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Papers

(The median citation count of Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science is 8. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Toward high-quality graphene film growth by chemical vapor deposition system	310
Understanding how bacterial collectives organize on surfaces by tracking surfactant flow	257
Amorphous oxide semiconductors: From fundamental properties to practical applications	214
Accelerated emergence of CoNi-based medium-entropy alloys with emphasis on their mechanical properties	130
Graphene- polymer nanocomposite-based wearable strain sensors for physiological signal Monitoring: Recent progress and challenges	128
Grain refinement and morphological control of intermetallic compounds: A comprehensive review	118
Overcoming the limitations of COVID-19 diagnostics with nanostructures, nucleic acid engineering, and additive manufacturing	99
Conductive-synthetic diamond materials in meeting the sustainable development goals	99
Editorial Board	96
Editorial Board	86
Dopants and defects in ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors	74
Liquid crystalline elastomer actuators with dynamic covalent bonding: Synthesis, alignment, reprogrammability, and self-healing	66
Electric current-induced phenomena in metallic materials	61
Editorial: Special issue on solid-state battery materials, phenomena, and systems	57
Editorial Board	56
Solid state lithium metal batteries – Issues and challenges at the lithium-solid electrolyte interface	54
Interfacial energies in nanocrystalline complex oxides	51
Transport properties of dislocations in SrTiO3 and other perovskites	48
Predicting displacement damage for ion irradiation: Origin of the overestimation of vacancy production in SRIM full-cascade calculations	48
High strain rate nanoindentation testing: Recent advancements, challenges and opportunities	46
Van der Waals heterostructures based on three-dimensional topological insulators	43
History, present status, and future directions of vanadium alloys for fusion reactors	42
Recent advances in describing and driving crystal nucleation using machine learning and artificial intelligence	42
The next generation of nanoindentation and small-scale mechanical testing	38
Electrochemically generated sulfate radicals by boron doped diamond and its environmental applications	37

Review on thermal transport and lattice dynamics of high-entropy alloys containing Ni	37
Editorial Board	34
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for materials	33
Chemomechanics: Friend or foe of the “AND problem” of solid-state batteries?	33
Monolithic 3D integration as a pathway to energy-efficient computing and beyond: From materials and devices to architectures and chips	33
Critical review of the state of the art in multi-material fabrication via directed energy deposition	32
Hydriding of titanium: Recent trends and perspectives in advanced characterization and multiscale modeling	32
Rational design of high-entropy ceramics based on machine learning – A critical review	29
Editorial Board	29
From jammed solids to mechanical metamaterials : A brief review	28
Chiral photonic materials self-assembled by cellulose nanocrystals	28
Intrinsically stretchable sensory-neuromorphic system for sign language translation	27
Deformation-induced martensitic transformations: A strategy for overcoming the strength-ductility trade-off in high-entropy alloys	26
Hollow-walled lattice materials by additive manufacturing: Design, manufacture, properties, applications and challenges	25
Outstanding performances of the BDD film anode in electro-Fenton process: Applications and comparative performance	24
Recent advances in photoluminescent polymer optical fibers	24
Advancements in fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy Instrumentation: Towards high speed and 3D	23
Editorial Board	23
Sampling thermodynamic ensembles of molecular systems with generative neural networks: Will integrating physics-based models close the generalization gap?	22
From high-entropy alloys to alloys with high entropy: A new paradigm in materials science and engineering for advancing sustainable metallurgy	22
Autonomous materials research and design: Characterization	22
Advances and opportunities in high-throughput small-scale mechanical testing	22
Electrochemo-mechanical effects as a critical design factor for all-solid-state batteries	21
Editorial Board	19
Polymer derived ceramic aerogels	19
Engineering materials for artificial cells	18
Recent progress in analysis of strain-induced phenomena in irradiated metallic materials and advanced alloys using SEM-EBSD in-situ tensile testing	18
Spintronic devices as next-generation computation accelerators	18
Advancing programmable metamaterials through machine learning-driven buckling strength optimization	17
Autonomous research and development of structural materials – An introduction and vision	16
Challenges and opportunities in searching for Rashba-Dresselhaus materials for efficient spin-charge interconversion at room temperature	16
Conductive Hydrogels: Bioelectronics and Environmental Applications	15
Ferroelastic toughening: Can it solve the mechanics challenges of solid electrolytes?	15
Editorial Board	14
Sluggish, chemical bias and percolation phenomena in atomic transport by vacancy and interstitial diffusion in Ni Fe alloys	14
Machine learning aided nanoindentation: A review of the current state and future perspectives	13
In situ and operando characterisation of Li metal – Solid electrolyte interfaces	13
On the role of functionalization in graphene-moisture interaction	13
Predictive process mapping for laser powder bed fusion: A review of existing analytical solutions	12
High-affinity peptide biomaterials	11
Machine learning for inverse design of acoustic and elastic metamaterials	11
Recent progress in elastic and inelastic neutron scattering for chemical, polymeric, and biological investigations	11
Quantum metric and correlated states in two-dimensional systems	11
Statistical mechanical modeling of glass-forming systems: A practical review considering an example calcium silicate system	11
Designing biofilm architecture through depletion-mediated self-assembly and emergent nematic order	11
Nanocrystal programmable assembly beyond hard spheres (or shapes) and other (simple) potentials	10
Supported catalysts for heterogeneous electro-Fenton processes: Recent trends and future directions	10
Role of electronic energy loss on defect production and interface stability: Comparison between ceramic materials and high-entropy alloys	10
Electrochemical reactors equipped with BDD electrodes: Geometrical aspects and applications in water treatment	9
Editorial Board	9

On the oxidation of VS2 2D platelets using tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy	9
Influence of the chemical nature of Boron‐Doped diamond anodes on wastewater treatments	8
Helix-specific properties and applications in synthetic polypeptides	8
Machine learning models in phononic metamaterials	8