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Minkun Cai is an emerging force in flexible electronics and soft robotics, specializing in the design and fabrication of advanced pressure sensors, electronic skins (e-skins), and iontronic sensing systems. His research addresses one of the field's most persistent challenges: developing sensors that simultaneously achieve high sensitivity, mechanical durability, and broad operational range — qualities essential for next-generation robotic and biomedical applications. Cai's most celebrated contribution, "Highly Stable Flexible Pressure Sensors with a Quasi-Homogeneous Composition and Interlinked Interfaces" (2022, 401 citations), tackled the chronic failure of multilayered e-skins under extreme mechanical conditions, introducing a structurally unified approach that dramatically improves device longevity. His complementary work on graded interlock architectures for iontronic sensors (2022, 316 citations) elegantly solved the incompressibility problem inherent in soft sensing materials, achieving exceptional linearity across wide pressure ranges. More recently, Cai has pioneered data-driven inverse design methodologies to accelerate sensor development beyond conventional trial-and-error approaches, and has advanced implantable iontronic arrays capable of intra-articular pressure monitoring. With nearly 1,000 citations accumulated in just a few years, Cai represents a rapidly influential voice shaping the future of intelligent sensing technology.