Hongli Sun

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Hongli Sun is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Hongli Sun has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 18 papers in Materials Chemistry and 9 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Hongli Sun's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (24 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (6 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (4 papers). Hongli Sun is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (24 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (6 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (4 papers). Hongli Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Australia. Hongli Sun's co-authors include Po Keung Wong, Zhifeng Jiang, Tianqi Wang, Chenliang Su, Bo Wang, Kemeng Xiao, Hui Zhao, Huaming Li, Taicheng An and Qitao Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nature Communications and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Hongli Sun

35 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

  1. Atomic Co─P Catalytic Pair Drives Efficient Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia
    2024 140 citations Jiaqi Ni, Fuhua Li et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hongli Sun China 19 1.3k 975 437 170 131 37 1.5k
Libin Zeng China 24 1.1k 0.9× 760 0.8× 457 1.0× 405 2.4× 113 0.9× 52 1.6k
Shengxi Zhao China 14 618 0.5× 506 0.5× 258 0.6× 180 1.1× 126 1.0× 23 951
Huayu Gu China 17 695 0.6× 709 0.7× 289 0.7× 334 2.0× 164 1.3× 26 1.2k
Teng Wang China 21 986 0.8× 1.0k 1.1× 459 1.1× 102 0.6× 105 0.8× 49 1.5k
Yulan Han China 15 822 0.7× 1000 1.0× 345 0.8× 120 0.7× 75 0.6× 27 1.4k
Qingqing Li China 21 828 0.7× 582 0.6× 267 0.6× 467 2.7× 49 0.4× 47 1.2k
Qingli Tang China 20 429 0.3× 509 0.5× 219 0.5× 244 1.4× 141 1.1× 43 1.0k
Menghan Zhang China 16 539 0.4× 504 0.5× 264 0.6× 56 0.3× 111 0.8× 43 921

Countries citing papers authored by Hongli Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hongli Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hongli Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Hongli Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Hongli 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 Hongli Sun. Hongli 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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Gao, Mingzhong, Yidan Feng, Pingan Ni, et al.. (2025). Solar energy potential evaluation of multi-scale urban building surfaces under complex shading: A multi-dimensional analysis. Renewable Energy. 259. 125010–125010.
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Qin, Tian, et al.. (2025). Oxygen vacancy in lead‐free perovskite Cs 2 AgBiBr 6 /WO 3‐ X for enhanced photocatalytic C(sp 3 )‐H bond oxidation. Rare Metals. 44(9). 6354–6365. 1 indexed citations
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Ni, Jiaqi, Fuhua Li, Haifeng Qi, et al.. (2024). Atomic Co─P Catalytic Pair Drives Efficient Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia. Advanced Energy Materials. 14(28). 140 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xu, Xiao‐Ye, Huihui Gan, Dingnan Lu, et al.. (2024). Stable Cu (I) single copper atoms supported on porous carbon nitride nanosheets for efficient photocatalytic degradation of antibiotics. Rare Metals. 44(3). 1756–1766. 10 indexed citations
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Hai, Xiao, Minghui Xiong, Xi Zhou, et al.. (2023). Charge Density Modulation of Pyrene-Related Small Molecules by Nitrogen Heteroatoms Precisely Regulates Photocatalytic Generation of Hydrogen. ACS Nano. 17(20). 20570–20579. 25 indexed citations
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Sun, Hongli, Agnes Yuen Kwan Lai, GuangMing Tan, & Brian Yan. (2023). Therapeutic gaps in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol management have narrowed over time but remain wide: a wide study of 40,141 acute coronary syndrome patients from 2016 to 2021. European Heart Journal. 44(Supplement_2). 1 indexed citations
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Ma, Yunfei, Hongli Sun, Zailun Liu, et al.. (2023). Driving hydrogen peroxide artificial photosynthesis and utilization for emerging contaminants removal by cyanided polymeric carbon nitride. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 335. 122878–122878. 35 indexed citations
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Sun, Hongli, et al.. (2022). Recent advances in nature-inspired nanocatalytic reduction of organic molecules with water. Nano Research. 15(12). 10292–10315. 12 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhaofei, Yangsen Xu, Qitao Zhang, et al.. (2021). Semi-heterogeneous photo-Cu-dual-catalytic cross-coupling reactions using polymeric carbon nitrides. Science Bulletin. 67(1). 71–78. 58 indexed citations
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Zhao, Hui, Zhifeng Jiang, Kemeng Xiao, et al.. (2020). Photo-assisted separation of noble-metal-free oxidation and reduction cocatalysts for graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets with efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 280. 119456–119456. 119 indexed citations
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Xiao, Kemeng, Tianqi Wang, Mingzhe Sun, et al.. (2019). Photocatalytic Bacterial Inactivation by a Rape Pollen-MoS2 Biohybrid Catalyst: Synergetic Effects and Inactivation Mechanisms. Environmental Science & Technology. 54(1). 537–549. 94 indexed citations
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Jiang, Zhifeng, Bo Wang, Yan Li, et al.. (2019). Solar-light-driven rapid water disinfection by ultrathin magnesium titanate/carbon nitride hybrid photocatalyst: Band structure analysis and role of reactive oxygen species. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 257. 117898–117898. 54 indexed citations
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Sun, Hongli, Dan Wu, Zhifeng Jiang, et al.. (2019). Structure defects promoted exciton dissociation and carrier separation for enhancing photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 264. 118480–118480. 61 indexed citations
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Li, Linghui, Yan Li, Yanzhang Li, et al.. (2019). Natural wolframite as a novel visible-light photocatalyst towards organics degradation and bacterial inactivation. Catalysis Today. 358. 177–183. 17 indexed citations
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Jiang, Zhifeng, Hongli Sun, Tianqi Wang, et al.. (2018). Nature-based catalyst for visible-light-driven photocatalytic CO2 reduction. Energy & Environmental Science. 11(9). 2382–2389. 239 indexed citations
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Sun, Hongli, Ho Yin Yip, Zhifeng Jiang, et al.. (2018). Facile synthesis of oxygen defective yolk–shell BiO2−x for visible-light-driven photocatalytic inactivation of Escherichia coli. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 6(12). 4997–5005. 47 indexed citations
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Wang, Tianqi, Zhifeng Jiang, Ka Him Chu, et al.. (2018). X‐Shaped α‐FeOOH with Enhanced Charge Separation for Visible‐Light‐Driven Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting. ChemSusChem. 11(8). 1365–1373. 54 indexed citations
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Sun, Hongli, Zhifeng Jiang, Dan Wu, et al.. (2018). Defect‐Type‐Dependent Near‐Infrared‐Driven Photocatalytic Bacterial Inactivation by Defective Bi2S3 nanorods. ChemSusChem. 12(4). 890–897. 83 indexed citations
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Jiang, Zhifeng, Kun Qian, Chengzhang Zhu, et al.. (2017). Carbon nitride coupled with CdS-TiO2 nanodots as 2D/0D ternary composite with enhanced photocatalytic H2 evolution: A novel efficient three-level electron transfer process. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 210. 194–204. 142 indexed citations
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Sun, Hongli, Feng Jiang, Lin Chen, et al.. (2013). Determination of Three Phthalate Esters in Environmental Samples by Coal Cinder Extraction and Cyclodextrin Modified Micellar Electrokinetic Chromatography. Journal of Chromatographic Science. 52(6). 547–552. 10 indexed citations

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