近年来一直致力于发展与光学检测相结合的扫描探针技术，对单分子等纳米结构的光电特性进行超高空间分辨的表征。研究工作特色在于针对单分子光电现象研究中的关键科学问题，自主发展具有超高空间分辨的光学表征方法；随后，利用自主发展的新方法与新设备，获得对分子光电行为以及分子之间相互作用的新认识，进而推动对科学问题的理解。目前，已在Nature、Nature Photonics、Nature Communications、Physical Review Letters等国际期刊上发表论文40余篇。
[1] Fanfang Kong#, Xiaojun Tian#, Yang Zhang*, Yao Zhang, Gong Chen, Yunjie Yu, Shihao Jing, Hongying Gao, Yi Luo, Jinlong Yang, Zhenchao Dong*, J. G. Hou*, Wavelike electronic energy transfer in donor–acceptor molecular systems through quantum coherence, Nature Nanotechnology, 17，729 (2022).
[2] Fanfang Kong#, Xiaojun Tian#, Yang Zhang*, Yunjie Yu, Shihao Jing, Yao Zhang, Guangjun Tian*, Yi Luo, Jinlong Yang, Zhenchao Dong*, J. G. Hou, Probing intramolecular vibronic coupling through vibronic-state imaging, Nature Communications, 12, 1280 (2021).
[3] Ben Yang#, Gong Chen#, Atif Ghafoor, Yufan Zhang, Yao Zhang, Yang Zhang*, Yi Luo, Jinlong Yang, Vahid Sandoghdar, Javier Aizpurua, Zhenchao Dong*, J. G. Hou*, Sub-nanometre resolution in single-molecule photoluminescence imaging, Nature Photonics, 14, 693-699 (2020).
[4] Yang Luo#, Gong Chen#, Yang Zhang*, Li Zhang, Yunjie Yu, Fanfang Kong, Xiaojun Tian, Yao Zhang, Chongxin Shan, Yi Luo, Jinlong Yang, Vahid Sandoghdar, Zhenchao Dong*, and J. G. Hou*, Electrically Driven Single-Photon Superradiance from Molecular Chains in a Plasmonic Nanocavity, Physical Review Letters, 122, 233901 (2019).
[5] Yang Zhang#, Yang Luo#, Yao Zhang#, Yunjie Yu, Yanmin Kuang, Li Zhang, Qiushi Meng, Yi Luo, Jinlong Yang, Zhenchao Dong*, J. G. Hou*, Visualizing coherent intermolecular dipole-dipole coupling in real space, Nature, 531, 623−627 (2016).