August 2026 – The Cao Group received an Africa - ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Research Partnerships Seed Fund to support our project titled "SEA2MEOH: Circular e-Methanol from Seawater H2 and Captured CO2" in collaboration with !

July 2026 – The Cao Group received a FoNS EDI Seed Fund to support our work launching the “³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Professors Who Failed” series, to normalise open, constructive conversations about academic failure.

July 2026 – Kudos to Binhong Zhao on being selected for the to join the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) as a Climate and Technology Intern!

 

June 2026 – The Cao Group co-hosted the visit of the Launch Chief Editor of Nature Mechanical Engineering, Dr Mengying Su, during her visit to ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ.

May 2026 – Congrats to Chunfeng Li and Nan Sun on securing support from the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC). We look forward to welcoming you to the group soon!

 

May 2026 – Kudos to Yiding Liu on being accepted to the by AIchemy!

April 2026 – Kudos to Ji Oh Lee on receiving the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ College UROP Award! We look forward to working with you in the summer!

April 2026 – Cao participated as in the , jointly organised by the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

 

March 2026 – Our has been selected as by editors at Joule. It was also featured in by Chem Catalysis.

 

Feb 2026 – The Cao Group received a NUS-³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Collaboration Fund to support our vision on carbon management for urban decarbonisation. We look forward to the collaboration with !

 

Jan 2026 – The Cao Group officially started at ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ, and published two articles on and in the first week!

Dec 2025 – The Cao Group at ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ received from Schmidt Sciences to collaborate with Samuel Greene's group at the University of Colorado Boulder!