Specialties

Yugang Sun

Associate Professor
Physical/Analytical
Office: SERC 654
Phone: 215-204-4327
Send an email
Visit website

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).  Highly Cited Researcher in Cross-Field Category (Clarivate Analytics, 2018). Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2017).  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

“In Situ Synchrotron X-ray Characterization Shining Light on the Nucleation and Growth Kinetics of Colloidal Nanoparticles”, Wu, S.; Li, M.; Sun, Y., Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2019, 58, 8987-8995.

“Tessellating Tiny Tetrahedrons”, Wu, S.; Sun, Y., Science 2018, 362, 1354-1355.

“Quantum-Sized Metal Catalysts for Hot-Electron-Driven Chemical Transformation”, Wei, Q.; Wu, S.; Sun, Y. Advanced Materials 2018, 30, 1802082.

“Ternary Silver Halide Nanocrystals”, Abeyweera, S. C.; Rasamani, K. D.; Sun, Y., Accounts of Chemical Research 2017, 50, 1754-1761.

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

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

“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. Nature Photonics 2016, 10, 473-482.

“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 Letters 2016, 16, 715-720.