Kang Sun

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Kang Sun is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kang Sun has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 14 papers in Molecular Biology and 14 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kang Sun's work include 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (8 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (8 papers) and Electrochemical sensors and biosensors (7 papers). Kang Sun is often cited by papers focused on 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (8 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (8 papers) and Electrochemical sensors and biosensors (7 papers). Kang Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Sweden and United States. Kang Sun's co-authors include Xingyu Jiang, Shutao Wang, Lei Jiang, Pengchao Zhang, Jingxin Meng, Seung Hyun Hur, Le T. Hoa, Jun‐Bing Fan, Yingying Li and Dingbin Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Kang Sun

57 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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.

An asymmetric RE–O–Ru unit with bridged oxygen vacancies accelerates deprotonation during acidic water oxidation

2025 34 citations Caikang Wang, Xiangrui Wu et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kang Sun China	22	890	657	529	450	271	59	2.2k
Joon Won Park South Korea	29	801 0.9×	1.0k 1.6×	727 1.4×	760 1.7×	162 0.6×	111	3.1k
Kosuke Minami Japan	26	850 1.0×	563 0.9×	604 1.1×	1.1k 2.5×	473 1.7×	68	2.4k
Dong‐Sik Shin South Korea	27	864 1.0×	994 1.5×	302 0.6×	337 0.7×	204 0.8×	89	2.1k
Shou‐Jun Xiao China	27	1000 1.1×	1.1k 1.6×	503 1.0×	695 1.5×	319 1.2×	95	2.7k
Sandeep S. Karajanagi United States	17	642 0.7×	452 0.7×	463 0.9×	723 1.6×	271 1.0×	19	1.7k
Fang Cheng China	27	836 0.9×	678 1.0×	364 0.7×	308 0.7×	311 1.1×	116	2.2k
Edmondo Battista Italy	24	800 0.9×	405 0.6×	213 0.4×	272 0.6×	368 1.4×	56	1.6k
Javier Reguera Spain	31	1.2k 1.3×	609 0.9×	298 0.6×	996 2.2×	826 3.0×	53	3.0k
Fotios M. Andreopoulos United States	23	511 0.6×	518 0.8×	139 0.3×	520 1.2×	524 1.9×	50	2.0k
Yanan Sun China	27	1.2k 1.3×	501 0.8×	432 0.8×	766 1.7×	526 1.9×	73	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Kang Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kang Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Kang Sun. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Kang Sun. The network helps show where Kang Sun may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kang Sun

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yin, Haoran, et al.. (2025). Improving CO2 solubility in a hybrid sorbent of 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide/mesoporous titanium dioxide/water with confinement effect. Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering. 80. 100–109.

Wang, Caikang, Xiangrui Wu, Hao Sun, et al.. (2025). An asymmetric RE–O–Ru unit with bridged oxygen vacancies accelerates deprotonation during acidic water oxidation. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(9). 4276–4287. 34 indexed citations breakdown →

Yin, Haoran, Dong Zhou, Kang Sun, et al.. (2025). Kinetic study on the promotion of CO2 absorption in aqueous N-methyldiethanolamine by amino-functionalized ionic liquids. Separation and Purification Technology. 362. 131707–131707. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Wen, et al.. (2025). Heteroatom-doped porous activated carbon from fir sawdust: Tunable pore structures for efficient CO2 and tetracycline adsorption. Chemical Engineering Science. 321. 122886–122886.

Zhou, Jiewen, Ruihao Yang, Jing Chu, et al.. (2024). Rapid virus inactivation by nanoparticles-embedded photodynamic surfaces. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 679(Pt B). 609–618. 4 indexed citations

Zeng, Yi, et al.. (2023). Principles on symbiosis for natural life and living artificial intelligence. AI and Ethics. 5(1). 81–86. 2 indexed citations

Zeng, Yi, et al.. (2021). Declaration on the ethics of brain–computer interfaces and augment intelligence. AI and Ethics. 1(3). 209–211. 5 indexed citations

Zhang, Li, Xuemeng Li, Yangyang Wang, et al.. (2018). Reproducible Plasmonic Nanopyramid Array of Various Metals for Highly Sensitive Refractometric and Surface-Enhanced Raman Biosensing. ACS Omega. 3(10). 14181–14187. 12 indexed citations

Wang, Ao, Rongrong Zhou, Lin Zhou, et al.. (2017). Positively charged phthalocyanine-arginine conjugates as efficient photosensitizer for photodynamic therapy. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 25(5). 1643–1651. 14 indexed citations

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Sun, Kang, et al.. (2017). Structural insights into ankyrin repeat–mediated recognition of the kinesin motor protein KIF21A by KANK1, a scaffold protein in focal adhesion. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 293(6). 1944–1956. 22 indexed citations

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Wang, Hongjian, Zhipeng Chen, Bin Liu, et al.. (2017). Needleless electrospray of magnetic film from magnetization-induced cone array. Materials and Manufacturing Processes. 33(10). 1115–1120. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Ao, Rongrong Zhou, Lin Zhou, et al.. (2016). Arginine‐Substituted Phthalocyanine with Concentration‐Driven Self‐Disaggregation Performance: Synthesis, Properties and Mechanistic Study. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 11(21). 3008–3013. 4 indexed citations

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Sun, Kang, Jin Suk Chung, & Seung Hyun Hur. (2015). Durability Improvement of Pt/RGO Catalysts for PEMFC by Low-Temperature Self-Catalyzed Reduction. Nanoscale Research Letters. 10(1). 963–963. 19 indexed citations

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Chen, Haiyan, Bowen Li, Min Zhang, et al.. (2014). Characterization of tumor-targeting Ag₂S quantum dots for cancer imaging and therapy in vivo. Nanoscale. 6(21). 12580–12590. 62 indexed citations

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Zheng, Wenfu, Yunyan Xie, Kang Sun, et al.. (2014). An on-chip study on the influence of geometrical confinement and chemical gradient on cell polarity. Biomicrofluidics. 8(5). 52010–52010. 7 indexed citations

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Sun, Kang, Hongliang Liu, Shutao Wang, & Lei Jiang. (2013). Cytophilic/Cytophobic Design of Nanomaterials at Biointerfaces. Small. 9(9-10). 1444–1448. 15 indexed citations

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Dai, Yunrong, et al.. (2013). Enhanced sorption of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) on carbon nanotube-filled electrospun nanofibrous membranes. Chemosphere. 93(8). 1593–1599. 35 indexed citations

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Liu, Dingbin, Wenwen Chen, Kang Sun, et al.. (2011). Resettable, Multi‐Readout Logic Gates Based on Controllably Reversible Aggregation of Gold Nanoparticles. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 50(18). 4103–4107. 220 indexed citations

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Liu, Wenwen, Zhuo Huang, Long Chen, et al.. (2010). Development of neurons on micropatterns reveals that growth cone responds to a sharp change of concentration of laminin. Electrophoresis. 31(18). 3144–3151. 19 indexed citations

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Sun, Kang, Zongxing Wang, & Xingyu Jiang. (2008). Modular microfluidics for gradient generation. Lab on a Chip. 8(9). 1536–1536. 70 indexed citations

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