Kaihang Sun

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Kaihang Sun is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Catalysis and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Kaihang Sun has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Materials Chemistry, 33 papers in Catalysis and 30 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Kaihang Sun's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (37 papers), Catalysts for Methane Reforming (28 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (23 papers). Kaihang Sun is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (37 papers), Catalysts for Methane Reforming (28 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (23 papers). Kaihang Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, South Korea and United States. Kaihang Sun's co-authors include Changjun Liu, Ning Rui, Chenyang Shen, Qingfeng Ge, Jingyun Ye, Xinyu Jia, Zongyuan Wang, Donghai Mei, Zhitao Zhang and Rui Zou and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nature Communications and Advanced Functional Materials.

In The Last Decade

Kaihang Sun

48 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

CO2 hydrogenation to methanol over Pd/In2O3: effects of Pd and oxygen vacancy

2017 594 citations Ning Rui, Zongyuan Wang et al. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kaihang Sun China	25	2.6k	2.5k	1.3k	979	363	50	3.4k
Nikita Dewangan Singapore	30	2.2k 0.9×	1.9k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	371 0.4×	673 1.9×	38	3.2k
Jangam Ashok Singapore	28	1.9k 0.8×	2.0k 0.8×	413 0.3×	397 0.4×	687 1.9×	37	2.7k
Fagen Wang China	48	4.2k 1.7×	3.7k 1.5×	1.6k 1.3×	403 0.4×	853 2.3×	96	5.1k
Beñat Pereda‐Ayo Spain	29	2.3k 0.9×	2.3k 0.9×	411 0.3×	505 0.5×	1.0k 2.9×	69	2.9k
Carmen Bacariza Portugal	23	1.2k 0.5×	1.3k 0.5×	324 0.3×	656 0.7×	360 1.0×	34	1.7k
Yasotha Kathiraser Singapore	27	2.8k 1.1×	2.6k 1.1×	455 0.4×	223 0.2×	726 2.0×	28	3.5k
Weibo Gong United States	16	1.2k 0.5×	1.3k 0.5×	480 0.4×	638 0.7×	392 1.1×	22	1.9k
Gabriella Garbarino Italy	33	2.1k 0.8×	2.0k 0.8×	359 0.3×	634 0.6×	914 2.5×	90	3.0k
Minghuang Qiu China	23	1.5k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	572 0.5×	685 0.7×	456 1.3×	35	2.3k
Chengguang Yang China	26	2.6k 1.0×	1.9k 0.8×	620 0.5×	846 0.9×	576 1.6×	42	3.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kaihang Sun

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Dai, Yuanyuan, Kaihang Sun, Longzhou Zhang, et al.. (2025). Spotting critical point from atomic sites to heterointerfaces on catalysts by oxygen adsorption energy-regulated luminescence. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9067–9067.

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Liu, Qiufeng, Kaihang Sun, Kun Lü, et al.. (2025). Regulating the Cu+ distribution by the controllable metal-support interaction via thermal treatment for boosting reverse water–gas shift reaction. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 688. 517–525. 1 indexed citations

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Deng, Jianyuan, Rui Li, Kun Xiang, et al.. (2025). Superior matching between electrochemical and non-electrochemical reactions to boost furfural electro-oxidation. Chemical Engineering Journal. 511. 162214–162214. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Huiyan, et al.. (2024). Highly effective Pt-Pd/ZSM-22 catalysts prepared by the room temperature electron reduction method for the n-hexadecane hydroisomerization. Fuel Processing Technology. 262. 108117–108117. 5 indexed citations

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Wang, Haiyang, Cai‐Yan Gao, Baojun Li, et al.. (2024). Pt-Ru atomic alloys confined in mesoporous carbon hollow spheres for accelerating methanol oxidation. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 678(Pt B). 1004–1011. 5 indexed citations

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Sun, Kaihang, Rui Zou, Chenyang Shen, & Changjun Liu. (2024). Exploration of the active sites on a Rh–In₂O₃ catalyst for the semi-hydrogenation of acetylene: a theoretical study. Catalysis Science & Technology. 14(11). 3041–3049. 2 indexed citations

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Shen, Chenyang, Xinyu Meng, Rui Zou, et al.. (2024). Boosted Sacrificial‐Agent‐Free Selective Photoreduction of CO₂ to CH₃OH by Rhenium Atomically Dispersed on Indium Oxide. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(18). e202402369–e202402369. 41 indexed citations

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Pang, Qingqing, Kaihang Sun, Kun Xiang, et al.. (2024). Enhancement effect from ReS2/Co9S8 heterostructure evolution for the highly effective furfural oxidation coupling with hydrogen production. Chemical Engineering Journal. 497. 154475–154475. 3 indexed citations

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Wu, Qinglei, Chenyang Shen, Kaihang Sun, Menghui Liu, & Changjun Liu. (2024). Selective hydrogenation of acetylene over Pd/In2O3@SiO2: The effect of the catalyst reduction temperature. Chemical Engineering Journal. 486. 150333–150333. 15 indexed citations

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Shen, Chenyang, Xinyu Meng, Rui Zou, et al.. (2024). Boosted Sacrificial‐Agent‐Free Selective Photoreduction of CO₂ to CH₃OH by Rhenium Atomically Dispersed on Indium Oxide. Angewandte Chemie. 136(18). 4 indexed citations

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Shen, Chenyang, Kaihang Sun, Xinbin Ma, et al.. (2024). CO2 hydrogenation to methanol over the copper promoted In2O3 catalyst. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 93. 135–145. 54 indexed citations

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Shen, Chenyang, et al.. (2024). Highly active ternary Ir/In2O3-ZrO2 catalyst for CO2 hydrogenation towards methanol: The role of zirconia. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 361. 124683–124683. 11 indexed citations

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Peng, Zhikun, Siying Li, Rui Li, et al.. (2023). A dynamic structure evolution and reaction pathway over Ni2P for enhancement toward furfural oxidation. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 342. 123450–123450. 21 indexed citations

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Pang, Qingqing, Kaihang Sun, Kun Xiang, et al.. (2023). The identification of dual active routes for highly efficient furfural oxidation reaction coupling with hydrogen production over Re modulated Co(OH)2/CC. Chemical Engineering Journal. 469. 143995–143995. 13 indexed citations

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Sun, Kaihang, Qinglong Wang, Jinyu Huang, et al.. (2023). Elucidating the roles of acid site on benzene production from methane dehydroaromatization over the supported Mo catalysts. Chemical Physics Letters. 825. 140619–140619. 4 indexed citations

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Pang, Qingqing, Kaihang Sun, Kun Xiang, et al.. (2023). Advanced progress of rhenium (Re)-based electrode materials in electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution: a review. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(27). 14451–14468. 14 indexed citations

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Wu, Qinglei, Chenyang Shen, Ning Rui, Kaihang Sun, & Changjun Liu. (2021). Experimental and theoretical studies of CO2 hydrogenation to methanol on Ru/In2O3. Journal of CO2 Utilization. 53. 101720–101720. 104 indexed citations

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Sun, Kaihang, Zhitao Zhang, Chenyang Shen, Ning Rui, & Changjun Liu. (2021). The feasibility study of the indium oxide supported silver catalyst for selective hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol. Green Energy & Environment. 7(4). 807–817. 85 indexed citations

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Huang, Xiaowu, Kaihang Sun, Qiaoyan Wei, et al.. (2016). One-stage partial nitritation and anammox in membrane bioreactor. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 23(11). 11149–11162. 38 indexed citations

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Wang, Zongyuan, Jiajun Wang, Minyue Li, Kaihang Sun, & Changjun Liu. (2014). Three-dimensional Printed Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene Framework Coated with Cu-BTC Metal-organic Frameworks for the Removal of Methylene Blue. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 5939–5939. 149 indexed citations

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