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

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Wei Chen, Hongli Deng, Yang Guo, Song Chen, Yizhi Yuan, Xinxin Jia, Qiusheng Zhang, Qingyi Zhao, Xiangdong Guo, Hongtao Sun, Jian Zhu and Bingan Lu, 2024, "Deep P-C Interface Reconstruction for High-Performance Potassium Storage", Advanced Functional Materials
  • Bo Nie, Ta-Wei Wang, Seok Woo Lee and Hongtao Sun, 2024, "Cold Sintering Halide-in-Oxide Composite Solid-State Electrolytes with Enhanced Ionic Conductivity", ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Haoqing Yang, Tengxiao Liu, Lihua Jin, Yu Huang, Xiangfeng Duan and Hongtao Sun, 2024, "Tailoring smart hydrogels through manipulation of heterogeneous subdomain", Nature Communications, 15
  • Jiang Zhong, Lirong Xia, Song Chen, Zhengwei Zhang, Yong Pei, Hao Chen, Hongtao Sun, Jian Zhu, Bingan Lu and Yinghe Zhang, 2024, "Coordination engineering for iron-based hexacyanoferrate as a high-stability cathode for sodium-ion batteries", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121, (31)
  • Juchen Zhang, Enrique Daniel Gomez and Hongtao Sun, 2024, "Nano-Sized PTFE Polymer Additive-Assisted Cold Sintering and Recycling of Polymer-in-Ceramic Composites", MRS Communications, 14, pp. 1-8
  • 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, pp. 147936
  • Ta-Wei Wang, Tengxiao Liu and Hongtao Sun, 2023, "Direct Recycling for Advancing Sustainable Battery Solutions", Materials Today Energy, 38, pp. 101434
  • Bo Nie, Jonghan Lim, Tengxiao Liu, Ilya Kovalenko, Kaixuan Guo, Junfei Liang, Jian Zhu and Hongtao Sun, 2023, "Multifunctional Composite Designs for Structural Energy Storages", Battery Energy, 2, pp. 1-17
  • Bo Nie, David Sanchez, Mataz Alcoutlabi, Tengxiao Liu, Saurabh Basu, Soundar R Tirupatikumara, Gongkai Wang and Hongtao Sun, 2023, "Regulating the Size and Assembled Structure of Graphene Building Blocks for High-Performance Silicon Nanocomposite Anodes", Energy Advances, 2, pp. 1381-1389
  • Bo Nie, Mingxin Li, Tiankai Yao, Haoqing Yang, Linrui Duan, Juchen Zhang, Guoqing Xin, Tengxiao Liu, Hongtao Sun and Jie Lian, 2023, "Alignment does matter: Design thick electrodes to improve the comprehensive lithium storage performance", Carbon, 206, pp. 105-113
  • Bo Nie, Tengxiao Liu, Mataz Alcoutlabi, Saurabh Basu, Soundar Kumara, Mingxin Li, Jie Lian and Hongtao Sun, 2023, "Cold sintering-enabled interface engineering of composites for solid-state batteries", Frontiers In Energy Research, 11, pp. 145
  • Bo Nie, David Sanchez, Mataz Alcoutlabi, Tengxiao Liu, Gongkai Wang and Hongtao Sun, 2023, "Liquid Crystal Phase-Regulated Hierarchical Structures for High-Performance Silicon-Graphene Anodes", ACS Applied Nano Materials, 6, pp. 18757-18766
  • Saurabh Basu, Christopher McComb, Mustafa Rifat, Hongtao Sun and Soundar Kumara, 2022, "Process Monitoring: Distinguishing Defect Shapes by Strain Field Signatures", Manufacturing Letters, 33, pp. 808-816
  • Junfei Liang, Hongtao Sun, Zipeng Zhao, Yiliu Wang, Zhiying Feng, Jian Zhu, Lin Guo, Yu Huang and Xiangfeng Duan, 2019, "Ultra-high Areal Capacity Realized in Three-Dimensional Holey Graphene/SnO2 Composite Anodes", iScience, 19, pp. 728 - 736
  • 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, pp. 45-60
  • 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
  • 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, pp. 4526
  • 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
  • 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. 4521-4526

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