Ling Sun

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Ling Sun is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Ling Sun has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Materials Chemistry, 14 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 11 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Ling Sun's work include Graphene research and applications (11 papers), Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications (10 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (8 papers). Ling Sun is often cited by papers focused on Graphene research and applications (11 papers), Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications (10 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (8 papers). Ling Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Japan and United States. Ling Sun's co-authors include Bunshi Fugetsu, Adavan Kiliyankil Vipin, Hongwen Yu, Yanqing Wang, Liqiang Jing, Ziqing Zhang, Ji Bian, Zhijun Li, Can Pan and Dongyan Tang and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ling Sun

31 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Surface modification methods and mechanisms in carbon nan... 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 40 80 120
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.

  1. Surface modification methods and mechanisms in carbon nanotubes dispersion
    2023 134 citations Caiqin Gao, Mingyi Guo et al. Carbon profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ling Sun China 22 1.1k 572 570 497 244 32 1.8k
Guiyun Yi China 25 917 0.9× 684 1.2× 440 0.8× 919 1.8× 319 1.3× 93 2.1k
Shengming Jin China 20 764 0.7× 482 0.8× 211 0.4× 587 1.2× 222 0.9× 67 1.6k
Gururaj M. Neelgund United States 25 837 0.8× 477 0.8× 695 1.2× 312 0.6× 240 1.0× 54 1.8k
Osama A. Fouad Egypt 24 1.0k 1.0× 471 0.8× 251 0.4× 711 1.4× 152 0.6× 71 1.9k
Peng Cui China 23 807 0.8× 490 0.9× 551 1.0× 569 1.1× 471 1.9× 84 1.8k
Guolei Xiang China 27 1.4k 1.3× 660 1.2× 417 0.7× 578 1.2× 153 0.6× 70 2.3k
Ahmad Tayyebi South Korea 30 1.2k 1.1× 1.2k 2.1× 339 0.6× 684 1.4× 179 0.7× 47 1.9k
Like Ouyang China 29 1.4k 1.3× 720 1.3× 294 0.5× 416 0.8× 226 0.9× 47 2.2k
Xiaoyi Hu China 20 1.0k 1.0× 1.2k 2.2× 649 1.1× 997 2.0× 405 1.7× 39 2.4k
Apurba Sinhamahapatra India 28 1.6k 1.5× 1.0k 1.8× 344 0.6× 584 1.2× 99 0.4× 48 2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Ling Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ling Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ling 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 Ling Sun. The network helps show where Ling Sun may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ling Sun

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wang, Beibei, Ling Sun, Kai Liu, et al.. (2025). Simple, sensitive and specific detection method for polystyrene nanoplastics in food matrix based on peptide-modified Fe3O4@Au magnetic nanoparticles. Current Research in Food Science. 11. 101148–101148. 1 indexed citations
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Han, Chang Bao, et al.. (2023). Electro-injection-enhanced catalytic formaldehyde degradation based on conductive MnO cellulose aerogels at room temperature. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 334. 122837–122837. 22 indexed citations
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Sun, Ling, Yingying Chu, Jing Wang, et al.. (2023). Ultrasonication-Tailored Graphene Oxide of Varying Sizes in Multiple-Equilibrium-Route-Enhanced Adsorption for Aqueous Removal of Acridine Orange. Molecules. 28(10). 4179–4179. 3 indexed citations
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Gao, Caiqin, Mingyi Guo, Yukang Liu, et al.. (2023). Surface modification methods and mechanisms in carbon nanotubes dispersion. Carbon. 212. 118133–118133. 134 indexed citations breakdown →
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Deng, Wenjie, Zilong Zheng, Jingzhen Li, et al.. (2022). Electrically tunable two-dimensional heterojunctions for miniaturized near-infrared spectrometers. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4627–4627. 98 indexed citations
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Bian, Ji, Ling Sun, Ziqing Zhang, et al.. (2021). Au-Modulated Z-Scheme CuPc/BiVO4 Nanosheet Heterojunctions toward Efficient CO2 Conversion under Wide-Visible-Light Irradiation. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 9(5). 2400–2408. 32 indexed citations
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Bian, Ji, Ziqing Zhang, Jiannan Feng, et al.. (2021). Energy Platform for Directed Charge Transfer in the Cascade Z‐Scheme Heterojunction: CO2 Photoreduction without a Cocatalyst. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(38). 20906–20914. 202 indexed citations
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Bian, Ji, Jiannan Feng, Ziqing Zhang, et al.. (2020). Graphene-modulated assembly of zinc phthalocyanine on BiVO4 nanosheets for efficient visible-light catalytic conversion of CO2. Chemical Communications. 56(36). 4926–4929. 20 indexed citations
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Wang, Yanqing, Can Pan, Wei Chu, Adavan Kiliyankil Vipin, & Ling Sun. (2019). Environmental Remediation Applications of Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene Oxide: Adsorption and Catalysis. Nanomaterials. 9(3). 439–439. 126 indexed citations
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Miyaji, Hirofumi, Hiroko Takita, Erika Nishida, et al.. (2014). Comparative study of bioactivity of collagen scaffolds coated with graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide. International Journal of Nanomedicine. 9. 3363–3363. 95 indexed citations
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Vipin, Adavan Kiliyankil, Ling Sun, & Bunshi Fugetsu. (2014). Sodium cobalt hexacyanoferrate encapsulated in alginate vesicle with CNT for both cesium and strontium removal. Carbohydrate Polymers. 111. 477–484. 65 indexed citations
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Sun, Ling, et al.. (2013). Salmon milt DNA as a template for the mass production of Ag nanoparticles. Polymer Journal. 46(1). 36–41. 25 indexed citations
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Wang, Yan Qing, Ling Sun, & Bunshi Fugetsu. (2013). Polyelectrolyte-Induced Dispersion of Graphene Sheets in the Hybrid AgCl/PDDA/Graphene Nanocomposites. Advanced materials research. 663. 357–360.
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Wang, Yanqing, Ling Sun, & Bunshi Fugetsu. (2013). Morphology-controlled synthesis of sunlight-driven plasmonic photocatalysts Ag@AgX (X = Cl, Br) with graphene oxide template. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 1(40). 12536–12536. 37 indexed citations
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Wang, Yanqing, Ling Sun, & Bunshi Fugetsu. (2012). Thiourea Dioxide as a Green Reductant for the Mass Production of Solution-Based Graphene. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan. 85(12). 1339–1344. 21 indexed citations
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Sun, Ling, Hongwen Yu, & Bunshi Fugetsu. (2011). Graphene oxide adsorption enhanced by in situ reduction with sodium hydrosulfite to remove acridine orange from aqueous solution. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 203-204. 101–110. 184 indexed citations
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Lai, Yuekun, et al.. (2005). Optical and electrical characterization of TiO2 nanotube arrays on titanium substrate. Applied Surface Science. 252(4). 1101–1106. 71 indexed citations

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