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Zhimei Sun is affiliated with Beihang University in China and has an extensive research profile in materials science and engineering. Their work focuses on several specialized subfields including materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy with a sustainability emphasis, mechanical engineering, and catalysis.

The scientist has contributed significantly to topics such as MXene and MAX phase materials, 2D materials and their applications, advanced photocatalysis techniques, chalcogenide semiconductor thin films, machine learning applications in materials science, phase-change materials and chalcogenides, and electrocatalysts for energy conversion.

Among recent publications, the following papers represent a selection of their contributions:

  • Novel 2D Transition-Metal Carbides: Ultrahigh Performance Electrocatalysts for Overall Water Splitting and Oxygen Reduction (2020, Advanced Functional Materials)
  • Mo2B2 MBene-supported single-atom catalysts as bifunctional HER/OER and OER/ORR electrocatalysts (2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry A)
  • Room-temperature electrochemical acetylene reduction to ethylene with high conversion and selectivity (2021, Nature Catalysis)
  • Novel Two-Dimensional Janus MoSiGeN4 and WSiGeN4 as Highly Efficient Photocatalysts for Spontaneous Overall Water Splitting (2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces)
  • MBenes: progress, challenges and future (2022, Journal of Materials Chemistry A)

The frequent collaborators of Zhimei Sun include Jian Zhou, Baisheng Sa, Naihua Miao, Kaiqi Li, and Erpeng Wang, indicating a network of recurrent scientific partnerships.

Publication venues where this scientist has been most active encompass:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (12 publications)
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (11 publications)
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C (10 publications)
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A (7 publications)
  • Applied Surface Science (7 publications)

In terms of disciplinary focus, Zhimei Sun has produced over 200 works in materials science and over 120 in engineering, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach. The subfields of materials chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering feature prominently in their research output, supported by contributions in sustainability-related renewable energy and mechanical engineering.

Best Publications

  • MXene and MXene-based composites: synthesis, properties and environment-related applications

    Xiaoxue Zhan;Chen Si;Jian Zhou;Zhimei Sun

  • MXene: a promising photocatalyst for water splitting

    Zhonglu Guo;Jian Zhou;Linggang Zhu;Zhimei Sun

  • Strain engineering of graphene: a review

    Chen Si;Zhimei Sun;Feng Liu

  • Calculated elastic properties of M2AlC M = Ti, V, Cr, Nb and Ta

    Zhimei Sun;Sa Li;Rajeev Ahuja;Jochen M. Schneider;Jochen M. Schneider

  • Strain Engineering for Phosphorene: The Potential Application as a Photocatalyst

    Baisheng Sa;Yan-Ling Li;Jingshan Qi;Rajeev Ahuja;Rajeev Ahuja

  • Half-Metallic Ferromagnetism and Surface Functionalization-Induced Metal–Insulator Transition in Graphene-like Two-Dimensional Cr2C Crystals

    Chen Si;Jian Zhou;Zhimei Sun

  • New two-dimensional transition metal borides for Li ion batteries and electrocatalysis

    Zhonglu Guo;Jian Zhou;Zhimei Sun

  • 2D Intrinsic Ferromagnets from van der Waals Antiferromagnets.

    Naihua Miao;Bin Xu;Linggang Zhu;Jian Zhou

  • Structure of phase change materials for data storage.

    Zhimei Sun;Jian Zhou;Rajeev Ahuja;Rajeev Ahuja

  • Design of high-efficiency visible-light photocatalysts for water splitting: MoS2/AlN(GaN) heterostructures

    Jiamin Liao;Baisheng Sa;Jian Zhou;Rajeev Ahuja

  • Flexible two-dimensional Tin+1Cn (n = 1, 2 and 3) and their functionalized MXenes predicted by density functional theories.

    Zhonglu Guo;Zhonglu Guo;Jian Zhou;Chen Si;Zhimei Sun

  • Novel 2D Transition-Metal Carbides: Ultrahigh Performance Electrocatalysts for Overall Water Splitting and Oxygen Reduction

    Yadong Yu;Jian Zhou;Zhimei Sun

  • Theoretical investigation of the bonding and elastic properties of nanolayered ternary nitrides

    Zhimei Sun;Denis Music;Rajeev Ahuja;Jochen M. Schneider;Jochen M. Schneider

  • Bonding and classification of nanolayered ternary carbides

    Zhimei Sun;Denis Music;Rajeev Ahuja;Sa Li

  • Tunable Magnetism and Extraordinary Sunlight Absorbance in Indium Triphosphide Monolayer.

    Naihua Miao;Bin Xu;Nicholas C. Bristowe;Jian Zhou

  • Mo2B2 MBene-supported single-atom catalysts as bifunctional HER/OER and OER/ORR electrocatalysts

    Tian Zhang;Bikun Zhang;Qiong Peng;Jian Zhou

  • Theoretical investigation on the transition-metal borides with Ta3B4-type structure: A class of hard and refractory materials

    Naihua Miao;Baisheng Sa;Jian Zhou;Zhimei Sun

  • Electronic structures and enhanced optical properties of blue phosphorene/transition metal dichalcogenides van der Waals heterostructures.

    Qiong Peng;Zhenyu Wang;Baisheng Sa;Bo Wu

  • Room-temperature electrochemical acetylene reduction to ethylene with high conversion and selectivity

    Run Shi;Zeping Wang;Yunxuan Zhao;Geoffrey I. N. Waterhouse

  • Electronic structure and bonding properties of layered machinable Ti 2 AlC and Ti 2 AlN ceramics

    Yanchun Zhou;Zhimei Sun

  • Ab initio calculations and experimental determination of the structure of Cr2AlC

    Jochen M. Schneider;Jochen M. Schneider;Zhimei Sun;Raphael Mertens;Fatih Uestel

  • Strain Engineering for Phosphorene: The Potential Application as a Photocatalyst

    Baisheng Sa;Yan-Ling Li;Jingshan Qi;Rajeev Ahuja;Rajeev Ahuja

Frequent Co-Authors

Baisheng Sa
Baisheng Sa Fuzhou University
Rajeev Ahuja
Rajeev Ahuja Uppsala University
Jochen M. Schneider
Jochen M. Schneider RWTH Aachen University
Denis Music
Denis Music RWTH Aachen University
Zhitang Song
Zhitang Song Chinese Academy of Sciences
H. Caines
H. Caines Yale University
Levente Vitos
Levente Vitos Royal Institute of Technology
Stephen R. Elliott
Stephen R. Elliott University of Oxford
Shengkai Gong
Shengkai Gong Beihang University
M. A.C. Lamont
M. A.C. Lamont Brookhaven National Laboratory

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