OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Chemical Reviews is 110. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
High-Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells	1644
Deep Eutectic Solvents: A Review of Fundamentals and Applications	1516
Advanced Thermoelectric Design: From Materials and Structures to Devices	1381
Active Materials for Aqueous Zinc Ion Batteries: Synthesis, Crystal Structure, Morphology, and Electrochemistry	1081
Promises and Challenges of Next-Generation “Beyond Li-ion” Batteries for Electric Vehicles and Grid Decarbonization	882
MOF-Based Membranes for Gas Separations	848
Recent Strategies to Develop Innovative Photosensitizers for Enhanced Photodynamic Therapy	777
Single-Atom Catalysts across the Periodic Table	773
Metallaphotoredox: The Merger of Photoredox and Transition Metal Catalysis	770
Metal–Organic Framework-Based Hierarchically Porous Materials: Synthesis and Applications	738
Hydrogels and Hydrogel-Derived Materials for Energy and Water Sustainability	729
Dynamic Covalent Polymer Networks: A Molecular Platform for Designing Functions beyond Chemical Recycling and Self-Healing	684
Electroceramics for High-Energy Density Capacitors: Current Status and Future Perspectives	666
Advanced Electrocatalysts with Single-Metal-Atom Active Sites	611
Printability and Shape Fidelity of Bioinks in 3D Bioprinting	607
Machine Learning Force Fields	601
Borates: A Rich Source for Optical Materials	591
The 2D Halide Perovskite Rulebook: How the Spacer Influences Everything from the Structure to Optoelectronic Device Efficiency	578
Recent Advances in Catalytic Asymmetric Construction of Atropisomers	564
Single-Atom Catalysts Based on the Metal–Oxide Interaction	561
Soft Materials by Design: Unconventional Polymer Networks Give Extreme Properties	544
Direct Photocatalyzed Hydrogen Atom Transfer (HAT) for Aliphatic C–H Bonds Elaboration	539
Polymer-Derived Heteroatom-Doped Porous Carbon Materials	525
Physicochemical Concepts of the Lithium Metal Anode in Solid-State Batteries	513
Translational Applications of Hydrogels	511

Two-Dimensional Metal-Organic Framework Materials: Synthesis, Structures, Properties and Applications	494
Cooperative Coupling of Oxidative Organic Synthesis and Hydrogen Production over Semiconductor-Based Photocatalysts	492
Rechargeable Batteries for Grid Scale Energy Storage	491
Chemistry, Structures, and Advanced Applications of Nanocomposites from Biorenewable Resources	489
Photoredox-Catalyzed C–H Functionalization Reactions	460
Gaussian Process Regression for Materials and Molecules	458
Biomedicine Meets Fenton Chemistry	441
Amyloid Oligomers: A Joint Experimental/Computational Perspective on Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Type II Diabetes, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis	438
Power of Infrared and Raman Spectroscopies to Characterize Metal-Organic Frameworks and Investigate Their Interaction with Guest Molecules	434
Lithium Metal Anodes with Nonaqueous Electrolytes	431
Noble-Metal Nanocrystals with Controlled Shapes for Catalytic and Electrocatalytic Applications	427
Rare-Earth Doping in Nanostructured Inorganic Materials	425
Metal–Organic Framework-Based Enzyme Biocomposites	424
From Materials to Cell: State-of-the-Art and Prospective Technologies for Lithium-Ion Battery Electrode Processing	416
In Situ/Operando Electrocatalyst Characterization by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy	411
Renewed Prospects for Organic Photovoltaics	410
Magnetically Driven Micro and Nanorobots	402
Toward Active-Site Tailoring in Heterogeneous Catalysis by Atomically Precise Metal Nanoclusters with Crystallographic Structures	397
Chemical Analysis of Microplastics and Nanoplastics: Challenges, Advanced Methods, and Perspectives	396
Theoretical Understandings of Graphene-based Metal Single-Atom Catalysts: Stability and Catalytic Performance	394
Visible Light-Induced Transition Metal Catalysis	388
Technological Innovations in Photochemistry for Organic Synthesis: Flow Chemistry, High-Throughput Experimentation, Scale-up, and Photoelectrochemistry	372
Electronic Textiles for Wearable Point-of-Care Systems	372
Chiroptical Properties of Symmetric Double, Triple, and Multiple Helicenes	370
Chiroptical Properties in Thin Films of π-Conjugated Systems	364
Hierarchically Structured Zeolites: From Design to Application	362
Quantum Algorithms for Quantum Chemistry and Quantum Materials Science	357
Surface Coordination Chemistry of Atomically Dispersed Metal Catalysts	353
Polymeric Tissue Adhesives	351
Inkjet Bioprinting of Biomaterials	350
3D Graphene Materials: From Understanding to Design and Synthesis Control	347
Liquid Crystals: Versatile Self-Organized Smart Soft Materials	347
DNA Functional Materials Assembled from Branched DNA: Design, Synthesis, and Applications	344
Magnetic Skyrmion Materials	338
Visible-to-NIR-Light Activated Release: From Small Molecules to Nanomaterials	338
Combining Machine Learning and Computational Chemistry for Predictive Insights Into Chemical Systems	337
Optical Sensing and Imaging of pH Values: Spectroscopies, Materials, and Applications	334
Aptamer-Based Detection of Circulating Targets for Precision Medicine	333
Four Generations of High-Dimensional Neural Network Potentials	332
Recent Advances in Enantioselective Pd-Catalyzed Allylic Substitution: From Design to Applications	323
Molecularly Imprinted Polymers: Antibody Mimics for Bioimaging and Therapy	321
Design and Applications of Water-Soluble Coordination Cages	321
Destruction of Metal–Organic Frameworks: Positive and Negative Aspects of Stability and Lability	316
Recent Advances in Heterocyclic Nanographenes and Other Polycyclic Heteroaromatic Compounds	315
Non-Noble Plasmonic Metal-Based Photocatalysts	311
Structural Transformation of Heterogeneous Materials for Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction	310
Microfluidic Paper-Based Analytical Devices: From Design to Applications	308
Magnetic Soft Materials and Robots	304
Noble-Metal Based Random Alloy and Intermetallic Nanocrystals: Syntheses and Applications	301
Transition-Metal-Catalyzed, Coordination-Assisted Functionalization of Nonactivated C(sp³)–H Bonds	297

Recent Progress and Future Prospects on All-Organic Polymer Dielectrics for Energy Storage Capacitors	289
Supramolecular Adhesive Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering Applications	289
Gold Nanorods: The Most Versatile Plasmonic Nanoparticles	283
Photothermal Nanomaterials: A Powerful Light-to-Heat Converter	283
Electrochemical Oxidation Induced Selective C–C Bond Cleavage	281
Generation of Alkyl Radicals: From the Tyranny of Tin to the Photon Democracy	275
Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells: From Fundamentals to Commercial Deployment	275
Fe(II) Redox Chemistry in the Environment	271
Physics-Inspired Structural Representations for Molecules and Materials	271
The Use of Alternative Strategies for Enhanced Nanoparticle Delivery to Solid Tumors	270
Decellularized Extracellular Matrix-based Bioinks for Engineering Tissue- and Organ-specific Microenvironments	270
Directed Evolution: Methodologies and Applications	270
Homogeneous Catalysis for Sustainable Energy: Hydrogen and Methanol Economies, Fuels from Biomass, and Related Topics	270
Toolbox for Distal C–H Bond Functionalizations in Organic Molecules	268
Lipids and Lipid Derivatives for RNA Delivery	265
Versatile Types of Inorganic/Organic NIR-IIa/IIb Fluorophores: From Strategic Design toward Molecular Imaging and Theranostics	264
Contact Electrification at the Liquid–Solid Interface	264
Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Reductive Amination Employing Hydrogen	260
Chemically Modified Biopolymers for the Formation of Biomedical Hydrogels	257
Nitrene Transfer and Carbene Transfer in Gold Catalysis	256
2D Heterostructures for Ubiquitous Electronics and Optoelectronics: Principles, Opportunities, and Challenges	256
Continuous Flow Upgrading of Selected C₂–C₆Platform Chemicals Derived from Biomass	255
Self-Healing Injectable Hydrogels for Tissue Regeneration	252
Fundamentals, Applications, and Future Directions of Bioelectrocatalysis	251
Anion-Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers	250
Applications of Halogen-Atom Transfer (XAT) for the Generation of Carbon Radicals in Synthetic Photochemistry and Photocatalysis	246
Understanding the Electric Double-Layer Structure, Capacitance, and Charging Dynamics	246
Photochemical and Electrochemical Applications of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Organic Synthesis	245
Electrocatalysis in Alkaline Media and Alkaline Membrane-Based Energy Technologies	245
Emerging Electrochromic Materials and Devices for Future Displays	240
Ion Dissociation in Ionic Liquids and Ionic Liquid Solutions	240
Photons or Electrons? A Critical Comparison of Electrochemistry and Photoredox Catalysis for Organic Synthesis	240
Recent Developments for the Deuterium and Tritium Labeling of Organic Molecules	238
Synergistic Dual Transition Metal Catalysis	236
Structures and General Transport Mechanisms by the Major Facilitator Superfamily (MFS)	234
Light in Gold Catalysis	234
Cu(I)-Catalyzed Click Chemistry in Glycoscience and Their Diverse Applications	232
o-Silylaryl Triflates: A Journey of Kobayashi Aryne Precursors	231
Gold-Catalyzed Reactions of Specially Activated Alkynes, Allenes, and Alkenes	231
Chemical Aspects of Human and Environmental Overload with Fluorine	229
Chiral Metal–Organic Frameworks	229
Understanding the Effect of Water on CO₂ Adsorption	229
Natural Biopolymer-Based Biocompatible Conductors for Stretchable Bioelectronics	229
Challenges and Opportunities in Cancer Drug Resistance	228
Smart Materials for Microrobots	227
Strategic Use of Visible-Light Photoredox Catalysis in Natural Product Synthesis	224
Photon Upconversion for Photovoltaics and Photocatalysis: A Critical Review	223
Machine Learning for Electronically Excited States of Molecules	223
Computational Methods in Heterogeneous Catalysis	223
Alkoxy Radicals See the Light: New Paradigms of Photochemical Synthesis	220
Enantioselective Photochemical Reactions Enabled by Triplet Energy Transfer	219
Advances in theE → ZIsomerization of Alkenes Using Small Molecule Photocatalysts	219
Microkinetic Modeling: A Tool for Rational Catalyst Design	216
Electrocatalytic Hydrogenation of Biomass-Derived Organics: A Review	214
Unconventional Thermoelectric Materials for Energy Harvesting and Sensing Applications	213
Colloidal Self-Assembly Approaches to Smart Nanostructured Materials	213
Crystal Engineering of Pharmaceutical Cocrystals in the Discovery and Development of Improved Drugs	212
Evolutionary Generation of Phosphor Materials and Their Progress in Future Applications for Light-Emitting Diodes	208
Anticatalytic Strategies to Suppress Water Electrolysis in Aqueous Batteries	208
Photocatalysis in the Life Science Industry	207
Photoinduced Borylation for the Synthesis of Organoboron Compounds	206
Impedance Analysis of Electrochemical Systems	206
Electronic Devices Using Open Framework Materials	206
Cleavage of Carbon–Carbon σ-Bonds of Four-Membered Rings	205
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Click-Chemistry with Nucleic Acids	204
Divergent Gold Catalysis: Unlocking Molecular Diversity through Catalyst Control	204
Biological Utility of Fluorinated Compounds: from Materials Design to Molecular Imaging, Therapeutics and Environmental Remediation	204
High-Resolution Native Mass Spectrometry	204
Enantioselective Formation of Quaternary Centers by Allylic Alkylation with First-Row Transition-Metal Catalysts	204
Oxide–Zeolite-Based Composite Catalyst Concept That Enables Syngas Chemistry beyond Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis	203
CO₂ Capture at Medium to High Temperature Using Solid Oxide-Based Sorbents: Fundamental Aspects, Mechanistic Insights, and Recent Advances	203
Unsupervised Learning Methods for Molecular Simulation Data	202
Chiral Photocatalyst Structures in Asymmetric Photochemical Synthesis	202
Advances on the Merger of Electrochemistry and Transition Metal Catalysis for Organic Synthesis	201
Transition Metal-Catalyzed Selective Carbon–Carbon Bond Cleavage of Vinylcyclopropanes in Cycloaddition Reactions	201
Recent Advances in the Enantioselective Synthesis of Chiral Amines via Transition Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation	200
Strategies to Generate Nitrogen-centered Radicals That May Rely on Photoredox Catalysis: Development in Reaction Methodology and Applications in Organic Synthesis	198
Zeolites in Adsorption Processes: State of the Art and Future Prospects	198
Green Chemistry in the Synthesis of Pharmaceuticals	198
Peptide-Based Supramolecular Systems Chemistry	196

Molecular Probes, Chemosensors, and Nanosensors for Optical Detection of Biorelevant Molecules and Ions in Aqueous Media and Biofluids	196
Semiconducting Polymers for Oxygen Evolution Reaction under Light Illumination	195
Machine Learning for Chemical Reactions	194
Zwitterionic Biomaterials	192
Transformations of Less-Activated Phenols and Phenol Derivatives via C–O Cleavage	192
Progress and Prospects in Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Research Beyond 2D	191
The Past and the Future of Langmuir and Langmuir–Blodgett Films	190
Molecular Probes for Autofluorescence-Free Optical Imaging	189
Hydrogen-Bonded Supramolecular Liquid Crystal Polymers: Smart Materials with Stimuli-Responsive, Self-Healing, and Recyclable Properties	187
Structurally Dynamic Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications: Pursuing a Fine Balance between Macroscopic Stability and Microscopic Dynamics	187
Photoluminescent Nanoparticles for Chemical and Biological Analysis and Imaging	187
Recent Development of Aryl Diazonium Chemistry for the Derivatization of Aromatic Compounds	186
HFIP in Organic Synthesis	186
Molecular Recognition in Water Using Macrocyclic Synthetic Receptors	185
Homogeneous Gold-Catalyzed Oxidation Reactions	185
Free Energies of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reagents and Their Applications	185
Fluorinated Pyrazoles: From Synthesis to Applications	184
Polymorph Evolution Mechanisms and Regulation Strategies of Lithium Metal Anode under Multiphysical Fields	183
Metal-Catalyzed Intermolecular Hydrofunctionalization of Allenes: Easy Access to Allylic Structures via the Selective Formation of C–N, C–C, and C–O Bonds	183
Doping Approaches for Organic Semiconductors	182
Assembly and Applications of Macrocyclic-Confinement-Derived Supramolecular Organic Luminescent Emissions from Cucurbiturils	180
Artificial Intelligence Applied to Battery Research: Hype or Reality?	180
First-Row d-Block Element-Catalyzed Carbon–Boron Bond Formation and Related Processes	180
Neural Network Potential Energy Surfaces for Small Molecules and Reactions	180
Applying Classical, Ab Initio, and Machine-Learning Molecular Dynamics Simulations to the Liquid Electrolyte for Rechargeable Batteries	180
Endohedrally Doped Cage Clusters	180
Ethnobotany and the Role of Plant Natural Products in Antibiotic Drug Discovery	177
Light-Triggered Click Chemistry	177
Selective Carbon–Carbon Bond Cleavage of Cyclopropanols	175
Catalytic Enantioselective Functionalizations of C–H Bonds by Chiral Iridium Complexes	174
Nonaqueous Rechargeable Aluminum Batteries: Progresses, Challenges, and Perspectives	174
Polymeric Delivery of Therapeutic Nucleic Acids	173
Recent Progress and Prospects in Catalytic Water Treatment	172
Recent Advances in 3D Printing of Structured Materials for Adsorption and Catalysis Applications	172
Molecular Main Group Metal Hydrides	171
Single-Atom (Iron-Based) Catalysts: Synthesis and Applications	171
Electrochemical Methods for Water Purification, Ion Separations, and Energy Conversion	171
Enantioselective Radical Reactions Using Chiral Catalysts	170
Electronic Structure Modeling of Metal–Organic Frameworks	169
Aliphatic Polycarbonates from Cyclic Carbonate Monomers and Their Application as Biomaterials	168
Noble-Metal-Free Multicomponent Nanointegration for Sustainable Energy Conversion	168
Interfacial Assembly and Applications of Functional Mesoporous Materials	168
Nonenzymatic Metabolic Reactions and Life’s Origins	168
Self-Assembling Peptide EAK16 and RADA16 Nanofiber Scaffold Hydrogel	166
Coinage-Metal-Based Cyclic Trinuclear Complexes with Metal–Metal Interactions: Theories to Experiments and Structures to Functions	163
Molecular Characterization of Polymer Networks	161
Machine Learning for Electrocatalyst and Photocatalyst Design and Discovery	160
Nitrogen-Centered Radicals in Functionalization of sp² Systems: Generation, Reactivity, and Applications in Synthesis	160
Photocatalytic Late-Stage C–H Functionalization	159
Two-Dimensional Polymers and Polymerizations	159
Freestanding Metal–Organic Frameworks and Their Derivatives: An Emerging Platform for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion	158
Recent Advances in Gold(III) Chemistry: Structure, Bonding, Reactivity, and Role in Homogeneous Catalysis	158
Review of Multifunctional Separators: Stabilizing the Cathode and the Anode for Alkali (Li, Na, and K) Metal–Sulfur and Selenium Batteries	157
Guidelines to Achieving High Selectivity for the Hydrogenation of α,β-Unsaturated Aldehydes with Bimetallic and Dilute Alloy Catalysts: A Review	157
Colloidal Quantum Dots as Platforms for Quantum Information Science	157
Atomically Dispersed Metals on Well-Defined Supports including Zeolites and Metal–Organic Frameworks: Structure, Bonding, Reactivity, and Catalysis	156
Stapled Helical Peptides Bearing Different Anchoring Residues	156
Photoinduced Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (O-ATRP): Precision Polymer Synthesis Using Organic Photoredox Catalysis	156
Introduction: Click Chemistry	152
Enzymatic Noncovalent Synthesis	152
Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Gold Catalysis for Materials Science	151
Cellulose: A Review of Water Interactions, Applications in Composites, and Water Treatment	150
Silylium Ions: From Elusive Reactive Intermediates to Potent Catalysts	150
Materials for Smart Soft Actuator Systems	150
Skin-Interfaced Wearable Sweat Sensors for Precision Medicine	149
Gold-Catalyzed Synthesis of Small Rings	149
Real-Time Time-Dependent Electronic Structure Theory	149
Carbohydrate-Based Macromolecular Biomaterials	148
Fabrication of Biomedical Scaffolds Using Biodegradable Polymers	147
Metal–Organic Network-Forming Glasses	146
Optimization of Catalysts and Conditions in Gold(I) Catalysis—Counterion and Additive Effects	145
Metal Ion-Directed Functional Metal–Phenolic Materials	144
Impedance Spectroscopy of Metal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells from the Perspective of Equivalent Circuits	144
Molecular Cavity for Catalysis and Formation of Metal Nanoparticles for Use in Catalysis	144
Designing Sites in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Are We Reaching Selectivities Competitive With Those of Homogeneous Catalysts?	143
Construction of Medium-Sized Rings by Gold Catalysis	142
Decarboxylative Halogenation of Organic Compounds	142
Advances in Materials and Applications of Inorganic Electrides	141
Metal Sites in Zeolites: Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalysis	141
Oxygen Evolution/Reduction Reaction Catalysts: From In Situ Monitoring and Reaction Mechanisms to Rational Design	140
Metallaaromatic Chemistry: History and Development	140
Mechanistic Studies of Transition-Metal-Catalyzed [2 + 2 + 2] Cycloaddition Reactions	140
Coordination-Directed Self-Assembly of Functional Polynuclear Lanthanide Supramolecular Architectures	139
Immunomodulatory Biomaterials for Tissue Repair	139
Printable Smart Materials and Devices: Strategies and Applications	138
Mechanisms of Stereodirecting Participation and Ester Migration from Near and Far in Glycosylation and Related Reactions	138
Nickel Catalyzed Olefin Oligomerization and Dimerization	138
Nanochitin: Chemistry, Structure, Assembly, and Applications	138
1,2-Migrations onto Gold Carbene Centers	138
Chiral Tridentate Ligands in Transition Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation	137
Nitrogen Fixation via Splitting into Nitrido Complexes	137
Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Drug-Target Binding by Molecular Simulation	137
Desulfonylation via Radical Process: Recent Developments in Organic Synthesis	136
Creating Stereocenters within Acyclic Systems by C–C Bond Cleavage of Cyclopropanes	136
Rational Design of Photocatalysts for Controlled Polymerization: Effect of Structures on Photocatalytic Activities	136