In the past 24 years, Hu has conducted a great deal of cross-disciplinary research in fields such as materials science, nanoscience, optoelectronics and even biology, studying how to attach metals and semiconductors to virus nanostructures in order to build solar batteries.
24 年來，胡玲投入更多跨學科的研究，包括材料科學、奈米科學、光電科學，甚至與生物學結合，研究如何把病毒的奈米結構接上金屬或半導體，並藉此製造太陽能電池。