Tribology, Corrosion, Mechanochemistry, Surface and Interface Science

2025/05-present: Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, CAS, Professor; 2018/10-2025/05：Southwest Jiaotong University, Associate professor

1. Junhui Sun; Xin Zhang; Shiyu Du*; Jibin Pu; Yang Wang; Yanping Yuan; Linmao Qian*; Joseph S. Francisco*; Charge Density Evolution Governing Interfacial Friction, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023, 145, 5536-5544.

2. Zejun Sun, Puyu Ge, Shihong Chen, Shuchun Huang, Haowen Xu, Chong Wang, Rui Han, Xiushuo Zhang, Huixian Liu, Jianbin Luo, Linmao Qian, Junhui Sun,* Dameng Liu,* and Huan Liu*；Friction Tuning of Interlayer Exciton Recombination in Van der Waals Heterostructures, Advanced Materials, 2025, 2502986.

3. Haoyang Su#, Honglin Zhang#, Junhui Sun#, Haojie Lang, Kun Zou, Yitian Peng*. Extensive, Reversible, and Controllable Reduction in Friction of Atomically Thin Two Dimensional Materials through High-Stress Pre-Rubbing, Nature Communications, 2024, 15, 9897.

4. Xin Zhang; Junhui Sun*; Shiyu Du; Hao Li; and Linmao Qian. Electronic Interpretation of Interlayer Energy Landscape in Layered Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, 2023, 2301402.

5. Junhui Sun*, Yilong Jiang, Shiyu Du*, Lei Chen, Joseph S. Francisco*, Shuxun Cui, Qing Huang, and Linmao Qian*; Charge Redistribution in Mechanochemical Reactions for Solid Interfaces, Nano Letters, 2024, 24, 6858-6864.

6. Yangyang Lu, Chen Xiao, Yilong Jiang, Chuan Tang, Lei Chen, Junhui Sun*, Linmao Qian, Nanoscale Wear Triggered by Stress-Driven Electron Transfer, Nano Letters, 2023, 23, 8842-8849.

7. Junhui Sun; Ziwen Cheng; Qing Huang; Heming He; Joseph S. Francisco; Shiyu Du*; Universal Principle for Large-Scale Production of a High-Quality Two-Dimensional Monolayer via Positive Charge-Driven Exfoliation, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2022, 13(28): 6597-6603.

8. Junhui Sun; Keke Chang; Daohong Mei; Zhibin Lu*; Jibin Pu; Qunji Xue; Qing Huang; Liping Wang*; Shiyu Du; Mutual Identification between the Pressure-Induced Superlubricity and the Image Contrast Inversion of Carbon Nanostructures from AFM Technology, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2019, 10: 1498-1504.

9. Junhui Sun; Yanning Zhang; Zhibin Lu*; Qunyang Li*; Qunji Xue; Shiyu Du; Jibin Pu; Liping Wang*; Superlubricity Enabled by Pressure-Induced Friction Collapse, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2018, 9(10): 2554-2559.

10. Hao Li*, Cheng Cao, Yuting Li, Xiaoqiang Fan, Junhui Sun*, and Minhao Zhu, Friction heat-driven robust self-lubricity of n-alkanols/epoxy resin coatings enabled by solid-liquid phase transition, Materials Horizons, 2024, 11: 4942-4950.