2010年加入中国科学院武汉物理与数学研究所工作，任助理研究员。现主要研究方向：富勒烯及相关团簇、纳米材料结构性质及其生物负效应、酶催化反应机理等。作为项目负责人主持国家自然科学基金项目一项，近五年已在《J.Phys. Chem. A》、《J. Phys. Chem. C》、《J. Org. Chem》、《Inorg. Chem.》、《Phys.Chem. Chem. Phys.》等国际主流刊物上发表SCI论文十余篇。
代表性论文：
1.
Peng Jin, Zhen Zhou, Ce Hao, Zhanxian Gao, Kai Tan, Xin Lu, Zhongfang Chen, “NC Unit Trapped by Fullerenes: A Density Functional Theory Study on Sc3NC@C2
n(2
n= 68, 78 and 80)”,
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.
2010,
12, 12442-12449.（封面文章）
2.
Peng Jin, Ce Hao, Zhanxian Gao, Shengbai B. Zhang, Zhongfang Chen, “Endohedral Metalloborofullerenes La2@B80 and Sc3N@B80: A Density Functional Theory Prediction”,
J. Phys. Chem. A
2009,
113, 11613-11618.
3.
Peng Jin, Fengyu Li, Zhongfang Chen, “Theoretical Design of Novel Trinuclear Sandwich Complexes with Central M3 Triangles (M = Ni, Pd, Pt)”,
J. Phys. Chem. A
2011,
115, 2402–2408.
4.
Peng Jin, Yongsheng Chen, Shengbai B. Zhang, Zhongfang Chen, “Interactions between Al12X (X = Al, C, N and P) Nanoparticles and DNA Nucleobases/base Pairs: Implication to Nanotoxicity”
J.Mol.
Model.
2011, DOI:10.1007/s00894-011-1085-5.