Yuanhui Sun

7.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
49 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Yuanhui Sun is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuanhui Sun has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Materials Chemistry, 20 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 12 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Yuanhui Sun's work include 2D Materials and Applications (13 papers), Graphene research and applications (10 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (9 papers). Yuanhui Sun is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (13 papers), Graphene research and applications (10 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (9 papers). Yuanhui Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Spain. Yuanhui Sun's co-authors include Guangtao Yu, Xiaoxin Zou, Tewodros Asefa, Lijun Zhang, Wei Chen, Yipu Liu, Hui Li, Yuanyuan Wu, Xingang Zhao and Dongwen Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yuanhui Sun

47 papers receiving 6.6k 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.

High-Index Faceted Ni₃S₂ Nanosheet Arrays as Highly Active and Ultrastable Electrocatalysts for Water Splitting

2015 1.7k citations Guangtao Yu, Yuanhui Sun et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Coupling Mo₂C with Nitrogen‐Rich Nanocarbon Leads to Efficient Hydrogen‐Evolution Electrocatalytic Sites

2015 708 citations Guangtao Yu, Yuanhui Sun et al. profile →
Coupling Mo₂C with Nitrogen‐Rich Nanocarbon Leads to Efficient Hydrogen‐Evolution Electrocatalytic Sites

2015 659 citations Guangtao Yu, Guodong Li et al. Angewandte Chemie profile →
Ultrasensitive detection of miRNA with an antimonene-based surface plasmon resonance sensor

2018 629 citations Tianyu Xue, Weiyuan Liang et al. Nature Communications profile →
Efficient and stable Ruddlesden–Popper perovskite solar cell with tailored interlayer molecular interaction

2020 503 citations Yuanhui Sun, Lijun Zhang et al. profile →
Atomically engineering activation sites onto metallic 1T-MoS2 catalysts for enhanced electrochemical hydrogen evolution

2019 454 citations Yuanhui Sun, Xin He et al. Nature Communications profile →
Rational Design of Halide Double Perovskites for Optoelectronic Applications

2018 419 citations Xingang Zhao, Dongwen Yang et al. Joule profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yuanhui Sun China	24	4.4k	3.6k	3.1k	662	474	49	6.6k
Enbo Zhu United States	29	5.3k 1.2×	4.9k 1.4×	4.3k 1.4×	752 1.1×	731 1.5×	62	8.5k
Yongwen Tan China	41	3.6k 0.8×	5.1k 1.4×	3.2k 1.0×	887 1.3×	576 1.2×	95	7.6k
Ziyang Huo China	27	3.5k 0.8×	3.6k 1.0×	4.3k 1.4×	1.1k 1.6×	513 1.1×	41	7.5k
Sayan Bhattacharyya India	36	2.4k 0.5×	1.8k 0.5×	2.5k 0.8×	786 1.2×	278 0.6×	161	4.4k
Xiaobin Xu China	36	2.7k 0.6×	1.7k 0.5×	2.3k 0.7×	1.2k 1.8×	352 0.7×	91	5.8k
Yi Shi China	26	1.7k 0.4×	2.6k 0.7×	2.3k 0.8×	686 1.0×	278 0.6×	58	4.2k
Wenpei Gao United States	29	2.5k 0.6×	2.1k 0.6×	2.9k 1.0×	830 1.3×	313 0.7×	77	5.0k
Tomoya Uruga Japan	28	2.2k 0.5×	1.3k 0.4×	2.4k 0.8×	569 0.9×	366 0.8×	102	3.7k
Shunsuke Yagi Japan	36	3.2k 0.7×	1.5k 0.4×	2.0k 0.6×	938 1.4×	327 0.7×	214	4.8k
Haifeng Yuan China	32	3.1k 0.7×	2.2k 0.6×	3.2k 1.1×	733 1.1×	90 0.2×	107	5.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sun, Yuanhui, et al.. (2025). Batch Discovery of Complex Metal Superhydrides via an Effective Machine Learning Method Structured by Chemical Template Concept. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(44). 40407–40419.

Zhou, Kun, et al.. (2024). Advanced Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Materials for Optoelectronic Applications. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(52). 70 indexed citations

Yan, Xu, Sheng Wang, Yuanhui Sun, et al.. (2023). Semiconducting Bilayer Borophene with High Carrier Mobility. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 14(43). 9698–9704. 11 indexed citations

Sun, Yuanhui, Lei Zhao, Chris J. Pickard, et al.. (2023). Chemical interactions that govern the structures of metals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(8). e2218405120–e2218405120. 24 indexed citations

Zhang, Yilin, et al.. (2023). Evaluating In-Plane Thermal Expansion of Two-Dimensional Layered Materials via Effective Descriptors. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(19). 9407–9417. 1 indexed citations

Sun, Yuanhui, Xiujie Zhang, Zhen Yang, & Aiping Wang. (2023). Development and psychometric evaluation of a new patient -reported outcome measure for psoriasis self-management efficacy: the self-management efficacy questionnaire among patients with psoriasis (SMEQ-PSO). Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 21(1). 56–56.

Hou, Wenjie, Jorge Botana, Yunfei Sun, et al.. (2023). Unexpected Metastable High-Temperature Superconducting Hydride LaCaH₁₂ with an Irregular Cage Structure at High Pressure. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(49). 23870–23878. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Xiaohua, et al.. (2022). Prediction of novel boron–carbon based clathrates. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 24(27). 16884–16890. 16 indexed citations

Toyoda, Ryojun, Naoya Fukui, Dion Tjhe, et al.. (2022). Heterometallic Benzenehexathiolato Coordination Nanosheets: Periodic Structure Improves Crystallinity and Electrical Conductivity. Advanced Materials. 34(13). e2106204–e2106204. 40 indexed citations

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Wang, Bo, Yuanhui Sun, & Guochun Yang. (2021). SiCP₄ Monolayer with a Direct Band Gap and High Carrier Mobility for Photocatalytic Water Splitting. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 13(1). 190–197. 24 indexed citations

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Miao, Maosheng, Yuanhui Sun, Eva Zurek, & Hai‐Qing Lin. (2020). Chemistry under high pressure. Nature Reviews Chemistry. 4(10). 508–527. 157 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhun, Yuanhui Sun, David J. Singh, & Lijun Zhang. (2019). Switchable Out‐of‐Plane Polarization in 2D LiAlTe₂. Advanced Electronic Materials. 5(5). 22 indexed citations

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Liu, Lulu, Yuanhui Sun, Xiaoqiang Cui, et al.. (2019). Bottom-up growth of homogeneous Moiré superlattices in bismuth oxychloride spiral nanosheets. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4472–4472. 85 indexed citations

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Yu, Tong, Ziyuan Zhao, Yuanhui Sun, et al.. (2019). Two-Dimensional PC₆ with Direct Band Gap and Anisotropic Carrier Mobility. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(4). 1599–1605. 157 indexed citations

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Tong, Lei, Tiande Liu, Lei Ye, et al.. (2019). Artificial control of in-plane anisotropic photoelectricity in monolayer MoS2. Applied Materials Today. 15. 203–211. 56 indexed citations

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Xue, Tianyu, Weiyuan Liang, Yawen Li, et al.. (2018). Ultrasensitive detection of miRNA with an antimonene-based surface plasmon resonance sensor. Nature Communications. 10(1). 28–28. 629 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zeng, Junwen, Xin He, Shi‐Jun Liang, et al.. (2018). Experimental Identification of Critical Condition for Drastically Enhancing Thermoelectric Power Factor of Two-Dimensional Layered Materials. Nano Letters. 18(12). 7538–7545. 82 indexed citations

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Zhao, Xingang, Dongwen Yang, Ji‐Chang Ren, et al.. (2018). Rational Design of Halide Double Perovskites for Optoelectronic Applications. Joule. 2(9). 1662–1673. 419 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhao, Xingang, Dongwen Yang, Yuanhui Sun, et al.. (2016). Design of Pb-free halide perovskite solar absorbers inspired by the chalcopyrite structure. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Hui, Guangtao Yu, Guodong Li, et al.. (2016). Unique Electronic Structure in a Porous Ga‐In Bimetallic Oxide Nano‐Photocatalyst with Atomically Thin Pore Walls. Angewandte Chemie. 128(38). 11614–11618. 5 indexed citations

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