Chen Sun

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
77 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Chen Sun is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Organic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Chen Sun has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 16 papers in Organic Chemistry and 16 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Chen Sun's work include Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (15 papers), Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (13 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (7 papers). Chen Sun is often cited by papers focused on Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (15 papers), Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (13 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (7 papers). Chen Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Macao and United States. Chen Sun's co-authors include Qunxing Huang, Jianhua Yan, Ruibing Wang, Jun Wang, Tong Chen, Ludan Yue, Yong Chi, Mingxiu Zhan, Xiaodong Li and Kuikun Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Chen Sun

75 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Adsorption and thermal degradation of microplastics from aqueous solutions by Mg/Zn modified magnetic biochars

2021 353 citations Jun Wang, Chen Sun et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chen Sun China	31	821	730	688	542	505	77	2.7k
Fangyuan Chen China	33	786 1.0×	1.2k 1.6×	702 1.0×	418 0.8×	663 1.3×	129	3.5k
Hongbo Chen China	27	545 0.7×	719 1.0×	661 1.0×	527 1.0×	687 1.4×	66	2.7k
Jingjing Yao China	32	705 0.9×	904 1.2×	350 0.5×	250 0.5×	237 0.5×	101	2.9k
Gang Song China	32	705 0.9×	1.3k 1.8×	668 1.0×	324 0.6×	331 0.7×	79	3.2k
Chen Yang China	30	468 0.6×	1.0k 1.4×	664 1.0×	1.0k 1.9×	276 0.5×	67	3.2k
Wei Song China	27	492 0.6×	511 0.7×	644 0.9×	360 0.7×	363 0.7×	159	2.5k
Shanshan Feng China	31	1.2k 1.4×	2.0k 2.8×	487 0.7×	353 0.7×	917 1.8×	78	4.3k
Shuqin Wang China	21	613 0.7×	1.3k 1.7×	676 1.0×	225 0.4×	633 1.3×	46	2.7k
Liang Shen China	27	615 0.7×	425 0.6×	692 1.0×	503 0.9×	444 0.9×	62	2.6k
Hao Zhu China	33	714 0.9×	1.0k 1.4×	902 1.3×	208 0.4×	893 1.8×	87	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Chen Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chen Sun

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chen Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chen Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chen Sun based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Chen Sun. Chen Sun is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Haderlein, Stefan B., et al.. (2025). Persulfate activation by biochar for trace organic contaminant removal from urban stormwater. Water Research. 284. 123921–123921. 3 indexed citations

Sun, Chen, Huan Wang, Tao Jiang, et al.. (2024). Surface defect and carbonyl engineering of CNTs via oxygen-plasma etching: Oriented production of singlet oxygen from peroxymonosulfate activation. Separation and Purification Technology. 337. 126454–126454. 12 indexed citations

Liu, Kai, et al.. (2024). The effect of Sesuvium portulacastrum for reducing inorganic nitrogen pollution in coastal mariculture wetland. Frontiers in Marine Science. 11. 2 indexed citations

Sun, Chen, Ting Zhang, Yu Zhou, et al.. (2023). Triclosan and related compounds in the environment: Recent updates on sources, fates, distribution, analytical extraction, analysis, and removal techniques. The Science of The Total Environment. 870. 161885–161885. 25 indexed citations

Zhu, Chenxi, Jun Wang, Jiabao Lv, et al.. (2023). Solar-driven reforming of waste polyester plastics into hydrogen over CdS/NiS catalyst. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 51. 91–103. 32 indexed citations

Chen, Yan, Lingling Wang, Limin Zhang, et al.. (2022). Characterization and Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in River Sediments on the Western Bank of Taihu Lake, China. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 109(4). 609–615. 9 indexed citations

Sun, Chen, Lakshmanan Karuppasamy, Lakshmanan Gurusamy, et al.. (2021). Facile sonochemical synthesis of CdS/COF heterostructured nanocomposites and their enhanced photocatalytic degradation of Bisphenol-A. Separation and Purification Technology. 271. 118873–118873. 73 indexed citations

Yang, Kuikun, Ludan Yue, Guocan Yu, et al.. (2021). A hypoxia responsive nanoassembly for tumor specific oxygenation and enhanced sonodynamic therapy. Biomaterials. 275. 120822–120822. 97 indexed citations

Yang, Yuxuan, Chen Sun, Qunxing Huang, & Jianhua Yan. (2021). Hierarchical porous structure formation mechanism in food waste component derived N-doped biochar: Application in VOCs removal. Chemosphere. 291(Pt 1). 132702–132702. 38 indexed citations

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Men, Xiaoju, Haobin Chen, Chen Sun, et al.. (2020). Thermosensitive Polymer Dot Nanocomposites for Trimodal Computed Tomography/Photoacoustic/Fluorescence Imaging-Guided Synergistic Chemo-Photothermal Therapy. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(46). 51174–51184. 27 indexed citations

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Sun, Chen, et al.. (2020). Prediction of End-Of-Season Tuber Yield and Tuber Set in Potatoes Using In-Season UAV-Based Hyperspectral Imagery and Machine Learning. Sensors. 20(18). 5293–5293. 48 indexed citations

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Sun, Chen, Jun Ma, Weixing Cao, et al.. (2020). Effects of carbon nanotubes on the toxicities of copper, cadmium and zinc toward the freshwater microalgae Scenedesmus obliquus. Aquatic Toxicology. 224. 105504–105504. 36 indexed citations

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Sun, Chen, et al.. (2020). Removal of atrazine in catalytic degradation solutions by microalgae Chlorella sp. and evaluation of toxicity of degradation products via algal growth and photosynthetic activity. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 207. 111546–111546. 57 indexed citations

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Sun, Chen, et al.. (2020). A propagation of interferogram signal-to-noise (SNR) and phase uncertainty in Doppler asymmetric spatial heterodyne spectrometer. Acta Physica Sinica. 69(1). 14202–14202. 3 indexed citations

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Sun, Chen, Dongdong Ding, Tong Chen, et al.. (2019). Ecological risk analysis of the solid residues collected from the thermal disposal process of hyperaccumulator Pteris vittata including heavy metals and environmentally persistent free radicals. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 26(28). 29234–29245. 6 indexed citations

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Sun, Chen, Tong Chen, Qunxing Huang, et al.. (2019). Enhanced adsorption for Pb(II) and Cd(II) of magnetic rice husk biochar by KMnO4 modification. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 26(9). 8902–8913. 161 indexed citations

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Cheng, Qian, Hang Yin, Chen Sun, et al.. (2018). Glutathione-responsive homodithiacalix[4]arene-based nanoparticles for selective intracellular drug delivery. Chemical Communications. 54(58). 8128–8131. 17 indexed citations

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Li, Haibo, Siyu Wang, Chen Sun, et al.. (2016). Removal characteristics of dissolved organic matters in modified A2O process of pilot test. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Sun, Chen, et al.. (2012). MBPT calculation for the fine-structure intervals of principal series np(n=39) for Na. Acta Physica Sinica. 61(15). 153104–153104. 1 indexed citations

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Hà, Nguyễn Thị Thu, et al.. (2010). Whitespace sensing database for cognitive radio systems. IEICE Technical Report; IEICE Tech. Rep.. 109(442). 59–65.

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