OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science is 10. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Accelerated emergence of CoNi-based medium-entropy alloys with emphasis on their mechanical properties	324
Amorphous oxide semiconductors: From fundamental properties to practical applications	263
Toward high-quality graphene film growth by chemical vapor deposition system	224
Understanding how bacterial collectives organize on surfaces by tracking surfactant flow	137
Overcoming the limitations of COVID-19 diagnostics with nanostructures, nucleic acid engineering, and additive manufacturing	124
Graphene- polymer nanocomposite-based wearable strain sensors for physiological signal Monitoring: Recent progress and challenges	100
Grain refinement and morphological control of intermetallic compounds: A comprehensive review	100
Conductive-synthetic diamond materials in meeting the sustainable development goals	94
Editorial Board	80
Editorial Board	70
Liquid crystalline elastomer actuators with dynamic covalent bonding: Synthesis, alignment, reprogrammability, and self-healing	70
Dopants and defects in ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors	61
Electric current-induced phenomena in metallic materials	60
Editorial: Special issue on solid-state battery materials, phenomena, and systems	57
Editorial Board	55
High strain rate nanoindentation testing: Recent advancements, challenges and opportunities	52
Solid state lithium metal batteries – Issues and challenges at the lithium-solid electrolyte interface	48
Predicting displacement damage for ion irradiation: Origin of the overestimation of vacancy production in SRIM full-cascade calculations	48
Transport properties of dislocations in SrTiO3 and other perovskites	45
Van der Waals heterostructures based on three-dimensional topological insulators	44
Recent advances in describing and driving crystal nucleation using machine learning and artificial intelligence	44
History, present status, and future directions of vanadium alloys for fusion reactors	42
The next generation of nanoindentation and small-scale mechanical testing	41
Editorial Board	40
Review on thermal transport and lattice dynamics of high-entropy alloys containing Ni	40

Critical review of the state of the art in multi-material fabrication via directed energy deposition	39
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for materials	39
Monolithic 3D integration as a pathway to energy-efficient computing and beyond: From materials and devices to architectures and chips	35
Chemomechanics: Friend or foe of the “AND problem” of solid-state batteries?	35
Hydriding of titanium: Recent trends and perspectives in advanced characterization and multiscale modeling	34
Rational design of high-entropy ceramics based on machine learning – A critical review	34
Editorial Board	32
Current opinions on memristor-accelerated machine learning hardware	31
Chiral photonic materials self-assembled by cellulose nanocrystals	29
Intrinsically stretchable sensory-neuromorphic system for sign language translation	28
Advancements in fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy Instrumentation: Towards high speed and 3D	28
From jammed solids to mechanical metamaterials : A brief review	25
Hollow-walled lattice materials by additive manufacturing: Design, manufacture, properties, applications and challenges	25
Editorial Board	24
Autonomous materials research and design: Characterization	24
Advances and opportunities in high-throughput small-scale mechanical testing	24
Deformation-induced martensitic transformations: A strategy for overcoming the strength-ductility trade-off in high-entropy alloys	24
From high-entropy alloys to alloys with high entropy: A new paradigm in materials science and engineering for advancing sustainable metallurgy	23
Sampling thermodynamic ensembles of molecular systems with generative neural networks: Will integrating physics-based models close the generalization gap?	22
Electrochemo-mechanical effects as a critical design factor for all-solid-state batteries	21
Polymer derived ceramic aerogels	20
Editorial Board	19
Spintronic devices as next-generation computation accelerators	19
Ferroelastic toughening: Can it solve the mechanics challenges of solid electrolytes?	18
Engineering materials for artificial cells	18
Advancing programmable metamaterials through machine learning-driven buckling strength optimization	18
Challenges and opportunities in searching for Rashba-Dresselhaus materials for efficient spin-charge interconversion at room temperature	18
Recent progress in analysis of strain-induced phenomena in irradiated metallic materials and advanced alloys using SEM-EBSD in-situ tensile testing	18
Autonomous research and development of structural materials – An introduction and vision	16
Conductive Hydrogels: Bioelectronics and Environmental Applications	16
Recent progress in elastic and inelastic neutron scattering for chemical, polymeric, and biological investigations	15
On the role of functionalization in graphene-moisture interaction	15
Machine learning aided nanoindentation: A review of the current state and future perspectives	15
Editorial Board	15
In situ and operando characterisation of Li metal – Solid electrolyte interfaces	15
Sluggish, chemical bias and percolation phenomena in atomic transport by vacancy and interstitial diffusion in Ni Fe alloys	15
Predictive process mapping for laser powder bed fusion: A review of existing analytical solutions	14
Machine learning for inverse design of acoustic and elastic metamaterials	14
Breaking the trade-off between thermal conductivity and strength of magnesium alloys: Mechanisms and strategies	14
High-affinity peptide biomaterials	13
Statistical mechanical modeling of glass-forming systems: A practical review considering an example calcium silicate system	12
Nanocrystal programmable assembly beyond hard spheres (or shapes) and other (simple) potentials	12
Designing biofilm architecture through depletion-mediated self-assembly and emergent nematic order	12
Proposed relaxed criteria for fusion-activated materials	11
On the oxidation of VS2 2D platelets using tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy	11
Supported catalysts for heterogeneous electro-Fenton processes: Recent trends and future directions	11
Quantum metric and correlated states in two-dimensional systems	11
Role of electronic energy loss on defect production and interface stability: Comparison between ceramic materials and high-entropy alloys	11
Helix-specific properties and applications in synthetic polypeptides	10
Footwear for piezoelectric energy harvesting: A comprehensive review on prototypes development, applications and future prospects	10

Electrochemical reactors equipped with BDD electrodes: Geometrical aspects and applications in water treatment	10
Machine learning models in phononic metamaterials	10
Editorial Board	10
Recent advances in understanding iron/steel corrosion: Mechanistic insights from molecular simulations	10