Kai Sun

16.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
331 papers, 13.9k citations indexed

About

Kai Sun is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Sun has authored 331 papers receiving a total of 13.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 182 papers in Materials Chemistry, 128 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 71 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Kai Sun's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (41 papers), ZnO doping and properties (35 papers) and GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials (32 papers). Kai Sun is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (41 papers), ZnO doping and properties (35 papers) and GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials (32 papers). Kai Sun collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Kai Sun's co-authors include Yun Hang Hu, Nicholas A. Kotov, Zetian Mi, Peifu Cheng, Y. Ming, Yixin Xiao, Jiye Fang, Ping Wang, Ishtiaque Ahmed Navid and Zhengwei Ye and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Kai Sun

317 papers receiving 13.6k 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.

Solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of more than 9% in photocatalytic water splitting

2023 920 citations Peng Zhou, Ishtiaque Ahmed Navid et al. profile →
Radiation-induced segregation on defect clusters in single-phase concentrated solid-solution alloys

2017 262 citations Kai Sun et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Kai Sun	7.6k	5.4k	3.8k	2.2k	2.0k	331	13.9k
Zhongchang Wang	7.4k 1.0×	6.4k 1.2×	2.6k 0.7×	2.0k 0.9×	2.4k 1.2×	378	13.5k
Rongkun Zheng	7.2k 0.9×	4.8k 0.9×	2.9k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	4.1k 2.0×	371	12.9k
Lei Fu	9.9k 1.3×	6.8k 1.3×	3.0k 0.8×	3.4k 1.5×	2.6k 1.3×	364	16.8k
Sarah J. Haigh	11.2k 1.5×	5.7k 1.1×	2.3k 0.6×	4.1k 1.9×	1.9k 0.9×	313	16.4k
Cong Wang	5.9k 0.8×	4.5k 0.8×	2.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	2.2k 1.1×	538	10.9k
Feng Huang	13.0k 1.7×	7.4k 1.4×	5.1k 1.3×	1.9k 0.9×	4.5k 2.2×	379	17.9k
Rongming Wang	8.4k 1.1×	7.3k 1.4×	4.3k 1.1×	2.1k 0.9×	4.8k 2.3×	350	15.0k
Yonggang Wang	6.3k 0.8×	5.9k 1.1×	2.2k 0.6×	2.9k 1.3×	2.0k 1.0×	546	13.6k
Agustín R. González‐Elipe	9.1k 1.2×	6.2k 1.2×	3.8k 1.0×	2.1k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	521	15.9k
N. S. McIntyre	7.8k 1.0×	5.0k 0.9×	3.9k 1.0×	2.5k 1.1×	1.8k 0.9×	187	15.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Sun

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Sun

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Zhang, Jie, Md. Tanvir Hasan, Ding Wang, et al.. (2025). High-temperature memory devices based on ferroelectric ScAlN/AlGaN/GaN high-electron-mobility transistors. Device. 3(9). 100845–100845. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Xiao, Wenzhe Niu, Kai Sun, et al.. (2025). Enhanced Water Dissociation Boosting Sodium Borohydride Hydrolysis on Ru‐Modified CoMoB Catalyst. ChemCatChem. 17(15). 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Jie, Md. Tanvir Hasan, Shubham Mondal, et al.. (2025). Beryllium-incorporated ScAlN/GaN HEMTs with low off-current and high current stress stability. Applied Physics Letters. 127(2).

Yan, Qisheng, Cheng Liu, Kai Sun, et al.. (2025). Ionomer engineering for optimized water channels in industry-scale water electrolysis using non-noble metal catalyst. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10201–10201.

Wang, Jing, Brian Macdonald, Tae H. Cho, et al.. (2024). Bioinspired Zwitterionic Nanowires with Simultaneous Biofouling Reduction and Release. Small. 20(40). e2400784–e2400784. 8 indexed citations

Liu, Boyang, Chenglong Li, Xuejin Chen, et al.. (2024). Oxidative foaming plus in-situ activation and template synthesis of hierarchical porous carbon for high-performance supercapacitors. Advanced Powder Technology. 35(10). 104617–104617. 3 indexed citations

Song, Miao, Kevin G. Field, Kai Sun, & Gary S. Was. (2024). Extending damage accumulation of commercial reactor irradiated 316 stainless steel with ion irradiation. Journal of Nuclear Materials. 593. 154989–154989. 4 indexed citations

Navid, Ishtiaque Ahmed, et al.. (2024). Structural and optical characterization of dilute Bi-doped GaN nanostructures grown by molecular beam epitaxy. APL Materials. 12(2). 3 indexed citations

Li, Jonathan, et al.. (2023). Selective-area growth of GaN and AlGaN nanowires on N-polar GaN templates with 4° miscut by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy. Journal of Crystal Growth. 611. 127181–127181. 3 indexed citations

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Shrestha, Ashok K., David C. Ingram, Kai Sun, et al.. (2023). Exploring the interfacial structure and crystallinity for direct growth of Mn3Sn(0001) on sapphire (0001) by molecular beam epitaxy. Surfaces and Interfaces. 42. 103379–103379. 1 indexed citations

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Zhou, Peng, Songtao Tang, Zhengwei Ye, et al.. (2023). Water-promoted selective photocatalytic methane oxidation for methanol production. Chemical Science. 15(4). 1505–1510. 10 indexed citations

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Sun, Kai, et al.. (2023). Electrical and Structural Analysis of β‐Ga₂O₃/GaN Wafer‐Bonded Heterojunctions with a ZnO Interlayer. Advanced Electronic Materials. 9(8). 4 indexed citations

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Sun, Kai, et al.. (2023). Highly sensitive NO2 gas sensor based on ZnO nanoarray modulated by oxygen vacancy with Ce doping. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 379. 133294–133294. 101 indexed citations

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Li, Jianjun, Kuan Zhang, Salamat Ali, et al.. (2023). Ru modulates the catalytic activity of Pt to modify WO3 nanowires for high-performance hydrogen sensing at near room temperature. Applied Surface Science. 615. 156286–156286. 12 indexed citations

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Li, Jingxian, Kai Sun, Joshua D. Sugar, et al.. (2022). Nonvolatile Electrochemical Random‐Access Memory under Short Circuit. Advanced Electronic Materials. 9(1). 16 indexed citations

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Fang, Siyuan, Wei Zhang, Kai Sun, et al.. (2022). Critical role of tetracycline's self-promotion effects in its visible-light driven photocatalytic degradation over ZnO nanorods. Chemosphere. 309(Pt 1). 136691–136691. 10 indexed citations

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Peng, Bo, Kai Sun, Jiangang Yu, et al.. (2022). First principles investigation of photoelectric properties of Ga2O3 Doped with group IV elements (Si,Ge,Sn). Materials Today Communications. 34. 105127–105127. 13 indexed citations

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Liu, F.C., Pingsha Dong, Jianyu Zhang, et al.. (2020). Alloy amorphization through nanoscale shear localization at Al-Fe interface. Materials Today Physics. 15. 100252–100252. 29 indexed citations

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Cai, Chao, Shaobo Han, Wei Liu, et al.. (2019). Tuning catalytic performance by controlling reconstruction process in operando condition. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 260. 118103–118103. 75 indexed citations

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Jiang, Miao, Chenhui Peng, Kai Sun, et al.. (2016). Designs of Plasmonic Metamasks for Photopatterning Molecular Orientations in Liquid Crystals. Crystals. 7(1). 8–8. 33 indexed citations

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