Shengtong Sun

7.7k total citations · 9 hit papers
92 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Shengtong Sun is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Biomaterials and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Shengtong Sun has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 25 papers in Biomaterials and 22 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Shengtong Sun's work include Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (27 papers), Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications (17 papers) and Advanced Materials and Mechanics (15 papers). Shengtong Sun is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (27 papers), Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications (17 papers) and Advanced Materials and Mechanics (15 papers). Shengtong Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and United States. Shengtong Sun's co-authors include Peiyi Wu, Baohu Wu, Zhouyue Lei, Wencheng Zhu, Helmut Cölfen, Wei Zhang, Haiyan Qiao, Hui Tang, Yingjie Wang and Shu‐Hong Yu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Shengtong Sun

91 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

A Bioinspired Mineral Hydrogel as a Self‐Healable, Mechan... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 2021 2021 2022 2023 250 500 750
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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. A Bioinspired Mineral Hydrogel as a Self‐Healable, Mechanically Adaptable Ionic Skin for Highly Sensitive Pressure Sensing
    2017 932 citations Zhouyue Lei, Shengtong Sun et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  2. Skin-like mechanoresponsive self-healing ionic elastomer from supramolecular zwitterionic network
    2021 451 citations Baohu Wu, Shengtong Sun et al. Nature Communications profile →
  3. Conductance-stable liquid metal sheath-core microfibers for stretchy smart fabrics and self-powered sensing
    2021 275 citations Baohu Wu, Shengtong Sun et al. profile →
  4. Fatigue-free artificial ionic skin toughened by self-healable elastic nanomesh
    2022 213 citations Baohu Wu, Shengtong Sun et al. Nature Communications profile →
  5. Highly Damping and Self‐Healable Ionic Elastomer from Dynamic Phase Separation of Sticky Fluorinated Polymers
    2023 167 citations Xiaoxia Li, Baohu Wu et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  6. Non‐equilibrium‐Growing Aesthetic Ionic Skin for Fingertip‐Like Strain‐Undisturbed Tactile Sensation and Texture Recognition
    2023 142 citations Haiyan Qiao, Shengtong Sun et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  7. Aqueous spinning of robust, self-healable, and crack-resistant hydrogel microfibers enabled by hydrogen bond nanoconfinement
    2023 117 citations Baohu Wu, Shengtong Sun et al. Nature Communications profile →
  8. Self-compliant ionic skin by leveraging hierarchical hydrogen bond association
    2024 90 citations Baohu Wu, Shengtong Sun et al. Nature Communications profile →
  9. Entropy-Driven Design of Highly Impact-Stiffening Supramolecular Polymer Networks with Salt-Bridge Hydrogen Bonds
    2024 77 citations Haiyan Qiao, Baohu Wu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers

Shengtong Sun
Yong Mei Chen China
Zhouyue Lei China
Tao Lin Sun China
Jiaxi Cui China
Lu‐Tao Weng Hong Kong
Junqi Sun China
Jinhwan Yoon South Korea
Hongping Zhang China
Bowen Yao China
Qiang Zheng China
Yong Mei Chen China
Shengtong Sun
Citations per year, relative to Shengtong Sun Shengtong Sun (= 1×) peers Yong Mei Chen

Countries citing papers authored by Shengtong Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shengtong Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shengtong Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shengtong Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shengtong 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 Shengtong Sun. Shengtong 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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Wu, Baohu, et al.. (2025). Chemical Fuel‐Driven Stiffening of Transient Hydrogels via Vitrifiable Phase Separation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(49). e202518064–e202518064. 1 indexed citations
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Qiao, Haiyan, Baohu Wu, Shengtong Sun, & Peiyi Wu. (2024). Entropy-Driven Design of Highly Impact-Stiffening Supramolecular Polymer Networks with Salt-Bridge Hydrogen Bonds. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(11). 7533–7542. 77 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wu, Baohu, et al.. (2024). Self-compliant ionic skin by leveraging hierarchical hydrogen bond association. Nature Communications. 15(1). 885–885. 90 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wu, Baohu, et al.. (2024). A Solid–Liquid Bicontinuous Fiber with Strain‐Insensitive Ionic Conduction. Advanced Materials. 36(25). e2402501–e2402501. 28 indexed citations
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Qiao, Haiyan, Shengtong Sun, & Peiyi Wu. (2023). Non‐equilibrium‐Growing Aesthetic Ionic Skin for Fingertip‐Like Strain‐Undisturbed Tactile Sensation and Texture Recognition. Advanced Materials. 35(21). e2300593–e2300593. 142 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Xiaoxia, et al.. (2023). Highly Damping and Self‐Healable Ionic Elastomer from Dynamic Phase Separation of Sticky Fluorinated Polymers. Advanced Materials. 35(10). e2209581–e2209581. 167 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wu, Baohu, et al.. (2022). Entropy‐Mediated Polymer–Cluster Interactions Enable Dramatic Thermal Stiffening Hydrogels for Mechanoadaptive Smart Fabrics. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(34). e202204960–e202204960. 87 indexed citations
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Wang, Yingjie, Shengtong Sun, & Peiyi Wu. (2021). Adaptive Ionogel Paint from Room‐Temperature Autonomous Polymerization of α‐Thioctic Acid for Stretchable and Healable Electronics. Advanced Functional Materials. 31(24). 187 indexed citations
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He, Chenglong, Shengtong Sun, & Peiyi Wu. (2021). Intrinsically stretchable sheath-core ionic sensory fibers with well-regulated conformal and reprogrammable buckling. Materials Horizons. 8(7). 2088–2096. 32 indexed citations
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Wu, Baohu, et al.. (2020). Interface Deformable, Thermally Sensitive Hydrogel–Elastomer Hybrid Fiber for Versatile Underwater Sensing. Advanced Materials Technologies. 5(12). 33 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xiaotong, Baohu Wu, Shengtong Sun, & Peiyi Wu. (2020). Hybrid Materials from Ultrahigh‐Inorganic‐Content Mineral Plastic Hydrogels: Arbitrarily Shapeable, Strong, and Tough. Advanced Functional Materials. 30(19). 59 indexed citations
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Sun, Shengtong, et al.. (2020). Distinct Cation–Anion Interactions in the UCST and LCST Behavior of Polyelectrolyte Complex Aqueous Solutions. ACS Macro Letters. 9(7). 974–979. 60 indexed citations
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Ju, Min, Baohu Wu, Shengtong Sun, & Peiyi Wu. (2020). Redox‐Active Iron‐Citrate Complex Regulated Robust Coating‐Free Hydrogel Microfiber Net with High Environmental Tolerance and Sensitivity. Advanced Functional Materials. 30(14). 100 indexed citations
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Hou, Lei, et al.. (2020). Dynamic Diffusion of Disperse Dye in a Polyethylene Terephthalate Film from an Infrared Spectroscopic Perspective. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 59(16). 7398–7404. 19 indexed citations
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Sun, Shengtong, et al.. (2020). Dynamic wrinkling of a hydrogel–elastomer hybrid microtube enables blood vessel-like hydraulic pressure sensing and flow regulation. Materials Horizons. 7(8). 2150–2157. 37 indexed citations
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Yan, Yunfeng, Jinchao Tan, Dahai Yang, et al.. (2019). Biodegradable Nanoparticles of Polyacrylic Acid–Stabilized Amorphous CaCO3 for Tunable pH‐Responsive Drug Delivery and Enhanced Tumor Inhibition. Advanced Functional Materials. 29(24). 147 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xin Ning, Yan Jie Wang, Shengtong Sun, et al.. (2018). A Tough and Stiff Hydrogel with Tunable Water Content and Mechanical Properties Based on the Synergistic Effect of Hydrogen Bonding and Hydrophobic Interaction. Macromolecules. 51(20). 8136–8146. 236 indexed citations
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Li, Ang, Yun-Fei Jia, Shengtong Sun, et al.. (2018). Mineral-Enhanced Polyacrylic Acid Hydrogel as an Oyster-Inspired Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Adhesive. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10(12). 10471–10479. 168 indexed citations
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Sun, Shengtong, et al.. (2018). Colloidally Stable Monolayer Nanosheets with Colorimetric Responses. Small. 15(5). e1804975–e1804975. 42 indexed citations
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Lei, Zhouyue, Shengtong Sun, & Peiyi Wu. (2017). Ultrafast, Scale-Up Synthesis of Pure and Stable Amorphous Carbonate Mineral Nanoparticles. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 5(6). 4499–4504. 17 indexed citations

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