Bin Cai 
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China.
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Prof. Bin Cai is a Professor of Chemistry at Shandong University.
He obtained his PhD (Summa cum laude) from Technische Universität Dresden under Prof. Alexander Eychmüller in 2017. He then continued his career as a postdoc at Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Profs. Yuriy Román and Yang Shao-Horn and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory with Drs. Chun-Long Chen and James De Yoreo. In 2020, he joined the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering as a professor at Shandong University. He has received CGCA Lubrizol Young Researchers Award in 2016, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad in 2017, Dr.-Walter-Seipp-Prize in 2018, Qilu Young Researchers Award in 2020.
He has published more than 30 SCI papers in Chem. Rev., Acc. Chem. Res., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., Chem. Mater., etc. with more than 1500 citations and an H index of 19.
Prof. Cai’s current research fields include: i) aerogel-based electrochemical interfaces; ii) electrochemical sensing methods; and iii) electrocatalysis and electrochemical remediation.
He obtained his PhD (Summa cum laude) from Technische Universität Dresden under Prof. Alexander Eychmüller in 2017. He then continued his career as a postdoc at Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Profs. Yuriy Román and Yang Shao-Horn and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory with Drs. Chun-Long Chen and James De Yoreo. In 2020, he joined the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering as a professor at Shandong University. He has received CGCA Lubrizol Young Researchers Award in 2016, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad in 2017, Dr.-Walter-Seipp-Prize in 2018, Qilu Young Researchers Award in 2020.
He has published more than 30 SCI papers in Chem. Rev., Acc. Chem. Res., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., Chem. Mater., etc. with more than 1500 citations and an H index of 19.
Prof. Cai’s current research fields include: i) aerogel-based electrochemical interfaces; ii) electrochemical sensing methods; and iii) electrocatalysis and electrochemical remediation.
Research Interests
sol-gel chemistry, sensors, biofuel cell, electrocatalysis, environmental remediation.
