The Department of Chemistry boasts a series of scientific innovation and application platforms, featuring Key Laboratory of the  Ministry of Education (Advanced Catalysis Materials), Provincial Level  Key Laboratory (Solid Surface Reaction Chemistry), Provincial Level  Experiment Teaching Demonstration Center (Chemistry), Provincial Level Priority  Discipline (Chemistry), Provincial Level Class-A Top Discipline  (Chemistry), Provincial Level Key Discipline (Applied Chemistry), First  Level Discipline Doctor Station (Chemistry), Provincial Level  High-quality Specialty (Chemistry), Provincial Level Distinctive  Specialty (Applied Chemistry) etc. The Department has a total lab and facility space of 9,000 m2 for research and education. The total value of laboratory equipment is about 100 million yuan. After years of construction and development, the Department has formed five research disciplines, including inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, analytical chemistry and polymer chemistry and physics. Now, the Department has  the doctoral degree conferring spots of first-level disciplines for  Chemistry and postdoctoral research center for Chemistry.

The Department of Chemistry currently employs around 80 faculties, including 40 professors or researchers (30 Ph.D. supervisors); adjunct Academician of Chinese Academy of Science, National Overseas High-Level Talents, National Overseas High-Level Young Talents, NSFC Outstanding Youth Foundation Winners, Zhejiang Province 10000 Plan Experts, Zhejiang Province Overseas High-Level Talents, distinguished professors of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Province 151 Programs and so on.

The Department of Chemistry is research-intensive with total funding of up to 40 million yuan in the last five years. It has  delivered outstanding research outputs that generate significant impact  on scientific communities worldwide. Many research works have been  published in top peer-reviewed journals, including J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Chem. Sci. etc. According to the data published by ESI in the last five years, chemistry has entered top 1% ESI ranking among universities and research institutions worldwide.