Yuntong Sun

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Yuntong Sun is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Catalysis and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuntong Sun has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 24 papers in Catalysis and 20 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yuntong Sun's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (28 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (27 papers) and Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (21 papers). Yuntong Sun is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (28 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (27 papers) and Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (21 papers). Yuntong Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and France. Yuntong Sun's co-authors include Sheng Chen, Jingjing Duan, Junwu Zhu, Shan Ding, Shuaishuai Xu, Baokai Xia, Xun He, Jong‐Min Lee, Lili Jiang and Wenjun Fan 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

Yuntong Sun

50 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

High-efficiency overall alkaline seawater splitting: usin... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 50 100 150 200
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  1. High-efficiency overall alkaline seawater splitting: using a nickel–iron sulfide nanosheet array as a bifunctional electrocatalyst
    2022 240 citations Longcheng Zhang, Xun He 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
Yuntong Sun China 24 1.3k 732 630 502 206 56 1.7k
Hongling Huang China 18 1.4k 1.1× 777 1.1× 605 1.0× 615 1.2× 130 0.6× 24 1.8k
Zixu Tao United States 14 1.4k 1.1× 671 0.9× 415 0.7× 635 1.3× 135 0.7× 15 1.6k
Kazuyuki Iwase Japan 17 1.0k 0.8× 427 0.6× 754 1.2× 356 0.7× 231 1.1× 38 1.4k
Xian‐Wei Lv China 29 1.8k 1.4× 1.2k 1.6× 882 1.4× 832 1.7× 218 1.1× 52 2.5k
Zhan Jiang China 16 2.3k 1.8× 788 1.1× 804 1.3× 1.2k 2.5× 171 0.8× 30 2.6k
Zhouhong Ren China 20 1.4k 1.1× 765 1.0× 938 1.5× 720 1.4× 150 0.7× 46 2.2k
Changmin Kim South Korea 21 1.1k 0.9× 901 1.2× 632 1.0× 350 0.7× 87 0.4× 45 1.7k
Menglei Yuan China 25 1.7k 1.4× 691 0.9× 807 1.3× 1.3k 2.5× 176 0.9× 58 2.4k
Zhiyi Sun China 25 1.2k 0.9× 600 0.8× 820 1.3× 497 1.0× 98 0.5× 67 1.8k
Xiaodong Shao South Korea 20 1.2k 1.0× 721 1.0× 737 1.2× 299 0.6× 62 0.3× 45 1.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yuntong Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuntong Sun

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Tian, Meng, Hongan Zhao, Mingyue Zheng, Jong‐Min Lee, & Yuntong Sun. (2025). Emerging Strategies for Sustainable Nitrogen Activation to Ammonia. Small. 22(7). e13076–e13076.
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Yao, Fanglei, Yuntong Sun, Cheng Zhang, et al.. (2025). Ordered Copper Triangular Atomic Sites for Industrial‐Grade Electromethanation of CO 2 via Self‐Regulated Adsorption of Reactants. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(37). e202511459–e202511459.
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Wang, Ao, Gaoyue Zhang, Meng Li, et al.. (2025). Lignin derived hard carbon for sodium ion batteries: Recent advances and future perspectives. Progress in Materials Science. 152. 101452–101452. 23 indexed citations
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Yao, Fanglei, Yuntong Sun, Cheng Zhang, et al.. (2025). Ordered Copper Triangular Atomic Sites for Industrial‐Grade Electromethanation of CO 2 via Self‐Regulated Adsorption of Reactants. Angewandte Chemie. 137(37). 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Yuntong, Gonggong Lu, Zhiqi Wang, et al.. (2025). Size Effect of Surface Defects Dictates Reactivity for Nitrogen Electrofixation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(19). e202425112–e202425112. 2 indexed citations
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Sun, Yuntong, Gonggong Lu, Zhiqi Wang, et al.. (2025). Size Effect of Surface Defects Dictates Reactivity for Nitrogen Electrofixation. Angewandte Chemie. 137(19). 2 indexed citations
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Sun, Yuntong, Liming Dai, Kai Dong, et al.. (2024). Main‐Group Metal‐Nonmetal Dynamic Proton Bridges Enhance Ammonia Electrosynthesis. Angewandte Chemie. 136(45). 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Yuntong, Yin Huang, Fanglei Yao, et al.. (2024). Biomimetic Elastic Single‐Atom Protrusions Enhance Ammonia Electrosynthesis. Angewandte Chemie. 137(6). 2 indexed citations
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Li, Y, Chun‐Kuo Peng, Yuntong Sun, et al.. (2024). Operando elucidation of hydrogen production mechanisms on sub-nanometric high-entropy metallenes. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10222–10222. 37 indexed citations
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Sun, Yuntong, Xuheng Li, Zhiqi Wang, et al.. (2024). Biomimetic Design of a Dynamic M–O–V Pyramid Electron Bridge for Enhanced Nitrogen Electroreduction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(11). 7752–7762. 52 indexed citations
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Sun, Yuntong, Yin Huang, Fanglei Yao, et al.. (2024). Biomimetic Elastic Single‐Atom Protrusions Enhance Ammonia Electrosynthesis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(6). e202418095–e202418095. 7 indexed citations
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Sun, Yuntong, Liming Dai, Kai Dong, et al.. (2024). Main‐Group Metal‐Nonmetal Dynamic Proton Bridges Enhance Ammonia Electrosynthesis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(45). e202412426–e202412426. 15 indexed citations
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Sun, Yuntong, Ming Li, Jingjing Duan, Markus Antonietti, & Sheng Chen. (2024). Entropy‐Driven Direct Air Electrofixation. Angewandte Chemie. 136(20). 2 indexed citations
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Shan, Zhen, Yuntong Sun, Miaomiao Wu, et al.. (2023). Metal-porphyrin-based three-dimensional covalent organic frameworks for electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 342. 123418–123418. 45 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xuefeng, Longcheng Zhang, Jun Li, et al.. (2023). Amorphous Co–Mo–P film on nickel foam: a superior bifunctional electrocatalyst for alkaline seawater splitting. Nanotechnology. 35(10). 105702–105702. 5 indexed citations
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He, Xun, Yuntong Sun, Zhengwei Cai, et al.. (2023). Fabrication of a hierarchical NiTe@NiFe-LDH core-shell array for high-efficiency alkaline seawater oxidation. iScience. 27(1). 108736–108736. 62 indexed citations
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Sun, Yuntong, Lei Yu, Shuaishuai Xu, et al.. (2022). Asymmetric acidic/alkaline N2 electrofixation accelerated by high‐entropy metal–organic framework derivatives. Carbon Energy. 5(3). 57 indexed citations
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Cao, Shihai, Yuntong Sun, Shiying Guo, et al.. (2021). Defect Regulating of Few-Layer Antimonene from Acid-Assisted Exfoliation for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Nitrogen Fixation. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(34). 40618–40628. 21 indexed citations
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Hu, Xuemin, Yuntong Sun, Shiying Guo, et al.. (2020). Identifying electrocatalytic activity and mechanism of Ce1/3NbO3 perovskite for nitrogen reduction to ammonia at ambient conditions. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 280. 119419–119419. 76 indexed citations

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