Lei Sun

9.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
101 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

About

Lei Sun is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Lei Sun has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Materials Chemistry, 40 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 28 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Lei Sun's work include Magnetism in coordination complexes (28 papers), Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (26 papers) and Organic and Molecular Conductors Research (17 papers). Lei Sun is often cited by papers focused on Magnetism in coordination complexes (28 papers), Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (26 papers) and Organic and Molecular Conductors Research (17 papers). Lei Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Lei Sun's co-authors include Mircea Dincă, Michael G. Campbell, Dennis Sheberla, Christopher H. Hendon, Sarah S. Park, Aron Walsh, Martin A. Blood-Forsythe, Casey R. Wade, Carl K. Brozek and Alán Aspuru‐Guzik and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Lei Sun

97 papers receiving 8.1k 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.

Electrically Conductive Porous Metal–Organic Frameworks

2016 1.6k citations Lei Sun, Mircea Dincă et al. profile →
High Electrical Conductivity in Ni₃(2,3,6,7,10,11-hexaiminotriphenylene)₂, a Semiconducting Metal–Organic Graphene Analogue

2014 1.0k citations Lei Sun, Mircea Dincă et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Electrochemical oxygen reduction catalysed by Ni3(hexaiminotriphenylene)2

2016 632 citations Lei Sun, Mircea Dincă et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lei Sun China	34	4.6k	4.4k	2.6k	2.4k	1.3k	101	8.2k
Daliang Zhang China	44	4.4k 0.9×	6.0k 1.4×	2.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.5×	1.9k 1.5×	143	9.5k
Yue‐Peng Cai China	49	2.8k 0.6×	2.9k 0.7×	3.6k 1.4×	2.1k 0.9×	754 0.6×	219	8.0k
Wei‐Xiong Zhang China	60	8.0k 1.7×	8.5k 2.0×	2.9k 1.1×	6.5k 2.7×	1.2k 0.9×	202	13.3k
Guillermo Mı́nguez Espallargas Spain	38	3.5k 0.7×	4.4k 1.0×	3.2k 1.2×	2.3k 0.9×	378 0.3×	99	7.7k
He‐Rui Wen China	46	3.5k 0.7×	5.4k 1.2×	2.5k 0.9×	2.5k 1.0×	870 0.7×	296	8.0k
Kunio Awaga Japan	51	2.2k 0.5×	5.6k 1.3×	3.1k 1.2×	5.5k 2.3×	609 0.5×	330	10.2k
Carlos Martí‐Gastaldo Spain	47	3.8k 0.8×	5.2k 1.2×	1.1k 0.4×	3.1k 1.3×	779 0.6×	143	7.6k
Anthony K. Burrell United States	61	2.0k 0.4×	6.1k 1.4×	6.5k 2.5×	2.2k 0.9×	1.5k 1.1×	258	13.1k
Vladimir K. Michaelis Canada	47	1.8k 0.4×	4.4k 1.0×	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	936 0.7×	158	6.8k
Mirosław Mączka Poland	50	1.7k 0.4×	7.5k 1.7×	4.8k 1.8×	4.1k 1.7×	570 0.4×	416	9.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lei Sun

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wang, R. L. C., Lei Sun, Yuhua Ma, et al.. (2025). Boosting carrier separation through the synergistic action of Zr-O-P bonds and oxygen vacancies in the ZrO2/P heterojunction for sensitive detection of tetracycline. Microchemical Journal. 209. 112780–112780. 2 indexed citations

Zhou, Ai-Mei, Yin Yang, Christopher Melnychuk, et al.. (2025). Telecom-Luminescent and Room Temperature Coherent Tetrathiafulvalene-Based Qubits in Spin-Rich Solids. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(52). 47985–47996.

Wang, Yingchao, et al.. (2024). Atmospheric modulation of apparent electrical conductivity in a metal−organic framework. Communications Materials. 5(1). 2 indexed citations

Zhao, Taotao, Lei Sun, Wenxuan Fan, et al.. (2024). Bio-inspired sinusoidally-waved flow fields with exchange channels to enhance PEMFC performance. Fuel. 367. 131552–131552. 25 indexed citations

Huang, Xing, Yunlong Fan, Shaoze Wang, et al.. (2024). Synthesis and structure of a non-van-der-Waals two-dimensional coordination polymer with superconductivity. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9342–9342. 17 indexed citations

Qiu, Jiawei, Laura Abella, Josep M. Poblet, et al.. (2024). CaY@C_2n: Exploring Molecular Qubits with Ca–Y Metal–Metal Bonds. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(35). 24310–24319. 9 indexed citations

Zhu, Yangyang, et al.. (2024). Controlled synthesis of Au@TiO2 mesoporous hollow nanofibers by one-step polyethylenimine-regulated electrospinning method for efficiently photocatalytic oxidation of CO. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 354. 124112–124112. 10 indexed citations

Wang, Shaoze, et al.. (2024). Emergent Physics in Metal−Organic Frameworks. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 42(20). 2514–2519. 2 indexed citations

Sun, Lei, et al.. (2023). Visible-light-induced photocatalyst-free dearomative amidation of phenol derivatives. Tetrahedron Letters. 128. 154637–154637. 3 indexed citations

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Chen, Jia‐Shiang, Lei Sun, Matthew D. Krzyaniak, et al.. (2023). Long-lived electronic spin qubits in single-walled carbon nanotubes. Nature Communications. 14(1). 848–848. 21 indexed citations

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Sun, Lei, Luming Yang, Jin‐Hu Dou, et al.. (2022). Room-Temperature Quantitative Quantum Sensing of Lithium Ions with a Radical-Embedded Metal–Organic Framework. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(41). 19008–19016. 54 indexed citations

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Qian, Yong, Shuai Zhang, Xingyu Wang, et al.. (2022). NIR-II responsive PEGylated nickel nanoclusters for photothermal enhanced chemodynamic synergistic oncotherapy. Theranostics. 12(8). 3690–3702. 28 indexed citations

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Ziebel, Michael E., Lei Sun, T. Pearson, et al.. (2021). Strong Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy Arising from Metal–Ligand Covalency in a Metal–Organic Candidate for 2D Magnetic Order. Chemistry of Materials. 33(22). 8712–8721. 9 indexed citations

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Sun, Lei, Dan Lv, Wei Wang, Zhong-yue Gao, & Bo-chen Li. (2021). Thermodynamic and magnetocaloric properties of a triple-layer graphene-like structure. Physica Scripta. 96(7). 75809–75809. 20 indexed citations

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Sun, Lei & Wei Wang. (2020). Dynamic magnetic properties of Ising graphene-like monolayer. Communications in Theoretical Physics. 72(11). 115703–115703. 24 indexed citations

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Liu, Lujia, Jordan A. DeGayner, Lei Sun, David Z. Zee, & T. David Harris. (2019). Reversible redox switching of magnetic order and electrical conductivity in a 2D manganese benzoquinoid framework. Chemical Science. 10(17). 4652–4661. 65 indexed citations

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Sun, Lei, Christopher H. Hendon, & Mircea Dincă. (2018). Coordination-induced reversible electrical conductivity variation in the MOF-74 analogue Fe₂(DSBDC). Dalton Transactions. 47(34). 11739–11743. 29 indexed citations

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Xie, Lilia S., Lei Sun, Ruomeng Wan, et al.. (2018). Tunable Mixed-Valence Doping toward Record Electrical Conductivity in a Three-Dimensional Metal–Organic Framework. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(24). 7411–7414. 232 indexed citations

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DeGayner, Jordan A., Ie‐Rang Jeon, Lei Sun, Mircea Dincă, & T. David Harris. (2017). 2D Conductive Iron-Quinoid Magnets Ordering up to T_c = 105 K via Heterogenous Redox Chemistry. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(11). 4175–4184. 219 indexed citations

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Sun, Lei, Christopher H. Hendon, Sarah S. Park, et al.. (2017). Is iron unique in promoting electrical conductivity in MOFs?. Chemical Science. 8(6). 4450–4457. 204 indexed citations

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