2004-2008年  天津大学化学系，应用化学学士

2008-2010年  天津大学化学系，高分子化学与物理硕士

2022－ 北京化工大学，材料科学与工程学院，教授、博士生导师

2019－2022 美国橡树岭国家实验室，研究员

2016－2018 美国橡树岭国家实验室，研究助理

科研情况概述：

主要研究高性能高分子材料（功能性弹性体材料为主）的设计与合成、性能分析及其在能源、建筑等领域的应用。以通讯作者或者第一作者在Matter、Angew. Chem.、Macromolecules、Adv. Energy Mater.、ACS Energy Lett.、Adv. Funct. Mater.、Mater Today 等国际知名期刊发表学术论文近50余篇（其中以PI 作为通讯作者30余篇）。撰写著作章节3部，获得授权美国国家发明专利6项。领导研究团队设计并合成了一系列高性能高分子材料用以解决能源和建筑工程领域的实际问题。三年申请并获得十余项能源部研究项目，其主持的自修复弹性密闭胶项目凭借其较高的产业价值获得2021年度“国际科技界奥斯卡”之称的R&D 100 Award。此外他还获得2021美国化学会高分子青年研究奖（PMSE Young-Investigator Award）。

社会与学术职位：

担任高分子领域旗舰杂志Macromolecules编委，MRS Communications副主编和Scientific Report 编辑。

近期学术论文：

1. Shilun Gao, Mingxin Zhang, Catalin Gainaru, Alexei P. Sokolov, Huabin Yang, Peng-Fei Cao*, Plastic Crystal in Rubbery Matrix for Light and Safe Batteries, Matter, Accepted.

2. Feiyuan Sun, Zhenxi Li, Shilun Gao, Yayue He, Jiancheng Luo, Xiao Zhao, Dandan Yang, Tao Gao, Huabin Yang,* and Peng-Fei Cao,* Self-healable, Highly Stretchable, Ionic Conducting Polymer as Efficient Protecting Layer for Stable Lithium-metal Electrode, ACS Applied Materials ＆ Interface 2022, 14, 22, 26014–26023.

3. Jiancheng Luo, Zoriana Demchuk, Xiao Zhao, Tomonori Saito, Ming Tian, Alexei. P. Sokolov,* and Peng-Fei Cao,* Elastic Vitrimers: Beyond Thermoplastic and Thermoset Elastomers, Matter 2022, 5(5), 1391-1422.

4. Shilun Gao, Zhenxi Li, Nian Liu, Guoliang Liu, Huabin Yang,* and Peng-Fei Cao,* Are Porous Polymers Practical to Protect Li-Metal Anodes? -Current Strategies and Future Opportunities, Advanced Functional Materials, 2022, 2202013.

5. Zhen Zhang, Jiancheng Luo, Sheng Zhao, Sirui Ge, Jan-Michael Y. Carrillo, Jong K. Keum, Changwoo Do, Shiwang Cheng, Yangyang Wang, Alexei P. Sokolov, and Peng-Fei Cao,* Surpassing the Stiffness-Extensibility Trade-off of Elastomers via Mastering the Hydrogen-bonding Clusters, Matter 2022, 5, 237-252.

6. Weiguang Chen, Hai-Jie Wei, Jiancheng Luo, Yu Chen,* and Peng-Fei Cao,* Highly Stretchable, Ultra-Tough and Multifunctional Poly(Vinyl Chloride) based Plastics via a Green, Star-Shaped Macromolecular Additive. Macromolecules 2021, 54, 3169–3180.

7. Jiadeng Zhu, Zhen Zhang, Sheng Zhao, Andrew S. Westover,* Ilias Belharouak, and Peng-Fei Cao,* Single-Ion Conducting Polymer Electrolytes for Solid-State Lithium Metal Batteries: Design, Performance, and Challenges, Advanced Energy Materials 2021, 11, 2003836.

8. Wei Niu, Zhen Zhang, Qiyi Chen, Peng-Fei Cao,* and Rigoberto C. Advincula,* Highly Recyclable, Mechanically Isotropic and Healable 3D Printed Elastomers via Polyurea Vitrimer, ACS Materials Letter 2021, 3, 8, 1095–1103.

9. Weiguang Chen, Hai-Jie Wei, Jiancheng Luo, Yu Chen,* and Peng-Fei Cao,* Highly Stretchable, Ultra-Tough and Multifunctional Poly(Vinyl Chloride) based Plastics via a Green, Star-Shaped Macromolecular Additive, Macromolecules, 2021, 54, 7, 3169–3180.

10. Shilun Gao, Andrew Cannon, Feiyuan Sun Yiyang Pan, Dandan Yang, Sirui Ge, Nian Liu, Alexei P. Sokolov, Emily Ryan, Huabin Yang,* and Peng-Fei Cao,* Glass-Fiber Reinforced Polymeric Film for Stable Li-Metal Electrode: Unraveling the Key Attributes of Efficient Protecting Layers, Cell Reports Physical Science, 2021, 2, 100534.  

11. Bingrui Li, Sheng Zhao, Jiadeng Zhu, Sirui Ge, Kunyue Xing, Alexei Sokolov, Tomonori Saito, Peng-Fei Cao,* Rational Polymer Design of Stretchable Poly(ionic liquid)s Membranes for Dual Applications, Macromolecules 2021, 54, 896–905 (Journal Front Cover).

12. Sheng Zhao, Shenghan Song, Yingqi Wang, Jong Keum, Jiadeng Zhu, Yi He, Alexei Sokolov,* and Peng-Fei Cao,* Unravel the Role of Neutral Units for Single-ion Conducting Polymer Electrolytes (SICPEs), ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2021, 13, 43, 51525–51534.

13. Zhen Zhang, Natasha Ghezawi, Bingrui Li, Sirui Ge, Sheng Zhao, Tomonori Saito,* Diana Hun,* and Peng-Fei Cao,* Autonomous Self-healing Elastomers with Unprecedented Adhesion Force, Advanced Functional Materials 2021, 31, 2006298. (DOE highlight). 

14. Shilun Gao, Feiyuan Sun, Nian Liu, Huabin Yang,* and Peng-Fei Cao,* Ionic conductive polymers as artificial solid electrolyte interphase films in Li metal batteries – A review, Materials Today 2020, 40, 140-159. 

15. Shilun Gao, Feiyuan Sun, Alexander Brady, Yiyang Pan, Andrew Erwin, Dandan Yang, Vladimir Tsukruk, Andrew G Stack, Tomonori Saito, Huabin Yang,* and Peng-Fei Cao,* Ultra-efficient polymer binder for silicon anode in high-capacity lithium-ion batteries, Nano Energy 2020, 73, 104804.

16. Peng-Fei Cao,* Bingrui Li, Guang Yang, Sheng Zhao, Jacob Townsend, Kunyue Xing, Zhe Qiang, Konstantinos D. Vogiatzis, Alexei P. Sokolov, Jagjit Nanda, and Tomonori Saito* Elastic Single-ion Conducting Polymer Electrolytes: Towards a Versatile Approach for Intrinsically Stretchable Functional Polymers, Macromolecules 2020, 53, 3591–3601.

17. Peng-Fei Cao,* Guang Yang, Bingrui Li, Yiman Zhang, Sheng Zhao, Shuo Zhang, Andrew Erwin, Zhengcheng Zhang, Alexei P. Sokolov, Jagjit Nanda,* and Tomonori Saito,* Rational Design of Multifunctional Binder for High-Capacity Silicon Based Anodes, ACS Energy Letter 2019, 4, 1171-1180 (DOE-EERE Highlights).

18. Tao Hong, Peng-Fei Cao,* Sheng Zhao, Bingrui Li, Connor Smith, Michelle Lehmann, Andrew J. Erwin, Shannon M. Mahurin, Surendar R. Venna, Alexei P. Sokolov, and Tomonori Saito,* Tailored CO2-philic Gas Separation Membranes via One-Pot Thiol-ene Chemistry, Macromolecules, 2019, 52, 15, 5819-5828.

19. Peng-Fei Cao,* Bingrui Li, Tao Hong, Jacob Townsend, Zhe Qiang, Kunyue Xing,  Konstantinos D. Vogiatzis,b Yangyang Wang, Alexei P. Sokolov, and Tomonori Saito,* Super-Stretchable, Self-Healing Polymeric Elastomers with Tunable Properties, Advanced Functional Materials 2018, 1800741(ORNL highlight, DOE highlight).