OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Chemical Reviews is 38. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
High-Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells	1554
Deep Eutectic Solvents: A Review of Fundamentals and Applications	1392
Advanced Thermoelectric Design: From Materials and Structures to Devices	1303
Pseudocapacitance: From Fundamental Understanding to High Power Energy Storage Materials	1038
Active Materials for Aqueous Zinc Ion Batteries: Synthesis, Crystal Structure, Morphology, and Electrochemistry	1007
Promises and Challenges of Next-Generation “Beyond Li-ion” Batteries for Electric Vehicles and Grid Decarbonization	814
MOF-Based Membranes for Gas Separations	785
Recent Advances and Challenges of Electrocatalytic N₂Reduction to Ammonia	752
Single-Atom Catalysts across the Periodic Table	727
Metal–Organic Framework-Based Catalysts with Single Metal Sites	720
Recent Strategies to Develop Innovative Photosensitizers for Enhanced Photodynamic Therapy	705
Metallaphotoredox: The Merger of Photoredox and Transition Metal Catalysis	704
Interfaces and Interphases in All-Solid-State Batteries with Inorganic Solid Electrolytes	702
Hydrogels and Hydrogel-Derived Materials for Energy and Water Sustainability	677
Metal–Organic Framework-Based Hierarchically Porous Materials: Synthesis and Applications	673
Visible Light-Driven Radical-Mediated C–C Bond Cleavage/Functionalization in Organic Synthesis	649
Dynamic Covalent Polymer Networks: A Molecular Platform for Designing Functions beyond Chemical Recycling and Self-Healing	637
Electroceramics for High-Energy Density Capacitors: Current Status and Future Perspectives	610
Advanced Electrocatalysts with Single-Metal-Atom Active Sites	583
Single-Atom Alloy Catalysis	578
Printability and Shape Fidelity of Bioinks in 3D Bioprinting	566
Machine Learning Force Fields	563
Borates: A Rich Source for Optical Materials	552
The 2D Halide Perovskite Rulebook: How the Spacer Influences Everything from the Structure to Optoelectronic Device Efficiency	539
Recent Advances in Catalytic Asymmetric Construction of Atropisomers	529

Single-Atom Catalysts Based on the Metal–Oxide Interaction	522
Soft Materials by Design: Unconventional Polymer Networks Give Extreme Properties	498
Polymer-Derived Heteroatom-Doped Porous Carbon Materials	497
Direct Photocatalyzed Hydrogen Atom Transfer (HAT) for Aliphatic C–H Bonds Elaboration	482
Physicochemical Concepts of the Lithium Metal Anode in Solid-State Batteries	480
Chemistry, Structures, and Advanced Applications of Nanocomposites from Biorenewable Resources	474
Functional Supramolecular Polymeric Networks: The Marriage of Covalent Polymers and Macrocycle-Based Host–Guest Interactions	470
Two-Dimensional Metal-Organic Framework Materials: Synthesis, Structures, Properties and Applications	462
Translational Applications of Hydrogels	459
Cooperative Coupling of Oxidative Organic Synthesis and Hydrogen Production over Semiconductor-Based Photocatalysts	455
Encapsulated Metal Nanoparticles for Catalysis	451
Photoredox-Catalyzed C–H Functionalization Reactions	422
Amyloid Oligomers: A Joint Experimental/Computational Perspective on Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Type II Diabetes, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis	419
Gaussian Process Regression for Materials and Molecules	416
Biomedicine Meets Fenton Chemistry	413
Lithium Metal Anodes with Nonaqueous Electrolytes	410
Noble-Metal Nanocrystals with Controlled Shapes for Catalytic and Electrocatalytic Applications	400
Rechargeable Batteries for Grid Scale Energy Storage	398
Proton Transport in Metal–Organic Frameworks	395
Metal–Organic Framework-Based Enzyme Biocomposites	387
Power of Infrared and Raman Spectroscopies to Characterize Metal-Organic Frameworks and Investigate Their Interaction with Guest Molecules	387
In Situ/Operando Electrocatalyst Characterization by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy	381
Toward Active-Site Tailoring in Heterogeneous Catalysis by Atomically Precise Metal Nanoclusters with Crystallographic Structures	377
From Materials to Cell: State-of-the-Art and Prospective Technologies for Lithium-Ion Battery Electrode Processing	375
Theoretical Understandings of Graphene-based Metal Single-Atom Catalysts: Stability and Catalytic Performance	373
Rare-Earth Doping in Nanostructured Inorganic Materials	373
Magnetically Driven Micro and Nanorobots	368
Renewed Prospects for Organic Photovoltaics	362
Antifungal Drug Resistance: Molecular Mechanisms in Candida albicans and Beyond	348
Chiroptical Properties of Symmetric Double, Triple, and Multiple Helicenes	347
Visible Light-Induced Transition Metal Catalysis	346
Technological Innovations in Photochemistry for Organic Synthesis: Flow Chemistry, High-Throughput Experimentation, Scale-up, and Photoelectrochemistry	344
Electronic Textiles for Wearable Point-of-Care Systems	339
Hierarchically Structured Zeolites: From Design to Application	337
Chemical Analysis of Microplastics and Nanoplastics: Challenges, Advanced Methods, and Perspectives	335
Surface Coordination Chemistry of Atomically Dispersed Metal Catalysts	333
3D Graphene Materials: From Understanding to Design and Synthesis Control	330
Chiroptical Properties in Thin Films of π-Conjugated Systems	330
Quantum Algorithms for Quantum Chemistry and Quantum Materials Science	326
Inkjet Bioprinting of Biomaterials	325
DNA Functional Materials Assembled from Branched DNA: Design, Synthesis, and Applications	322
Polymeric Tissue Adhesives	318
Combining Machine Learning and Computational Chemistry for Predictive Insights Into Chemical Systems	315
Water and Metal–Organic Frameworks: From Interaction toward Utilization	315
Recent Advances in Enantioselective Pd-Catalyzed Allylic Substitution: From Design to Applications	314
Aptamer-Based Detection of Circulating Targets for Precision Medicine	313
Optical Sensing and Imaging of pH Values: Spectroscopies, Materials, and Applications	312
Visible-to-NIR-Light Activated Release: From Small Molecules to Nanomaterials	311
Liquid Crystals: Versatile Self-Organized Smart Soft Materials	306
Four Generations of High-Dimensional Neural Network Potentials	306

Magnetic Skyrmion Materials	305
Molecularly Imprinted Polymers: Antibody Mimics for Bioimaging and Therapy	304
Destruction of Metal–Organic Frameworks: Positive and Negative Aspects of Stability and Lability	302
Design and Applications of Water-Soluble Coordination Cages	300
Big-Data Science in Porous Materials: Materials Genomics and Machine Learning	297
Catalytic Enantioselective Ring-Opening Reactions of Cyclopropanes	296
Recent Advances in Heterocyclic Nanographenes and Other Polycyclic Heteroaromatic Compounds	295
Non-Noble Plasmonic Metal-Based Photocatalysts	287
Structural Transformation of Heterogeneous Materials for Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction	280
Magnetic Soft Materials and Robots	278
Noble-Metal Based Random Alloy and Intermetallic Nanocrystals: Syntheses and Applications	277
Transition-Metal-Catalyzed, Coordination-Assisted Functionalization of Nonactivated C(sp³)–H Bonds	276
Microfluidic Paper-Based Analytical Devices: From Design to Applications	272
Electrochemical Oxidation Induced Selective C–C Bond Cleavage	263
Gold Nanorods: The Most Versatile Plasmonic Nanoparticles	259
Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells: From Fundamentals to Commercial Deployment	258
Physics-Inspired Structural Representations for Molecules and Materials	256
Generation of Alkyl Radicals: From the Tyranny of Tin to the Photon Democracy	254
Decellularized Extracellular Matrix-based Bioinks for Engineering Tissue- and Organ-specific Microenvironments	254
The Use of Alternative Strategies for Enhanced Nanoparticle Delivery to Solid Tumors	254
Recent Progress and Future Prospects on All-Organic Polymer Dielectrics for Energy Storage Capacitors	253
Supramolecular Adhesive Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering Applications	251
Toolbox for Distal C–H Bond Functionalizations in Organic Molecules	250
Fe(II) Redox Chemistry in the Environment	249
Nitrene Transfer and Carbene Transfer in Gold Catalysis	248
Contact Electrification at the Liquid–Solid Interface	245
Homogeneous Catalysis for Sustainable Energy: Hydrogen and Methanol Economies, Fuels from Biomass, and Related Topics	245
Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Reductive Amination Employing Hydrogen	241
Fundamentals, Applications, and Future Directions of Bioelectrocatalysis	240
Versatile Types of Inorganic/Organic NIR-IIa/IIb Fluorophores: From Strategic Design toward Molecular Imaging and Theranostics	240
Methodologies and Strategies for Selective Borylation of C–Het and C–C Bonds	240
Lipids and Lipid Derivatives for RNA Delivery	239
Directed Evolution: Methodologies and Applications	237
Continuous Flow Upgrading of Selected C₂–C₆Platform Chemicals Derived from Biomass	233
Chemically Modified Biopolymers for the Formation of Biomedical Hydrogels	231
Photons or Electrons? A Critical Comparison of Electrochemistry and Photoredox Catalysis for Organic Synthesis	225
Photochemical and Electrochemical Applications of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Organic Synthesis	224
Synergistic Dual Transition Metal Catalysis	222
Light in Gold Catalysis	222
Ion Dissociation in Ionic Liquids and Ionic Liquid Solutions	221
Electrocatalysis in Alkaline Media and Alkaline Membrane-Based Energy Technologies	220
Coordination-Directed Construction of Molecular Links	219
Applications of Halogen-Atom Transfer (XAT) for the Generation of Carbon Radicals in Synthetic Photochemistry and Photocatalysis	219
Gold-Catalyzed Reactions of Specially Activated Alkynes, Allenes, and Alkenes	218
o-Silylaryl Triflates: A Journey of Kobayashi Aryne Precursors	217
Permanently Microporous Metal–Organic Polyhedra	216
2D Heterostructures for Ubiquitous Electronics and Optoelectronics: Principles, Opportunities, and Challenges	216
Cu(I)-Catalyzed Click Chemistry in Glycoscience and Their Diverse Applications	213
Vibrational Spectroscopic Map, Vibrational Spectroscopy, and Intermolecular Interaction	211
Chemical Aspects of Human and Environmental Overload with Fluorine	211
Natural Biopolymer-Based Biocompatible Conductors for Stretchable Bioelectronics	211
Strategic Use of Visible-Light Photoredox Catalysis in Natural Product Synthesis	210
Machine Learning for Electronically Excited States of Molecules	210
Challenges and Opportunities in Cancer Drug Resistance	209
Understanding the Effect of Water on CO₂ Adsorption	209
Enantioselective Photochemical Reactions Enabled by Triplet Energy Transfer	208
Self-Healing Injectable Hydrogels for Tissue Regeneration	206
Anion-Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers	206
Structures and General Transport Mechanisms by the Major Facilitator Superfamily (MFS)	206
Computational Methods in Heterogeneous Catalysis	205
Photon Upconversion for Photovoltaics and Photocatalysis: A Critical Review	203
Recent Developments for the Deuterium and Tritium Labeling of Organic Molecules	203
Understanding the Electric Double-Layer Structure, Capacitance, and Charging Dynamics	202
Structural Enzymology of Nitrogenase Enzymes	201
Smart Materials for Microrobots	200
Microkinetic Modeling: A Tool for Rational Catalyst Design	199
Alkoxy Radicals See the Light: New Paradigms of Photochemical Synthesis	199
Cleavage of Carbon–Carbon σ-Bonds of Four-Membered Rings	199
Photothermal Nanomaterials: A Powerful Light-to-Heat Converter	199
Advances in theE → ZIsomerization of Alkenes Using Small Molecule Photocatalysts	199
Electrocatalytic Hydrogenation of Biomass-Derived Organics: A Review	199
Enantioselective Formation of Quaternary Centers by Allylic Alkylation with First-Row Transition-Metal Catalysts	198
Photoinduced Borylation for the Synthesis of Organoboron Compounds	198
Emerging Electrochromic Materials and Devices for Future Displays	196
Unconventional Thermoelectric Materials for Energy Harvesting and Sensing Applications	195
Chiral Metal–Organic Frameworks	194
Transition Metal-Catalyzed Selective Carbon–Carbon Bond Cleavage of Vinylcyclopropanes in Cycloaddition Reactions	193
Photocatalysis in the Life Science Industry	192
Electronic Devices Using Open Framework Materials	190
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Click-Chemistry with Nucleic Acids	189

Colloidal Self-Assembly Approaches to Smart Nanostructured Materials	189
Anticatalytic Strategies to Suppress Water Electrolysis in Aqueous Batteries	188
Oxide–Zeolite-Based Composite Catalyst Concept That Enables Syngas Chemistry beyond Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis	188
Unsupervised Learning Methods for Molecular Simulation Data	187
Chiral Photocatalyst Structures in Asymmetric Photochemical Synthesis	186
Strategies to Generate Nitrogen-centered Radicals That May Rely on Photoredox Catalysis: Development in Reaction Methodology and Applications in Organic Synthesis	184
Biological Utility of Fluorinated Compounds: from Materials Design to Molecular Imaging, Therapeutics and Environmental Remediation	184
Evolutionary Generation of Phosphor Materials and Their Progress in Future Applications for Light-Emitting Diodes	184
CO₂ Capture at Medium to High Temperature Using Solid Oxide-Based Sorbents: Fundamental Aspects, Mechanistic Insights, and Recent Advances	184
Peptide-Based Supramolecular Systems Chemistry	184
Bioprinting: From Tissue and Organ Development to in Vitro Models	184
Homogeneous Gold-Catalyzed Oxidation Reactions	183
Semiconducting Polymers for Oxygen Evolution Reaction under Light Illumination	183
Advances on the Merger of Electrochemistry and Transition Metal Catalysis for Organic Synthesis	182
Divergent Gold Catalysis: Unlocking Molecular Diversity through Catalyst Control	182
Recent Advances in the Enantioselective Synthesis of Chiral Amines via Transition Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation	181
Molecular Probes, Chemosensors, and Nanosensors for Optical Detection of Biorelevant Molecules and Ions in Aqueous Media and Biofluids	180
Transformations of Less-Activated Phenols and Phenol Derivatives via C–O Cleavage	179
Impedance Analysis of Electrochemical Systems	178
Properties and Promise of Catenated Nitrogen Systems As High-Energy-Density Materials	178
Crystal Engineering of Pharmaceutical Cocrystals in the Discovery and Development of Improved Drugs	178
Metal-Catalyzed Intermolecular Hydrofunctionalization of Allenes: Easy Access to Allylic Structures via the Selective Formation of C–N, C–C, and C–O Bonds	177
Fluorinated Pyrazoles: From Synthesis to Applications	176
Machine Learning for Chemical Reactions	175
Global Nitrogen Cycle: Critical Enzymes, Organisms, and Processes for Nitrogen Budgets and Dynamics	174
Molecular Probes for Autofluorescence-Free Optical Imaging	173
Photoluminescent Nanoparticles for Chemical and Biological Analysis and Imaging	173
Recent Development of Aryl Diazonium Chemistry for the Derivatization of Aromatic Compounds	173
Polymorph Evolution Mechanisms and Regulation Strategies of Lithium Metal Anode under Multiphysical Fields	173
Catalytic Enantioselective Functionalizations of C–H Bonds by Chiral Iridium Complexes	173
Progress and Prospects in Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Research Beyond 2D	173
High-Resolution Native Mass Spectrometry	172
Green Chemistry in the Synthesis of Pharmaceuticals	172
Molecular Recognition in Water Using Macrocyclic Synthetic Receptors	170
HFIP in Organic Synthesis	170
Endohedrally Doped Cage Clusters	170
Neural Network Potential Energy Surfaces for Small Molecules and Reactions	170
Hydrogen-Bonded Supramolecular Liquid Crystal Polymers: Smart Materials with Stimuli-Responsive, Self-Healing, and Recyclable Properties	169
Light-Triggered Click Chemistry	168
The Past and the Future of Langmuir and Langmuir–Blodgett Films	168
Progress and Prospective of Nitrogen-Based Alternative Fuels	168
Selective Carbon–Carbon Bond Cleavage of Cyclopropanols	167
Structurally Dynamic Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications: Pursuing a Fine Balance between Macroscopic Stability and Microscopic Dynamics	167
First-Row d-Block Element-Catalyzed Carbon–Boron Bond Formation and Related Processes	166
Polymeric Systems for Bioprinting	165
Doping Approaches for Organic Semiconductors	165
Assembly and Applications of Macrocyclic-Confinement-Derived Supramolecular Organic Luminescent Emissions from Cucurbiturils	165
Beyond Ammonia: Nitrogen–Element Bond Forming Reactions with Coordinated Dinitrogen	164
Free Energies of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reagents and Their Applications	162
Molecular Main Group Metal Hydrides	162
Recent Advances in 3D Printing of Structured Materials for Adsorption and Catalysis Applications	162
Noble-Metal-Free Multicomponent Nanointegration for Sustainable Energy Conversion	162
Selective Decarbonylation via Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Carbon–Carbon Bond Cleavage	161
Ethnobotany and the Role of Plant Natural Products in Antibiotic Drug Discovery	161
Artificial Intelligence Applied to Battery Research: Hype or Reality?	160
The Staudinger Ligation	159
Zwitterionic Biomaterials	158
Interfacial Assembly and Applications of Functional Mesoporous Materials	158
Zeolites in Adsorption Processes: State of the Art and Future Prospects	157
Nonenzymatic Metabolic Reactions and Life’s Origins	157
Aliphatic Polycarbonates from Cyclic Carbonate Monomers and Their Application as Biomaterials	156
Electronic Structure Modeling of Metal–Organic Frameworks	156
Self-Assembling Peptide EAK16 and RADA16 Nanofiber Scaffold Hydrogel	156
Recent Progress and Prospects in Catalytic Water Treatment	155
Coinage-Metal-Based Cyclic Trinuclear Complexes with Metal–Metal Interactions: Theories to Experiments and Structures to Functions	155
Applying Classical, Ab Initio, and Machine-Learning Molecular Dynamics Simulations to the Liquid Electrolyte for Rechargeable Batteries	154
Nonaqueous Rechargeable Aluminum Batteries: Progresses, Challenges, and Perspectives	153
Molecular Characterization of Polymer Networks	152
Polymeric Delivery of Therapeutic Nucleic Acids	151
Single-Atom (Iron-Based) Catalysts: Synthesis and Applications	151
Atomically Dispersed Metals on Well-Defined Supports including Zeolites and Metal–Organic Frameworks: Structure, Bonding, Reactivity, and Catalysis	149
Nitrogen-Centered Radicals in Functionalization of sp² Systems: Generation, Reactivity, and Applications in Synthesis	148
Colloidal Quantum Dots as Platforms for Quantum Information Science	148
Electrochemical Methods for Water Purification, Ion Separations, and Energy Conversion	148
Recent Advances in Gold(III) Chemistry: Structure, Bonding, Reactivity, and Role in Homogeneous Catalysis	147
Guidelines to Achieving High Selectivity for the Hydrogenation of α,β-Unsaturated Aldehydes with Bimetallic and Dilute Alloy Catalysts: A Review	146
Enzymatic Noncovalent Synthesis	145
Real-Time Time-Dependent Electronic Structure Theory	145
Enantioselective Radical Reactions Using Chiral Catalysts	145
Gold-Catalyzed Synthesis of Small Rings	145
Silylium Ions: From Elusive Reactive Intermediates to Potent Catalysts	143
Two-Dimensional Polymers and Polymerizations	143
Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Gold Catalysis for Materials Science	143
Photoinduced Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (O-ATRP): Precision Polymer Synthesis Using Organic Photoredox Catalysis	143
Stapled Helical Peptides Bearing Different Anchoring Residues	142
Activation of Dinitrogen by Polynuclear Metal Complexes	139
Review of Multifunctional Separators: Stabilizing the Cathode and the Anode for Alkali (Li, Na, and K) Metal–Sulfur and Selenium Batteries	139
Machine Learning for Electrocatalyst and Photocatalyst Design and Discovery	136
Freestanding Metal–Organic Frameworks and Their Derivatives: An Emerging Platform for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion	136
Construction of Medium-Sized Rings by Gold Catalysis	135
Materials for Smart Soft Actuator Systems	135
Nickel Catalyzed Olefin Oligomerization and Dimerization	134
Optimization of Catalysts and Conditions in Gold(I) Catalysis—Counterion and Additive Effects	134
Fabrication of Biomedical Scaffolds Using Biodegradable Polymers	134
Introduction: Click Chemistry	133