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Overview

Xuping Sun is affiliated with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Their research primarily focuses on energy and engineering, with significant contributions to subfields such as renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, electrical and electronic engineering, catalysis, computer networks and communications, and materials chemistry.

The main topics of their work include advanced photocatalysis techniques, ammonia synthesis and nitrogen reduction, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, caching and content delivery, advanced battery technologies research, advancements in battery materials, and supercapacitor materials and fabrication.

Frequently publishing in several reputable scientific venues, Xuping Sun has contributed extensively to journals such as:

  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Chemical Communications
  • Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers
  • Nano Research
  • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Their recent publications include:

  • Electrochemical non-enzymatic glucose sensors: recent progress and perspectives (2020), Chemical Communications
  • Advances in ammonia electrosynthesis from ambient nitrate/nitrite reduction (2023), Chem
  • Iron-based phosphides as electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction: recent advances and future prospects (2020), Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Benzoate anions-intercalated NiFe-layered double hydroxide nanosheet array with enhanced stability for electrochemical seawater oxidation (2022), Nano Research Energy
  • A hierarchical CuO@NiCo layered double hydroxide core-shell nanoarray as an efficient electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction (2021), Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers

Xuping Sun has collaborated extensively with various researchers, with frequent co-authors including Shengjun Sun, Yongsong Luo, Yonglan Luo, and two individuals named Qian Liu.

Best Publications

  • Self-Supported Nanoporous Cobalt Phosphide Nanowire Arrays: An Efficient 3D Hydrogen-Evolving Cathode over the Wide Range of pH 0–14

    Jingqi Tian;Qian Liu;Abdullah M. Asiri;Xuping Sun

  • Recent Progress in Cobalt‐Based Heterogeneous Catalysts for Electrochemical Water Splitting

    Jiahai Wang;Wei Cui;Qian Liu;Zhicai Xing

  • Hydrothermal Treatment of Grass: A Low-Cost, Green Route to Nitrogen-Doped, Carbon-Rich, Photoluminescent Polymer Nanodots as an Effective Fluorescent Sensing Platform for Label-Free Detection of Cu(II) Ions

    Sen Liu;Jingqi Tian;Lei Wang;Yingwei Zhang

  • NiSe Nanowire Film Supported on Nickel Foam: An Efficient and Stable 3D Bifunctional Electrode for Full Water Splitting

    Chun Tang;Ningyan Cheng;Zonghua Pu;Wei Xing

  • Economical, Green Synthesis of Fluorescent Carbon Nanoparticles and Their Use as Probes for Sensitive and Selective Detection of Mercury(II) Ions

    Wenbo Lu;Xiaoyun Qin;Sen Liu;Guohui Chang

  • Fe-Doped CoP Nanoarray: A Monolithic Multifunctional Catalyst for Highly Efficient Hydrogen Generation

    Chun Tang;Rong Zhang;Wenbo Lu;Liangbo He

  • A Cost-Effective 3D Hydrogen Evolution Cathode with High Catalytic Activity: FeP Nanowire Array as the Active Phase

    Ping Jiang;Qian Liu;Yanhui Liang;Jingqi Tian

  • Self‐Supported Cu3P Nanowire Arrays as an Integrated High‐Performance Three‐Dimensional Cathode for Generating Hydrogen from Water

    Jingqi Tian;Qian Liu;Ningyan Cheng;Abdullah M. Asiri

  • Electrochemical Ammonia Synthesis via Nitrogen Reduction Reaction on a MoS2 Catalyst: Theoretical and Experimental Studies.

    Ling Zhang;Ling Zhang;Xuqiang Ji;Xiang Ren;Yongjun Ma

  • Closely interconnected network of molybdenum phosphide nanoparticles: a highly efficient electrocatalyst for generating hydrogen from water.

    Zhicai Xing;Qian Liu;Abdullah M. Asiri;Xuping Sun

  • Energy‑Saving Electrolytic Hydrogen Generation: Ni 2 P Nanoarray as a High‑Performance Non‑Noble‑Metal Electrocatalyst

    Chun Tang;Rong Zhang;Wenbo Lu;Zao Wang

  • High-performance artificial nitrogen fixation at ambient conditions using a metal-free electrocatalyst

    Weibin Qiu;Weibin Qiu;Xiao-Ying Xie;Jianding Qiu;Wei-Hai Fang

  • Ternary FexCo1–xP Nanowire Array as a Robust Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalyst with Pt-like Activity: Experimental and Theoretical Insight

    Chun Tang;Linfeng Gan;Rong Zhang;Wenbo Lu

  • Phosphorus-Doped Co3O4 Nanowire Array: A Highly Efficient Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Overall Water Splitting

    Zhichao Wang;Zhichao Wang;Hongli Liu;Ruixiang Ge;Xiang Ren

  • Enhanced Electrocatalysis for Energy‐Efficient Hydrogen Production over CoP Catalyst with Nonelectroactive Zn as a Promoter

    Tingting Liu;Danni Liu;Fengli Qu;Dengxing Wang

  • Boosted Electrocatalytic N2 Reduction to NH3 by Defect-Rich MoS2 Nanoflower

    Xianghong Li;Xianghong Li;Tingshuai Li;Yongjun Ma;Qin Wei

  • Au-Nanoparticle-Loaded Graphitic Carbon Nitride Nanosheets: Green Photocatalytic Synthesis and Application toward the Degradation of Organic Pollutants

    Ningyan Cheng;Jingqi Tian;Qian Liu;Chenjiao Ge

  • Greatly Improving Electrochemical N2 Reduction over TiO2 Nanoparticles by Iron Doping.

    Tongwei Wu;Xiaojuan Zhu;Xiaojuan Zhu;Zhe Xing;Shiyong Mou

  • Stable Aqueous Dispersion of Graphene Nanosheets: Noncovalent Functionalization by a Polymeric Reducing Agent and Their Subsequent Decoration with Ag Nanoparticles for Enzymeless Hydrogen Peroxide Detection

    Sen Liu;Jingqi Tian;Lei Wang;Hailong Li

  • High-Performance Electrolytic Oxygen Evolution in Neutral Media Catalyzed by a Cobalt Phosphate Nanoarray

    Lisi Xie;Rong Zhang;Liang Cui;Danni Liu

  • NiP2 nanosheet arrays supported on carbon cloth: an efficient 3D hydrogen evolution cathode in both acidic and alkaline solutions

    Ping Jiang;Qian Liu;Xuping Sun;Xuping Sun

Frequent Co-Authors

Abdullah M. Asiri
Abdullah M. Asiri King Abdulaziz University
Jingqi Tian
Jingqi Tian Yangzhou University
Yonglan Luo
Yonglan Luo University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Abdulrahman O. Al-Youbi
Abdulrahman O. Al-Youbi King Abdulaziz University
Lei Wang
Lei Wang University of Wollongong
Wenbo Lu
Wenbo Lu Shaanxi Normal University
Qian Liu
Qian Liu Chengdu University
Shaojun Dong
Shaojun Dong Chinese Academy of Sciences
Haiyan Li
Haiyan Li Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Erkang Wang
Erkang Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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