2015.9-present     Associate Professor   Department of Physics, Xiamen University
2015.3-2015.8        Postdoctoral Fellow   School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
2011.9-2015.3        Degree of Ph. D   School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
2008.9-2011.6        Degree of M. Eng.   Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Xiamen University
2004.9-2008.6        Degree of B. Eng.   Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Xiamen University

Xinrui Cao*, Xiao-Fei Li, and Zi-Zhong Zhu, Superlight and Superflexible Three-Dimensional Semiconductor Frameworks A(X≡Y)4 (A=Si, Ge; X/Y=C, B, N) with Tunable Optoelectronic and Mechanical Properties from First-Principles. Chemistry – An Asian Journal, 12 (2017), 804-810.
Xinrui Cao, “Insight into Mechanism and Selectivity of Propane Dehydrogenation over the Pd-Doped Cu(111) Surface”, RSC Advances, 6 (2016), 65524-32.
Ming-Jun Sun, Xinrui Cao*, and Zexing Cao*, “Si(C≡C)4-Based Single-Crystalline Semiconductor: Diamond-Like Superlight and Superflexible Wide-Bandgap Material for the UV Photoconductive Device”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 8 (2016), 16551-54.
Wenhui Zhong, Jinxia Liang, Wei Hu, Xinrui Cao, Chuanyi Jia, and Jun Jiang*, “The O, Oh and Ooh-Assisted Selective Coupling of Methanol on Au-Ag(111)”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 18 (2016), 9969-78.
Weihua Wu, Shaobing Tang*, Junjing Gu, Xinrui Cao, “Realizing Semiconductor to Metal Transition in Graphitic ZnO and MoS2 Nanocomposite with External Electric Field”, RSC Adv., 5 (2015) 99153
Xinrui Cao, Yongfei Ji, Yi Luo*, “Dehydrogenation of Propane to Propylene by a Pd/Cu Single-Atom Catalyst: Insight from First-Principles Calculations”,
J. Phys. Chem. C, 119 (2015) 1016
Xinrui Cao, Yi Luo*, “Study of the Electronic and Optical Properties of Hybrid Triangular (BN)xCy Foams”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 118 (2014) 22181
Xinrui Cao, Yongfei Ji, Wei Hu, Yi Luo*, “Feasible Catalytic Strategy for Writing Conductive Nanoribbens on a Single Layer Graphene Fluoride”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 118 (2014) 22643
Xinrui Cao, Qiang Fu, Yi Luo*, “Catalytic Activity of Pd-doped Cu Nanoparticles for Hydrogenation as a Single-Atom-Alloy Catalyst”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 16 (2014) 8367
Shaobin Tang*, Xinrui Cao, “Realizing semiconductor-half-metal transition in zigzag graphene nanoribbons supported on hybrid fluorographene-graphane nanoribbons”,Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 16 (2014) 23214
Qiang Fu; Xinrui Cao; Yi Luo*, "Identification of the Scaling Relations for Binary Noble Metal Nanopartic