Cheng‐Jun Sun

22.2k total citations · 9 hit papers
233 papers, 15.3k citations indexed

About

Cheng‐Jun Sun is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Cheng‐Jun Sun has authored 233 papers receiving a total of 15.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 131 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 77 papers in Materials Chemistry and 72 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Cheng‐Jun Sun's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (77 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (69 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (46 papers). Cheng‐Jun Sun is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (77 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (69 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (46 papers). Cheng‐Jun Sun collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Cheng‐Jun Sun's co-authors include Yang Ren, Khalil Amine, Gui‐Liang Xu, Yuzi Liu, Qi Liu, Feng Lin, Inhui Hwang, Dennis Nordlund, Hua Zhou and Zonghai Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Cheng‐Jun Sun

223 papers receiving 15.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Aqueous Li-ion battery enabled by halogen conversion–intercalation chemistry in graphite

2019 706 citations Cheng‐Jun Sun, Qi Liu et al. profile →
Highly selective electrocatalytic CO2 reduction to ethanol by metallic clusters dynamically formed from atomically dispersed copper

2020 592 citations Yuzi Liu, Cheng‐Jun Sun et al. profile →
A high-energy and long-cycling lithium–sulfur pouch cell via a macroporous catalytic cathode with double-end binding sites

2020 569 citations Chen Zhao, Gui‐Liang Xu et al. profile →
Facet-dependent active sites of a single Cu2O particle photocatalyst for CO2 reduction to methanol

2019 471 citations Qi Liu, Cheng‐Jun Sun et al. profile →
Single Fe Atom on Hierarchically Porous S, N‐Codoped Nanocarbon Derived from Porphyra Enable Boosted Oxygen Catalysis for Rechargeable Zn‐Air Batteries

2019 382 citations Hua Zhou, Cheng‐Jun Sun et al. Small profile →
Metal–oxygen decoordination stabilizes anion redox in Li-rich oxides

2019 376 citations Dennis Nordlund, Cheng‐Jun Sun et al. Nature Materials profile →
Atomically dispersed Pt and Fe sites and Pt–Fe nanoparticles for durable proton exchange membrane fuel cells

2022 368 citations Gui‐Liang Xu, Inhui Hwang et al. Nature Catalysis profile →
A single-atom library for guided monometallic and concentration-complex multimetallic designs

2022 321 citations Lili Han, Hao Cheng et al. Nature Materials profile →
Bioorthogonal catalytic patch

2021 212 citations Gang Wan, Cheng‐Jun Sun et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Cheng‐Jun Sun	10.1k	5.8k	5.2k	2.6k	1.7k	233	15.3k
Zhouguang Lu	12.7k 1.3×	4.5k 0.8×	5.4k 1.0×	4.8k 1.8×	2.0k 1.2×	375	17.0k
Lei Yu	6.8k 0.7×	2.9k 0.5×	4.9k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	275	11.6k
Sooyeon Hwang	14.0k 1.4×	11.9k 2.1×	6.2k 1.2×	2.4k 0.9×	2.2k 1.3×	206	20.3k
Peixin Zhang	8.9k 0.9×	4.7k 0.8×	4.0k 0.8×	3.8k 1.5×	1.2k 0.7×	284	13.0k
Zhen‐Bo Wang	13.8k 1.4×	9.6k 1.7×	5.0k 1.0×	4.0k 1.5×	1.6k 0.9×	462	18.0k
Kai‐Xue Wang	8.9k 0.9×	3.6k 0.6×	4.6k 0.9×	4.1k 1.5×	1.4k 0.8×	229	13.3k
Tianpin Wu	12.8k 1.3×	5.2k 0.9×	6.0k 1.2×	3.2k 1.2×	3.2k 1.8×	167	19.5k
Lichang Yin	13.6k 1.3×	7.1k 1.2×	9.9k 1.9×	4.3k 1.6×	2.2k 1.3×	165	20.6k
Guangxu Chen	6.5k 0.6×	7.4k 1.3×	6.3k 1.2×	1.8k 0.7×	976 0.6×	122	13.9k
Kug‐Seung Lee	7.5k 0.7×	7.6k 1.3×	4.9k 0.9×	1.4k 0.5×	541 0.3×	237	12.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cheng‐Jun Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Cheng‐Jun Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Cheng‐Jun 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 Cheng‐Jun Sun. Cheng‐Jun Sun is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Bai, Xue, Yifei Liu, Siyue Wang, et al.. (2025). Polyoxometalate-based metal-organic complexes with dual-site synergy for catalytic synthesis of p-benzoquinone. Materials Today Chemistry. 48. 102929–102929. 2 indexed citations

Xia, Dawei, Chenguang Shi, Qianxi Wang, et al.. (2025). Toward Stable, High‐Energy, Partially Disordered Mn‐Rich Spinel Cathodes by Revealing and Mitigating Surface Degradation. Advanced Materials. 37(34). e2501352–e2501352. 3 indexed citations

Xia, Dawei, Lei Tao, Dong Hou, et al.. (2024). A Green, Fire‐Retarding Ether Solvent for Sustainable High‐Voltage Li‐Ion Batteries at Standard Salt Concentration. Advanced Energy Materials. 14(38). 9 indexed citations

Zhu, Yuntong, Zachary D. Hood, Haemin Paik, et al.. (2024). Highly disordered amorphous Li-battery electrolytes. Matter. 7(2). 500–522. 13 indexed citations

Xia, Dawei, Anyang Hu, Cheng‐Jun Sun, et al.. (2024). Erratum: Rechargeable Manganese Dioxide||Hard Carbon Lithium Batteries in an Ether Electrolyte [J. Electrochem. Soc., 171, 030528 (2024). Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 171(9). 99001–99001.

Lyu, Xiang, Charl J. Jafta, Alexey Serov, et al.. (2023). Trace level of atomic copper in N-doped graphene quantum dots switching the selectivity from C1 to C2 products in CO electroreduction. Materials Today Chemistry. 29. 101398–101398. 7 indexed citations

Li, Chenzhao, Limin Zhu, Qi Zhang, et al.. (2023). Synergistic effect of polyaniline on stabilizing Pt nanoparticles in PEMFCs. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(14). 7756–7766. 13 indexed citations

Jiang, Dong, Gang Wan, Joakim Halldin Stenlid, et al.. (2023). Dynamic and reversible transformations of subnanometre-sized palladium on ceria for efficient methane removal. Nature Catalysis. 6(7). 618–627. 89 indexed citations

Zhang, Yuxin, Chunguang Kuai, Anyang Hu, et al.. (2022). Mechanistic Insights into the Interplay between Ion Intercalation and Water Electrolysis in Aqueous Batteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(10). 12130–12139. 3 indexed citations

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Han, Lili, Hao Cheng, Wei Liu, et al.. (2022). A single-atom library for guided monometallic and concentration-complex multimetallic designs. Nature Materials. 21(6). 681–688. 321 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhao, Chen, Amine Daali, Inhui Hwang, et al.. (2022). Pushing Lithium–Sulfur Batteries towards Practical Working Conditions through a Cathode–Electrolyte Synergy. Angewandte Chemie. 134(27). e202203466–e202203466. 10 indexed citations

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Zheng, Xuerong, Zhengrui Xu, Shaofeng Li, et al.. (2021). Reversible Mn/Cr dual redox in cation-disordered Li-excess cathode materials for stable lithium ion batteries. Acta Materialia. 212. 116935–116935. 24 indexed citations

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Das, Anuvab, et al.. (2020). In Crystallo Snapshots of Rh ₂ -Catalyzed C–H Amination. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(47). 19862–19867. 44 indexed citations

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Xu, Zhengrui, Zhisen Jiang, Chunguang Kuai, et al.. (2020). Charge distribution guided by grain crystallographic orientations in polycrystalline battery materials. Nature Communications. 11(1). 83–83. 173 indexed citations

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Kuai, Chunguang, Zhengrui Xu, Cong Xi, et al.. (2020). Phase segregation reversibility in mixed-metal hydroxide water oxidation catalysts. Nature Catalysis. 3(9). 743–753. 344 indexed citations

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Su, Heng, Gencai Guo, Yang Ren, et al.. (2020). Local spring effect in titanium-based layered oxides. Energy & Environmental Science. 13(11). 4371–4380. 20 indexed citations

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Rahman, Muhammad Mominur, Jing Mao, Wang Hay Kan, et al.. (2019). An Ordered P2/P3 Composite Layered Oxide Cathode with Long Cycle Life in Sodium-Ion Batteries. ACS Materials Letters. 1(5). 573–581. 47 indexed citations

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Wan, Gang, Pengfei Yu, Hangrong Chen, et al.. (2018). Engineering Single‐Atom Cobalt Catalysts toward Improved Electrocatalysis. Small. 14(15). e1704319–e1704319. 105 indexed citations

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Rahman, Muhammad Mominur, Yahong Xu, Hao Cheng, et al.. (2018). Empowering multicomponent cathode materials for sodium ion batteries by exploring three-dimensional compositional heterogeneities. Energy & Environmental Science. 11(9). 2496–2508. 52 indexed citations

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Xu, Gui‐Liang, Rachid Amine, Yue-Feng Xu, et al.. (2017). Insights into the structural effects of layered cathode materials for high voltage sodium-ion batteries. Energy & Environmental Science. 10(7). 1677–1693. 186 indexed citations

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