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Yunkai Sun

Postdoctoral Appointee

Biography

Postdoc appointee, 2024-02 ~ present, CSE division. 

Integrate control of Fe ion coordination with tailored deposit structure and composition at Center for Steel Electrification by Electrosynthesis (C-STEEL) (supervisor: Dr. Zhenzhen Yang)

Education

  • Ph.D., DMSE. SEAS, University of Virginia, 2017-2023
  • M.S., MSE, APAM, SEAS, Columbia University, 2015-2016
  • B.Eng., Materials Chemistry, MSE, Shandong University, 2011-2015
  • Hometown: Chifeng, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

Honors and awards

  • ISO Graduate Leadership Award of UVA, 2024
  • The Raven honor society, UVA, 2023-02
  • Resident of the Range graduate student (honor) community, UVA, 2019-09 -  2023-12
  • Travel grant recipient, ELDP Division, 241st ECS Meeting, 2022-06
  • UVA International Student Citizen Leaders (ISCL) Fellowship, UVA, 2022-05
  • Next Generation Electrochemistry (NGENE) 2019 Program, University of Illinois, Chicago, 2019
  • The Blankenship Distinguished Fellowship, SEAS, UVA, 2017
  • The ​“May Fourth” Young Scientist Award of Shandong University, 2015
  • The Third-Class Scholarship of Shandong University, 2014

Memberships

  • The International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE)
  • The Electrochemical Society (ECS)
  • Early Career Forum (ECF) of Electrodeposition Division, ECS
  • American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • Jefferson Literacy and Debating Society of UVA

Publications

PhD Dissertation: ​“Efforts in Expanding Abner Brenner’s Paradigm of Alloy Electrodeposition Research” (2023), https://​doi​.org/​1​0​.​1​8​1​3​0​/​z​n​n​n​-dd37

  1. Sun, Yunkai*, and Giovanni Zangari. ​“Observation of Weibull, Lognormal, and Gamma distributions in particles from Cu-Ag electrodeposition system.” Materials 16, no. 19 (2023): 6452.

  2. Xu, Yin, Zhiyong Zhang, Qiyuan Lin, Rasin Ahmed, Sen Zhang, Yunkai Sun, Alessandro Lavacchi, Giovanni Zangari*, and Francesco Vizza*. ​“Photoelectrochemical water oxidation through a hybrid architecture nanoparticles/nanotubes.” Applied Surface Science (2023): 157698

  3. Rickman, Jeffery*, Katayun Barmak, Yunkai Sun, and Giovanni Zangari. ​“Correlation function analysis of electrodeposition kinetics and evolving microstructure.” Electrochimica Acta (2023): 142663.

  4. Xu, Yin, Qiyuan Lin, Yunkai Sun, Rasin Ahmed, Massimo Innocenti, Giovanni Zangari*. ​“Electrochemical/Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting on Self-Limiting Electrodeposited Iron-Group Mutual Alloys.” Journal of The Electrochemical Society 170, no. 5 (2023): 056511.

  5. Sun, Yunkai*, and Giovanni Zangari*. ​“Commentary and notes on the original derivations of the Scharifker-Hills model.” Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 170.3 (2023) 032503.

  6. Shao, Wenbo, Yunkai Sun, and Giovanni Zangari*. ​“Electrodeposition of Cu-Ag Alloy Films at n-Si (001) and Polycrystalline Ru Substrates.” Coatings 11, no. 12 (2021): 1563.

  7. Shao, Wenbo, Yunkai Sun, Yin Xu, and Giovanni Zangari*. ​“Depolarization of Cu electrodeposition in the presence of Ag: a cyclic-voltammetry study.” Electrochimica Acta (2021): 139796.

  8. Shao, Wenbo, Yunkai Sun, Walter Giurlani, Massimo Innocenti, and Giovanni Zangari*. ​“Estimating electrodeposition properties and processes: Cu-Ag alloy at n-Si (001) and Ru substrates from acidic sulfate bath.” Electrochimica Acta 403 (2022): 139695.

  9. Sun, Yunkai, Amir Chamaani, and Giovanni Zangari*. ​“Electrodeposition of Ag-Pd Alloy at Ru Substrate from Simple Acidic Nitrate Bath.” Journal of The Electrochemical Society 167, no. 6 (2020): 062506. doi: 10.1149/1945-7111/ab7d41

  10. Sun, Yunkai, and Giovanni Zangari*. ​“Rational Compositional Control of Electrodeposited Ag–Fe films.” Inorganic Chemistry 59, no.8 (2020): 5405-5417. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b03600

  11. Fabbri, Lorenzo, Yunkai Sun, Emanuele Piciollo, Emanuele Salvietti, Giovanni Zangari, Maurizio Passaponti, and Massimo Innocenti*. ​“Electrodeposition of White Bronzes on the Way to CZTS Absorber Films.” Journal of The Electrochemical Society 167, no. 2 (2020): 022513. doi: 10.1149/1945-7111/ab6c59

  12. Sun, Yunkai, and Giovanni Zangari*. ​“Phase Separation in Electrodeposited Ag-Pd Alloy Films from Acidic Nitrate Bath” Journal of The Electrochemical Society 166.8 (2019): D339-D349. doi: 10.1149/2.1231908jes.

  13. Sun, Yun-Kai, Xue Bai, Tao Li, Gui-Xia Lu, Yong-Xin Qi, Ning Lun, Yun Tian*, and Yu-Jun Bai*. ​“One-step fabrication of Fe-Si-O/Carbon nanotube composite anode material with excellent high-rate long-term cycling stability.” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 686 (2016): 318-325. doi: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2016.06.034

  14. Bai, Xue, Tao Li, Cheng Wei, Yun-Kai Sun, Yong-Xin Qi, Hui-Ling Zhu, Ning Lun*, and Yu-Jun Bai*. ​“Enhancing the Long-Term Cyclability and Rate Capability of Li4Ti5O12 by Simple Copper-Modification.” Electrochimica Acta 155 (2015): 132-139. doi: 10.1016/j.electacta.2014.12.121

  15. Li, Tao, Ning Lun, Yong-Xin Qi, Cheng Wei, Yun-Kai Sun, Hui-Ling Zhu, Jiu-Rong Liu*, and Yu-Jun Bai*. ​“Enhancing the reversible capacity and rate performance of anatase TiO2 by combined coating and compositing with N-doped carbon.” Journal of Power Sources 273 (2015): 472-478. doi: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2014.09.107

  16. Sun, Yun-Kai, Tao Li, Cheng Wei, Ning Zhao, Ning Lun, Gui-Xia Lu, Hui-Ling Zhu, Yong-Xin Qi*, and Yu-Jun Bai*. ​“Li-Ion Storage Performance of Carbon-Coated Mn–Al–O Composite Oxides.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 118.41 (2014): 23559-23566. doi: 10.1021/jp507728z

  17. Sun, Yunkai*, and Giovanni Zangari. ​“Estimated and observed nucleation densities of electrodeposited Cu and Cu-Ag particles at n-Si(001) substrate.” Submitted to Journal of Applied Electrochemistry. Preprint: https://​www​.research​square​.com/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​/​r​s​-​3​2​6​3​8​39/v1)

*: Corresponding author(s)