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Yugang Sun

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Yugang Sun

  • College of Science and Technology

    • Chemistry

      • Professor

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

  • 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 TiO2 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.

  • Stewart, S., Wei, Q., & Sun, Y. (2020). Surface chemistry of quantum-sized metal nanoparticles under light illumination. Chem Sci, 12(4), 1227-1239. England. 10.1039/d0sc04651e

  • Hu, F., Abeyweera, S., Yu, J., Zhang, D., Wang, Y., Yan, Q., & Sun, Y. (2020). Quantifying Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 on Twin Boundaries. Chem, 6(11), 3007-3021. doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2020.07.026.

  • Wang, D., Eychmüller, A., & Sun, Y. (2020). Hollow Nanostructures. ChemNanoMat, 6(10), 1419-1420. doi: 10.1002/cnma.202000408.

  • Sun, Y. (2020). Regioselective Magneto-optical Heteronanorods Enabling Chiroptical Activity. Chemical Research in Chinese Universities, 36(3), 490-491. doi: 10.1007/s40242-020-0054-x.

  • Abeyweera, S.C., Yu, J., Perdew, J.P., Yan, Q., & Sun, Y. (2020). Hierarchically 3D Porous Ag Nanostructures Derived from Silver Benzenethiolate Nanoboxes: Enabling CO2 Reduction with a Near-Unity Selectivity and Mass-Specific Current Density over 500 A/g. Nano Lett, 20(4), 2806-2811. United States. 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00518

  • Rasamani, K.D. & Sun, Y. (2020). Promoting reactivity of photoexcited hot electrons in small-sized plasmonic metal nanoparticles that are supported on dielectric nanospheres. J Chem Phys, 152(8), 084706. United States. 10.1063/1.5141765

  • Abeyweera, S.C., Stewart, S., & Sun, Y. (2020). Anion replacement in silver chlorobromide nanocubes: two distinct hollowing mechanisms. MATERIALS CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS, 4(2), 524-531. 10.1039/c9qm00544g

  • Wei, Q., Guzman, K.G., Dai, X., Attanayake, N.H., Strongin, D.R., & Sun, Y. (2020). Highly Dispersed RuOOH Nanoparticles on Silica Spheres: An Efficient Photothermal Catalyst for Selective Aerobic Oxidation of Benzyl Alcohol. Nanomicro Lett, 12(1), 41. Germany. 10.1007/s40820-020-0375-9

  • Sun, Y. & Tang, Z. (2020). Photocatalytic hot-carrier chemistry. MRS Bulletin, 45(1), 20-25. doi: 10.1557/mrs.2019.290.