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Jun Cheng is affiliated with Xiamen University in China and focuses their research primarily in the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their specialized subfields include Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's work covers a diverse range of main topics including advanced materials and composites, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, high entropy alloys studies, electrochemical analysis and applications, metal and thin film mechanics, high-temperature coating behaviors, and applications of machine learning in materials science.

Jun Cheng has published extensively in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues for their work include Tribology International, SSRN Electronic Journal, The Journal of Chemical Physics, Chemical Science, and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Jun Cheng include:

  • Electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 to ethylene and ethanol through hydrogen-assisted C-C coupling over fluorine-modified copper, 2020, Nature Catalysis
  • Coupling N2 and CO2 in H2O to synthesize urea under ambient conditions, 2020, Nature Chemistry
  • Filling metal-organic framework mesopores with TiO2 for CO2 photoreduction, 2020, Nature
  • Oxygen Vacancy-Mediated Selective C-N Coupling toward Electrocatalytic Urea Synthesis, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Subnanometer Bimetallic Platinum-Zinc Clusters in Zeolites for Propane Dehydrogenation, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Regular collaborators contributing significantly to their research include Jun Yang, Shengyu Zhu, Hui Tan, Qiyuan Fan, and Jiabo Le.

Best Publications

  • Electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 to ethylene and ethanol through hydrogen-assisted C–C coupling over fluorine-modified copper

    Wenchao Ma;Shunji Xie;Tongtong Liu;Qiyuan Fan

  • Coupling N2 and CO2 in H2O to synthesize urea under ambient conditions

    Chen Chen;Xiaorong Zhu;Xiaojian Wen;Yangyang Zhou

  • Filling metal-organic framework mesopores with TiO2 for CO2 photoreduction.

    Zhuo Jiang;Xiaohui Xu;Yanhang Ma;Hae Sung Cho

  • Origin of additional capacities in metal oxide lithium-ion battery electrodes

    Yan-Yan Hu;Zigeng Liu;Kyung-Wan Nam;Olaf J Borkiewicz

  • In situ probing electrified interfacial water structures at atomically flat surfaces.

    Chao-Yu Li;Jia-Bo Le;Yao-Hui Wang;Shu Chen

  • Solar energy-driven lignin-first approach to full utilization of lignocellulosic biomass under mild conditions

    Xuejiao Wu;Xueting Fan;Shunji Xie;Jinchi Lin

  • Subnanometer Bimetallic Platinum-Zinc Clusters in Zeolites for Propane Dehydrogenation

    Qiming Sun;Ning Wang;Qiyuan Fan;Lei Zeng

  • Alignment of electronic energy levels at electrochemical interfaces.

    Jun Cheng;Michiel Sprik

  • Visible light-driven C-H activation and C-C coupling of methanol into ethylene glycol.

    Shunji Xie;Zebin Shen;Jiao Deng;Pu Guo

  • Bronsted-Evans-Polanyi relation of multistep reactions and volcano curve in heterogeneous catalysis

    Jun Cheng;P. Hu;Peter Ellis;Sam French

  • Determining Potentials of Zero Charge of Metal Electrodes versus the Standard Hydrogen Electrode from Density-Functional-Theory-Based Molecular Dynamics.

    Jiabo Le;Jiabo Le;Marcella Iannuzzi;Angel Cuesta;Jun Cheng;Jun Cheng

  • Redox potentials and acidity constants from density functional theory based molecular dynamics.

    Jun Cheng;Xiandong Liu;Xiandong Liu;Joost VandeVondele;Marialore Sulpizi

  • Acidity of edge surface sites of montmorillonite and kaolinite

    Xiandong Liu;Xiandong Liu;Xiancai Lu;Michiel Sprik;Jun Cheng

  • Electric field–induced selective catalysis of single-molecule reaction

    Xiaoyan Huang;Chun Tang;Jieqiong Li;Li-Chuan Chen;Li-Chuan Chen

  • Molecular origin of negative component of Helmholtz capacitance at electrified Pt(111)/water interface

    Jia-Bo Le;Qi-Yuan Fan;Jie-Qiong Li;Jun Cheng

  • Early Stages of Electrochemical Oxidation of Cu(111) and Polycrystalline Cu Surfaces Revealed by in Situ Raman Spectroscopy.

    Nataraju Bodappa;Min Su;Yu Zhao;Jia-Bo Le

  • Acidity of the Aqueous Rutile TiO2(110) Surface from Density Functional Theory Based Molecular Dynamics.

    Jun Cheng;Michiel Sprik

  • Redox potentials and pKa for benzoquinone from density functional theory based molecular dynamics.

    Jun Cheng;Marialore Sulpizi;Michiel Sprik

  • A quantitative determination of reaction mechanisms from density functional theory calculations: Fischer–Tropsch synthesis on flat and stepped cobalt surfaces

    Jun Cheng;Xue-Qing Gong;P. Hu;C. Martin Lok

  • In situ Spectroscopic Insight into the Origin of the Enhanced Performance of Bimetallic Nanocatalysts towards the Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR)

    Ya‐Hao Wang;Jia‐Bo Le;Wei‐Qiong Li;Jie Wei

  • Density Functional Theory Study of Iron and Cobalt Carbides for Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis

    Jun Cheng;P. Hu;Peter Ellis;Sam French

Frequent Co-Authors

Michiel Sprik
Michiel Sprik University of Cambridge
Peijun Hu
Peijun Hu ShanghaiTech University
Ye Wang
Ye Wang Xiamen University
Qinghong Zhang
Qinghong Zhang Xiamen University
Rucheng Wang
Rucheng Wang Nanjing University
Zhong-Qun Tian
Zhong-Qun Tian Xiamen University
Jian-Feng Li
Jian-Feng Li Xiamen University
Alvaro Mayoral
Alvaro Mayoral ShanghaiTech University
Osamu Terasaki
Osamu Terasaki Stockholm University

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