Shangcong Sun

1.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
17 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Shangcong Sun is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Shangcong Sun has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 14 papers in Materials Chemistry and 5 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Shangcong Sun's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (14 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (9 papers) and Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors (3 papers). Shangcong Sun is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (14 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (9 papers) and Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors (3 papers). Shangcong Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Shangcong Sun's co-authors include Lun Pan, Xiangwen Zhang, Ji‐Jun Zou, Zhong Lin Wang, Ji‐Yu Wang, Peihong Wang, Ying Chen, Guoqiang Shen, Xianlong Liu and Dongyue Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and Advanced Energy Materials.

In The Last Decade

Shangcong Sun

16 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Advances in Piezo‐Phototronic Effect Enhanced Photocatalysis and Photoelectrocatalysis

2020 504 citations Lun Pan, Shangcong Sun et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →
Ammonia as hydrogen carrier: Advances in ammonia decomposition catalysts for promising hydrogen production

2022 229 citations Shangcong Sun, Qiuqiao Jiang et al. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shangcong Sun China	11	1.0k	931	510	252	187	17	1.4k
Peter Kerns United States	18	904 0.9×	507 0.5×	563 1.1×	260 1.0×	100 0.5×	42	1.3k
Xianjin Shi China	21	1.4k 1.4×	1.3k 1.4×	811 1.6×	178 0.7×	154 0.8×	43	1.8k
Jian Zeng China	25	1.2k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	728 1.4×	166 0.7×	103 0.6×	43	1.8k
Na Ye China	20	847 0.8×	705 0.8×	520 1.0×	143 0.6×	133 0.7×	51	1.3k
Sang Youp Hwang South Korea	20	680 0.7×	469 0.5×	608 1.2×	173 0.7×	133 0.7×	39	1.2k
Jiqing Jiao China	18	562 0.6×	449 0.5×	457 0.9×	166 0.7×	181 1.0×	44	1.0k
Ho‐In Lee South Korea	24	1.1k 1.1×	955 1.0×	838 1.6×	249 1.0×	139 0.7×	76	1.8k
Danhong Shang China	23	388 0.4×	835 0.9×	325 0.6×	250 1.0×	220 1.2×	60	1.2k
Xupeng Zong China	21	1.0k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	411 0.8×	373 1.5×	104 0.6×	42	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Shangcong Sun

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shangcong Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shangcong Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shangcong 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 Shangcong Sun. Shangcong 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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17 of 17 papers shown

Song, Yang, Xiang Li, Ruoyu Wang, et al.. (2025). Defect engineering of Z-scheme heterojunction catalysts for efficient CO2 photoreduction. Chemical Engineering Journal. 513. 162800–162800. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Bo, Bo Peng, Aiping Jia, et al.. (2025). Morphology-dependent Ni/TiO₂ catalysts for CO₂ hydrogenation. Chemical Communications. 61(50). 9131–9134.

Sun, Shangcong, et al.. (2024). Boosting photoelectron transfer by Fermi and doping levels regulation in carbon nitride towards efficient solar-driven hydrogen production. Chemical Engineering Journal. 495. 153547–153547. 14 indexed citations

Wang, Xin, Wei Tan, Bo Peng, et al.. (2024). Interface engineering of Platinum–Copper alloy/titanium dioxide for enhanced photocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction. Environmental Research. 263(Pt 2). 120191–120191. 3 indexed citations

Li, Xue, Shangcong Sun, Xiaoqian Wei, et al.. (2024). High photocatalytic performance over ultrathin 2D TiO₂ for CO₂ reduction to alcohols. Chemical Communications. 60(26). 3531–3534. 7 indexed citations

Tan, Wei, Song Wang, Xue Li, et al.. (2024). Surface Coordination Environment Engineering on Pt_xCu_1–x Alloy Catalysts for the Efficient Photocatalytic Reduction of CO₂ to CH₄. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(17). 22089–22101. 8 indexed citations

Sun, Shangcong, et al.. (2023). Engineering Z-Scheme FeOOH/PCN with Fast Photoelectron Transfer and Surface Redox Kinetics for Efficient Solar-Driven CO₂ Reduction. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(10). 12957–12966. 20 indexed citations

Sun, Shangcong, Qiuqiao Jiang, Dongyue Zhao, et al.. (2022). Ammonia as hydrogen carrier: Advances in ammonia decomposition catalysts for promising hydrogen production. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 169. 112918–112918. 229 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhao, Dongyue, Qiuqiao Jiang, Bo Peng, et al.. (2022). Designing direct redox reaction chemically coupling NO and SO2 removal. Fuel. 335. 127054–127054. 2 indexed citations

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Sun, Shangcong, Ruijie Gao, Xianlong Liu, et al.. (2021). Engineering interfacial band bending over bismuth vanadate/carbon nitride by work function regulation for efficient solar-driven water splitting. Science Bulletin. 67(4). 389–397. 129 indexed citations

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Sun, Shangcong, et al.. (2020). Design and Construction of Cocatalysts for Photocatalytic Water Splitting. Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica. 36(3). 1905007–0. 47 indexed citations

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Pan, Lun, Shangcong Sun, Ying Chen, et al.. (2020). Advances in Piezo‐Phototronic Effect Enhanced Photocatalysis and Photoelectrocatalysis. Advanced Energy Materials. 10(15). 504 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sun, Shangcong, Guoqiang Shen, Zhichao Chen, et al.. (2020). Harvesting urbach tail energy of ultrathin amorphous nickel oxide for solar-driven overall water splitting up to 680 nm. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 285. 119798–119798. 47 indexed citations

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Shen, Guoqiang, Lun Pan, Rongrong Zhang, et al.. (2020). Low‐Spin‐State Hematite with Superior Adsorption of Anionic Contaminations for Water Purification. Advanced Materials. 32(11). e1905988–e1905988. 104 indexed citations

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Sun, Shangcong, Guoqiang Shen, Jiawei Jiang, et al.. (2019). Boosting Oxygen Evolution Kinetics by Mn–N–C Motifs with Tunable Spin State for Highly Efficient Solar‐Driven Water Splitting. Advanced Energy Materials. 9(30). 152 indexed citations

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Sun, Shangcong, Yibin Feng, Lun Pan, Xiangwen Zhang, & Ji‐Jun Zou. (2019). Integrating Pt@Ni(OH) nanowire and Pt nanoparticle on C N4with fast surface kinetics and charge transfer towards highly efficient photocatalytic water splitting. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 259. 118028–118028. 42 indexed citations

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Sun, Shangcong, Yong‐Chao Zhang, Guoqiang Shen, et al.. (2018). Photoinduced composite of Pt decorated Ni(OH)2 as strongly synergetic cocatalyst to boost H2O activation for photocatalytic overall water splitting. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 243. 253–261. 124 indexed citations

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