Shouheng Sun

About

Shouheng Sun is the Vernon K. Krieble Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Engineering at Brown University. His research profile is associated with the Sun Lab at Brown University, where he is engaged in chemical research. His academic and professional focus includes chemistry and engineering, with a notable position within the Department of Chemistry. Further details about his specific research interests, background, and key contributions are not provided in the available page text.

Research topics

• Chemistry
• Organic chemistry
• Materials science
• Physical chemistry
• Nanotechnology
• Inorganic chemistry
• Combinatorial chemistry
• Chemical engineering
• Nuclear chemistry
• Physics

Selected publications

• Magnetic Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Anisotropy, and Applications

  Chemical Reviews · 2021 · 308 citations

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  Anisotropy is an important and widely present characteristic of materials that provides desired direction-dependent properties. In particular, the introduction of anisotropy into magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) has become an effective method to obtain new characteristics and functions that are critical for many applications. In this review, we first discuss anisotropy-dependent ferromagnetic properties, ranging from intrinsic magnetocrystalline anisotropy to extrinsic shape and surface anisotropy,…

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• Nickel–Platinum Nanoparticles as Peroxidase Mimics with a Record High Catalytic Efficiency

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2021 · 245 citations

  values of conventional Pt nanoparticles and natural peroxidases, respectively. Density functional theory calculations reveal that the unique surface structure of Ni-Pt NPs weakens the adsorption of key intermediates during catalysis, which boosts the catalytic efficiency. The Ni-Pt NPs were applied to an immunoassay of a carcinoembryonic antigen that achieved an ultralow detection limit of 1.1 pg/mL, hundreds of times lower than that of the conventional enzyme-based assay.

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• A Heteroleptic Gold Hydride Nanocluster for Efficient and Selective Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO₂ to CO

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2022 · 201 citations

  . Density functional theory (DFT) calculations suggest that the hydride coordinated Au sites are the active centers, which facilitate the formation of the key *COOH intermediate.

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• The built-in electric field across FeN/Fe3N interface for efficient electrochemical reduction of CO2 to CO

  Nature Communications · 2023-03-28 · 172 citations

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  Abstract Nanostructured metal-nitrides have attracted tremendous interest as a new generation of catalysts for electroreduction of CO 2 , but these structures have limited activity and stability in the reduction condition. Herein, we report a method of fabricating FeN/Fe 3 N nanoparticles with FeN/Fe 3 N interface exposed on the NP surface for efficient electrochemical CO 2 reduction reaction (CO 2 RR). The FeN/Fe 3 N interface is populated with Fe−N 4 and Fe−N 2 coordination sites respectively…

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• Metal–Ligand Interactions and Their Roles in Controlling Nanoparticle Formation and Functions

  Accounts of Chemical Research · 2023-05-19 · 70 citations

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  ConspectusFunctional nanoparticles (NPs) have been studied extensively in the past decades for their unique nanoscale properties and their promising applications in advanced nanosciences and nanotechnologies. One critical component of studying these NPs is to prepare monodisperse NPs so that their physical and chemical properties can be tuned and optimized. Solution phase reactions have provided the most reliable processes for fabricating such monodisperse NPs in which metal–ligand interactions…

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Recent grants

• Dumbbell Nanocomposites: Controlled Chemical Synthesis and Catalytic Applications

  NSF · $300k · 2006–2009

• Collaborative Research: SUSCHEM: Engineering Polymer-Nanocatalyst Membranes for Direct Capture of CO2 and Electrochemical Conversion to C2+ Liquid Fuel

  NSF · $300k · 2023–2026

• Collaborative Research: CAS: Carbene-Containing Ligands on Cu and Cu3N Nanocubes: Access to Stable and Selective Electrolysis for CO2 Reduction

  NSF · $270k · 2021–2025

Frequent coauthors

• Zhouyang Yin

  Brown University

  132 shared

• Junrui Li

  Clark Atlanta University

  114 shared

• Chao Wang

  111 shared

• Sen Zhang

  109 shared

• Chao Yu

  109 shared

• Shaojun Guo

  Peking University

  107 shared

• Michelle Muzzio

  One Cell Systems (United States)

  104 shared

• Chenjie Xu

  Nanjing Medical University

  101 shared

Labs

• Sun Research LabPI

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