个人简介

面向公共安全、环境、医工交叉等领域，一直从事传感器、便携式传感设备和可穿戴装备的研究。致力于光学传感技术及智能感知材料相关的基础和应用研究，取得了丰硕成果。将智能材料与传感技术及人工智能结合，创造性地开发了大面积制备高品质光子晶体方法，光子光催化技术，先进的光子晶体传感检测技术，改进了红外热成像技术及TDLAS技术，并将这些技术应用于智能传感领域（疾病诊断、公共安全、环境污染物检测、防化以及食品安全）、组织工程和环境等领域。

研究方向

(1) 光学传感

(2) 便携式传感器及可穿戴装备

(3) 智能材料及组织工程

(4) 半导体材料及光子光催化

教学工作

(1) 教授本科生课程《智能材料》

学术成果

(1) Ruixiang Liu, Zhongyu Cai*, QingsongZhang, et. al. Colorimetric Two-dimensional Photonic Crystal Biosensors for Label-Free Detection of Hydrogen Peroxide,Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 2022, 354,131236.

(2) Zhongyu Cai*, Zhiwei Li, Serge Ravaine, et. al. From colloidal particles to photonic crystals: advances inself-assembly and their emerging applications.Chemical Society Reviews 2021, 50, (10), 5898-5951. (入选封面文章)

(3) Peiyan Shen, Yuqi Zhang*,Zhongyu Cai*, et. al.Three-dimensional/two-dimensional photonic crystal hydrogels for biosensing.Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2021, 9, (18), 5840-5957. (入选封底文章)

(4) Yuqi Zhang, Yimin Sun,Zhongyu Cai*,et. al.Polymer-infiltrated SiO₂ inverse opal photonic crystals for colorimetrically selective detection of xylenes vapors. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 2019, 291, 67-73.

(5) Zhongyu Cai *, Yong Wan, Matthew L Becker,et. al. Poly(Propylene Fumarate)-Based Materials: Synthesis, Functionalization, Properties, Device Fabrication and Biomedical Applications.Biomaterials 2019, 208, 45-71.

(6) Zhongyu Cai, Aniruddha Sasmal,Sanford A. Asher *,et. al. Responsive Photonic Crystal Carbohydrate Hydrogel Sensor Materials for Selective and Sensitive Lectin Protein Detection.ACS Sensors 2017,2, (10),1474-1481.

(7) Zhongyu Cai, Linda A. Luck,Sanford A Asher *,et. al. Photonic Crystal Protein Hydrogel Sensor Materials Enabled by Conformationally Induced Volume Phase Transition.Chemical Science 2016, 7, (7), 4557-4562.

(8) Zhongyu Cai, Daniel H Kwak, Sanford A Asher *,et. al.A Photonic Crystal Protein Hydrogel Sensor forCandida albicans.Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2015, 54, (44), 13036-13040. (被选为“热点”文章并被ScienceDaily，ChemistryViews，以及Phys Org等国际主流媒体广泛报导).

(9) Zhongyu Cai, Natasha L Smith,Sanford A Asher *,et. al.Two-Dimensional Photonic CrystalChemical and BiomolecularSensors.Analytical Chemistry 2015, 87 (10), 5013-5025.

(10) Zhongyu Cai, JiantaoZhang, Sanford A Asher *, 2D Photonic Crystal Protein Hydrogel Coulometer for Serum Albumin Ligand Binding.Analytical Chemistry 2014, 86 (10), 4840-4847. (入选“纪念2015国际光学年”最具突破性30大研究之一，并入选ACS Photonics的虚拟专辑)

荣誉获奖

(1) 国家级青年人才；

(2) 法国ÉGIDE Research Fellowship。

科研项目

(1) 光子晶体生物分子有机凝胶传感器检测挥发性有机化合物及有机磷神经毒剂的研究，国家自然科学基金委，63万，2021.1-2024.12；

(2) 光子晶体传感器与光子光催化，国家自然科学基金委，200万，2020.1-2023.12；

学术兼职

(1) Biosensors，“Smart Materials for Chemical and Biosensing”,客座主编, 2022年6月-2023年6月。

(2) Applied Sciences，“Advances in Semiconductor Photocatalysis”,客座主编, 2017年10月-2019年12月。