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Cheng-Jun Sun is affiliated with Argonne National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of engineering and materials science, with extensive work in electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and automotive engineering.

Their research topics cover various advancements in battery materials and technologies, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, catalytic processes in materials science, and supercapacitor materials and fabrication. Specific areas of concentration include:

  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication

Sun has contributed to several high-impact publications, including papers published in prominent venues such as:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Advanced Materials
  • Advanced Energy Materials
  • Nature Energy
  • Nature Catalysis

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Highly selective electrocatalytic CO2 reduction to ethanol by metallic clusters dynamically formed from atomically dispersed copper, 2020, Nature Energy
  • A high-energy and long-cycling lithium-sulfur pouch cell via a macroporous catalytic cathode with double-end binding sites, 2020, Nature Nanotechnology
  • Ultra-high-voltage Ni-rich layered cathodes in practical Li metal batteries enabled by a sulfonamide-based electrolyte, 2021, Nature Energy
  • Atomically dispersed Pt and Fe sites and Pt-Fe nanoparticles for durable proton exchange membrane fuel cells, 2022, Nature Catalysis
  • Phase segregation reversibility in mixed-metal hydroxide water oxidation catalysts, 2020, Nature Catalysis

Frequent collaborators in Sun's research include:

  • Inhui Hwang
  • Khalil Amine
  • Gui-Liang Xu
  • Yang Ren
  • Yuzi Liu

Best Publications

  • Conductive MOF electrodes for stable supercapacitors with high areal capacitance

    Dennis Sheberla;John Christopher Bachman;Joseph S. Elias;Cheng-Jun Sun

  • Aqueous Li-ion battery enabled by halogen conversion–intercalation chemistry in graphite

    Chongyin Yang;Ji Chen;Xiao Ji;Travis P. Pollard

  • Highly selective electrocatalytic CO2 reduction to ethanol by metallic clusters dynamically formed from atomically dispersed copper

    Haiping Xu;Haiping Xu;Dominic Rebollar;Dominic Rebollar;Haiying He;Lina Chong

  • Ultra-high-voltage Ni-rich layered cathodes in practical Li metal batteries enabled by a sulfonamide-based electrolyte

    Weijiang Xue;Mingjun Huang;Yutao Li;Yun Guang Zhu

  • A high-energy and long-cycling lithium-sulfur pouch cell via a macroporous catalytic cathode with double-end binding sites.

    Chen Zhao;Chen Zhao;Gui-Liang Xu;Zhou Yu;Leicheng Zhang

  • Atomically dispersed Pt and Fe sites and Pt–Fe nanoparticles for durable proton exchange membrane fuel cells

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  • Facet-dependent active sites of a single Cu 2 O particle photocatalyst for CO 2 reduction to methanol

    Yimin A. Wu;Yimin A. Wu;Ian McNulty;Cong Liu;Kah Chun Lau;Kah Chun Lau

  • A single-atom library for guided monometallic and concentration-complex multimetallic designs

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  • High-Performance Pyrochlore-Type Yttrium Ruthenate Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Acidic Media

    Jaemin Kim;Pei Chieh Shih;Kai Chieh Tsao;Yung Tin Pan

  • Metal-oxygen decoordination stabilizes anion redox in Li-rich oxides.

    Jihyun Hong;William E. Gent;William E. Gent;Penghao Xiao;Kipil Lim

  • New yellow Ba0.93Eu0.07Al2O4 phosphor for warm-white light-emitting diodes through single-emitting-center conversion

    Xufan Li;John D Budai;Feng Liu;Jane Y Howe

  • Rational Design of Graphene-Supported Single Atom Catalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

    Delowar Hossain;Zhenjing Liu;Minghao Zhuang;Xingxu Yan

  • (De)Lithiation Mechanism of Li/SeSx (x = 0–7) Batteries Determined by in Situ Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

    Yanjie Cui;Ali Abouimrane;Jun Lu;Trudy Bolin

  • Single Fe Atom on Hierarchically Porous S, N-Codoped Nanocarbon Derived from Porphyra Enable Boosted Oxygen Catalysis for Rechargeable Zn-Air Batteries.

    Jiting Zhang;Meng Zhang;Yan Zeng;Jisheng Chen

  • Phase segregation reversibility in mixed-metal hydroxide water oxidation catalysts

    Chunguang Kuai;Chunguang Kuai;Zhengrui Xu;Cong Xi;Anyang Hu

  • In Operando XRD and TXM Study on the Metastable Structure Change of NaNi1/3Fe1/3Mn1/3O2 under Electrochemical Sodium-Ion Intercalation

    Yingying Xie;Yingying Xie;Hong Wang;Guiliang Xu;Jiajun Wang

  • Oxygen evolution reaction over catalytic single-site Co in a well-defined brookite TiO2 nanorod surface

    Chang Liu;Jin Qian;Yifan Ye;Hua Zhou

  • Graphene-modified nanostructured vanadium pentoxide hybrids with extraordinary electrochemical performance for Li-ion batteries

    Qi Liu;Zhe-Fei Li;Yadong Liu;Hangyu Zhang

  • Understanding Pt Nanoparticle Anchoring on Graphene Supports through Surface Functionalization

    Le Xin;Fan Yang;Somaye Rasouli;Yang Qiu

  • Giant magnetoresistance in organic spin valves.

    Da-Li Sun;Da-Li Sun;Lifeng Yin;Lifeng Yin;Chengjun Sun;Hangwen Guo

  • Nitrogen-coordinated single iron atom catalysts derived from metal organic frameworks for oxygen reduction reaction

    Fei Xiao;Gui-Liang Xu;Cheng-Jun Sun;Mingjie Xu;Mingjie Xu

  • Ligand-Exchange-Induced Amorphization of Pd Nanomaterials for Highly Efficient Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Reaction.

    Hongfei Cheng;Nailiang Yang;Nailiang Yang;Guigao Liu;Yiyao Ge

Frequent Co-Authors

Khalil Amine
Khalil Amine Argonne National Laboratory
Yang Ren
Yang Ren City University of Hong Kong
Steve M. Heald
Steve M. Heald Argonne National Laboratory
Gui-Liang Xu
Gui-Liang Xu Argonne National Laboratory
Jingsheng Chen
Jingsheng Chen National University of Singapore
Gan Moog Chow
Gan Moog Chow National University of Singapore
Zonghai Chen
Zonghai Chen Argonne National Laboratory
Yuzi Liu
Yuzi Liu Argonne National Laboratory
Feng Lin
Feng Lin Virginia Tech
Dennis Nordlund
Dennis Nordlund SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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