Yuanyuan Sun

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Yuanyuan Sun is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuanyuan Sun has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Water Science and Technology, 17 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 13 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yuanyuan Sun's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (13 papers), Advanced oxidation water treatment (12 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (9 papers). Yuanyuan Sun is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (13 papers), Advanced oxidation water treatment (12 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (9 papers). Yuanyuan Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and United States. Yuanyuan Sun's co-authors include Dongjiang Yang, Daohao Li, Chung‐Li Dong, Yanzhi Xia, Yucheng Huang, Pengcheng Cai, Xiaoliang Zhao, Huawei Zhang, Shuai Chen and Baoshan Xing and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Advanced Functional Materials and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Yuanyuan Sun

51 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Synergy between cobalt and nickel on NiCo2O4 nanosheets promotes peroxymonosulfate activation for efficient norfloxacin degradation
    2022 284 citations Pengcheng Cai, Jian Zhao et al. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yuanyuan Sun China 26 791 786 628 594 345 52 2.1k
Yunlan Xu China 28 756 1.0× 1.1k 1.4× 670 1.1× 668 1.1× 363 1.1× 107 2.2k
Felio Pérez United States 28 880 1.1× 593 0.8× 711 1.1× 685 1.2× 378 1.1× 89 2.6k
Dengjie Zhong China 25 702 0.9× 707 0.9× 421 0.7× 476 0.8× 304 0.9× 96 1.7k
Mohammad Mehdi Sabzehmeidani Iran 30 680 0.9× 876 1.1× 454 0.7× 1.1k 1.9× 373 1.1× 60 2.3k
Xuekun Tang China 30 862 1.1× 650 0.8× 400 0.6× 517 0.9× 454 1.3× 78 1.9k
Almudena Gómez‐Avilés Spain 24 619 0.8× 815 1.0× 305 0.5× 1.0k 1.7× 306 0.9× 42 2.1k
Ke Zhu China 28 880 1.1× 840 1.1× 339 0.5× 967 1.6× 543 1.6× 67 2.2k
Zhao Yang China 25 793 1.0× 1.5k 1.9× 626 1.0× 913 1.5× 390 1.1× 42 2.3k
Adel A. El–Zahhar Saudi Arabia 26 711 0.9× 367 0.5× 312 0.5× 719 1.2× 268 0.8× 118 1.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yuanyuan Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuanyuan Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yuanyuan Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yuanyuan 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 Yuanyuan Sun. Yuanyuan Sun is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Lu, Dongwei, Huirong Zhang, Jinfeng Lu, et al.. (2025). Positive effect of metal cations on direct electron transfer-based CoAl-NC activated peroxymonosulfate oxidation: Key role of hydration layer. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 378. 125621–125621. 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Yuanyuan, Xiaofeng Liu, Jinhui Chen, et al.. (2025). Vacancy‐Activated B‐Doping for Efficient 2e− Oxygen Reduction through Suppressing H2O2 Decomposition at High Overpotential. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(13). e202423056–e202423056. 12 indexed citations
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Hu, Xin, Hongxia Xu, Yuanyuan Sun, et al.. (2024). Reclaiming selenium from water using aluminum-modified biochar: Adsorption behaviors, mechanisms, and effects on growth of wheat seedlings. Environmental Pollution. 361. 124835–124835. 4 indexed citations
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Gu, Mengmeng, et al.. (2024). Thioredoxin Reductase-Mediated Reaction Evokes In Situ Surface Polarization Effect on BiOIO3: Toward a New Sensing Strategy for Cathodic Photoelectrochemistry. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(7). 8518–8526. 7 indexed citations
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Li, Changyu, Bin Gao, Yifan Zhu, et al.. (2024). Degradation and mechanism of PFOA by peroxymonosulfate activated by nitrogen-doped carbon foam-anchored nZVI in aqueous solutions. Chemosphere. 351. 141209–141209. 12 indexed citations
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Cai, Pengcheng, Xiaohui Zhang, Shuai Yang, et al.. (2023). NiCo2N nanosheets catalyzed peroxymonosulfate activation to generate 1O2 and SO4•- for efficient pollutant degradation: The role of nitrogen atoms. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 342. 123446–123446. 73 indexed citations
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Wang, Hu, Caiyun Wang, Xiaoxia Wang, et al.. (2022). Cobalt atom sites anchored on sulfhydryl decorated UiO-66 to activate peroxymonosulfate for norfloxacin degradation. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 11(1). 108972–108972. 20 indexed citations
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Guo, Peng, et al.. (2021). Adsorption of Hexavalent Chromium by Sodium Alginate Fiber Biochar Loaded with Lanthanum. Materials. 14(9). 2224–2224. 26 indexed citations
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Sun, Yuanyuan, et al.. (2021). A review on nanoconfinement engineering of red phosphorus for enhanced Li/Na/K-ion storage performances. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 61. 531–552. 52 indexed citations
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Zhao, Xiaoliang, Jian Zhao, Yuanyuan Sun, et al.. (2021). Selenite capture by MIL-101 (Fe) through Fe O Se bonds at free coordination Fe sites. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 424(Pt D). 127715–127715. 31 indexed citations
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Zhang, Rongrong, Qian Zeng, Guo Peng, Yuqian Cui, & Yuanyuan Sun. (2020). Efficient capture of Cr(VI) by carbon hollow fibers with window-like structure. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 27(14). 16763–16773. 8 indexed citations
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Zhao, Xiaoliang, et al.. (2020). Recent advances in metal-organic frameworks for the removal of heavy metal oxoanions from water. Chemical Engineering Journal. 407. 127221–127221. 132 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yifei, Yukun Zhu, Chunxiao Lv, et al.. (2019). Enhanced visible‐light photoelectrochemical performance via chemical vapor deposition of Fe 2 O 3 on a WO 3 film to form a heterojunction. Rare Metals. 39(7). 841–849. 36 indexed citations
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Sun, Yuanyuan, Dedong Jia, Aitang Zhang, et al.. (2019). Synthesis of polypyrrole coated melamine foam by in-situ interfacial polymerization method for highly compressible and flexible supercapacitor. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 557. 617–627. 49 indexed citations
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Li, Daohao, Yuanyuan Sun, Shuai Chen, et al.. (2018). Highly Porous FeS/Carbon Fibers Derived from Fe-Carrageenan Biomass: High-capacity and Durable Anodes for Sodium-Ion Batteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10(20). 17175–17182. 131 indexed citations
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Xu, Tao, Daohao Li, Shuai Chen, et al.. (2018). Nanoconfinement of red phosphorus nanoparticles in seaweed-derived hierarchical porous carbonaceous fibers for enhanced lithium ion storage. Chemical Engineering Journal. 345. 604–610. 54 indexed citations
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Xin, Hongchuan, Yufei Zhang, Xianfeng Yi, et al.. (2015). Catalytic Dehydration of Ethanol to Ethylene Over Steam-Treated ZSM-5 Zeolites. Science of Advanced Materials. 7(11). 2343–2351. 8 indexed citations

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