OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science is 11. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Amorphous oxide semiconductors: From fundamental properties to practical applications	356
Accelerated emergence of CoNi-based medium-entropy alloys with emphasis on their mechanical properties	281
Understanding how bacterial collectives organize on surfaces by tracking surfactant flow	148
Toward high-quality graphene film growth by chemical vapor deposition system	103
Grain refinement and morphological control of intermetallic compounds: A comprehensive review	99
Graphene- polymer nanocomposite-based wearable strain sensors for physiological signal Monitoring: Recent progress and challenges	94
Overcoming the limitations of COVID-19 diagnostics with nanostructures, nucleic acid engineering, and additive manufacturing	87
Editorial Board	75
Editorial Board	66
Conductive-synthetic diamond materials in meeting the sustainable development goals	64
Liquid crystalline elastomer actuators with dynamic covalent bonding: Synthesis, alignment, reprogrammability, and self-healing	62
Electric current-induced phenomena in metallic materials	56
Dopants and defects in ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors	54
High strain rate nanoindentation testing: Recent advancements, challenges and opportunities	53
Editorial Board	52
Editorial: Special issue on solid-state battery materials, phenomena, and systems	52
Predicting displacement damage for ion irradiation: Origin of the overestimation of vacancy production in SRIM full-cascade calculations	48
Solid state lithium metal batteries – Issues and challenges at the lithium-solid electrolyte interface	46
Recent advances in describing and driving crystal nucleation using machine learning and artificial intelligence	46
The next generation of nanoindentation and small-scale mechanical testing	44
History, present status, and future directions of vanadium alloys for fusion reactors	44
Monolithic 3D integration as a pathway to energy-efficient computing and beyond: From materials and devices to architectures and chips	42
Review on thermal transport and lattice dynamics of high-entropy alloys containing Ni	42
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for materials	39
Chemomechanics: Friend or foe of the “AND problem” of solid-state batteries?	38

Rational design of high-entropy ceramics based on machine learning – A critical review	38
Hydriding of titanium: Recent trends and perspectives in advanced characterization and multiscale modeling	36
Current opinions on memristor-accelerated machine learning hardware	31
Chiral photonic materials self-assembled by cellulose nanocrystals	31
Editorial Board	31
Advances in additive manufacturing of cemented carbides: From powder production to mechanical properties and future challenges	31
Advancements in fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy Instrumentation: Towards high speed and 3D	30
Deformation-induced martensitic transformations: A strategy for overcoming the strength-ductility trade-off in high-entropy alloys	30
Intrinsically stretchable sensory-neuromorphic system for sign language translation	29
From jammed solids to mechanical metamaterials : A brief review	28
Autonomous materials research and design: Characterization	27
Sampling thermodynamic ensembles of molecular systems with generative neural networks: Will integrating physics-based models close the generalization gap?	25
Electrochemo-mechanical effects as a critical design factor for all-solid-state batteries	25
Advances and opportunities in high-throughput small-scale mechanical testing	25
Editorial Board	25
From high-entropy alloys to alloys with high entropy: A new paradigm in materials science and engineering for advancing sustainable metallurgy	24
Spintronic devices as next-generation computation accelerators	23
Editorial Board	23
Recent progress in analysis of strain-induced phenomena in irradiated metallic materials and advanced alloys using SEM-EBSD in-situ tensile testing	22
Advancing programmable metamaterials through machine learning-driven buckling strength optimization	21
Engineering materials for artificial cells	21
Autonomous research and development of structural materials – An introduction and vision	21
Ferroelastic toughening: Can it solve the mechanics challenges of solid electrolytes?	20
Challenges and opportunities in searching for Rashba-Dresselhaus materials for efficient spin-charge interconversion at room temperature	20
Conductive Hydrogels: Bioelectronics and Environmental Applications	20
Editorial Board	19
In situ and operando characterisation of Li metal – Solid electrolyte interfaces	19
Sluggish, chemical bias and percolation phenomena in atomic transport by vacancy and interstitial diffusion in Ni Fe alloys	18
Predictive process mapping for laser powder bed fusion: A review of existing analytical solutions	18
On the role of functionalization in graphene-moisture interaction	18
Machine learning aided nanoindentation: A review of the current state and future perspectives	18
Recent progress in elastic and inelastic neutron scattering for chemical, polymeric, and biological investigations	16
High-affinity peptide biomaterials	16
Statistical mechanical modeling of glass-forming systems: A practical review considering an example calcium silicate system	15
Proposed relaxed criteria for fusion-activated materials	15
Machine learning for inverse design of acoustic and elastic metamaterials	15
Nanocrystal programmable assembly beyond hard spheres (or shapes) and other (simple) potentials	15
Breaking the trade-off between thermal conductivity and strength of magnesium alloys: Mechanisms and strategies	15
Designing biofilm architecture through depletion-mediated self-assembly and emergent nematic order	15
Role of electronic energy loss on defect production and interface stability: Comparison between ceramic materials and high-entropy alloys	14
Supported catalysts for heterogeneous electro-Fenton processes: Recent trends and future directions	13
Editorial Board	12
On the oxidation of VS2 2D platelets using tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy	12
Machine learning models in phononic metamaterials	12
Computational materials assessment of the D/Li-stripping neutron source as a prototypical facility for fusion materials testing	12
Helix-specific properties and applications in synthetic polypeptides	11
Prospects and challenges of electrochemical random-access memory for deep-learning accelerators	11
Influence of the chemical nature of Boron‐Doped diamond anodes on wastewater treatments	11
Advances in solid-state fiber batteries for wearable bioelectronics	11
Footwear for piezoelectric energy harvesting: A comprehensive review on prototypes development, applications and future prospects	11

Recent advances in understanding iron/steel corrosion: Mechanistic insights from molecular simulations