and so forth.

Organic electronics, including organic optoelectronic materialspreparation and device fabrication: organic afterglow materials, organic light-emitting materials, advanced energy materials,smart response materials and so on.