He has been engaged in the research of functional porous materials chemistry for a long time, and has made a series of research achievements in the cross-scale and efficient synthesis of porous materials and their application in green catalysis, intelligent bionic catalysis, molecular recognition and other fields. So far in Nature, Nat. Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Chem. Soc. Rev., Acc. Chem. Res. More than 60 SCI papers have been published in internationally renowned journals and magazines, and the papers have been cited more than 4000 times, and many of them have been selected as ESI highly cited papers. He was selected as one of the TOP 1% highly cited authors of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has presided over a number of research funds, such as the National Youth Talent Project, the National Natural Science Foundation Project, the high-level Talent Research start-up project of Beijing Institute of Technology, and the special program of Science and Technology Funding for Innovative Talents of Beijing Institute of Technology. 2 authorized invention patents.

The research group recruits several doctoral students and master students every year; Excellent doctors are welcome to join in postdoctoral research, and high-level talents such as special researchers and special associate researchers are welcome to join (long-term effectiveness).

Research Group Link: https://www.x-mol.com/groups/Jianke_Sun

Chemistry of Functional porous Materials
Catalytic chemistry of Clusters

2007-2012 Doctor of Science, Fujian Institute of Material Structure, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2019-present Professor, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology
2019-2019 Researcher, Stockholm University, Sweden
2018-2019 Researcher, Soft Matter Center, Korea National Institute of Science and Technology
2015-2017 Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces, Humboldt Scholar
2013-2015 JSPS Researcher, Japan Industrial Technology Research Institute
2012-2013 Assistant Researcher, Fujian Institute of Material Structure, Chinese Academy of Sciences

1. Jian-Ke Sun, Yaroslav I Sobolev (Co-first author), Weiyi Zhang, Qiang Zhuang and Bartosz Grzybowski*, Enhancing crystal growth using polyelectrolyte solutions and shear flow, Nature 2020, 579, 73-79.
2. Liangxiao Tan, Jun-Hao Zhou, Jian-Ke Sun* and Jiayin Yuan*, Electrostatically Cooperative Host-in-Host of Metal Cluster ⊂ Ionic Organic Cages in Nanopores for Enhanced Catalysis, Nat. Commun. 2022, 13, 1471.
3. Xiao-Dong Yang, Ya-Jun Zhang, Jun-Hao Zhou, Ling Liu, Jian-Ke Sun*, Air-stable Radical Organic Cages as Cascade Nanozymes for Enhanced Catalysis. Small 2022, DOI: 10.1002/smll.202206127.
4. Li-Ying Zhu, Su-Yun Zhang (co-first author); Xin-Chun Yang, Qiang Zhuang, Jian-Ke Sun*, Toward the Controlled Synthesis of Highly Dispersed Metal Clusters Enabled by Downsizing Crystalline Porous Organic Cage Supports. Small Methods. 2022, 6, 2200591.
5. Si-Hua Liu, Hong Wang*, Jian-Ke Sun*, Markus Antonietti, Jiayin Yuan*, Smart Hydrogen Atoms in Heterocyclic Cations of 1,2,4-Triazolium-Type Poly(ionic liquid)s. Acc. Chem. Res. 2022, 55, 3675-3687.
6. Mingming Hua, Shuping Wang, Yanjun Gong, Jingjing Wei,* Zhijie Yang* and Jian-Ke Sun*, Hierarchically porous organic cages, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 12490-12497.
7. Wei Cao, Junhao Zhou, Zdravko Kochovski, Han Miao, Zhiming Gao, JianKe Sun* and Jiayin Yuan*, Ionic organic cage-encapsulated metal clusters for switchable catalysis, Cell. Rep. Phys. Sci. 2021, 2, 100546.
8. Su-Yun Zhang, Han Miao (Co-first author), He-Min Zhang (Co-first author), Jun-Hao Zhou, Qiang Zhuang, Yu-Jia Zeng, Zhiming Gao, Jiayin Yuan* and Jian-Ke Sun*, Accelerating crystallization of open organic materials by poly(ionic liquid)s, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 22109-22116. Very Important Paper (VIP).
9. Su-Yun Zhang, Qiang Zhuang (Co-first author), Miao Zhang, Hong Wang, Zhiming Gao, Jian-Ke Sun* and Jiayin Yuan*, Poly(ionic liquid) composites, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2020, 49, 1726-1755.
10. Su-Yun Zhang, Zdravko Kochovski, Hui-Chun Lee, Yan Lu, Jie Zhang, JianKe Sun* and Jiayin Yuan*, Ionic organic cage-encapsulating phasetransferable metal clusters, Chem. Sci. 2019, 10, 1450-1456.
11. Jian-Ke Sun, Xiao-Dong Yang, Guo-Yu Yang and Jie Zhang*, Bipyridinium derivative-based coordination polymers: from synthesis to materials applications, Coord. Chem. Rev. 2019, 378, 533-560.
12. Jian-Ke Sun, Weiyi Zhang (Co-first author), Ryan Guterman, Hui-Juan Lin and Jiayin Yuan*, Porous polycarbene-bearing membrane actuator for ultrasensitive weak-acid detection and real-time chemical reaction monitoring, Nat. Commun. 2018, 9, 1717.
13. Jian-Ke Sun, Zdravko Kochovski, Wei-Yi Zhang, Holm Kirmse, Yan Lu, Markus Antonietti and Jiayin Yuan*, General synthetic route toward highly dispersed metal clusters enabled by poly(ionic liquid)s, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 8971-8976. Selected by JACS Young Investigators Virtual Issue 2017.
14. Cheng Chen, Jian-Ke Sun (Co-first author), Ya-Jun Zhang, Xiao-Dong Yang and Jie Zhang*, Flexible viologen-based porous framework showing Xray induced photochromism with single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformation, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 14458-14462.
15. Jian-Ke Sun, Markus Antonietti, and Jiayin Yuan*, Nanoporous ionic organic networks: from synthesis to materials applications, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2016, 45, 6627-6656.