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Yugang Sun

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Yugang Sun

  • College of Science and Technology

    • Chemistry

      • Associate Professor

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

CHEM 3301

Physical Chemistry Lecture I

Undergraduate

CHEM 5304

Nanomaterials Chemistry and Physics

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Sun, Y. (2021). Anomalous small-angle X-ray scattering for materials chemistry. Trends in Chemistry, 3(12), 1045-1060. doi: 10.1016/j.trechm.2021.09.005.

  • Wei, Q., Kuhn, D., Zander, Z., DeLacy, B., Dai, H., & Sun, Y. (2021). Silica-coating-assisted nitridation of TiO2 nanoparticles and their photothermal property. Nano Research, 14(9), 3228-3233. doi: 10.1007/s12274-021-3427-7.

  • Li, M., Rasamani, K., & Sun, Y. (2021). Highly Dispersed Palladium Nanoparticles on Silica Spheres for Photocatalytic Hydrodeoxygenation of Vanillin. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 125(30), 16550-16556. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c05049.

  • Wu, S., An, Q., & Sun, Y. (2021). Simulated annealing fitting: A global optimization method for quantitatively analyzing growth kinetics of colloidal Ag nanoparticles. Nanoscale Horizons, 6(7), 568-573. doi: 10.1039/d1nh00152c.

  • Wu, S., Wu, S., & Sun, Y. (2021). Light-Driven Dry Reforming of Methane on Metal Catalysts. Solar RRL, 5(6). doi: 10.1002/solr.202000507.

  • Sun, Y. (2021). Deciphering Catalytic Selectivity on Uneven Terraces. Chem, 7(2), 281-282. doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2021.01.004.

  • Stewart, S., Wei, Q., & Sun, Y. (2021). Surface chemistry of quantum-sized metal nanoparticles under light illumination. Chemical Science, 12(4), 1227-1239. doi: 10.1039/d0sc04651e.

  • Wu, S., Liu, Y., Ren, Y., Wei, Q., & Sun, Y. (2021). Microwave synthesis of single-phase nanoparticles made of multi-principal element alloys. Nano Research. doi: 10.1007/s12274-021-3893-y.

  • Hu, F., Abeyweera, S., Yu, J., Zhang, D., Wang, Y., Yan, Q., & Sun, Y. (2020). Quantifying Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 on Twin Boundaries. Chem, 6(11), 3007-3021. doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2020.07.026.

  • Wang, D., Eychmüller, A., & Sun, Y. (2020). Hollow Nanostructures. ChemNanoMat, 6(10), 1419-1420. doi: 10.1002/cnma.202000408.

  • Sun, Y. (2020). Regioselective Magneto-optical Heteronanorods Enabling Chiroptical Activity. Chemical Research in Chinese Universities, 36(3), 490-491. doi: 10.1007/s40242-020-0054-x.

  • Abeyweera, S., Yu, J., Perdew, J., Yan, Q., & Sun, Y. (2020). Hierarchically 3D Porous Ag Nanostructures Derived from Silver Benzenethiolate Nanoboxes: Enabling CO2 Reduction with a Near-Unity Selectivity and Mass-Specific Current Density over 500 A/g. Nano Letters, 20(4), 2806-2811. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00518.

  • Rasamani, K. & Sun, Y. (2020). Promoting reactivity of photoexcited hot electrons in small-sized plasmonic metal nanoparticles that are supported on dielectric nanospheres. Journal of Chemical Physics, 152(8). doi: 10.1063/1.5141765.

  • Abeyweera, S.C., Stewart, S., & Sun, Y. (2020). Anion replacement in silver chlorobromide nanocubes: two distinct hollowing mechanisms. MATERIALS CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS, 4(2), 524-531. 10.1039/c9qm00544g

  • Wei, Q., Guzman, K., Dai, X., Attanayake, N., Strongin, D., & Sun, Y. (2020). Highly Dispersed RuOOH Nanoparticles on Silica Spheres: An Efficient Photothermal Catalyst for Selective Aerobic Oxidation of Benzyl Alcohol. Nano-Micro Letters, 12(1). doi: 10.1007/s40820-020-0375-9.

  • Sun, Y. & Tang, Z. (2020). Photocatalytic hot-carrier chemistry. MRS Bulletin, 45(1), 20-25. doi: 10.1557/mrs.2019.290.

  • Dai, X. & Sun, Y. (2019). Reduction of carbon dioxide on photoexcited nanoparticles of VIII group metals. Nanoscale, 11(36), 16723-16732. doi: 10.1039/c9nr05971g.

  • Hu, F., Wu, S., & Sun, Y. (2019). Hollow-Structured Materials for Thermal Insulation. Advanced Materials, 31(38). doi: 10.1002/adma.201801001.

  • Dai, X., Wei, Q., Duong, T., & Sun, Y. (2019). Selective Transfer Coupling of Nitrobenzene to Azoxybenzene on Rh Nanoparticle Catalyst Promoted by Photoexcited Hot Electrons. ChemNanoMat, 5(8), 1000-1007. doi: 10.1002/cnma.201900182.

  • Dai, X., Wei, Q., Duong, T., & Sun, Y. (2019). Cover Feature: Selective Transfer Coupling of Nitrobenzene to Azoxybenzene on Rh Nanoparticle Catalyst Promoted by Photoexcited Hot Electrons (ChemNanoMat 8/2019). ChemNanoMat, 5(8), 973-973. doi: 10.1002/cnma.201900251.

  • Wu, S., Li, M., & Sun, Y. (2019). In Situ Synchrotron X-ray Characterization Shining Light on the Nucleation and Growth Kinetics of Colloidal Nanoparticles. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 58(27), 8987-8995. doi: 10.1002/anie.201900690.

  • Wu, S. & Sun, Y. (2019). An extreme-condition model for quantifying growth kinetics of colloidal metal nanoparticles. Nano Research, 12(6), 1339-1345. doi: 10.1007/s12274-019-2297-8.

  • Wu, S., Li, M., & Sun, Y. (2019). In Situ Synchrotron X‐ray Characterization Shining Light on the Nucleation and Growth Kinetics of Colloidal Nanoparticles. Angewandte Chemie, 131(27), 9083-9091. doi: 10.1002/ange.201900690.

  • Yu, Y., Huang, W., Song, X., Wang, W., Hou, Z., Zhao, X., Deng, K., Ju, H., Sun, Y., Zhao, Y., Lu, Y., & Quan, Z. (2019). Thermally reduced graphene paper with fast Li ion diffusion for stable Li metal anode. Electrochimica Acta, 294, 413-422. doi: 10.1016/j.electacta.2018.10.117.

  • Abeyweera, S. & Sun, Y. (2019). Silver Chlorobromide Nanocubes: A Class of Reactive Templates for Synthesizing Nanoplates and Nanocages of Silver Thiolates. MRS Advances, 4(38-39), 2087-2094. doi: 10.1557/adv.2019.219.

  • Peng, M., Zhang, D., Wang, X., Xia, D., Sun, Y., & Guo, G. (2019). Three-electron reversible redox for a high-energy fluorophosphate cathode: Na3V2O2(PO4)2F. Chemical Communications, 55(27), 3979-3982. doi: 10.1039/c9cc00504h.

  • Wu, S. & Sun, Y. (2018). Tessellating tiny tetrahedrons. Science, 362(6421), 1354-1355. doi: 10.1126/science.aav8597.

  • Dai, X., Rasamani, K., Hu, F., & Sun, Y. (2018). Mesoporous SiO2 Nanoparticles: A Unique Platform Enabling Sensitive Detection of Rare Earth Ions with Smartphone Camera. Nano-Micro Letters, 10(4). doi: 10.1007/s40820-018-0208-2.

  • Dai, X., Rasamani, K., Wu, S., & Sun, Y. (2018). Enabling selective aerobic oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes by hot electrons in quantum-sized Rh nanocubes. Materials Today Energy, 10, 15-22. doi: 10.1016/j.mtener.2018.08.003.

  • Wei, Q., Wu, S., & Sun, Y. (2018). Quantum-Sized Metal Catalysts for Hot-Electron-Driven Chemical Transformation. Advanced Materials, 30(48). doi: 10.1002/adma.201802082.

  • Wu, S. & Sun, Y. (2018). In Situ Techniques for Probing Kinetics and Mechanism of Hollowing Nanostructures through Direct Chemical Transformations. SMALL METHODS, 2(11). 10.1002/smtd.201800165

  • Zhang, Z., Zhang, J., Thenuwara, A., Strongin, D., Sun, Y., & Ren, S. (2018). Structure and Magnetism Evolution from FeCo Nanoparticles to Hollow Nanostructure Conversion for Magnetic Applications. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 1(10), 5837-5842. doi: 10.1021/acsanm.8b01488.

  • Dai, X., Rasamani, K., Hall, G., Makrypodi, R., & Sun, Y. (2018). Geometric symmetry of dielectric antenna influencing light absorption in quantum-sized metal nanocrystals: A comparative study. Frontiers in Chemistry, 6(OCT). doi: 10.3389/fchem.2018.00494.

  • Wei, Q., Gao, M., Li, Y., Zhang, D., Wu, S., Chen, Z., & Sun, Y. (2018). Directionally assembled MoS 2 with significantly expanded interlayer spacing: A superior anode material for high-rate lithium-ion batteries. Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2(8), 1441-1448. doi: 10.1039/c8qm00117k.

  • Li, X., Wang, L., Fang, P., Sun, Y., Jiang, X., Wang, H., & Yang, X. (2018). Lysophospholipids induce innate immune transdifferentiation of endothelial cells, resulting in prolonged endothelial activation. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 293(28), 11033-11045. doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA118.002752.

  • Zeng, Q., Bai, J., Li, J., Li, L., Xia, L., Zhou, B., & Sun, Y. (2018). Highly-stable and efficient photocatalytic fuel cell based on an epitaxial TiO2/WO3/W nanothorn photoanode and enhanced radical reactions for simultaneous electricity production and wastewater treatment. Applied Energy, 220, 127-137. doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.03.042.

  • Zhang, D., Chen, C., Wang, X., Guo, G., & Sun, Y. (2018). Synthesis of PtAu Alloy Nanocrystals in Micelle Nanoreactors Enabled by Flash Heating and Cooling. Particle and Particle Systems Characterization, 35(5). doi: 10.1002/ppsc.201700413.

  • Ji, Y., Wei, Q., & Sun, Y. (2018). Superior Capacitive Performance Enabled by Edge-Oriented and Interlayer-Expanded MoS2 Nanosheets Anchored on Reduced Graphene Oxide Sheets. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 57(13), 4571-4576. doi: 10.1021/acs.iecr.7b05342.

  • Rasamani, K., Foley, J., & Sun, Y. (2018). One stone, two birds: Silica nanospheres significantly increase photocatalytic activity and colloidal stability of photocatalysts. Nano Futures, 2(1). doi: 10.1088/2399-1984/aaa8bd.

  • Attanayake, N., Abeyweera, S., Thenuwara, A., Anasori, B., Gogotsi, Y., Sun, Y., & Strongin, D. (2018). Vertically aligned MoS2 on Ti3C2 (MXene) as an improved HER catalyst. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 6(35), 16882-16889. doi: 10.1039/c8ta05033c.

  • Yuan, L., Weng, B., Colmenares, J., Sun, Y., & Xu, Y. (2017). Multichannel Charge Transfer and Mechanistic Insight in Metal Decorated 2D–2D Bi2WO6–TiO2 Cascade with Enhanced Photocatalytic Performance. Small, 13(48). doi: 10.1002/smll.201702253.

  • Zeng, Q., Bai, J., Li, J., Zhou, B., & Sun, Y. (2017). A low-cost photoelectrochemical tandem cell for highly-stable and efficient solar water splitting. Nano Energy, 41, 225-232. doi: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2017.09.032.

  • Sun, Y. (2017). Quantum-sized metal nanoparticles for photoinduced chemical transformations. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 254. Retrieved from http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000429525603264&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=abcd71df5a6dac31fd219478b0a9c638.

  • Sun, Y. & Tang, Z. (2017). Plasmonic Particles – Now Tailored to Your Needs. Particle and Particle Systems Characterization, 34(8). doi: 10.1002/ppsc.201700103.

  • Abeyweera, S. & Sun, Y. (2017). Ternary silver chlorobromide nanocrystals: Intrinsic influence of size and morphology on photocatalytic activity. Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 1(8), 1534-1540. doi: 10.1039/c7qm00046d.

  • Abeyweera, S., Rasamani, K., & Sun, Y. (2017). Ternary Silver Halide Nanocrystals. Accounts of Chemical Research, 50(7), 1754-1761. doi: 10.1021/acs.accounts.7b00194.

  • Liu, Q., Tan, G., Wang, P., Abeyweera, S., Zhang, D., Rong, Y., Wu, A., Lu, J., Sun, C., Ren, Y., Liu, Y., Muehleisen, R., Guzowski, L., Li, J., Xiao, X., & Sun, Y. (2017). Revealing mechanism responsible for structural reversibility of single-crystal VO2 nanorods upon lithiation/delithiation. Nano Energy, 36, 197-205. doi: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2017.04.023.

  • Sun, Y., Zuo, X., Sankaranarayanan, S., Peng, S., Narayanan, B., & Kamath, G. (2017). Quantitative 3D evolution of colloidal nanoparticle oxidation in solution. Science, 356(6335), 303-307. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf6792.

  • Han, C., Quan, Q., Chen, H., Sun, Y., & Xu, Y. (2017). Progressive Design of Plasmonic Metal–Semiconductor Ensemble toward Regulated Charge Flow and Improved Vis–NIR-Driven Solar-to-Chemical Conversion. Small, 13(14). doi: 10.1002/smll.201602947.

  • Rasamani, K., Foley, J., Beidelman, B., & Sun, Y. (2017). Enhanced optical absorption in semiconductor nanoparticles enabled by nearfield dielectric scattering. Nano Research, 10(4), 1292-1301. doi: 10.1007/s12274-016-1406-1.

  • Sun, Y., Alimohammadi, F., Zhang, D., & Guo, G. (2017). Enabling Colloidal Synthesis of Edge-Oriented MoS2 with Expanded Interlayer Spacing for Enhanced HER Catalysis. Nano Letters, 17(3), 1963-1969. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b05346.

  • Rasamani, K., Alimohammadi, F., & Sun, Y. (2017). Interlayer-expanded MoS2. Materials Today, 20(2), 83-91. doi: 10.1016/j.mattod.2016.10.004.

  • Peng, M., Zhang, D., Zheng, L., Wang, X., Lin, Y., Xia, D., Sun, Y., & Guo, G. (2017). Hierarchical Ru-doped sodium vanadium fluorophosphates hollow microspheres as a cathode of enhanced superior rate capability and ultralong stability for sodium-ion batteries. Nano Energy, 31, 64-73. doi: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2016.11.023.