Zixu Sun

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Zixu Sun is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Zixu Sun has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 21 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 9 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Zixu Sun's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (17 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (15 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (12 papers). Zixu Sun is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (17 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (15 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (12 papers). Zixu Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and Australia. Zixu Sun's co-authors include Hong Li, See Wee Koh, Guang Zhu, Guoliang Gao, Shude Liu, Junyu Ge, Xueli Chen, Wei‐Qiang Han, Bowen Sun and Guangjin Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, Advanced Functional Materials and Advanced Energy Materials.

In The Last Decade

Zixu Sun

36 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Advances in MOFs and their derivatives for non‑noble metal electrocatalysts in water splitting

2024 96 citations Guoliang Gao, Xueli Chen et al. Coordination Chemistry Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zixu Sun China	23	903	674	412	319	128	36	1.4k
Dandan Han China	20	578 0.6×	399 0.6×	400 1.0×	420 1.3×	85 0.7×	47	1.4k
Gangbin Yan United States	12	580 0.6×	289 0.4×	235 0.6×	108 0.3×	321 2.5×	22	1.0k
Liangliang Zou China	26	1.4k 1.6×	1.9k 2.8×	760 1.8×	221 0.7×	134 1.0×	60	2.3k
Xiaoshuang Zhang China	25	1.3k 1.5×	1.7k 2.5×	428 1.0×	184 0.6×	81 0.6×	97	2.1k
Wenli Liao China	15	685 0.8×	627 0.9×	222 0.5×	316 1.0×	96 0.8×	26	1.2k
Maido Merisalu Estonia	26	1.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.6×	367 0.9×	222 0.7×	52 0.4×	50	1.5k
Liwen Xing China	18	550 0.6×	611 0.9×	447 1.1×	104 0.3×	474 3.7×	32	1.3k
Yang Fa China	18	482 0.5×	1.3k 1.9×	723 1.8×	115 0.4×	123 1.0×	58	1.8k
Shuzhang Niu China	24	2.0k 2.2×	406 0.6×	487 1.2×	433 1.4×	70 0.5×	38	2.2k

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Yang, Xing, Zixu Sun, & Jing Zhang. (2024). Lithium ion battery-assisted solar-driven water splitting. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1008. 176639–176639. 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Yunxing, Denian Li, Pengcheng Cai, et al.. (2024). Waste PET plastic-mediated synthesis of manganese- and cobalt-doped RuO2 catalyst for electro-oxidation of water with robust stability. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 215. 108056–108056. 11 indexed citations

Sun, Zixu, Xueli Chen, Guang Zhu, et al.. (2024). Recent advances in hydrogen production coupled with alternative oxidation reactions. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 509. 215777–215777. 41 indexed citations

Gao, Guoliang, Yangyang Yu, Guang Zhu, et al.. (2024). High entropy alloy electrocatalysts. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 99. 335–364. 28 indexed citations

Gao, Guoliang, Xueli Chen, Lu Han, et al.. (2024). Advances in MOFs and their derivatives for non‑noble metal electrocatalysts in water splitting. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 503. 215639–215639. 96 indexed citations breakdown →

Gao, Guoliang, Guangzhen Zhao, Guang Zhu, et al.. (2024). Recent advancements in noble-metal electrocatalysts for alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction. Chinese Chemical Letters. 36(1). 109557–109557. 49 indexed citations

Hong, Wei, et al.. (2023). Co-reduction assisted fabrication of PdCuTe nanowires for enhanced glycerol electrooxidation. Materials Letters. 354. 135333–135333. 5 indexed citations

Yang, Xing, Dongwei Wei, Guoliang Gao, et al.. (2023). Co/Co3ZnC heterojunction entangled with self-grown N-doped carbon nanotubes for hydrogen evolution reaction in both acidic and alkaline media. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 49. 713–722. 4 indexed citations

Du, Yunfei, Zixu Sun, Shude Liu, et al.. (2023). Ameliorating structural and electrochemical properties of traditional poly-dioxolane electrolytes via integrated design of ultra-stable network for solid-state batteries. Energy storage materials. 56. 310–318. 55 indexed citations

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Gao, Guoliang, Zixu Sun, Xueli Chen, et al.. (2023). Recent advances in Ru/Ir-based electrocatalysts for acidic oxygen evolution reaction. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 343. 123584–123584. 106 indexed citations

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Sun, Zixu, Lijuan Sun, See Wee Koh, et al.. (2022). Photovoltaic‐powered supercapacitors for driving overall water splitting: A dual‐modulated 3D architecture. Carbon Energy. 4(6). 1262–1273. 55 indexed citations

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Ren, Yumei, Zhiming Yan, Zixu Sun, et al.. (2022). Interfacial coupled engineering of plasmonic amorphous MoO3-x nanodots/g-C3N4 nanosheets for photocatalytic water splitting and photothermal conversion. Chemical Engineering Journal. 453. 139875–139875. 45 indexed citations

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Song, Xiaosheng, Zixu Sun, Xuebing Zhu, et al.. (2022). Dynamic active site evolution and stabilization of core-shell structure electrode for oxygen evolution reaction. Chemical Engineering Journal. 435. 134672–134672. 14 indexed citations

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Yin, Mingming, et al.. (2021). Manganese dioxides for oxygen electrocatalysis in energy conversion and storage systems over full pH range. Journal of Power Sources. 494. 229779–229779. 58 indexed citations

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Fei, Jipeng, Bin Ding, See Wee Koh, et al.. (2021). Mechanistic Investigation of Electrostatic Field‐Enhanced Water Evaporation. Advanced Science. 8(18). e2100875–e2100875. 37 indexed citations

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Yao, Mengqi, Junyu Ge, Baolong Sun, et al.. (2021). Solar-driven hydrogen generation coupled with urea electrolysis by an oxygen vacancy-rich catalyst. Chemical Engineering Journal. 414. 128753–128753. 45 indexed citations

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Ge, Junyu, Jun Long, Zixu Sun, et al.. (2019). Vertical Silver@Silver Chloride Core–Shell Nanowire Array for Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 2(9). 6163–6169. 22 indexed citations

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Sun, Zixu, Xinghui Wang, Hu Zhao, et al.. (2019). Rambutan‐like hollow carbon spheres decorated with vacancy‐rich nickel oxide for energy conversion and storage. Carbon Energy. 2(1). 122–130. 86 indexed citations

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Jin, Yan, Chongchong Zhao, Zixu Sun, et al.. (2016). Facile synthesis of Fe-MOF/RGO and its application as a high performance anode in lithium-ion batteries. RSC Advances. 6(36). 30763–30768. 114 indexed citations

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Wang, Guangjin, Zixu Sun, Fei Huang, et al.. (2016). Carbon cloth supported anatase TiO 2 aligned arrays as a high-performance anode material for Li-ion batteries. Materials Letters. 171. 150–153. 21 indexed citations

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