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Sunxiaoming

Professor

Research direction: Energy Chemistry, Nanochemistry

Education: Ph. D.
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  • Email: sunxm@mail.buct.edu.cn
  • Office : Zonghe Building 40B
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Introduction

Xiaoming Sun, Professor and Ph.D. Advisor.
 He received his B.Sc. (2000) and Ph.D. (2005) in Chemistry from Tsinghua University. After completing postdoctoral research at Stanford University in 2008, he returned to China and joined the State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering at Beijing University of Chemical Technology. His research focuses on inorganic nanomaterials chemistry, with significant contributions in water electrolysis, fuel cells, and gas-superwetting electrode devices.

He has published over 300 papers as corresponding author in leading international journals such as Nature, Nature Catalysis, Joule, Chem, Nature Communications, JACS, Angewandte Chemie, and Advanced Materials, with more than 36,000 citations. He has authored one monograph, filed 13 international patent applications (2 granted), and holds over 70 Chinese invention patents, 16 of which have been commercialized. He currently leads multiple national research projects, including NSFC Key Programs and National Key R&D Programs. He received the NSFC Distinguished Young Scholars Award in 2011 and was selected as a Leading Talent in the “Ten Thousand Talents Program” in 2019.

In 2014-2018, he is ranked as a highly cited scholar in the field of materials science by Elsevier Publishing House. In 2015-2017, he is selected as top 1% of China's highly cited scholar by the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2018, he is ranked as a highly cited scholar by web of science.




Education

Work Experience

Social Position

Social Activities

Research

Mainly engaged in the field of: controllable synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials, and their applications in energy chemistry, especially water electrolysis, fuel cells, and battery:

  • Superwetting electrodes      for gas-involving electrocatalysis

  • Aqueous battery for energy storage

  • Nanoparticle separation      methodology


Teaching

Postgraduates

Funding

  • “Highly stable anion exchange membrane water electrolysis system      based on earth-rich elements”National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2022YFA1504003),      General Program, ￥4,250,000，2023.1-2027.12

  • “Design and transportation kinetics      investigation on gas-superwetting electrodes” National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant      No. 21935001), ￥3,000,000, 2020.1-2024.12

  • “MW-level solid electrolyte based water      electrolysis technology” National Key Research and Development Program of      China (Grant No. ZK20190059), ￥5,590,000, 2019.4-2022.3

  • Leading Talent of      Ten Thousand Plan National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant      No. 91622116), ￥800,000, 2017.1-2019.12

  • “2D nanostructures: from structure      tailoring to energy chemistry applications” National Natural Science Foundation of China      (Grant No. 21520102002), ￥2,100,000, 2016.1-2018.12


Vertical Project

Horizontal Project

Publications

1.      10,000-h-stable intermittent alkaline seawater electrolysis. Nature 639, 360–367 (2025).

2.      Fluoride-Engineered Electrolyte for Highly Stable and Efficient Alkaline Seawater Electrolysis at 2 A cm−2.Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, e18106.

3.      Lattice Oxygen Mechanism Induced on Nickel Sites by Cl– Adsorption for Efficient Seawater Oxidation Reaction.J. Am. Chem. Soc.2025, 147 (24), 20716–20724.

4.      Macroscopic bubble generation promoted by nanobubble seeds as a traceless anti-fluctuation strategy for water splitting. Nat Commun 16, 5732 (2025).

5.       Self-protecting CoFeAl-layered double hydroxides enable stable and efficient brine oxidation at 2 A cm−2. Nat Commun 15, 4712 (2024).

6.       Inhibiting Dissolution of Active Sites in 80 °C Alkaline Water Electrolysis by Oxyanion Engineering. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202406082.

7.          Co(CN)3 catalysts with well-defined coordination structure for the oxygen reduction reaction, Nat. Catal., 2023, 6, 1164-1173

8.          Eliminating over-oxidation of ruthenium oxides by niobium for highly stable electrocatalytic oxygen evolution in acidic media, Joule, 2023, 7, 558-573

9.          Atomically precise electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction, Chem, 2023, 9, 280-342

10.       Self-flooding behaviors on the fuel cell catalyst surface: an in situ mechanism investigation, Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16, 491-501

11.       Dual Functional Titanium Hydride Particles for Anti-Ultraviolet and Anti-Oxidant Applications, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2023, 33, 2209422

12.       Regulating Electronic Structure of Fe-N4 Single Atomic Catalyst via Neighboring Sulfur Doping for High Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2023, 33, 2210509

13.       Stable zinc anode with ionic conductive interface layer for high performance aqueous zinc-ion batteries, Chem. Eng. J., 2023, 474, 145981

14.       Single atomic ruthenium in WO3 boosted hydrogen evolution stability at Ampere-level current density in whole pH range, Chem. Eng. J., 2023, 458, 141414

15.       Phosphate-decorated Ni3Fe-LDHs@CoPx nanoarray for near-neutral seawater splitting, Chem. Eng. J., 2023, 460, 141413

16.       Synergistic Effects in N,O-Comodified Carbon Nanotubes Boost Highly Selective Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction to H2O2, Adv. Sci., 2023, 9, 2201421

17.       Phosphorus induced activity -enhancement of Fe -N -C catalysts for high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells, Nano Res., 2023, 16, 6531-6536

18.       Micropore-confined Ru nanoclusters catalyst for efficient pH-universal hydrogen evolution reaction, Nano Res., 2023, 16, 2068-2079

19.       Loading IrOx Clusters on MnO2 Boosts Acidic Water Oxidation via Metal-Support Interaction, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2023, 15, 47103-47110

20.       Single atomic Ru in TiO2 boost efficient electrocatalytic water oxidation to hydrogen peroxide, Sci. Bull., 2023, 68, 613-621

21.       Ru-doped WO3 enabling efficient hydrogen oxidation reaction in alkaline media, Nanoscale, 2023, 15, 12064-12070

22.       High throughput screening of single atomic catalysts with optimized local structures for the electrochemical oxygen reduction by machine learning, J. Energy Chem., 2023, 81, 349-357

23.       First-principles study of oxygen evolution on Co3O4 with short-range ordered Ir doping, Mol. Catal., 2023, 535, 112852

24.       CO2 reduction performance of Cu/Er supported on N-doped graphene: A first principles study, Mol. Catal., 2023, 547, 113335

25.       Bio-Derived Wood-Based Gas Diffusion Electrode for High-Performance Aluminum-Air Batteries: Insights into Pore Structure, Adv. Mater. Interfaces, 2023, 2300355

26.       A highly-stable bifunctional NiCo2S4 nanoarray@carbon paper electrode for aqueous polysulfide/iodide redox flow battery, J. Power Sources, 2023, 561, 232607

27.       3D porous and Li-rich Sn-Li alloy scaffold with mixed ionic-electronic conductivity for dendrite-free lithium metal anodes, J. Alloy. Compd., 2023, 947, 169362

28.          Highly efficient paired H2O2 production through 2e− water oxidation coupled with 2e− oxygen reduction, Chem Catal., 2023, 3, 100672

29.          Unlocking Layered Double Hydroxide as a High-Performance Cathode Material for Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries, Adv. Mater., 2023, 34, 2204320

30.          Ferricyanide Armed Anodes Enable Stable Water Oxidation in Saturated Saline Water at 2 A/cm2, Angew. Chem.-Int. Edit., 2023, 62, e202309882

31.          Nitrite Electroreduction to Ammonia Promoted by Molecular Carbon Dioxide with Near-unity Faradaic Efficiency, Angew. Chem.-Int. Edit., 2023, 62, e202213711

32.          Bubble pump consumption chronoamperometry for evaluating gas diffusion electrodes, Chem Catal., 2023, 3, 100769

33.          Interfacial nanobubbles' growth at the initial stage of electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution, Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16, 2068-2079




Awards

  • Leading Talent of Ten Thousand Plan - National High Level      Talents Special Support Plan (2019)

  • Leading Innovative Talent of Science and Technology (2017)

  • The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2011)

  • Highly cited researchers as rewarded by Clarivate (2018- )


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