Yiqiang Sun

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
101 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Yiqiang Sun is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yiqiang Sun has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 54 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 37 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yiqiang Sun's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (52 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (36 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (35 papers). Yiqiang Sun is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (52 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (36 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (35 papers). Yiqiang Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Spain and Singapore. Yiqiang Sun's co-authors include Cuncheng Li, Tao Zhang, Yue Li, Kun Xu, Weiping Cai, Xinyang Li, Lifeng Hang, Huilin Li, Hong Jin Fan and Bo Xu 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

Yiqiang Sun

97 papers receiving 3.6k citations

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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.

Strong Electronic Interaction in Dual‐Cation‐Incorporated NiSe₂ Nanosheets with Lattice Distortion for Highly Efficient Overall Water Splitting

2018 436 citations Yiqiang Sun, Kun Xu et al. Advanced Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yiqiang Sun China	32	2.6k	2.2k	1.3k	636	456	101	3.6k
Tharamani C. Nagaiah India	33	1.8k 0.7×	2.1k 0.9×	910 0.7×	571 0.9×	525 1.2×	105	3.2k
Yang Kang China	34	2.4k 0.9×	2.4k 1.1×	1.6k 1.3×	961 1.5×	330 0.7×	69	4.3k
Mingpeng Chen China	34	2.5k 1.0×	2.3k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	438 0.7×	390 0.9×	104	3.8k
Long Kuai China	35	2.5k 1.0×	1.9k 0.9×	1.7k 1.4×	579 0.9×	399 0.9×	71	3.7k
Ji Mun Yoo South Korea	21	2.7k 1.0×	2.3k 1.1×	993 0.8×	338 0.5×	350 0.8×	38	3.3k
Yanna Guo Australia	25	3.8k 1.5×	3.2k 1.5×	1.4k 1.1×	550 0.9×	612 1.3×	55	4.8k
Fenglei Lyu China	25	2.6k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	1.4k 1.1×	383 0.6×	423 0.9×	38	3.6k
Chuanqiang Wu China	39	3.6k 1.4×	3.6k 1.6×	2.8k 2.2×	860 1.4×	430 0.9×	108	5.7k
Taeseung Yoon South Korea	14	1.9k 0.7×	1.7k 0.8×	833 0.7×	313 0.5×	302 0.7×	16	2.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sun, Yiqiang, et al.. (2025). Nitrogen removal performance and changes in microbial community structure of a single-stage partial nitrification-anammox (PNA) process for treating municipal wastewater with an extremely low carbon-to-nitrogen ratio. Journal of Water Process Engineering. 70. 106931–106931. 2 indexed citations

Zhu, Xinglong, Yiqiang Sun, S. Liu, et al.. (2025). Ternary design of alloying Zn-0.45Mn with Li to enhance mechanical strength for application in orthopaedics. Materials & Design. 259. 114832–114832. 1 indexed citations

Lin, Cuiping, Shanghai Yu, Yuxin Zhang, et al.. (2025). Interstitial Cobalt in Pt Shell of Pd@Pt Mesoporous Core–Shell Nanospheres with Strong d–d Orbital Hybridization for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Ammonia Oxidation. Advanced Materials. 37(47). e11476–e11476. 1 indexed citations

Gao, Yanan, Bo Ouyang, Yu-An Shen, et al.. (2025). Electron‐Rich Ru Clusters Anchored on Pure Phase W₂C Enables Highly Active and CO‐Resistant Alkaline Hydrogen Oxidation. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(23). 6 indexed citations

Wang, Chenchen, Qi Shen, Cheng‐An J. Lin, et al.. (2025). Recent advances in core–shell structured noble metal‐based catalysts for electrocatalysis. Rare Metals. 44(4). 2180–2207. 8 indexed citations

Shen, Qi, Jianjun Ding, Xiaodong Yang, et al.. (2024). Au NPs modified Ni-B nanosheets/graphene oxide three-dimensional network as label-free electrochemical immunosensor for the detection of diethylstilbestrol. Bioelectrochemistry. 160. 108778–108778. 3 indexed citations

Dong, Xiaojing, Yangyang Wang, Jintao Wang, et al.. (2024). Mn-doped RuO2 as superior pH-universal electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reaction. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 73. 558–565. 7 indexed citations

Liu, Guang‐Ning, Chengcheng Gao, Wen‐Tong Chen, et al.. (2024). Band edge modulation via a hydrogen-bond-free cation in hybrid bismuth iodine for overall photocatalytic CO₂ reduction. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 11(14). 4364–4373. 4 indexed citations

Shen, Qi, et al.. (2024). Sandwich-type electrochemical immunosensor based on Au NPs/3D hierarchical porous carbon network and Au NPs/Cu9S8 nanocages for the detection of alpha-fetoprotein. Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces. 248. 114471–114471. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yuhan, et al.. (2024). Enhanced photocatalytic CO₂ conversion over 0D/2D CsPbBr₃/BiOCl S-scheme heterojunction via boosting charge separation. Dalton Transactions. 53(36). 15330–15337. 1 indexed citations

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Qi, Fei, Xiaoyan Qin, Jianquan Wang, et al.. (2024). Harnessing the Interface Effect of Ru/CeO ₂ Heterostructures for Enhanced Hydrogen Electrocatalysis in Freshwater and Seawater Electrolysis. ChemistrySelect. 9(44).

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Sun, Yiqiang, Yipin Lv, Xiaodong Yang, et al.. (2023). Interface charge distribution modulation of Au@NiO Core-Shell nanoparticles for efficient oxygen evolution reaction. Applied Surface Science. 637. 157870–157870. 10 indexed citations

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Zhao, Lei, Yiqiang Sun, Yunxiang Lin, et al.. (2023). Tuning Electron Transfer in Atomic-Scale Pt-Supported Catalysts for the Alkaline Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction. Inorganic Chemistry. 62(12). 5032–5039. 11 indexed citations

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Sun, Yiqiang, Xiaodong Yang, Yong Wang, et al.. (2023). Built-in electric field induced interfacial charge distributions of Ni₂P/NiSe₂ heterojunction for urea-assisted hydrogen evolution reaction. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 10(22). 6674–6682. 9 indexed citations

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Shen, Qi, et al.. (2023). Phase engineering of iron group transition metal selenides for water splitting. Materials Chemistry Frontiers. 7(20). 4865–4879. 22 indexed citations

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Wang, Yangyang, et al.. (2023). Electronic modulation of heterostructured MoO_x supported Ru as robust bifunctional catalyst for overall water splitting. CrystEngComm. 25(31). 4480–4486. 5 indexed citations

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Shi, Chuanxin, Yuan Yuan, Qi Shen, et al.. (2021). Encapsulated ruthenium nanoparticles activated few-layer carbon frameworks as high robust oxygen evolution electrocatalysts in acidic media. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 612. 488–495. 14 indexed citations

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Li, Xinyang, Yiqiang Sun, Tao Zhang, et al.. (2018). N-doping nanoporous carbon microspheres derived from MOFs for highly efficient removal of formaldehyde. Nanotechnology. 30(10). 105702–105702. 36 indexed citations

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Xu, Kun, Yiqiang Sun, Yuanmiao Sun, et al.. (2018). Yin-Yang Harmony: Metal and Nonmetal Dual-Doping Boosts Electrocatalytic Activity for Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution. ACS Energy Letters. 3(11). 2750–2756. 164 indexed citations

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Li, Huilin, Dandan Men, Yiqiang Sun, et al.. (2017). Optical sensing properties of Au nanoparticle/hydrogel composite microbeads using droplet microfluidics. Nanotechnology. 28(40). 405502–405502. 10 indexed citations

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