Winner of Outstanding Youth Fund, has published more than 100 SCI papers, a total of more than 4,500 citations, won 10 national invention patents, has presided over 8 National Natural Science Foundation, youth and other projects, participated in a national key research and development program. He worked as a young editorial board member in Chin.Chem. Lett., SmartMat and other magazines, and was awarded as "Excellent Scientific and Technological Worker" by the Chinese Society of Electronics in 2021.

1. Preparation of organic aggregation induced Luminescence materials and in vivo imaging
2. Pure organic room temperature phosphorescent smart material

2005-2009 Wuhan University Undergraduate
2009-2014 PhD, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2014-2017 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago
2017-present School of Materials, Beijing Institute of Technology

1. Cai Z.#, Lo W.#, Yu, L.* et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 10630.
2. Cai Z.#, Zhang N.#, Yu, L.* et al. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 6442
3. Cai, Z.*, Yu, L.* get meat. Chem 2018, 4, 2538.
4. He Z., Cai Z.*, Wang J.*, et al. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 3834.
5. Liu P., Cai Z.*, Dong Y.*, Kim J.*, meat al. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 8435.
6. Lei, Y.; Cai, Z.*; Dong, Y.* meat al., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 16054.
7. Cai, Z.*; Dong, Y.* et al., Acc. Chem. Res. 2020, 53, 2879
8. Yang J., Lei Y.*, Cai Z.*, Dong Y.*, et al. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2021, 2108072.
9. Dai W., Cai Z.*, meat al. CCS Chem. 2021, 3, 3050.
10. Yang J., Cai Z.*, Zhang, X.*, et al. Nat. Commun. 2021, 12, 4883.