 In 2011, he was received the Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.Bailey's specialty is the development of bioanalytic methods for cell biology, with the goal of studying protein diversity.His most cited paper, Encai Hao, Ryan C. Bailey, George C. Schatz, Joseph T. Hupp, and Shuyou Li "Synthesis and Optical Properties of "Branched" Gold Nanocrystals" "Nano Letters," 2004, 4 (2), pp 327–330 DOI