现为无机固体材料化学研究组组长,已发表SCI学术论文70余篇，其中国际一流期刊 Nature, Nature Mater., Nature Chem.上发表5篇.研究方向主要包括:
无机微孔材料的合成和应用(分子筛,含硼/锗骨架结构等);
结构解析方法的发展(单晶,粉末和透射电子显微镜);
致密固相化合物(多铁材料,非公度材料,合金).
代表学术著作
1. Jie Liang, Jie Su, Xiaodan Luo, Yingxia Wang*, Haoquan Zheng, Hong Chen, Xiaodong Zou, Jianhua Lin* and Junliang Sun*, "A Crystalline Mesoporous Germanate with 48-ring Channels for CO2 Separation" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201501718R1
2. Jie Liang, Jie Su, Yingxia Wang,* Yanping Chen, Xiaodong Zou, Fuhui Liao, Jianhua Lin,* and Junliang Sun* “A 3D 12-ring zeolite with ordered 4-ring vacancies occupied by (H2O)2 dimers” Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 16097-16101
3. Wei Hua, Hong Chen, Zheng-Bao Yu, Xiaodong Zou, Jianhua Lin*, Junliang Sun*"A Germanosilicate with 11×11×12-ring Channels Solved by Electron Crystallography" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 5868-5871
4. Hong Chen, Zhengbao Yu, Zoltán Bacsik, Huishuang Zhao, Qingxia Yao and Junliang Sun* "Construction of mesoporous frameworks with vanadoborate clusters" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 126, 3682-3685
5. Zheng-Bao Yu, Yu Han, Lan Zhao, Shiliang Huang, Qi-Yu Zheng,* Shuangzheng Lin, Armando Córdova, Xiaodong Zou,*and Junliang Sun* “Intergrown New Zeolite Beta Polymorphs with Interconnected 12-Ring Channels Solved by Combining Electron Crystallography and Single-Crystal X-ray Diffraction” Chem. Mater. 2012, DOI: 10.1021/cm301654d
6. Sihai Yang, Junliang Sun, Anibal J. Ramirez-Cuesta, Samantha K. Callear, William I.F. David, Daniel Anderson, Ruth Newby, Alexander J. Blake, Julia E. Parker, Chiu C. Tang and Martin Schroder "Selectivity and direct visualization of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide in a decorated porous host" Nature Chem. 2012, DOI: 10.1038/NCHEM.1457.
7. Tom Willhammar, Junliang Sun, Wei Wan, Peter Oleynikov, Daliang Zhang, Xiaodong Zou*, Manuel Moliner, Jorge Gonzalez, Cristina Martinez, Fernando Rey and Avelino Corma* “Structure and catalytic properties of the most complex intergrown zeolite ITQ-39 determined by electron crystallography” Nature Chem. 2012
8. Shiliang Huang, Kirsten Christensen, Maxim Peskov, Sihai Yang, Kuo Li, Xiaodong Zou, Junliang Sun* “Two open-framework germanates with nickel complexes incorporated into the framework” Inorg. Chem. 2011, 50, 9921-9923.
9. Junliang Sun, Charlotte Bonneau, Angel Cantin, Avelino Corma*, Maria J. Diaz-Cabaoas, Manuel Moliner, Daliang Zhang, Mingrun Li & Xiaodong Zou* “The ITQ-37 mesoporous chiral zeolite” Nature 2009, 458, 1154-1157
10. Yu Han, Daliang Zhang, Leng-Leng Chng, Junliang Sun, Lan Zhao, Xiaodong Zou* & Jackie Y. Ying* “A tri-continuous mesoporous material IBN-9 with the silica pore wall following a hexagonal minimal surface” Nature Chem. 2009, 1, 123-127. (Cover picture and cover story; Highlighted by Nature 2009,458, 683)
