Courses Taught
Number | Name | Level |
|---|---|---|
CHEM 1032 | General Chemistry II | Undergraduate |
CHEM 3301 | Physical Chemistry Lecture I | Undergraduate |
CHEM 5304 | Nanomaterials Chemistry and Physics | Graduate |
Selected Publications
Recent
Qi, M., Tan, C., Tang, Z., Conte, M., Sun, Y., & Xu, Y. (2026). Efficient methanol upcycling to ethylene glycol and glycolaldehyde via divergent C-C coupling synthesis. Nat Commun. England. 10.1038/s41467-026-69656-x
Wei, Q., Wu, S., Zuo, X., & Sun, Y. (2025). Generalized Synthesis of Highly-Dispersed, Ultrafine Transition Metal Nanoparticles on Silica Spheres for Enhanced Optical Absorption. Small Methods, 9(2), e2301709. Germany. 10.1002/smtd.202301709
Sun, X. & Sun, Y. (2024). Synthesis of metallic high-entropy alloy nanoparticles. Chem Soc Rev, 53(9), 4400-4433. England. 10.1039/d3cs00954h
Dai, X. & Sun, Y. (2024). Mechanism of photocatalytic CO2 methanation on ultrafine Rh nanoparticles. Nanoscale Horiz, 9(4), 627-636. England. 10.1039/d3nh00506b
Rasamani, K.D., Dai, X., Messner, M., Liu, C., Zhang, X., & Sun, Y. (2023). Enabling Reaction Selectivity of Platinum Catalysts by Photoinduced Electronic Effects. Precis Chem, 1(4), 248-255. United States. 10.1021/prechem.3c00034
Stewart, S., Maloney, R., & Sun, Y. (2023). Triphenylphosphine oxide promoting visible-light-driven C-C coupling via desulfurization. Chem Commun (Camb), 59(24), 3546-3549. England. 10.1039/d3cc00001j
Liu, X., Zhang, X., Khakhulin, D., Su, P., Wulff, M., Baudelet, F., Weng, T., Kong, Q., & Sun, Y. (2022). Deciphering Photochemical Reaction Pathways of Aqueous Tetrachloroauric Acid by X-ray Transient Absorption Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem Lett, 13(38), 8921-8927. United States. 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c02335
Abeyweera, S.C., Simukaitis, M., Wei, Q., & Sun, Y. (2022). Interfaced Ag/Cu nanostructures derived from metal thiolate nanoplates: A highly selective catalyst for electrochemical reduction of CO 2 to ethanol. SmartMat. doi: 10.1002/smm2.1096.
Hu, F., Rasamani, K.D., Abeyweera, S.C., Zhang, D., & Sun, Y. (2022). Poly(acrylic acid) Enabling the Synthesis of Highly Uniform Silica Nanoparticles of sub-100 nm. CHEMNANOMAT, 8(3). 10.1002/cnma.202200006
Sun, Y. (2021). Anomalous small-angle X-ray scattering for materials chemistry. Trends in Chemistry, 3(12), 1045-1060. doi: 10.1016/j.trechm.2021.09.005.
Wei, Q., Kuhn, D., Zander, Z., DeLacy, B., Dai, H., & Sun, Y. (2021). Silica-coating-assisted nitridation of TiO
2 nanoparticles and their photothermal property. Nano Research, 14(9), 3228-3233. doi: 10.1007/s12274-021-3427-7.Li, M., Rasamani, K., & Sun, Y. (2021). Highly Dispersed Palladium Nanoparticles on Silica Spheres for Photocatalytic Hydrodeoxygenation of Vanillin. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 125(30), 16550-16556. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c05049.
Wu, S., An, Q., & Sun, Y. (2021). Simulated annealing fitting: a global optimization method for quantitatively analyzing growth kinetics of colloidal Ag nanoparticles. Nanoscale Horiz, 6(7), 568-573. England. 10.1039/d1nh00152c
Wu, S., Wu, S., & Sun, Y. (2021). Light-Driven Dry Reforming of Methane on Metal Catalysts. Solar RRL, 5(6). doi: 10.1002/solr.202000507.
Sun, Y. (2021). Deciphering Catalytic Selectivity on Uneven Terraces. Chem, 7(2), 281-282. doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2021.01.004.
Wu, S., Liu, Y., Ren, Y., Wei, Q., & Sun, Y. (2021). Microwave synthesis of single-phase nanoparticles made of multi-principal element alloys. Nano Research. doi: 10.1007/s12274-021-3893-y.