OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Reviews Materials is 66. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Lipid nanoparticles for mRNA delivery	1581
Bioplastics for a circular economy	820
Fundamentals, status and promise of sodium-based batteries	661
Engineering organoids	614
Tailoring inorganic–polymer composites for the mass production of solid-state batteries	543
Targeted drug delivery strategies for precision medicines	510
End-to-end design of wearable sensors	485
Risk assessment of microplastic particles	459
Polymer photocatalysts for solar-to-chemical energy conversion	454
Soft actuators for real-world applications	407
Bio-based polymers with performance-advantaged properties	366
Nanofluidics for osmotic energy conversion	362
Transforming heat transfer with thermal metamaterials and devices	348
Gas diffusion electrodes and membranes for CO2 reduction electrolysers	338
Polarons in materials	333
The marvels of moiré materials	328
Deep neural networks for the evaluation and design of photonic devices	316
Non-metallic charge carriers for aqueous batteries	308
Artificial channels for confined mass transport at the sub-nanometre scale	304
Designing modern aqueous batteries	301
Machine learning for alloys	294
Production routes to tailor the performance of cellulose nanocrystals	290
Synthesis and alignment of liquid crystalline elastomers	277
Emerging applications of zeolites in catalysis, separation and host–guest assembly	274
Multifunctional biomolecule nanostructures for cancer therapy	269

Metallurgy, mechanistic models and machine learning in metal printing	268
Phase transitions in 2D materials	267
Biomaterial-based antimicrobial therapies for the treatment of bacterial infections	261
Confining isolated atoms and clusters in crystalline porous materials for catalysis	260
Low-dimensional wide-bandgap semiconductors for UV photodetectors	256
Hydrogel interfaces for merging humans and machines	250
Molecular imaging and disease theranostics with renal-clearable optical agents	249
Engineered living biomaterials	249
The fundamentals and applications of ferroelectric HfO2	247
Molecular engineering of contact interfaces for high-performance perovskite solar cells	245
Quantum guidelines for solid-state spin defects	244
Nanoparticle synthesis assisted by machine learning	244
A materials-science perspective on tackling COVID-19	242
Design of therapeutic biomaterials to control inflammation	241
Flexible self-charging power sources	237
The passivity of lithium electrodes in liquid electrolytes for secondary batteries	236
Dynamical memristors for higher-complexity neuromorphic computing	235
Advances in coherent magnonics	235
Colloidal quantum dot lasers	234
Analogue computing with metamaterials	230
Materials design by synthetic biology	228
Reducing environmental plastic pollution by designing polymer materials for managed end-of-life	224
Electrical doping in halide perovskites	221
The germanium quantum information route	219
Functional nanoparticles through π-conjugated polymer self-assembly	216
A reticular chemistry guide for the design of periodic solids	210
The kinetics of metal oxide photoanodes from charge generation to catalysis	209
Status and perspectives of crystalline silicon photovoltaics in research and industry	209
Extracellular vesicles versus synthetic nanoparticles for drug delivery	203
Electronic defects in metal oxide photocatalysts	199
From molecular to supramolecular electronics	197
Transition-metal coordinate bonds for bioinspired macromolecules with tunable mechanical properties	197
Material properties and applications of mechanically interlocked polymers	182
3D-printed multifunctional materials enabled by artificial-intelligence-assisted fabrication technologies	179
Organic batteries for a greener rechargeable world	179
The role of polymer mechanochemistry in responsive materials and additive manufacturing	176
Passive, active and endogenous organ-targeted lipid and polymer nanoparticles for delivery of genetic drugs	173
Emerging materials intelligence ecosystems propelled by machine learning	172
Methane transformation by photocatalysis	170
A roadmap for the commercialization of perovskite light emitters	170
Clinical translation of silica nanoparticles	169
Designing spatial and temporal control of vaccine responses	162
Fibre-based composites from the integration of metal–organic frameworks and polymers	161
Long-term operating stability in perovskite photovoltaics	161
Defect activity in metal halide perovskites with wide and narrow bandgap	160
Topological acoustics	157
Engineered disorder in photonics	154
The protein corona from nanomedicine to environmental science	152
Dynamic and reconfigurable materials from reversible network interactions	151
Processing and application of high-temperature superconducting coated conductors	150

Stability challenges for the commercialization of perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells	149
Engineered platforms for topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes	146
Soft wearable devices for deep-tissue sensing	144
Excitonic devices with van der Waals heterostructures: valleytronics meets twistronics	143
Nanostructuring versus microstructuring in battery electrodes	134
Materials, physics and systems for multicaloric cooling	133
Anomalous Hall antiferromagnets	132
Pushing the limit of 3d transition metal-based layered oxides that use both cation and anion redox for energy storage	132
Machine learning for a sustainable energy future	129
Drug delivery to the central nervous system	129
Ferroelectric domain walls for nanotechnology	123
Engineering high-coherence superconducting qubits	122
Emerging exciton physics in transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers	119
Two-dimensional material inks	115
Responsive materials architected in space and time	114
Electrochemical ion insertion from the atomic to the device scale	108
Exploiting the paddle-wheel mechanism for the design of fast ion conductors	108
Weyl, Dirac and high-fold chiral fermions in topological quantum matter	106
Machine learning in combinatorial polymer chemistry	102
Highly efficient perovskite LEDs	102
Ferroelectric order in van der Waals layered materials	101
Engineering the multiscale complexity of vascular networks	98
Semitransparent organic photovoltaics for building-integrated photovoltaic applications	97
The electrical conductivity of solution-processed nanosheet networks	95
Lithium-film ceramics for solid-state lithionic devices	94
Oxide spin-orbitronics: spin–charge interconversion and topological spin textures	92
Organelle-level precision with next-generation targeting technologies	91
Electrostatic gating and intercalation in 2D materials	90
Mining our green future	88
Total synthesis of colloidal matter	88
Understanding ligand-protected noble metal nanoclusters at work	87
Atomically precise control in the design of low-nuclearity supported metal catalysts	86
Recycling of sodium-ion batteries	85
Innovations to decarbonize materials industries	85
Increasing the size and complexity of discrete 2D metallosupramolecules	85
Topological materials discovery from crystal symmetry	85
Electrified water treatment: fundamentals and roles of electrode materials	80
Clinical translation of long-acting drug delivery formulations	79
Integrating plant molecular farming and materials research for next-generation vaccines	79
Hydration-induced reversible deformation of biological materials	78
Plasma pyrolysis for a sustainable hydrogen economy	76
Let’s talk about lipid nanoparticles	76
Photonic van der Waals integration from 2D materials to 3D nanomembranes	73
3D-printed PEDOT:PSS for soft robotics	70
Autonomous materials systems from active liquid crystals	70
Materials for extreme environments	69
In situ self-assembly for cancer therapy and imaging	66
Functionalizing DNA origami to investigate and interact with biological systems	66