Rong Sun is a Research Fellow at INL funded by Marie Curie COFUND fellowship. She works at the Department of Advanced Electron Microscopy Imaging and Spectroscopy, within the Nanostructured Materials research group. Her research project involves investigations on the structure-property interplay of low-dimensional materials at the atomic scale employing advanced electron microscopy techniques.

Rong Sun received her PhD in materials science and engineering from the University of Tokyo in Japan (2015) where she worked on the defects and grain boundaries in functional material TiO2. During her PhD, by employing state of the art aberration corrected TEM/STEM imaging and spectroscopy, she studied the atomic structure of the dislocations and grain boundaries in TiO2 and how the defects mediate the electronic property of TiO2.

• R. Sun, Z. C. Wang, M. Saito, N. Shibata, and Y. Ikuhara
  Atomistic Mechanisms of Nonstoichiometry-Induced Twin Boundary Structural Transformation in Titanium Dioxide
  Nature Communications 6, 7120−1−7 (2015) (DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8120)

• R. Sun, Z. C. Wang, N. Shibata, and Y. Ikuhara
  A Dislocation Core in Titanium Dioxide and its Electronic Structure
  RSC Advances 5, 18506−18510 (2015) (DOI: 10.1039/C4RA15278F)

• Y. X. Li, Z. C. Wang, J. J. Yao, Z. G. Wang, C. L. Chen, R. Sun, Z. P. Tian, Y. J. Wang, C. T. Luo, Y. D. Yang, R. Viswan, J. F. Li, and D. Viehland
  Magnetoelectric Quasi (0-3) Nanocomposite Heterostructures
  Nature Communications 6, 6680−1−7 (2015) (DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7680)

• Z. C. Wang, R. Sun, C. L. Chen, M. Saito, S. Tsukimoto, and Y. Ikuhara
  Structural and Electronic Impact of SrTiO3 Substrate on TiO2 Thin Films
  Journal of Materials Science 47, 5148−5157 (2012) (DOI: 10.1007/s10853-012-6392-4)

• Z. C. Wang, S. Tsukimoto, R. Sun, M. Saito, and Yuichi Ikuhara
  Atomic-scale Ti3SiC2 Bilayers Embedded in SiC: Formation of Point Fermi Surface
  Applied Physics Letters 98, 104101−1−3 (2011) (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3560505)