Xiaofu Sun

10.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
169 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Xiaofu Sun is a scholar working on Catalysis, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Process Chemistry and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaofu Sun has authored 169 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 138 papers in Catalysis, 132 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 48 papers in Process Chemistry and Technology. Recurrent topics in Xiaofu Sun's work include CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (115 papers), Ionic liquids properties and applications (98 papers) and Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis (48 papers). Xiaofu Sun is often cited by papers focused on CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (115 papers), Ionic liquids properties and applications (98 papers) and Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis (48 papers). Xiaofu Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Poland. Xiaofu Sun's co-authors include Buxing Han, Qinggong Zhu, Xinchen Kang, Chunjun Chen, Jun Ma, Dexin Yang, Tiancheng Mu, Huizhen Liu, Shoujie Liu and Xingxing Tan 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

Xiaofu Sun

157 papers receiving 8.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Improving CO₂-to-C₂₊ Product Electroreduction Efficiency via Atomic Lanthanide Dopant-Induced Tensile-Strained CuO_x Catalysts

2023 277 citations Jiaqi Feng, Limin Wu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
p–d Orbital Hybridization Induced by p-Block Metal-Doped Cu Promotes the Formation of C₂₊ Products in Ampere-Level CO₂ Electroreduction

2023 228 citations Pengsong Li, Jiyuan Liu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Atomically Dispersed Ni–Cu Catalysts for pH‐Universal CO₂ Electroreduction

2023 191 citations Li‐Bing Zhang, Jiaqi Feng et al. profile →
Oxophilicity-Controlled CO₂ Electroreduction to C₂₊ Alcohols over Lewis Acid Metal-Doped Cu^δ+ Catalysts

2023 184 citations Libing Zhang, Jiaqi Feng et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Boosting Electrocatalytic Nitrate‐to‐Ammonia via Tuning of N‐Intermediate Adsorption on a Zn−Cu Catalyst

2023 164 citations Limin Wu, Jiaqi Feng et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
CO2 electrolysis to multi-carbon products in strong acid at ampere-current levels on La-Cu spheres with channels

2024 103 citations Jiaqi Feng, Limin Wu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaofu Sun China	52	6.8k	5.1k	2.6k	1.5k	1.4k	169	8.7k
Xinchen Kang China	38	3.8k 0.6×	2.8k 0.6×	1.9k 0.7×	905 0.6×	877 0.6×	124	5.4k
Jun Ma China	45	4.1k 0.6×	3.1k 0.6×	2.0k 0.8×	861 0.6×	2.6k 1.9×	106	6.9k
Qi Hu China	47	7.0k 1.0×	2.2k 0.4×	3.0k 1.1×	3.8k 2.5×	266 0.2×	141	8.9k
Jingxiang Zhao China	58	8.0k 1.2×	4.2k 0.8×	7.8k 2.9×	4.5k 2.9×	400 0.3×	303	13.6k
Jonathan Albo Spain	39	3.1k 0.5×	2.5k 0.5×	1.4k 0.5×	979 0.6×	748 0.5×	68	5.0k
Yafei Li China	32	4.4k 0.7×	2.0k 0.4×	2.0k 0.7×	2.2k 1.4×	201 0.1×	112	5.9k
Cuibo Liu China	53	4.9k 0.7×	2.1k 0.4×	2.9k 1.1×	2.2k 1.4×	201 0.1×	123	8.1k
Bingxing Zhang China	38	3.4k 0.5×	1.2k 0.2×	2.3k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	357 0.3×	81	4.6k
Xifeng Shi China	63	8.6k 1.3×	5.5k 1.1×	4.9k 1.9×	3.7k 2.4×	153 0.1×	123	11.6k
Xia Yang China	26	3.2k 0.5×	1.6k 0.3×	2.0k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	204 0.1×	48	4.8k

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Yin, Yaoyu, Jiapeng Jiao, Yiyong Wang, et al.. (2025). Enhancing CO₂ Electroreduction to Ethylene in Acidic Solution by Optimizing Cation Configuration on the Cu Surface. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(29). 25584–25591. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Yiyong, Yingying Cheng, Yaoyu Yin, et al.. (2025). Enhancing CO₂ Electroreduction to Multicarbon Products by Modulating the Surface Microenvironment of Electrode with Polyethylene Glycol. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(9). e202420661–e202420661. 15 indexed citations

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Yang, Jiahao, Jiapeng Jiao, Yaoyu Yin, et al.. (2024). Switching Reaction Pathways of CO₂ Electroreduction by Modulating Cations in the Electrochemical Double Layer. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(39). e202410145–e202410145. 19 indexed citations

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Zhang, Libing, Jiaqi Feng, Limin Wu, et al.. (2024). Switching CO-to-Acetate Electroreduction on Cu Atomic Ensembles. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(1). 713–724. 21 indexed citations

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Li, Pengsong, Jiyuan Liu, Yong Wang, et al.. (2024). Manipulation of Oxygen Species on an Antimony-Modified Copper Surface to Tune the Product Selectivity in CO₂ Electroreduction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(38). 26525–26533. 43 indexed citations

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Jia, Shunhan, Xingxing Tan, Limin Wu, et al.. (2023). Defective PrOx for Efficient Electrochemical NO2−-to-NH3 in a Wide Potential Range. Chemistry. 5(2). 753–761. 2 indexed citations

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Yan, Xupeng, Menglu Zhang, Yizhen Chen, et al.. (2023). Synergy of Cu/C ₃ N ₄ Interface and Cu Nanoparticles Dual Catalytic Regions in Electrolysis of CO to Acetic Acid. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(22). 58 indexed citations

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Zhang, Libing, Jiaqi Feng, Limin Wu, et al.. (2023). Oxophilicity-Controlled CO₂ Electroreduction to C₂₊ Alcohols over Lewis Acid Metal-Doped Cu^δ+ Catalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(40). 21945–21954. 184 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tan, Xingxing, Shunhan Jia, Xinning Song, et al.. (2023). Zn-induced electron-rich Sn catalysts enable highly efficient CO ₂ electroreduction to formate. Chemical Science. 14(30). 8214–8221. 9 indexed citations

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Jia, Shunhan, Limin Wu, Liang Xu, Xiaofu Sun, & Buxing Han. (2023). Multicomponent catalyst design for CO₂/N₂/NO_xelectroreduction. 1(1). 93–105. 25 indexed citations

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Yan, Xupeng, Menglu Zhang, Yizhen Chen, et al.. (2023). Synergy of Cu/C ₃ N ₄ Interface and Cu Nanoparticles Dual Catalytic Regions in Electrolysis of CO to Acetic Acid. Angewandte Chemie. 135(22). 2 indexed citations

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Chen, Chunjun, Xupeng Yan, Yahui Wu, et al.. (2022). Boosting the Productivity of Electrochemical CO₂Reduction to Multi‐Carbon Products by Enhancing CO₂Diffusion through a Porous Organic Cage. Angewandte Chemie. 134(23). 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Chunjun, Xupeng Yan, Yahui Wu, et al.. (2021). The in situ study of surface species and structures of oxide-derived copper catalysts for electrochemical CO ₂ reduction. Chemical Science. 12(16). 5938–5943. 72 indexed citations

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Chen, Chunjun, Xupeng Yan, Shoujie Liu, et al.. (2020). Highly Efficient Electroreduction of CO₂ to C2+ Alcohols on Heterogeneous Dual Active Sites. Angewandte Chemie. 132(38). 16601–16606. 34 indexed citations

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Yang, Dexin, Qinggong Zhu, Xiaofu Sun, et al.. (2019). Electrosynthesis of a Defective Indium Selenide with 3D Structure on a Substrate for Tunable CO₂ Electroreduction to Syngas. Angewandte Chemie. 132(6). 2374–2379. 34 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiaofu, Chunjun Chen, Shoujie Liu, et al.. (2019). Aqueous CO₂ Reduction with High Efficiency Using α‐Co(OH)₂‐Supported Atomic Ir Electrocatalysts. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(14). 4669–4673. 96 indexed citations

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Yang, Dexin, Qinggong Zhu, Xiaofu Sun, et al.. (2018). Nanoporous Cu/Ni oxide composites: efficient catalysts for electrochemical reduction of CO₂in aqueous electrolytes. Green Chemistry. 20(16). 3705–3710. 39 indexed citations

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Chen, Chunjun, Xiaofu Sun, Dexin Yang, et al.. (2018). Enhanced CO₂ electroreduction via interaction of dangling S bonds and Co sites in cobalt phthalocyanine/ZnIn₂S₄ hybrids. Chemical Science. 10(6). 1659–1663. 52 indexed citations

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He, Lei, Xiaofu Sun, Hua Zhang, & Fangwei Shao. (2018). G‐quadruplex Nanowires To Direct the Efficiency and Selectivity of Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction. Angewandte Chemie. 130(38). 12633–12637. 3 indexed citations

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Chen, Chunjun, Xiaofu Sun, Lu Lu, et al.. (2018). Efficient electroreduction of CO₂ to C2 products over B-doped oxide-derived copper. Green Chemistry. 20(20). 4579–4583. 78 indexed citations

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