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Hongtao Sun

Assistant Professor
Graduate Faculty, IGDP Materials Science and Engineering

Affiliation(s):

  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
  • Materials Science and Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering

220 Leonhard Building

hzs5373@psu.edu

814-865-1489

Personal or Departmental Website

Research Areas:

Manufacturing

Interest Areas:

Nanomanufacturing, additive manufacturing, field-assisted sintering, fiber engineering, nanoscience and nanotechnology, nanocomposites, smart/functional materials, metamaterials, energy storage, thermal management, sensing and detection.

 
 

 

Education

  • BS, Mechanical Design, Manufacturing & Automation, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, 2007
  • MS, Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech University, 2010
  • Ph D, Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2014

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Zhongkun Zhao, Haoqing Yang, Manqi Li, Chandan Gudi, Kamal Varma Kanumuru, Robert Voigt, Olalekan Babaniyi, Tengxiao Liu, Yong Chen and Hongtao Sun, 2024, "Engineering Heterogeneity in Fiber-Shaped Shape Memory Polymer Micromotor via Photo-Stereolithography", Chemical Engineering Journal, 480
  • Mufan Li, Kaining Duanmu, Chengzhang Wan, Tao Cheng, Liang Zhang, Sheng Dai, Wenxin Chen, Zipeng Zhao, Peng Li, Huilong Fei, Yuanming Zhu, Rong Yu, Jun Luo, Ketao Zang, Zhaoyang Lin, Mengning Ding, Jin Huang, Hongtao Sun, Jinghua Guo, Xiaoqing Pan, William A., III Goddard, Philippe Sautet, Yu Huang and Xiangfeng Duan, 2019, "Single-atom tailoring of platinum nanocatalysts for high-performance multifunctional electrocatalysis", NATURE CATALYSIS, 2, (6), pp. 495-503
  • Xiang Xu, Qiangqiang Zhang, Menglong Hao, Yuan Hu, Zhaoyang Lin, Lele Peng, Tao Wang, Xuexin Ren, Chen Wang, Zipeng Zhao, Chengzhang Wan, Huilong Fei, Lei Wang, Jian Zhu, Hongtao Sun, Wenli Chen, Tao Du, Biwei Deng, Gary J. Cheng, Imran Shakir, Chris Dames, Timothy S. Fisher, Xiang Zhang, Hui Li, Yu Huang and Xiangfeng Duan, 2019, "Double-negative-index ceramic aerogels for thermal superinsulation", SCIENCE, 363, (6428), pp. 723-+
  • Hongtao Sun, Jian Zhu, Daniel Baumann, Lele Peng, Yuxi Xu, Imran Shakir, Yu Huang and Xiangfeng Duan, 2019, "Hierarchical 3D electrodes for electrochemical energy storage", NATURE REVIEWS MATERIALS, 4, (1), pp. 45-60
  • Huilong Fei, Juncai Dong, Yexin Feng, Christopher S. Allen, Chengzhang Wan, Boris Volosskiy, Mufan Li, Zipeng Zhao, Yiliu Wang, Hongtao Sun, Pengfei An, Wenxing Chen, Zhiying Guo, Chain Lee, Dongliang Chen, Imran Shakir, Mingjie Liu, Tiandou Hu, Yadong Li, Angus I. Kirkland, Xiangfeng Duan and Yu Huang, 2018, "General synthesis and definitive structural identification of MN4C4 single-atom catalysts with tunable electrocatalytic activities", NATURE CATALYSIS, 1, (1), pp. 63-72
  • Hongtao Sun, Lin Mei, Junfei Liang, Zipeng Zhao, Chain Lee, Huilong Fei, Mengning Ding, Jonathan Lau, Mufan Li, Chen Wang, Xu Xu, Guolin Hao, Benjamin Papandrea, Imran Shakir, Bruce Dunn, Yu Huang and Xiangfeng Duan, 2017, "Three-dimensional holey-graphene/niobia composite architectures for ultrahigh-rate energy storage", SCIENCE, 356, (6338), pp. 599-604
  • Jian Zhu, Yu Shan, Tao Wang, Hongtao Sun, Zipeng Zhao, Lin Mei, Zheng Fan, Zhi Xu, Imran Shakir, Yu Huang, Bingan Lu and Xiangfeng Duan, 2016, "A hyperaccumulation pathway to three-dimensional hierarchical porous nanocomposites for highly robust high-power electrodes", NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 7
  • Guoqing Xin, Tiankai Yao, Hongtao Sun, Spencer Michael Scott, Dali Shao, Gongkai Wang and Jie Lian, 2015, "Highly thermally conductive and mechanically strong graphene fibers", SCIENCE, 349, (6252), pp. 1083-1087
  • Hongtao Sun, Guoqing Xin, Tao Hu, Mingpeng Yu, Dali Shao, Xiang Sun and Jie Lian, 2014, "High-rate lithiation-induced reactivation of mesoporous hollow spheres for long-lived lithium-ion batteries", NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 5
  • Tiankai Yao, Fengyuan Lu, Hongtao Sun, Jianwei Wang, Rodney C. Ewing and Jie Lian, 2014, "Bulk Iodoapatite Ceramic Densified by Spark Plasma Sintering with Exceptional Thermal Stability", JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY, 97, (8), pp. 2409-2412
  • Dali Shao, Hongtao Sun, Jian Gao, Guoqing Xin, Mark Anthony Aguilar, Tiankai Yao, Nikhil Koratkar, Jie Lian and Shayla Sawyer, 2014, "Flexible, thorn-like ZnO-multiwalled carbon nanotube hybrid paper for efficient ultraviolet sensing and photocatalyst applications", NANOSCALE, 6, (22), pp. 13630-13636
  • Guoqing Xin, Hongtao Sun, Tao Hu, Hafez Raeisi Fard, Xiang Sun, Nikhil Koratkar, Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc and Jie Lian, 2014, "Large-Area Freestanding Graphene Paper for Superior Thermal Management", ADVANCED MATERIALS, 26, (26), pp. 4521-+
  • Hongtao Sun, Xiang Sun, Mingpeng Yu, Ashish Kumar Mishra, Liping Huang and Jie Lian, 2014, "Silica-Gold Core-Shell Nanosphere for Ultrafast Dynamic Nanothermometer", ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 24, (16), pp. 2389-2395
  • Dali Shao, Hongtao Sun, Mingpeng Yu, Jie Lian and Shayla Sawyer, 2012, "Enhanced Ultraviolet Emission from Poly(vinyl alcohol) ZnO Nanoparticles Using a SiO2-Au Core/Shell Structure", NANO LETTERS, 12, (11), pp. 5840-5844

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