Dengrong Sun

7.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
49 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Dengrong Sun is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Dengrong Sun has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Materials Chemistry, 33 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 29 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Dengrong Sun's work include Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (29 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (24 papers) and Covalent Organic Framework Applications (20 papers). Dengrong Sun is often cited by papers focused on Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (29 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (24 papers) and Covalent Organic Framework Applications (20 papers). Dengrong Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, South Korea and Hong Kong. Dengrong Sun's co-authors include Zhaohui Li, Renkun Huang, Yanghe Fu, Xianzhi Fu, Wenjun Liu, Yongjuan Chen, Zhengxin Ding, Dengke Wang, Lin Ye and Dong‐Pyo Kim and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Dengrong Sun

45 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

An Amine‐Functionalized Titanium Metal–Organic Framework ... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 2014 2013 2019 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. An Amine‐Functionalized Titanium Metal–Organic Framework Photocatalyst with Visible‐Light‐Induced Activity for CO2 Reduction
    2012 1.6k citations Yanghe Fu, Dengrong Sun et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  2. Fe-Based MOFs for Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction: Role of Coordination Unsaturated Sites and Dual Excitation Pathways
    2014 767 citations Dengke Wang, Wenjun Liu et al. profile →
  3. Studies on Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction over NH2‐Uio‐66(Zr) and Its Derivatives: Towards a Better Understanding of Photocatalysis on Metal–Organic Frameworks
    2013 587 citations Dengrong Sun, Yanghe Fu et al. Chemistry - A European Journal profile →
  4. Modified carbon nitride nanozyme as bifunctional glucose oxidase-peroxidase for metal-free bioinspired cascade photocatalysis
    2019 497 citations Peng Zhang, Dengrong Sun et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers

Dengrong Sun
Di‐Chang Zhong China
Shun‐Li Li China
Qihao Yang China
Yanghe Fu China
Meili Ding China
Dengke Wang China
Shangbin Jin China
Yue‐Hua Li China
Yongwu Peng China
Fangna Dai China
Di‐Chang Zhong China
Dengrong Sun
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dengrong Sun

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sun, Dengrong, et al.. (2026). Compartmentalized structure reconstruction in metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) for efficient oxygen evolution reaction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 14(18). 10736–10744.
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Qin, Zikang, Jing Wei, Min Deng, et al.. (2025). Pebax mixed matrix membranes based on novel HOF/MOF nanofiller with simultaneous improvement in CO2 permeability and CO2/N2 selectivity. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(27). 22020–22030.
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Ren, Yuxin, et al.. (2025). Synergistic Cooperation of Active Sites in Cu-Incorporated Nitrogen-Doped Porous Carbon for CO2 Electroreduction to Ethanol. Inorganic Chemistry. 64(23). 11658–11664. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Jianying, Qian Zeng, Yao Chen, et al.. (2025). Synthesizing ZIF-8 functionalized biochar by in situ reuse of residual Zn from chemical activation for enhanced tetracycline hydrochloride adsorption removal. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 13(3). 116729–116729. 3 indexed citations
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Cheng, Chuchu, Baoxin Ge, Yaohui Xu, et al.. (2025). Charge-selective nanoconfined boron nitride membranes for ultrafast and enhanced water decontamination. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 100159–100159. 2 indexed citations
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He, Yihui, et al.. (2025). Efficient PH3 removal over Cu-doped active carbon with stable active Cu2+ species enabled by nitrogen modification. Environmental Science Nano. 12(9). 4436–4445.
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Li, Shuke, Lin Ye, Wanglai Cen, & Dengrong Sun. (2025). Electrocatalytic biomass upgrading coupled with hydrogen evolution and CO2 reduction. Nanoscale. 17(11). 6308–6328. 7 indexed citations
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Ye, Lin, Wanglai Cen, & Dengrong Sun. (2024). Recent progress on the magnetic field assisted photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 93. 1419–1428. 3 indexed citations
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Yang, Xiaoxia, et al.. (2023). Accelerating structure reconstruction to form NiOOH in metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) for boosting the oxygen evolution reaction. Nanoscale. 15(46). 18858–18863. 23 indexed citations
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Cen, Wanglai, et al.. (2023). Interfacial chemistries in metal–organic framework (MOF)/covalent–organic framework (COF) hybrids. Nanoscale. 15(32). 13187–13201. 12 indexed citations
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Liu, Zhenlu, Dengrong Sun, Changshui Wang, et al.. (2023). Zeolitic imidazolate framework-67 and its derivatives for photocatalytic applications. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 502. 215612–215612. 64 indexed citations
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Fang, Ningjie, et al.. (2023). A self-assembled 2D nanosheet II-type heterojunction photocatalyst for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Functional Materials Letters. 16(03n04). 2 indexed citations
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Ying, Yiran, Dengrong Sun, Zhouyang Zhang, et al.. (2019). Highly Efficient Porous Carbon Electrocatalyst with Controllable N‐Species Content for Selective CO2 Reduction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(8). 3244–3251. 230 indexed citations
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Ying, Yiran, Dengrong Sun, Zhouyang Zhang, et al.. (2019). Highly Efficient Porous Carbon Electrocatalyst with Controllable N‐Species Content for Selective CO2 Reduction. Angewandte Chemie. 132(8). 3270–3277. 23 indexed citations
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Zhang, Peng, Dengrong Sun, Ara Cho, et al.. (2019). Modified carbon nitride nanozyme as bifunctional glucose oxidase-peroxidase for metal-free bioinspired cascade photocatalysis. Nature Communications. 10(1). 940–940. 497 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sun, Dengrong, Lin Ye, Fangxiang Sun, Hermenegildo Garcı́a, & Zhaohui Li. (2017). From Mixed-Metal MOFs to Carbon-Coated Core–Shell Metal Alloy@Metal Oxide Solid Solutions: Transformation of Co/Ni-MOF-74 to CoxNi1–x@CoyNi1–yO@C for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Inorganic Chemistry. 56(9). 5203–5209. 102 indexed citations
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Sun, Dengrong, Wenjun Liu, Mei Qiu, Yongfan Zhang, & Zhaohui Li. (2014). Introduction of a mediator for enhancing photocatalytic performance via post-synthetic metal exchange in metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). Chemical Communications. 51(11). 2056–2059. 400 indexed citations
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Sun, Dengrong, Yanghe Fu, Wenjun Liu, et al.. (2013). Studies on Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction over NH2‐Uio‐66(Zr) and Its Derivatives: Towards a Better Understanding of Photocatalysis on Metal–Organic Frameworks. Chemistry - A European Journal. 19(42). 14279–14285. 587 indexed citations breakdown →

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