Hongtao Sun

11.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
104 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Hongtao Sun is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Hongtao Sun has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 45 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 44 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Hongtao Sun's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (54 papers), Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (36 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (31 papers). Hongtao Sun is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (54 papers), Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (36 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (31 papers). Hongtao Sun collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Hongtao Sun's co-authors include Jie Lian, Dali Shao, Mingpeng Yu, Xiang Sun, Tao Hu, Gongkai Wang, Xiangfeng Duan, Yu Huang, Guoqing Xin and Imran Shakir and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Hongtao Sun

99 papers receiving 7.2k 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.

Three-dimensional holey-graphene/niobia composite architectures for ultrahigh-rate energy storage

2017 1.3k citations Hongtao Sun, Lin Mei et al. Science profile →
Hierarchical 3D electrodes for electrochemical energy storage

2018 693 citations Hongtao Sun, Jian Zhu et al. profile →
High-rate lithiation-induced reactivation of mesoporous hollow spheres for long-lived lithium-ion batteries

2014 650 citations Hongtao Sun et al. profile →
Highly thermally conductive and mechanically strong graphene fibers

2015 625 citations Hongtao Sun, Gongkai Wang et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hongtao Sun United States	36	4.9k	3.8k	3.0k	1.1k	908	104	7.3k
Lai‐Peng Ma China	31	4.5k 0.9×	3.2k 0.8×	4.1k 1.4×	1.3k 1.2×	736 0.8×	65	7.8k
Yingpeng Wu China	38	6.4k 1.3×	3.0k 0.8×	3.2k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	1.4k 1.5×	72	9.0k
Binbin Dong China	45	5.4k 1.1×	2.4k 0.6×	2.3k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	1.6k 1.8×	155	8.6k
Wenbin Gong China	42	3.2k 0.7×	2.0k 0.5×	2.3k 0.8×	961 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	152	5.9k
Gang Shao China	52	2.7k 0.6×	4.9k 1.3×	3.3k 1.1×	889 0.8×	1.4k 1.5×	224	9.5k
Jian Yan China	39	3.3k 0.7×	3.0k 0.8×	1.8k 0.6×	892 0.8×	781 0.9×	109	5.4k
Haibo Jin China	47	3.3k 0.7×	6.6k 1.7×	2.8k 0.9×	964 0.9×	464 0.5×	109	9.9k
Jingxin Zhao China	42	3.5k 0.7×	2.6k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	1.5k 1.4×	541 0.6×	140	5.5k
Zhicheng Shi China	52	2.6k 0.5×	3.5k 0.9×	2.5k 0.8×	2.5k 2.2×	963 1.1×	173	7.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hongtao Sun

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhao, Jinhui, et al.. (2025). Active and passive high-entropy shell enabling high rate and durable sodium manganese hexacyanoferrate cathode for sodium ion batteries. Journal of Power Sources. 636. 236577–236577. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Ta‐Wei, et al.. (2025). Probing cold sintering-regulated interfaces and integration of polymer-in-ceramic solid-state electrolytes. Materials Today Energy. 49. 101829–101829. 9 indexed citations

Li, Lixia, Peng Yan, Dongxu Zhang, et al.. (2025). In Situ Formation of FeNi Nanoparticles on Polypyrrole Hydrogel for Efficient Electrocatalytic Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia. Molecules. 30(6). 1271–1271. 1 indexed citations

Sun, Hongtao, et al.. (2025). Enhancing HVAC Control Systems Using a Steady Soft Actor–Critic Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach. Buildings. 15(4). 644–644. 4 indexed citations

Gomez, Enrique D., et al.. (2025). Interface engineering and integration of ceramic-polymer composites via cold sintering process. Composites Part B Engineering. 307. 112929–112929.

Zhang, Hongfei, Jinhui Zhao, Stephen M. King, et al.. (2024). Potassium storage behavior and low-temperature performance of typical carbon anodes in potassium-ion hybrid capacitors enabled by Co-intercalation graphite chemistry. Carbon. 233. 119868–119868. 1 indexed citations

Guo, Kaixuan, Yangang Zhang, Yangang Zhang, et al.. (2024). Ti─O─C Bonding at 2D Heterointerfaces of 3D Composites for Fast Sodium Ion Storage at High Mass Loading Level. Small. 20(29). e2312167–e2312167. 10 indexed citations

Zhong, Jiang, Song Chen, Zhengwei Zhang, et al.. (2024). Coordination engineering for iron-based hexacyanoferrate as a high-stability cathode for sodium-ion batteries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(31). e2319193121–e2319193121. 9 indexed citations

Liu, Zhipeng, Chi Ma, Jing Zhang, et al.. (2024). High mechanical strength superhydrophobic colored sand prepared by a low-temperature strategy. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 194. 203–215. 3 indexed citations

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Li, Manqi, et al.. (2023). Engineering heterogeneous domains and interfaces in shape memory fibers for tunable responsive behaviors. Chemical Engineering Journal. 480. 147936–147936. 6 indexed citations

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Li, Shengyang, Hao Chen, Qiusheng Zhang, et al.. (2023). Enhanced potassium-ion storage performance of bimetallic-sulfide based on regulatory reaction mechanism. Chemical Engineering Journal. 466. 143342–143342. 19 indexed citations

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Li, Kaiwen, et al.. (2023). Improved Algorithm of Line Loss of Distribution Network Under Asymmetric Heterogeneous Load. 1–4. 1 indexed citations

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Hao, Guolin, Jinbiao Xiao, Hao Zhu, et al.. (2023). Van der waals epitaxial growth of mixed-dimensional 1D/2D heterostructures with tellurium nanowires and transition metal dichalcogenide nanosheets for nonlinear optical applications. Materials Today Physics. 34. 101069–101069. 21 indexed citations

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Shen, Xiaohua, Hongtao Sun, Bailing Li, et al.. (2023). Dual-strategy coupling driven versatile carbon-based anode for potassium-ion/potassium metal storage. Chemical Engineering Journal. 473. 145155–145155. 15 indexed citations

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Shen, Xiaohua, Jianghua Zhang, Hongtao Sun, et al.. (2023). Microenvironment engineering for guiding spatially and epitaxially uniform lithium plating in lithium metal batteries. Energy storage materials. 61. 102878–102878. 15 indexed citations

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Zhu, Guohua, et al.. (2023). Controllable growth of γ-GeSe microflakes by vapor phase deposition via rapid cooling strategy. Journal of Applied Physics. 134(12). 3 indexed citations

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Gao, Man, Jingjing Liu, Gonglan Ye, et al.. (2023). Molecular iron phthalocyanine catalysts on morphology-engineered graphene towards the oxygen reduction reaction. Science China Materials. 66(10). 3865–3874. 8 indexed citations

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Sun, Hongmin, Yongping Yang, Tinglu Song, et al.. (2022). The Active Sites and Corresponding Stability Challenges of the M‐N‐C Catalysts for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 41(6). 710–724. 19 indexed citations

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Wang, Qun, Jianying Huang, Hongtao Sun, Ke‐Qin Zhang, & Yuekun Lai. (2017). Uniform carbon dots@TiO₂ nanotube arrays with full spectrum wavelength light activation for efficient dye degradation and overall water splitting. Nanoscale. 9(41). 16046–16058. 105 indexed citations

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Sun, Hongtao, Lin Mei, Junfei Liang, et al.. (2017). Three-dimensional holey-graphene/niobia composite architectures for ultrahigh-rate energy storage. Science. 356(6338). 599–604. 1343 indexed citations breakdown →

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