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D-Index
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Citations
81931
World Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Sweden Leader Award
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  • Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Overview

Licheng Sun is affiliated with the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Their research focuses on energy, engineering, and materials science, with a particular emphasis on renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, electrical and electronic engineering, and materials chemistry. They have contributed significantly to the fields of catalysis and polymers and plastics.

Their work encompasses a broad range of topics including electrocatalysts for energy conversion, advanced photocatalysis techniques, perovskite materials and applications, advanced battery technologies research, CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts, ammonia synthesis and nitrogen reduction, and fuel cells and related materials.

Recent publications by Licheng Sun include:

  • Engineering single-atomic ruthenium catalytic sites on defective nickel-iron layered double hydroxide for overall water splitting, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Engineering active sites on hierarchical transition bimetal oxides/sulfides heterostructure array enabling robust overall water splitting, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Metal-organic frameworks and their derivatives as electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction, 2021, Chemical Society Reviews
  • Engineering Single-Atom Active Sites on Covalent Organic Frameworks for Boosting CO2 Photoreduction, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Regulating electronic states of nitride/hydroxide to accelerate kinetics for oxygen evolution at large current density, 2023, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors of Licheng Sun comprise Linqin Wang, Fusheng Li, Fei Li, Yunxuan Ding, and Jungang Hou. Their collaborations suggest a strong network in related research areas.

The scientist publishes regularly in several key venues, including:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Nature Communications

Licheng Sun holds the distinction of being a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

    Anders Hagfeldt;Gerrit Boschloo;Licheng Sun;Lars Kloo

  • A molecular ruthenium catalyst with water-oxidation activity comparable to that of photosystem II

    Lele Duan;Fernando Bozoglian;Sukanta Mandal;Beverly Stewart

  • Design of Organic Dyes and Cobalt Polypyridine Redox Mediators for High-Efficiency Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

    Sandra M. Feldt;Elizabeth A. Gibson;Erik Gabrielsson;Licheng Sun

  • Nickel–vanadium monolayer double hydroxide for efficient electrochemical water oxidation

    Ke Fan;Hong Chen;Yongfei Ji;Hui Huang

  • Artificial photosynthesis: opportunities and challenges of molecular catalysts

    Biaobiao Zhang;Licheng Sun;Licheng Sun

  • Molecular Engineering of Organic Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Applications

    Daniel P Hagberg;Jun-Ho Yum;Hyojoong Lee;Filippo De Angelis

  • Tuning the HOMO and LUMO energy levels of organic chromophores for dye sensitized solar cells.

    Daniel P Hagberg;Tannia Marinado;Karl Martin Karlsson;Kazuteru Nonomura

  • Engineering single-atomic ruthenium catalytic sites on defective nickel-iron layered double hydroxide for overall water splitting.

    Panlong Zhai;Mingyue Xia;Yunzhen Wu;Guanghui Zhang

  • Towards artificial photosynthesis: ruthenium–manganese chemistry for energy production

    Licheng Sun;Leif Hammarström;Björn Åkermark;Stenbjörn Styring

  • A novel organic chromophore for dye-sensitized nanostructured solar cells

    Daniel P. Hagberg;Tomas Edvinsson;Tannia Marinado;Gerrit Boschloo

  • Engineering active sites on hierarchical transition bimetal oxides/sulfides heterostructure array enabling robust overall water splitting

    Panlong Zhai;Yanxue Zhang;Yunzhen Wu;Junfeng Gao

  • Isolated Seven-Coordinate Ru(IV) Dimer Complex with [HOHOH]− Bridging Ligand as an Intermediate for Catalytic Water Oxidation

    Lele Duan;Andreas Fischer;Yunhua Xu;Licheng Sun

  • Recent progress in electrochemical hydrogen production with earth-abundant metal complexes as catalysts

    Mei Wang;Lin Chen;Licheng Sun;Licheng Sun

  • Metal–organic frameworks and their derivatives as electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction

    Jian Du;Jian Du;Fei Li;Licheng Sun;Licheng Sun;Licheng Sun

  • Recent Progress on Hole‐Transporting Materials for Emerging Organometal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells

    Ze Yu;Licheng Sun;Licheng Sun

  • Modified phthalocyanines for efficient near-IR sensitization of nanostructured TiO(2) electrode.

    Jianjun He;Gábor Benkö;Ferenc Korodi;Tomás Polívka

  • Effect of Different Dye Baths and Dye-Structures on the Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Based on Triphenylamine Dyes

    Haining Tian;Xichuan Yang;Ruikui Chen;Rong Zhang

  • Direct Observation of Structural Evolution of Metal Chalcogenide in Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation

    Ke Fan;Haiyuan Zou;Yue Lu;Hong Chen

  • Phenothiazine derivatives for efficient organic dye-sensitized solar cells

    Haining Tian;Xichuan Yang;Ruikui Chen;Yuzhen Pan

  • Design of an organic chromophore for p-type dye-sensitized solar cells.

    Peng Qin;Hongjun Zhu;Tomas Edvinsson;Gerrit Boschloo

  • Rational Design of Nanoarray Architectures for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting

    Jungang Hou;Yunzhen Wu;Bo Zhang;Shuyan Cao

  • Carbazole-Based Hole-Transport Materials for Efficient Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells and Perovskite Solar Cells

    Bo Xu;Esmaeil Sheibani;Peng Liu;Jinbao Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders Hagfeldt
Anders Hagfeldt Uppsala University
Björn Åkermark
Björn Åkermark Stockholm University
Lars Kloo
Lars Kloo Royal Institute of Technology
Gerrit Boschloo
Gerrit Boschloo Uppsala University
Leif Hammarström
Leif Hammarström Uppsala University
Haining Tian
Haining Tian Uppsala University
Lele Duan
Lele Duan Westlake University
Ming Cheng
Ming Cheng Jiangsu University
Bo Xu
Bo Xu Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Stenbjörn Styring
Stenbjörn Styring Uppsala University

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