Yingjun Sun

7.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
60 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Yingjun Sun is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yingjun Sun has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 35 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 15 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yingjun Sun's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (42 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (20 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (20 papers). Yingjun Sun is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (42 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (20 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (20 papers). Yingjun Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Yingjun Sun's co-authors include Shaojun Guo, Mingchuan Luo, Yingnan Qin, Lei Wang, Yingjie Li, Yong Yang, Weiyu Zhang, Fan Lv, Gang Lü and Xu Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yingjun Sun

57 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Hit Papers

PdMo bimetallene for oxygen reduction catalysis 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2020 400 800 1.2k
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. PdMo bimetallene for oxygen reduction catalysis
    2019 1.3k citations Mingchuan Luo, Zhonglong Zhao et al. Nature profile →
  2. Recent Advances on Water‐Splitting Electrocatalysis Mediated by Noble‐Metal‐Based Nanostructured Materials
    2020 915 citations Yingjie Li, Yingjun Sun et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yingjun Sun China 36 5.5k 4.5k 2.2k 978 612 60 6.9k
Xiulin Yang China 45 4.4k 0.8× 3.6k 0.8× 2.1k 1.0× 775 0.8× 506 0.8× 160 6.0k
Zhaohui Xiao China 26 6.9k 1.3× 5.4k 1.2× 2.5k 1.1× 1.2k 1.3× 961 1.6× 43 8.3k
Svitlana Pylypenko United States 42 5.1k 0.9× 5.3k 1.2× 2.2k 1.0× 660 0.7× 871 1.4× 164 7.3k
Jacob S. Spendelow United States 32 5.2k 1.0× 5.2k 1.2× 2.1k 0.9× 790 0.8× 685 1.1× 83 6.7k
Yanghua He United States 25 6.2k 1.1× 4.9k 1.1× 2.2k 1.0× 518 0.5× 628 1.0× 44 7.1k
Laëtitia Dubau France 46 6.7k 1.2× 5.9k 1.3× 2.1k 1.0× 1.1k 1.2× 488 0.8× 120 7.5k
Wenwu Zhong China 41 4.8k 0.9× 3.8k 0.9× 3.0k 1.4× 525 0.5× 874 1.4× 156 6.7k
Jesse D. Benck United States 19 6.1k 1.1× 4.0k 0.9× 3.2k 1.4× 757 0.8× 409 0.7× 23 7.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yingjun Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yingjun Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yingjun Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yingjun 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 Yingjun Sun. Yingjun 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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Nie, Yan, Shuhao Wang, Quentin Meyer, et al.. (2025). Low‐Surface‐Energy Copper Promotes Atomic Diffusion and Ordering in PtFeCu Intermetallic Compounds for Oxygen Reduction Catalysis. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(33). 8 indexed citations
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Sun, Yingjun, Zhengyi Qian, Mingzi Sun, et al.. (2025). Osmium atomic sites on CuS nanoplates for efficient two-electron oxygen reduction into H2O2. Chem. 11(6). 102393–102393. 5 indexed citations
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Sun, Yingjun, Lingjun Guo, Xin Zhang, et al.. (2025). Morphology-driven Cu gradient distribution induces varied anti-ablation performance in C/C–ZrC composites. Carbon. 247. 121063–121063.
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Zhang, Wenshu, Kai Wang, Fangxu Lin, et al.. (2024). Assembled RhRuFe Trimetallene for Water Electrolysis. Small Methods. 8(12). e2400336–e2400336. 5 indexed citations
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Nie, Yan, Yingjun Sun, Bingyi Song, et al.. (2023). Low‐Electronegativity Mn‐Contraction of PtMn Nanodendrites Boosts Oxygen Reduction Durability. Angewandte Chemie. 136(7). 10 indexed citations
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Nie, Yan, Yingjun Sun, Bingyi Song, et al.. (2023). Low‐Electronegativity Mn‐Contraction of PtMn Nanodendrites Boosts Oxygen Reduction Durability. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(7). e202317987–e202317987. 35 indexed citations
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Zeng, Lingyou, Zhonglong Zhao, Fan Lv, et al.. (2022). Anti-dissolution Pt single site with Pt(OH)(O3)/Co(P) coordination for efficient alkaline water splitting electrolyzer. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3822–3822. 170 indexed citations
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Sun, Yingjun, Wenshu Zhang, Qinghua Zhang, et al.. (2022). A general approach to high-entropy metallic nanowire electrocatalysts. Matter. 6(1). 193–205. 127 indexed citations
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Qin, Yingnan, Zuochao Wang, Wenhao Yu, et al.. (2021). High Valence M-Incorporated PdCu Nanoparticles (M = Ir, Rh, Ru) for Water Electrolysis in Alkaline Solution. Nano Letters. 21(13). 5774–5781. 42 indexed citations
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Wang, Shuguang, Peng Zhou, Lei Zhou, et al.. (2021). A Unique Gas-Migration, Trapping, and Emitting Strategy for High-Loading Single Atomic Cd Sites for Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction. Nano Letters. 21(10). 4262–4269. 75 indexed citations
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Li, Menggang, Zhonglong Zhao, Zhonghong Xia, et al.. (2020). Lavender-Like Ga-Doped Pt3Co Nanowires for Highly Stable and Active Electrocatalysis. ACS Catalysis. 10(5). 3018–3026. 90 indexed citations
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Lü, Tao, Zhonghong Xia, Qinghua Zhang, et al.. (2020). Spiny Pd/PtFe core/shell nanotubes with rich high-index facets for efficient electrocatalysis. Science Bulletin. 66(1). 44–51. 65 indexed citations
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Li, Chunji, Bolong Huang, Mingchuan Luo, et al.. (2019). An efficient ultrathin PtFeNi Nanowire/Ionic liquid conjugate electrocatalyst. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 256. 117828–117828. 46 indexed citations
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Li, Menggang, Mingchuan Luo, Zhonghong Xia, et al.. (2019). Modulating the surface segregation of PdCuRu nanocrystals for enhanced all-pH hydrogen evolution electrocatalysis. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(35). 20151–20157. 45 indexed citations
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Luo, Mingchuan, Yingnan Qin, Menggang Li, et al.. (2019). Interface modulation of twinned PtFe nanoplates branched 3D architecture for oxygen reduction catalysis. Science Bulletin. 65(2). 97–104. 51 indexed citations
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Luo, Mingchuan, Zhonglong Zhao, Yelong Zhang, et al.. (2019). PdMo bimetallene for oxygen reduction catalysis. Nature. 574(7776). 81–85. 1261 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sun, Yingjun, Bolong Huang, Nuoyan Xu, et al.. (2018). Rh-doped PdAg nanoparticles as efficient methanol tolerance electrocatalytic materials for oxygen reduction. Science Bulletin. 64(1). 54–62. 32 indexed citations
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Luo, Mingchuan, Yingjun Sun, Yingnan Qin, et al.. (2018). Boosting Oxygen Reduction Catalysis by Tuning the Dimensionality of Pt-based Nanostructures. Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica. 34(4). 361–376. 23 indexed citations
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Zhu, Han, Li Gu, Danni Yu, et al.. (2016). The marriage and integration of nanostructures with different dimensions for synergistic electrocatalysis. Energy & Environmental Science. 10(1). 321–330. 109 indexed citations

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