Linbing Sun

Professor

Address：College of Chemical Engineering

Email：lbsun(at)njtech.edu.cn

Education and Work Experience

Lin-Bing Sun is a professor at Nanjing Tech University. He received his bachelor degree and master degree from China University of Mining and Technology in 2002 and 2005, respectively. He received his Ph.D. from Nanjing University in 2008. After that, he joined the faculty of Nanjing Tech University and State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering. He was a postdoctoral research associate at Texas A&M University with Prof. Hong-Cai JOE Zhou in 2011-2012.

Research Interests

Professor Sun’s current research interests focus on fabrication of porous functional materials including zeolites, mesoporous molecular sieves, metal-organic frameworks, and porous organic polymers. He is also interested in the applications of such materials in adsorption like carbon capture, olefin/paraffin separation, and adsorptive desulfurization as well as catalysis. There are four specific researching directions as follows.

(1) Process-oriented smart adsorbents (POSAs)

(2) New materials for environment remediation

(3) Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)

(4) Green solid base catalysts
Academic achievements

Prof. Sun is the recipient of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, the Distinguished Youth Foundation of Jiangsu Province, the Fok Ying-Tong Education Foundation, etc. He was selected as a member of some talent programs such as the“Six Talent Peaks”High-Level Talents, the“333 High-Level Talents Training Project”, and the“Blue Project”Outstanding Young Teacher of Jiangsu province. His work has led to more than 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals including Chem. Rev., Chem. Soc. Rev., Acc. Chem. Res., Nature Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., and AIChE J. as well as around 20 patents. He also coauthored two books including Dictionary of Chemical Technology. He won some awards such as Hou Debang Chemical Science and Technology Youth Award and Shi Jun Youth Innovation Award.

Selected Publications

[1]Jiang Y., Tan P., Liu X. Q., Sun L. B.* Process-oriented smart adsorbents: tailoring the properties dynamically as demanded by adsorption/desorption. Acc. Chem. Res., 2022, 55 (1): 75-86.

[2]Jiang Y., Tan P., Qi S. C., Liu X. Q.*, Yan J. H., Fan F., Sun L. B.* Metal-organic frameworks with target-specific active sites switched by photoresponsive motifs: efficient adsorbents for tailorable CO2 capture. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58 (20): 6600-6604. (Highlighted on the Front Cover)

[3]Qi S. C., Qian X. Y., He Q. X., Miao K. J., Jiang Y., Tan P., Liu X. Q., Sun L. B.* Generation of hierarchical porosity in metal-organic frameworks by the modulation of cation valence. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58 (30): 10104-10109. (Featured as Hot Paper)

[4]Jiang Y., Park J., Tan P., Feng L., Liu X. Q., Sun L. B.*, Zhou H. C.* Maximizing photoresponsive efficiency by isolating metal-organic polyhedra into confined nanoscaled spaces. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141 (20): 2837-2843.

[5]Zhu L., Liu X. Q., Jiang H. L., Sun L. B.* Metal-organic frameworks for heterogeneous basic catalysis. Chem. Rev., 2017, 117 (12): 8129-8176.

[6]Kang Y. H., Liu X. D., Yan N., Jiang Y., Liu X. Q., Sun L. B.*, Li J. R.* Fabrication of isolated metal-organic polyhedra in confined cavities: adsorbents/catalysts with unusual dispersity and activity. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138 (19): 6099-6102. (Highlighted on the Front Cover; Featured in JACS Spotlights)

[7]Sun L. B.*, Liu X. Q., Zhou H. C.* Design and fabrication of mesoporous heterogeneous basic catalysts. Chem. Soc. Rev., 2015, 44 (15): 5092-5147.

[8]Jiang W. J., Yin Y., Liu X. Q.*, Yin X. Q., Shi Y. Q., Sun L. B.* Fabrication of supported cuprous sites at low temperatures: an efficient, controllable strategy using vapor-induced reduction. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135 (22): 8137-8140.