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Yujie Sun is affiliated with the University of Cincinnati in the United States and focuses their research on materials science and engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields including materials chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, biomedical engineering, molecular biology, and organic chemistry.

Their primary research topics cover a range of areas such as electrocatalysts for energy conversion, advanced photocatalysis techniques, luminescence and fluorescent materials, catalysis for biomass conversion, advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, sulfur-based synthesis techniques, and 2D materials and applications.

Notable recent publications by Yujie Sun include:

  • Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Overall and Hybrid Water Splitting (2024), Chemical Reviews
  • Dual hydrogen production from electrocatalytic water reduction coupled with formaldehyde oxidation via a copper-silver electrocatalyst (2023), Nature Communications
  • Photocatalytic Pinacol C-C Coupling and Jet Fuel Precursor Production on ZnIn2S4 Nanosheets (2020), ACS Catalysis
  • Electrocatalytic dual hydrogenation of organic substrates with a Faradaic efficiency approaching 200% (2023), Nature Catalysis
  • Integrated design for electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction (2020), Catalysis Science & Technology

Yujie Sun's research has been published frequently in venues such as:

  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Green Chemistry
  • Chemical Science
  • Advanced Functional Materials

The scientist collaborates regularly with several co-authors. Frequent collaborators include Guan-Qun Han, Bidyut Kumar Kundu, Jiajie Diao, Rui Chen, and Chuang Han.

Best Publications

  • Innovative Strategies for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting.

    Bo You;Yujie Sun

  • A Molecular MoS2 Edge Site Mimic for Catalytic Hydrogen Generation

    Hemamala I. Karunadasa;Hemamala I. Karunadasa;Elizabeth Montalvo;Yujie Sun;Yujie Sun;Marcin Majda

  • Electrodeposited Cobalt-Phosphorous-Derived Films as Competent Bifunctional Catalysts for Overall Water Splitting

    Nan Jiang;Bo You;Meili Sheng;Yujie Sun

  • A General Strategy for Decoupled Hydrogen Production from Water Splitting by Integrating Oxidative Biomass Valorization

    Bo You;Xuan Liu;Nan Jiang;Yujie Sun

  • Hierarchically Porous Urchin-Like Ni2P Superstructures Supported on Nickel Foam as Efficient Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Overall Water Splitting

    Bo You;Nan Jiang;Meili Sheng;Margaret Winona Bhushan

  • Complexes of earth-abundant metals for catalytic electrochemical hydrogen generation under aqueous conditions

    V. Sara Thoi;V. Sara Thoi;Yujie Sun;Yujie Sun;Jeffrey R. Long;Jeffrey R. Long;Christopher J. Chang;Christopher J. Chang

  • High-Performance Overall Water Splitting Electrocatalysts Derived from Cobalt-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks

    Bo You;Nan Jiang;Meili Sheng;Sheraz Gul

  • Electrodeposited cobalt-sulfide catalyst for electrochemical and photoelectrochemical hydrogen generation from water.

    Yujie Sun;Chong Liu;David C. Grauer;Junko Yano

  • Simultaneous H2 Generation and Biomass Upgrading in Water by an Efficient Noble-Metal-Free Bifunctional Electrocatalyst

    Bo You;Nan Jiang;Xuan Liu;Yujie Sun

  • Interfacing nickel nitride and nickel boosts both electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution and oxidation reactions.

    Fuzhan Song;Wei Li;Jiaqi Yang;Guanqun Han

  • Nickel sulfides for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution under alkaline conditions: a case study of crystalline NiS, NiS2, and Ni3S2 nanoparticles

    Nan Jiang;Qing Tang;Meili Sheng;Bo You

  • Visible-Light-Driven Valorization of Biomass Intermediates Integrated with H2 Production Catalyzed by Ultrathin Ni/CdS Nanosheets

    Guanqun Han;Yan-Huan Jin;R. Alan Burgess;Nicholas E. Dickenson

  • Bimetal–Organic Framework Self-Adjusted Synthesis of Support-Free Nonprecious Electrocatalysts for Efficient Oxygen Reduction

    Bo You;Nan Jiang;Meili Sheng;Walter S. Drisdell

  • Molecular Cobalt Pentapyridine Catalysts for Generating Hydrogen from Water

    Yujie Sun;Yujie Sun;Julian P. Bigi;Julian P. Bigi;Nicholas A. Piro;Nicholas A. Piro;Ming Lee Tang;Ming Lee Tang

  • Designer Two-Electron Storage Viologen Anolyte Materials for Neutral Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries

    Camden DeBruler;Bo Hu;Jared Moss;Xuan Liu

  • Efficient H2 Evolution Coupled with Oxidative Refining of Alcohols via A Hierarchically Porous Nickel Bifunctional Electrocatalyst

    Bo You;Xuan Liu;Xin Liu;Xin Liu;Yujie Sun

  • Integrating Electrocatalytic 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural Oxidation and Hydrogen Production via Co–P-Derived Electrocatalysts

    Nan Jiang;Bo You;Raquel Boonstra;Irina M. Terrero Rodriguez

  • Hierarchically Porous Nickel Sulfide Multifunctional Superstructures

    Bo You;Yujie Sun

  • Hybrid bioinorganic approach to solar-to-chemical conversion

    Eva M. Nichols;Eva M. Nichols;Joseph J. Gallagher;Chong Liu;Chong Liu;Yude Su

  • Universal Surface Engineering of Transition Metals for Superior Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution in Neutral Water.

    Bo You;Xuan Liu;Guoxiang Hu;Sheraz Gul

  • Photocatalytic generation of hydrogen from water using a cobalt pentapyridine complex in combination with molecular and semiconductor nanowire photosensitizers

    Yujie Sun;Yujie Sun;Jianwei Sun;Jianwei Sun;Jeffrey R. Long;Jeffrey R. Long;Peidong Yang;Peidong Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher J. Chang
Christopher J. Chang Princeton University
Jeffrey R. Long
Jeffrey R. Long Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Claudia Turro
Claudia Turro The Ohio State University
Junko Yano
Junko Yano Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Wei Li
Wei Li West Virginia University
Peidong Yang
Peidong Yang University of California, Berkeley
De-en Jiang
De-en Jiang Vanderbilt University
Chong Liu
Chong Liu University of California, Los Angeles
Xiao Shang
Xiao Shang Nanoramic Laboratories
Bin Dong
Bin Dong China University of Petroleum, Beijing

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