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Wei-Yin Sun is a researcher affiliated with Nanjing University in China. Their work primarily spans the fields of Chemistry, Energy, and Materials Science, with a particular focus on subfields such as Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Catalysis.

The research topics covered by Wei-Yin Sun include:

  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Covalent Organic Framework Applications
  • Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection
  • Ionic liquids properties and applications
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies

Wei-Yin Sun has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • Enhanced Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction Activity over NH2-MIL-125(Ti) by Facet Regulation, 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • Boosting Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction Efficiency by Heterostructures of NH2-MIL-101(Fe)/g-C3N4, 2020, ACS Applied Energy Materials
  • Assembling ultrafine TiO2 nanoparticles on UiO-66 octahedrons to promote selective photocatalytic conversion of CO2 to CH4 at a low concentration, 2020, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • Designing Heteroatom-Codoped Iron Metal-Organic Framework for Promotional Photoreduction of Carbon Dioxide to Ethylene, 2023, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Tailoring Coordination Microenvironment of Cu(I) in Metal-Organic Frameworks for Enhancing Electroreduction of CO2 to CH4, 2022, Advanced Functional Materials

Frequent co-authors of Wei-Yin Sun include:

  • Yue Zhao
  • Zhao-Feng Qiu
  • Zi-Qing Huang
  • Xiao-Yao Dao
  • Xiaomei Cheng

The researcher often publishes in venues such as:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Dalton Transactions
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Chemical Communications

Best Publications

  • Metal–organic frameworks with catalytic centers: From synthesis to catalytic application

    Yan-Shang Kang;Yi Lu;Kai Chen;Yue Zhao

  • Luminescent Cd(II)–organic frameworks with chelating NH2 sites for selective detection of Fe(III) and antibiotics

    Dan Zhao;Xiao-Hui Liu;Yue Zhao;Peng Wang

  • Syntheses, structures, near-infrared and visible luminescence, and magnetic properties of lanthanide-organic frameworks with an imidazole-containing flexible ligand.

    Zheng-Hua Zhang;You Song;Taka-aki Okamura;Yasuchika Hasegawa

  • Photoluminescent metal–organic frameworks and their application for sensing biomolecules

    Jing Dong;Jing Dong;Dan Zhao;Yi Lu;Wei-Yin Sun

  • Enhanced Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction Activity over NH2-MIL-125(Ti) by Facet Regulation

    Xiao-Mei Cheng;Xiao-Yao Dao;Shi-Qing Wang;Jing Zhao

  • Reversible Anion Exchanges between the Layered Organic–Inorganic Hybridized Architectures: Syntheses and Structures of Manganese(II) and Copper(II) Complexes Containing Novel Tripodal Ligands

    Jian Fan;Lu Gan;Hiroyuki Kawaguchi;Wei-Yin Sun

  • Syntheses, structures, and luminescent and magnetic properties of novel three-dimensional lanthanide complexes with 1,3,5-benzenetriacetate.

    Zheng-Hua Zhang;Taka-Aki Okamura;Yasuchika Hasegawa;Hiroyuki Kawaguchi

  • Porous cobalt(II)-imidazolate supramolecular isomeric frameworks with selective gas sorption property

    Shui-Sheng Chen;Shui-Sheng Chen;Min Chen;Satoshi Takamizawa;Peng Wang

  • Metal-free directed sp 2 -C–H borylation

    Jiahang Lv;Jiahang Lv;Xiangyang Chen;Xiao-Song Xue;Xiao-Song Xue;Binlin Zhao

  • Temperature dependent selective gas sorption of the microporous metal-imidazolate framework [Cu(L)] [H2L = 1,4-di(1H-imidazol-4-yl)benzene].

    Shui-Sheng Chen;Shui-Sheng Chen;Min Chen;Satoshi Takamizawa;Man-Sheng Chen

  • Self-assembly of frameworks with specific topologies: construction and anion exchange properties of M3L2 architectures by tripodal ligands and silver(I) salts.

    Wei-Yin Sun;Jian Fan;Taka-aki Okamura;Jin Xie

  • Size Engineering of Metal–Organic Framework MIL-101(Cr)–Ag Hybrids for Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction

    Fan Guo;Sizhuo Yang;Yi Liu;Peng Wang

  • Syntheses, structures, and photoluminescence properties of metal(II) halide complexes with pyridine-containing flexible tripodal ligands.

    Gang Wu;Xiao-Feng Wang;Taka-Aki Okamura;Wei-Yin Sun

  • The first X-ray structurally characterized M3L2 cage-like complex with tetrahedral metal centres and its encapsulation of a neutral guest molecule

    Hong-Ke Liu;Wei-Yin Sun;De-Jian Ma;Kai-Bei Yu

  • Facet-dependent photocatalytic hydrogen production of metal–organic framework NH2-MIL-125(Ti)

    Fan Guo;Jin-Han Guo;Peng Wang;Yan-Shang Kang

  • Boosting Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction Efficiency by Heterostructures of NH2-MIL-101(Fe)/g-C3N4

    Xiao-Yao Dao;Xia-Fei Xie;Jin-Han Guo;Xiao-Yu Zhang

  • Novel metal-organic frameworks with specific topology from new tripodal ligands: 1,3,5-tris(1-imidazolyl)benzene and 1,3-bis(1-imidazolyl)-5-(imidazol-1-ylmethyl)benzene.

    Jian Fan;Wei-Yin Sun;Taka-Aki Okamura;Wen-Xia Tang

  • The organic ligands with mixed N-/O-donors used in construction of functional metal–organic frameworks

    Xiao-Liang Zhao;Wei-Yin Sun

  • Syntheses, structures, and optical properties of novel zinc(II) complexes with multicarboxylate and N-donor ligands

    Qian Chu;Guang-Xiang Liu;Yong-Qing Huang;Xiao-Feng Wang

  • Syntheses, Structures, and Properties of Two-Dimensional Alkaline Earth Metal Complexes with Flexible Tripodal Tricarboxylate Ligands

    Hui-Fang Zhu;Zheng-Hua Zhang;Wei-Yin Sun;Taka-Aki Okamura

  • Novel one-dimensional tubelike and two-dimensional polycatenated metal-organic frameworks

    Jian Fan;Hui-Fang Zhu;Taka-Aki Okamura;Wei-Yin Sun

Frequent Co-Authors

Taka-aki Okamura
Taka-aki Okamura Osaka University
Jian Fan
Jian Fan Soochow University
Norikazu Ueyama
Norikazu Ueyama Osaka University
Yue Zhao
Yue Zhao Nanjing University
Yi Lu
Yi Lu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jing Zhao
Jing Zhao Nanjing University
You Song
You Song Nanjing University
Jin-Quan Yu
Jin-Quan Yu Scripps Research Institute
Jin Xie
Jin Xie Nanjing University
Makoto Fujita
Makoto Fujita University of Tokyo

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