Education:
2011.02-present Xiamen University School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, associate professor
2008.12-2011.02 Department of Biomedical and Engineering, University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Dr. Marie Curie (Instructor: E.W. (Professor Bert) Meijer)
2004.09-2009.12 Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn, Institute of Supramolecular Science and Engineering, University of Strasbourg, France
2003.07-2004.09 Peking University School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Research Assistant (Instructor: Professor Pei Jian)
1999.09-2003.07 Peking University School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Bachelor

Principal Research Interests:
Supramolecular chemistry: self-assembly based on dynamic covalent chemistry, metal complexation and hydrogen bonding force and host and guest chemistry; design, synthesis and photoelectrode materials and biological applications of novel conjugated organic materials; metal heteroaromatic conjugate system Design, synthesis and performance development.

Selected Recent Publications:

Xinchang Wang, Yu Wang, Huayan Yang, Hongxun Fang, Ruixue Chen, Yibin Sun, Nanfeng Zheng, Kai Tana, Xin Lu, Zhongqun Tian* and Xiaoyu Cao*,Assembled molecular face-rotating polyhedra to transfer chirality from two to three dimensions,Nat. Commun. Accepted

Xiao-Ye Wang; Fang-Dong Zhuang; Xin-Chang Wang; Xiao-Yu Cao*; Jie-Yu Wang*; Jian Pei*, Synthesis, structure and properties of C3-symmetric heterosuperbenzene with three BN units. Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 4368-4371.

Ru-Qiang Lu; Yi-Nyu Zhou; Xiao-Yun Yan; Ke Shi; Yu-Qing Zheng; Ming Luo; Xin-Chang Wang; Jian Pei*; Haiping Xia; Laura Zoppi; Kim K. Baldridge*; Jay S. Siegel; Xiao-Yu Cao*, Thiophene-fused bowl-shaped polycyclic aromatics with a dibenzo[a,g]corannulene core for organic field-effect transistors. Chem. Commun. (Cambridge, U. K.) 2015, 51 (9), 1681-1684.

Rui Chen; Ru-Qiang Lu; Ke Shi; Fan Wu; Hong-Xun Fang; Zhe-Xuan Niu; Xiao-Yun Yan; Ming Luo; Xin-Chang Wang; Chi-Yuan Yang; Xiao-Ye Wang; Binbin Xu; Haiping Xia; Jian Pei; Xiao-Yu Cao*, Corannulene derivatives with low LUMO levels and dense convex-concave packing for n-channel organic field-effect transistors. Chemical Communications 2015, 51 (72), 13768-13771.

Congqing Zhu; Qin Zhu; Jinglan Fan; Jun Zhu; Xumin He; Xiao-Yu Cao*; Haiping Xia*, A Metal-Bridged Tricyclic Aromatic System: Synthesis of Osmium Polycyclic Aromatic Complexes. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2014, 53 (24), 6232-6236.

Yu Wang; Hai-Xin Lin; Liang Chen; Song-Yuan Ding; Zhi-Chao Lei; De-Yu Liu; Xiao-Yu Cao*; Hao-Jun Liang; Yun-Bao Jiang; Zhong-Qun Tian*, What molecular assembly can learn from catalytic chemistry. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2014, 43 (1), 399-411.

Xiao-Ye Wang; Fang-Dong Zhuang; Rui-Bo Wang; Xin-Chang Wang; Xiao-Yu Cao; Jie-Yu Wang*; Jian Pei*, A Straightforward Strategy toward Large BN-Embedded π-Systems: Synthesis, Structure, and Optoelectronic Properties of Extended BN Heterosuperbenzenes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136 (10), 3764-3767.

Augustin M. Madalan; Xiao-Yu Cao; Guillaume Rogez; Jean-Marie Lehn*, Ferromagnetic Coupling in Copper(II) [2×2] Grid-like Complexes. Inorg. Chem. 2014, 53 (9), 4275-4277.

Ru-Qiang Lu; Yu-Qing Zheng; Yi-Nyu Zhou; Xiao-Yun Yan; Ting Lei; Ke Shi; Yan Zhou; Jian Pei*; Laura Zoppi; Kim K. Baldridge*; Jay S. Siegel; Xiao-Yu Cao*, Corannulene derivatives as non-fullerene acceptors in solution-processed bulk heterojunction solar cells. J. Mater. Chem. A 2014, 2 (48), 20515-20519.

Ru-Qiang Lu; Wei Xuan; Yu-Qing Zheng; Yi-Nyu Zhou; Xiao-Yun Yan; Jin-Hu Dou; Rui Chen; Jian Pei*; Wengui Weng*; Xiao-Yu Cao*, A corannulene-based donor-acceptor polymer for organic field-effect transistors. RSC Adv. 2014, 4 (100), 56749-56755.

Xiao-Yu Cao; Qianyi Zhao; Zhiqun Lin*; Haiping Xia*, The Chemistry of Aromatic Osmacycles. Acc. Chem. Res. 2014, 47 (2), 341-354.

Qianyi Zhao; Xiao-Yu Cao*; Ting Bin Wen; Haiping Xia* From Osmium Hydrido Vinylidene to Osmacycles: The Key Role of Osmabutadiene Intermediates. Chem. - Asian J. 2013, 8 (1), 269-275.

Bin Liu; Qian Yi Zhao; Hui Juan Wang; Bi Rong Zeng; Xiao Yu Cao*; Hai Ping Xia*, Reactivity study of a hydroxyl coordinated osmium vinyl complex OsCl2(PPh3)2[CH:C(PPh3)CHPh(OH)]. Sci. China: Chem. 2013, 56 (8), 1105-1111.

Ting Lei; Jin-Hu Dou; Xiao-Yu Cao*; Jie-Yu Wang*; Jian Pei*, A BDOPV-Based Donor-Acceptor Polymer for High-Performance n-Type and Oxygen-Doped Ambipolar Field-Effect Transistors. Adv. Mater. (Weinheim, Ger.) 2013, 25 (45), 6589-6593.

Ting Lei; Jin-Hu Dou; Xiao-Yu Cao*; Jie-Yu Wang*; Jian Pei*, Electron-Deficient Poly(p-phenylene vinylene) Provides Electron Mobility over 1 cm2 V-1 s-1 under Ambient Conditions. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135 (33), 12168-12171.

Qianyi Zhao; Jun Zhu; Zi-Ao Huang; Xiao-Yu Cao*; Haiping Xia*, Conversions of Osmabenzyne and Isoosmabenzene. Chem. - Eur. J. 2012, 18 (37), 11597-11603, S11597/1-S11597/9.

Aurelie Meme; Artur R. Stefankiewicz; Jack Harrowfield; Xiao-Yu Cao; Juhani Huuskonen; Kari Rissanen; Jean-Marie Lehn; Helene Nierengarten; Emmanuelle Leize*, A Novel MALDI-MS Approach for the Analysis of Neutral Metallosupramolecular Architectures. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2012, 2012 (4), 647-654.

John George Hardy; Xiao-yu Cao; Jack Harrowfield; Jean-Marie Lehn*, Generation of metallosupramolecular polymer gels from multiply functionalized grid-type complexes. New J. Chem. 2012, 36 (3), 668-673.

Lydia Brelot; Xiao-yu Cao; Jack Harrowfield*; Jean-Marie Lehn; Kari Rissanen; Luca Russo, A new hydrogen bonding motif involved in self-recognition in the solid state by functionalized macrocycles. CrystEngComm 2011, 13 (7), 2346-2349.

Xiao-Yu Cao; Jack Harrowfield; Jonathan Nitschke; Juan Ramirez; Adrian-Mihail Stadler; Nathalie Kyritsakas-Gruber; Augustin Madalan; Kari Rissanen; Luca Russo; Gavin Vaughan; Jean-Marie Lehn*, Generation of [2 × 2] grid metallo-supramolecular architectures from preformed ditopic bis(acylhydrazone) ligands and through component self-assembly. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2007, (18), 2944-2965.

Yan Zhou; Wen-Jun Liu; Wei Zhang; Xiao-Yu Cao; Qi-Feng Zhou; Yuguo Ma*; Jian Pei*, Selective Oxidative Cyclization by FeCl3 in the Construction of 10H-Indeno[1,2-b]triphenylene Skeletons in Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71 (18), 6822-6828.

Wei Zhang; Xiao-Yu Cao; Zi Hong; Jian Pei, Single-molecule nanosized polycyclic aromatics with alternant five- and six-membered rings: Synthesis and optical properties. Org. Lett. 2005, 7 (6), 959-962.

Xiao-Yu Cao; Zi Hong; Wei Zhang; Hua Lu; Jian Pei*, Star-Shaped and Linear Nanosized Molecules Functionalized with Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene: Synthesis and Optical Properties. J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70 (9), 3645-3653.

Xiao-Yu Cao; Zi Hong; Hua Lu; Jian Pei*, Novel efficient blue light-emitting conjugated polymers: synthesis, optical properties, and thermal optical stability. Proc. SPIE-Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 2005, 5632 (Light-Emitting Diode Materials and Devices), 7-16.

Yi Chen; Jianchen Zhang; Jing Chen; Xiao-Yu Cao; Jin Wang; Yu-Fen Zhao*, Sensitivity improvement of amino acids by N-terminal diisopropyloxyphosphorylation in electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 2004, 18 (4), 469-473.

Xiao-Yu Cao; Xing-Hua Zhou; Zi Hong; Jian Pei*, Novel Blue-Light-Emitting Truxene-Containing Hyperbranched and Zigzag Type Copolymers: Synthesis, Optical Properties, and Investigation of Thermal Spectral Stability. Macromolecules 2004, 37 (24), 8874-8882.

Xiao-Yu Cao; Wei Zhang; Zi Hong; Jian Pei*, π-Conjugated Twin Molecules Based on Truxene: Synthesis and Optical Properties. Org. Lett. 2004, 6 (26), 4845-4848.

Xiao-Yu Cao; Xue-Hui Liu; Xing-Hua Zhou; Yong Zhang; Yang Jiang; Yong Cao; Yu-Xin Cui*; Jian Pei*, Giant Extended π-Conjugated Dendrimers Containing the 10,15-Dihydro-5H-diindeno[1,2-a;1',2'-c]fluorene Chromophore: Synthesis, NMR Behaviors, Optical Properties, and Electroluminescence. J. Org. Chem. 2004, 69 (18), 6050-6058.

Jian Pei*; Jin-Liang Wang; Xiao-Yu Cao; Xing-Hua Zhou; Wen-Bin Zhang, Star-Shaped Polycyclic Aromatics Based on Oligothiophene-Functionalized Truxene: Synthesis, Properties, and Facile Emissive Wavelength Tuning. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125 (33), 9944-9945.

Xiao-Yu Cao; Wen-Bin Zhang; Jin-Liang Wang; Xing-Hua Zhou; Hua Lu; Jian Pei*, Extended π-Conjugated Dendrimers Based on Truxene. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125 (41), 12430-12431.

Jing Chen; Yun Zhang; Xiao-Yu Cao; Jin Wang; Yi Chen; Yu-Fen Zhao*, Monitoring the hydrolysis of p-nitrophenyl acetate catalyzed by seryl-histidine with electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. Chin. J. Chem. 2002, 20 (10), 1097-1101.