On convocation, the Laboratory has adapted the basic concept of open door policy to accept and support worthy research projects with originality from external applicants, regardless of national and international sources, to be performed with the benefit of the excellent facilities and infrastructure provided by her. The Laboratory also established an affirmative policy of strong cooperation in complementary, interdisciplinary, and international modes. So far these collaborations includes institutions in some major Universities, such as Ecole Normale Supérieure (FRANCE),Georgia Institute of Technology (USA), University of Southampton (UK), California Institute of Technology (USA), University of Guelph (CANADA), Hokkaido University (JAPAN), Hebrew University (ISRAEL), Ulm University (GERMANY), Lille1 University (FRANCE), University of Jyväskylä (FINLAND), University of California, Santa Barbara (USA), and etc. The Laboratory has been invited as the partner to join, and to establish International Max Planck Research School for Surface and Interface Engineering in Advanced Materials. The Laboratory has set up an Associated International Laboratory (LIA) of Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), in order to promote scientific cooperation and exchange in the field of nanofabrication and micro-fluidic devices towards advanced innovative biophysical, biochemical and biomedical sciences. The Laboratory provided her facilities and hospitality to more than 50 visiting scientists annually through various mechanisms.

At the national level, the Laboratory has taken initiative in planning with many universities and research establishments for substantive exchanges and collaborations. In addition, over the years, mutually profitable joint research projects have been developed with many commercial and military concerns such as China Aviation Lithium Battery, Sinopec Group, China National Offshore Oil Corporation, in order to assist in solving specific technical items.

Some of the scientific conferences successfully organized or under preparation are listed below:
2019: Cell Symposium: Next-Generation Materials for Energy Applications
2019: International Symposium on Excited-state Electronic Structure and Dynamics of Complex Systems
2017: International Conference on Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
2017: International Symposium on nano surface/interface and cluster chemistry in energy materials
2016: International Symposium on Catalytic Activation and Selective Conversion of Energy-Related Molecules
2015: The chemical bonds at the XXIth century
2015: The 8th international workshop on Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy (SECM-8)
2014: Faraday Discussion 176: Next-Generation Materials for Energy Chemistry
2013: The 3rd International Colloids Conference -Colloids and Energy
2012: Challenges in Nanoscience, the International Symposia on Advancing the Chemical Sciences (ISACS9)

Since 1999, the Laboratory has held surface science meeting series on different themes every two years. And the Laboratory also held a regular bilateral Seminar with Hokkaido University, University of Southampton. These activities have introduced internationally the research capability and strength of the laboratory and lifted the Laboratory visibility in the national and international theaters.