Pengzhan Sun

4.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
57 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Pengzhan Sun is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Pengzhan Sun has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Materials Chemistry, 28 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 19 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Pengzhan Sun's work include Graphene research and applications (32 papers), Membrane Separation Technologies (15 papers) and Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (12 papers). Pengzhan Sun is often cited by papers focused on Graphene research and applications (32 papers), Membrane Separation Technologies (15 papers) and Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (12 papers). Pengzhan Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Macao and Japan. Pengzhan Sun's co-authors include Hongwei Zhu, Kunlin Wang, Dehai Wu, Minlin Zhong, Jinquan Wei, Miao Zhu, Zhiping Xu, Takayoshi Sasaki, Renzhi Ma and Feng Zheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Pengzhan Sun

54 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Selective Ion Penetration of Graphene Oxide Membranes

2012 633 citations Pengzhan Sun, Miao Zhu et al. ACS Nano profile →
Recent Developments in Graphene‐Based Membranes: Structure, Mass‐Transport Mechanism and Potential Applications

2016 576 citations Pengzhan Sun, Kunlin Wang et al. profile →
Engineering covalent organic framework membranes for efficient ionic/molecular separations

2024 74 citations Pengzhan Sun, Lu Shao et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pengzhan Sun

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

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Ternary Synergy in Layered Double Hydroxides for Efficient and Stable Nitrate Reduction 2025 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Jiaqian Kang, Yuxuan Xiao, Lun Li, Lulu Qiao, Chunfa Liu, (unknown), Pengzhan Sun, Di Liu, Weng Fai Ip, Hui Pan	5
2	Li-Cu alloy with A preferred single crystal orientation (110) plane for inhibiting dendrite growth in anode-free lithium metal batteries 2025 ·Progress in Natural Science Materials International ·Pengzhan Sun, (unknown), (unknown), Xin Li, Hua Cheng, (unknown), (unknown)	0
3	Enthalpy-mediated local structural ordering stabilizes O3-type layered cathode for sodium-ion batteries 2025 ·Energy storage materials ·(unknown), Fangchang Zhang, Xin Xu, Yanfang Wang, Pengzhan Sun, (unknown), Feng Wu, (unknown), Xiaodong Han, (unknown), Yan Liu, (unknown), Yingzhi Li, Zhenghe Xu, Zhouguang Lu	0
4	Ag-Cu alloy induces uniform lithium nucleation and growth in anode-free lithium metal batteries 2025 ·Electrochimica Acta ·Hao Yu, Pengzhan Sun, Hua Cheng, (unknown), (unknown)	1
5	Oxygen Plasma-Treated Hard Carbon for High-Rate and Durable Sodium-Ion Storage 2025 ·ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·(unknown), Guiyu Liu, Baolin Liu, Pengzhan Sun, Zhenyu Wang, Cheng Wang, (unknown), Feng Wu, Hongzhi Wang, (unknown), Fangchang Zhang, (unknown), Hua Cheng, Dawei Luo, (unknown), (unknown), Zhouguang Lu	1
6	Improving the interfacial adhesion strength of PET-Cu current collectors using SWCNT film 2024 ·Applied Surface Science ·Zhaoqing Gao, Hao Wu, Huicong Yang, (unknown), (unknown), Chunyang Sun, Pengzhan Sun, Peng‐Xiang Hou, Feng Li, Chang Liu	2
7	High proton conductivity through angstrom-porous titania 2024 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Guang‐Ping Hao, Yongtao Tan, Wenqi Xiong, Yu Liu, Wenzhe Zhou, Dai‐Ming Tang, Renzhi Ma, Shengjun Yuan, Takayoshi Sasaki, M. Lozada-Hidalgo, A. K. Geǐm, Pengzhan Sun	1
8	Catalytic selectivity of nanorippled graphene 2024 ·Nanoscale Horizons ·Yu Liu, Wenqi Xiong, Achintya Bera, (unknown), Miao Yu, Shi Chen, Lin Li, Shengjun Yuan, Pengzhan Sun	2
9	Engineering activated mineralized antifouling membranes via interface segregation tailoring 2024 ·Journal of Membrane Science ·Yangxue Li, Xiaobin Yang, Linlin Yan, Guodong Dang, Pengzhan Sun, Edward N. Nxumalo, Bhekie B. Mamba, Lu Shao	28
10	Cyclododecane-based high-intactness and clean transfer method for fabricating suspended two-dimensional materials 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Zhao Wang, Wenlin Liu, (unknown), Hao He, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Kaicheng Jia, Qi Liang Lu, Jiawei Yang, Yanfeng Zhang, Lianming Tong, Yuqing Song, Pengzhan Sun, Boyang Mao, Chenguo Hu, Zhongfan Liu, Li Lin, Hailin Peng	6
11	Recent trends in the transfer of graphene films 2024 ·Nanoscale ·(unknown), (unknown), Yixuan Zhao, Saiyu Bu, Zhaoning Hu, (unknown), Qi Lu, Chaofan Zhou, (unknown), (unknown), Fangfang Li, (unknown), Jialin Zhang, Qin Xie, Chunhu Li, Pengzhan Sun, Boyang Mao, Xiaodong Zhang, Zhongfan Liu, Lin Li	6
12	Effectively Sieving Alkali Metal Ions Using Functionalized Graphene Oxide Membranes by Exploiting Water-Repellent Interactions 2024 ·Nano Letters ·Xiaoqing Wu, Miao Yu, Yajie Chen, (unknown), Pengzhan Sun, Pengcheng Gao	1
13	Proton transport through nanoscale corrugations in two-dimensional crystals 2023 ·Nature ·Oluwasegun J. Wahab, Enrico Daviddi, (unknown), Pengzhan Sun, (unknown), Alex W. Colburn, (unknown), M. Yagmurcukardes, F. M. Peeters, A. K. Geǐm, M. Lozada-Hidalgo, Patrick R. Unwin	65
14	Proton and molecular permeation through the basal plane of monolayer graphene oxide 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Zefei Wu, Pengzhan Sun, Oluwasegun J. Wahab, Yinlong Tan, (unknown), Dharmaraj Periyanagounder, Premlal Balakrishna Pillai, Qing Dai, Wenqi Xiong, Lourdes F. Vega, Qi Lu, Shengjun Yuan, Rahul R. Nair, Enrico Daviddi, Patrick R. Unwin, A. K. Geim, M. Lozada-Hidalgo	31
15	Exponentially selective molecular sieving through angstrom pores 2021 ·Nature Communications ·Pengzhan Sun, M. Yagmurcukardes, Rui Zhang, Wenjun Kuang, M. Lozada-Hidalgo, Bilu Liu, Hui–Ming Cheng, Fengchao Wang, F. M. Peeters, I. V. Grigorieva, A. K. Geǐm	57
16	Development of efficient electrocatalysts via molecular hybridization of NiMn layered double hydroxide nanosheets and graphene 2016 ·Nanoscale ·Wei Ma, Renzhi Ma, Jinghua Wu, Pengzhan Sun, Xiaohe Liu, Kechao Zhou, Takayoshi Sasaki	132
17	Selective Trans-Membrane Transport of Alkali and Alkaline Earth Cations through Graphene Oxide Membranes Based on Cation−π Interactions 2014 ·ACS Nano ·Pengzhan Sun, Feng Zheng, Miao Zhu, Zhigong Song, Kunlin Wang, Minlin Zhong, Dehai Wu, Reginald B. Little, Zhiping Xu, Hongwei Zhu	327
18	Electro- and Magneto-Modulated Ion Transport through Graphene Oxide Membranes 2014 ·Scientific Reports ·Pengzhan Sun, Feng Zheng, Kunlin Wang, Minlin Zhong, Dehai Wu, Hongwei Zhu	41
19	Suppression of the coffee-ring effect by self-assembling graphene oxide and monolayer titania 2013 ·Nanotechnology ·Pengzhan Sun, Renzhi Ma, Kunlin Wang, Minlin Zhong, Jinquan Wei, Dehai Wu, Takayoshi Sasaki, Hongwei Zhu	36
20	Oil spill cleanup from sea water by carbon nanotube sponges 2013 ·Frontiers of Materials Science ·K. Zhu, Yuanyuan Shang, Pengzhan Sun, Zhen Li, Xinming Li, Jinquan Wei, Kunlin Wang, Dehai Wu, Anyuan Cao, Hongwei Zhu	69

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