He is Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), American Vacuum Society (AVS), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and Materials Research Society (MRS). He received the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences (NPSS) Merit Award in 2007, MRS (Taiwan) JW Mayer Lectureship in 2008, Shanghai (China) Natural Science First Class Award 中國上海自然科學一等獎 in 2011, Chinese Ministry of Education Natural Science First Class Award 中國教育部自然科學一等獎 in 2017, Hubei Province (China) Natural Science Second Class Award 中國湖北省自然科學二等獎 in 2018, and Anhui Province (China) Science and Technology Third Class Award 中國安徽省科學技術三等獎 in 2020. He was awarded Leading Talents of Guangdong Province of China (中國廣東省領軍人才) and Thousand Talents of China (中國國家千人). He is a highly cited researcher in materials science / cross-field according to Web of Science / Clarivate Analytics.