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Hong Sun 

Title: Professor
Email: hsun@sjtu.edu.cn
Phone: +86-21-5474-1080
Address: Physics Building, Room 1007
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Area of Physics: Condensed Matter Physics and Computational Material Physics
 
Research Interests:
First principles calculation studies of material physics with focuses on the studies and designs of super-hard materials in high pressures and high temperatures.
 
Biographical Sketch:
Prof. Sun Hong received Ph.D. in physics at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1987, joined its department of physics as a faculty member since then, and promoted to full professor in 1990. He collaborated with Prof. Kin-Wah Yu in the Physics Department at Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1993 to 1999; visited research group led by Prof. M. L. Cohen and S. G. Louie in the Physics Department at UC Berkeley in 2000 for two years; and collaborated with Prof. Changfeng Chen in the Physics Department at University of Nevada (Las Vegas) since 2004.
 
Selected Publications:
1.  Hong Sun, S.H. Jhi, D. Roundy, S.G. Louie and M.L. Cohen, “Structural Forms of Cubic BC2N”, Phys. Rev. B, 64 (2001) 094108.
2.   H.J. Choi, D. Roundy, Hong Sun, M.L. Cohen and S.L. Louie, “The original of the anomalous superconducting properties of MgB2”, Nature, 418 (2002) 758.
3.   H.J. Choi, D. Roundy, Hong Sun, M.L. Cohen and S.L. Louie, “First-principles calculation of the superconducting transition in MgB2 within the anisotropic Eliashberg formalism”, Phys. Rev. B (rapid communication), 66 (2002) 020513.
4.   Y. Zhang, Hong Sun* and C.F. Chen*, “Superhard cubic BC2N compared to diamond”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 93 (2004) 195504.
5.   Y. Zhang, Hong Sun* and C.F. Chen*, “Atomistic deformation modes in strong covalent solids”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 94 (2005) 145505.
6.   Z.C. Pan, Hong Sun* and C.F. Chen*, “Colossal shear-strength enhancement of low-density cubic BC2N by nanoindentation”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 98 (2007) 135505.
7.   C.F. Chen and Hong Sun, “Comment on “Superhard pseudocubic BC2N superlattices””, Phys. Rev. Lett., 99 (2007) 159601.
8.   J. Yang, Hong Sun*, and C.F. Chen*, “Is osmium diboride an ultra-hard material?”, JACS, 130 (2008) 7200.
9.   Z.C. Pan, Hong Sun* and C.F. Chen*, “Harder than Diamond: Superior Indentation Strength of Wurtzite BN and Lonsdaleite”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 102 (2009) 055503.
10.  W. Zhou, Hong Sun* and C.F. Chen*, “Soft bond-deformation paths in superhard gamma-boron”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 105 (2010) 215503.