Wenting Cai obtained her Ph.D. from Huazhong University of Science and Techonology (HUST) in 2015. During her doctoral studies, she was a visiting Ph.D. candidate at Tsukuba University in Japan from 2012 to 2013. After completing her Ph.D., she worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Luis Echegoyen at University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) from 2015 to 2019. She then joined Prof. Ray H. Baughman’s research group as a visiting research scholar at University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) from 2019 to 2021. She began her independent academic career at Xi’an Jiaotong University since 2021. In September 2024, she joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Texas State University, where she currently serves as an assistant professor.
Her research interests include the generation and characterization of synthetic carbon allotropes, along with exploring their potential applications in perovskite solar cells, single-molecule magnets, electrocatalysis, mechanical energy harvester and artificial muscles. Her research work has been published in the high-impact journals including Science, Nature Energy, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Acc. Chem. Res., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Chem. Sci. and so on.