Specialties

Yugang Sun

Associate Professor
Physical/Analytical
Office: SERC 654
Phone: 215-204-4327
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Biography

2004-2006

2001-2003

2001

1996

Selected Awards
Postdoctoral researcher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Postdoctoral researcher, University of Washington, Seattle

Ph.D. University of Science and Technology of China

B.S. University of Science and Technology of China

Department of Energy Early Career Award.  Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).  Top 100 Materials Scientists with highest impact score (2000-2010, #5). Top 100 Chemists with highest impact score (2000-2010, #62).

Interests

Nanomaterials synthesis; nanofabrication; in-situ and operando characterization; plasmonics; nanophotonics; photocatalysis; electrochemical catalysis; electrochemical energy storage; sensing.

Select Publications

“Quantitative 3D Evolution of Colloidal Nanoparticle Oxidation in Solution”, Sun, Y.; Zuo, X.; Sankaranarayanan, S. K. R. S.; Peng, S., B. Narayanan, G. Kamath, Science 2017, 356, 303-307. 

“Ternary Silver Halide Nanocrystals”, Abeyweera, S. C.; Rasamani, K. D.; Sun, Y., Acc. Chem. Res. 2017, 50, 1754-1761.

“Interlayer-Expanded MoS2”, Rasamani, K. D.; Alimohammadi, F.; Sun, Y. Mater. Today 2017, 20, 83-91.

“Enabling Colloidal Synthesis of Edge-Oriented MoS2 with Expanded Interlayer Spacing for Enhanced HER Catalysis”, Sun, Y.; Alimohammadi, A.; Zhang, D.; Guo, G., Nano Lett. 2017, 17, 1963-1969.

“Revealing Mechanism Responsible for Structural Reversibility of Single-Crystal VO2 Nanorods Upon Lithiation/Delithiation”, Liu, Q.; Tan, G.; Wang, P.; Abeyweera, S. C.; Zhang, D.; Rong, Y.; Wu, Y.; Lu, J.; Sun, C.-J.; Ren, Y.; Liu, Y.; Muehleisen, R. T.; Guzowski, L. B.; Li, J.; Xiao, X.; Sun, Y., Nano Energy, 2017, 36, 197-205.

“Quantitatively in-situ Imaging Silver Nanowire Hollowing Kinetics”, Yu, L.; Yan, Z.; Cai, Z.; Zhang, D.; Han, P.; Cheng, X.; Sun, Y. Nano Lett. 2016, 16, 6555-6559.

“Near-field Dielectric Scattering Promotes Optical Absorption by Platinum Nanoparticles”, Zhang, N.; Han, C.; Xu, Y.-J.*; Foley, J. J. IV; Zhang, D.; Codrington, J.; Gary, S. K.; Sun, Y. Nat. Photon. 2016, 10, 473-482.
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“Quantifying the Nucleation and Growth Kinetics of Microwave Nanochemistry Enabled by in-situ High-Energy X-ray Scattering”, Liu, Q.; Gao, M.-R.; Liu, Y.; Okasinski, J. S.; Ren, Y.; Sun, Y. Nano Lett. 2016, 16, 715-720.