Dr. Cai received 2025 CMBE Rising Star Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Cell and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE)...

Prof. Cai serves as a topic editor of "Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology" (Impact factor 6.064), on the new Research Topic:...

Our paper of "A universal metasurface transfer technique for heterogeneous integration" is now published in the journa Nanophotonics....

Dr Cai received the "Maximizing Investigators' Research Award" from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), National...

Our paper "Ligand functionalization of titanium nanopattern enables the analysis of cell–ligand interactions by super-resolution...

Our paper "Polarization-Insensitive Medium-Switchable Holographic Metasurfaces" is published in ACS Photonics (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/1...

Dr. Cai gave an invited talk "Nanoengineered biomimetic interfaces for T cell mechanobiology study" at the WE-Heraeus-Seminar...

Dr. Cai gave a talk "Exploring the parameter space of broadband all-dielectric liquid crystal tunable metasurfaces in the visible" at...

An article co-authored by Dr. Cai, "Kirigami Engineering—Nanoscale Structures Exhibiting a Range of Controllable 3D Configurations", is...

Our paper "Inverse design of metasurfaces with non-local interactions" is published in npj Computational Materials...

Dr. Cai gave a talk "Holographic metasurfaces multiplexed by surrounding media" at the Photonics West 2020, in San Francisco. Holographic...

Our paper "Integrin nanoclusters can bridge thin matrix fibres to form cell–matrix adhesions" is commented in Nature Materials. "This...

Our paper "Integrin nanoclusters can bridge thin matrix fibres to form cell–matrix adhesions" is published in Nature Materials. This work...