Sunpei Hu

845 total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 593 citations indexed

About

Sunpei Hu is a scholar working on Catalysis, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Sunpei Hu has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 593 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Catalysis, 21 papers in Materials Chemistry and 17 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Sunpei Hu's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (20 papers), Catalysts for Methane Reforming (12 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (12 papers). Sunpei Hu is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (20 papers), Catalysts for Methane Reforming (12 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (12 papers). Sunpei Hu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Sunpei Hu's co-authors include Jie Zeng, Hongliang Li, Ruyang Wang, Jun Bao, Shiming Zhou, Feng Chen, Zhirong Zhang, Dongdi Wang, Ming J. Zuo and Yuan Kong and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nature Communications and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

Sunpei Hu

26 papers receiving 583 citations

Hit Papers

Ultrafine metal nanoparticles isolated on oxide nano-isla... 2025 2026 2025 10 20 30 40
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. Ultrafine metal nanoparticles isolated on oxide nano-islands as exceptional sintering-resistant catalysts
    2025 41 citations Li Xu, Jiankang Zhao et al. Nature Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sunpei Hu China 9 397 283 190 168 62 31 593
Yugang Gao China 13 720 1.8× 393 1.4× 317 1.7× 233 1.4× 58 0.9× 14 836
Hanming Chen China 12 215 0.5× 297 1.0× 108 0.6× 181 1.1× 118 1.9× 17 487
Junjie Huang China 12 340 0.9× 324 1.1× 88 0.5× 152 0.9× 38 0.6× 19 505
Daixing Wei China 11 718 1.8× 452 1.6× 209 1.1× 224 1.3× 31 0.5× 17 783
Shiyu Xu South Korea 14 388 1.0× 412 1.5× 255 1.3× 247 1.5× 45 0.7× 24 693
Sreekanth Narayanaru India 11 652 1.6× 385 1.4× 210 1.1× 276 1.6× 26 0.4× 18 799
Shijia Mu China 11 308 0.8× 176 0.6× 168 0.9× 170 1.0× 44 0.7× 19 490
Joyjit Kundu South Korea 12 518 1.3× 470 1.7× 92 0.5× 323 1.9× 57 0.9× 17 758
Bikun Zhang China 12 619 1.6× 585 2.1× 221 1.2× 342 2.0× 62 1.0× 14 960

Countries citing papers authored by Sunpei Hu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sunpei Hu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sunpei Hu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sunpei Hu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sunpei Hu 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 Sunpei Hu. Sunpei Hu 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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Tang, Jialin, Qiu Jiang, H. Wang, et al.. (2025). Stabilization of highly active Ru sites toward acidic water oxidation by dual-atom doping. Chem Catalysis. 5(10). 101441–101441. 3 indexed citations
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Xu, Li, Jiankang Zhao, Lei Luo, et al.. (2025). Ultrafine metal nanoparticles isolated on oxide nano-islands as exceptional sintering-resistant catalysts. Nature Materials. 24(6). 891–899. 41 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Jiawei, Bifa Ji, Sunpei Hu, et al.. (2025). Copper‐Catalysed Electrochemical CO2 Methanation via the Alloying of Single Cobalt Atoms. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(8). e202417008–e202417008. 8 indexed citations
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Li, Jiawei, Jiankang Zhao, Sunpei Hu, et al.. (2025). Stabilization of oxidized Cu species via CeO x nano-islands for enhanced CO2 reduction to C2+ products. National Science Review. 12(11). nwaf351–nwaf351. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Jiawei, Bifa Ji, Sunpei Hu, et al.. (2025). Copper‐Catalysed Electrochemical CO2 Methanation via the Alloying of Single Cobalt Atoms. Angewandte Chemie. 137(8).
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Yan, Han, Wenjie Li, Wenjian Zhang, et al.. (2025). Reaction-induced dynamic evolution of PtIn/SiO2 catalyst for propane dehydrogenation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5153–5153.
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Hu, Sunpei, Jie Shi, Yongjie Ye, et al.. (2025). CeO2-supported bi-layer Pt clusters for anti-Markovnikov alkene hydrosilylation. Science China Chemistry. 69(2). 946–952.
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Wu, Wenlong, Jiankang Zhao, Menglin Wang, et al.. (2024). Facet sensitivity of iron carbides in Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6108–6108. 17 indexed citations
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Ma, Xinlong, Haibin Yin, Xinyan Zhang, et al.. (2024). Propane wet reforming over PtSn nanoparticles on γ-Al2O3 for acetone synthesis. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8470–8470. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xinyan, Chunxiao Liu, Weiqing Xue, et al.. (2024). Electrocatalytic Reforming of Polylactic Acid Plastic Hydrolysate over Dynamically Formed γ-NiOOH. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(16). 20570–20576. 4 indexed citations
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Yan, Han, Xuetao Qin, Jincheng Liu, et al.. (2024). Facet‐Dependent Diversity of Pt−O Coordination for Pt1/CeO2 Catalysts Achieved by Oriented Atomic Deposition. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(50). e202411264–e202411264. 18 indexed citations
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Wu, Wenlong, Lei Luo, Zhongling Li, et al.. (2024). The Importance of Sintering‐Induced Grain Boundaries in Copper Catalysis to Improve Carbon‐Carbon Coupling. Angewandte Chemie. 136(23). 4 indexed citations
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Wu, Wenlong, Lei Luo, Zhongling Li, et al.. (2024). The Importance of Sintering‐Induced Grain Boundaries in Copper Catalysis to Improve Carbon‐Carbon Coupling. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(23). e202404983–e202404983. 8 indexed citations
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Yue, Xin, Rui Liu, Qi Li, et al.. (2024). Recycling of organic ligands and solvents for successive synthesis of Cu-based nanocrystals towards CO 2 hydrogenation. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 12(42). 28786–28793. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Jiawei, Hongliang Zeng, Xue Dong, et al.. (2023). Selective CO2 electrolysis to CO using isolated antimony alloyed copper. Nature Communications. 14(1). 340–340. 143 indexed citations
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Li, Qi, Xin Yue, Sunpei Hu, et al.. (2023). Constructing imine groups on the surface of Cu1/Pd(111) as a novel strategy for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol. Nanoscale. 15(15). 6999–7005. 7 indexed citations
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Yue, Xin, et al.. (2023). Cu/Nb2O5 composite aerogel for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol: Construction of porous structure and abundant active interfaces. Chemical Engineering Journal. 470. 144289–144289. 7 indexed citations
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Zhao, Jiao, Menglin Wang, Peng Yu, et al.. (2023). Exploring the Strain Effect in Single Particle Electrochemistry using Pd Nanocrystals. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(30). e202304424–e202304424. 49 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhirong, Feng Chen, Dongdi Wang, et al.. (2022). Selectively anchoring single atoms on specific sites of supports for improved oxygen evolution. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2473–2473. 153 indexed citations

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