OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Chemical Reviews is 100. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Deep Eutectic Solvents: A Review of Fundamentals and Applications	1682
Promises and Challenges of Next-Generation “Beyond Li-ion” Batteries for Electric Vehicles and Grid Decarbonization	954
Recent Strategies to Develop Innovative Photosensitizers for Enhanced Photodynamic Therapy	901
Metallaphotoredox: The Merger of Photoredox and Transition Metal Catalysis	882
Metal–Organic Framework-Based Hierarchically Porous Materials: Synthesis and Applications	830
Dynamic Covalent Polymer Networks: A Molecular Platform for Designing Functions beyond Chemical Recycling and Self-Healing	767
Electroceramics for High-Energy Density Capacitors: Current Status and Future Perspectives	750
Machine Learning Force Fields	684
Advanced Electrocatalysts with Single-Metal-Atom Active Sites	654
Borates: A Rich Source for Optical Materials	646
The 2D Halide Perovskite Rulebook: How the Spacer Influences Everything from the Structure to Optoelectronic Device Efficiency	629
Direct Photocatalyzed Hydrogen Atom Transfer (HAT) for Aliphatic C–H Bonds Elaboration	625
Rechargeable Batteries for Grid Scale Energy Storage	623
Recent Advances in Catalytic Asymmetric Construction of Atropisomers	613
Soft Materials by Design: Unconventional Polymer Networks Give Extreme Properties	598
Cooperative Coupling of Oxidative Organic Synthesis and Hydrogen Production over Semiconductor-Based Photocatalysts	564
Translational Applications of Hydrogels	559
Two-Dimensional Metal-Organic Framework Materials: Synthesis, Structures, Properties and Applications	552
Photoredox-Catalyzed C–H Functionalization Reactions	529
Gaussian Process Regression for Materials and Molecules	518
Power of Infrared and Raman Spectroscopies to Characterize Metal-Organic Frameworks and Investigate Their Interaction with Guest Molecules	508
Renewed Prospects for Organic Photovoltaics	490
Rare-Earth Doping in Nanostructured Inorganic Materials	481
Biomedicine Meets Fenton Chemistry	480
From Materials to Cell: State-of-the-Art and Prospective Technologies for Lithium-Ion Battery Electrode Processing	469

Lithium Metal Anodes with Nonaqueous Electrolytes	465
Amyloid Oligomers: A Joint Experimental/Computational Perspective on Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Type II Diabetes, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis	460
Magnetically Driven Micro and Nanorobots	451
Metal–Organic Framework-Based Enzyme Biocomposites	448
Visible Light-Induced Transition Metal Catalysis	445
Chemical Analysis of Microplastics and Nanoplastics: Challenges, Advanced Methods, and Perspectives	436
Electronic Textiles for Wearable Point-of-Care Systems	422
Technological Innovations in Photochemistry for Organic Synthesis: Flow Chemistry, High-Throughput Experimentation, Scale-up, and Photoelectrochemistry	416
Photothermal Nanomaterials: A Powerful Light-to-Heat Converter	414
Chiroptical Properties of Symmetric Double, Triple, and Multiple Helicenes	401
Liquid Crystals: Versatile Self-Organized Smart Soft Materials	395
Polymeric Tissue Adhesives	386
Four Generations of High-Dimensional Neural Network Potentials	378
Combining Machine Learning and Computational Chemistry for Predictive Insights Into Chemical Systems	377
Aptamer-Based Detection of Circulating Targets for Precision Medicine	373
Magnetic Soft Materials and Robots	369
Magnetic Skyrmion Materials	366
Design and Applications of Water-Soluble Coordination Cages	358
Recent Advances in Enantioselective Pd-Catalyzed Allylic Substitution: From Design to Applications	357
Optical Sensing and Imaging of pH Values: Spectroscopies, Materials, and Applications	351
Recent Advances in Heterocyclic Nanographenes and Other Polycyclic Heteroaromatic Compounds	351
Structural Transformation of Heterogeneous Materials for Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction	346
Non-Noble Plasmonic Metal-Based Photocatalysts	339
Microfluidic Paper-Based Analytical Devices: From Design to Applications	338
Supramolecular Adhesive Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering Applications	338
Gold Nanorods: The Most Versatile Plasmonic Nanoparticles	326
Recent Progress and Future Prospects on All-Organic Polymer Dielectrics for Energy Storage Capacitors	324
Transition-Metal-Catalyzed, Coordination-Assisted Functionalization of Nonactivated C(sp³)–H Bonds	318
Anion-Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers	314
Fe(II) Redox Chemistry in the Environment	313
Homogeneous Catalysis for Sustainable Energy: Hydrogen and Methanol Economies, Fuels from Biomass, and Related Topics	313
Directed Evolution: Methodologies and Applications	309
Self-Healing Injectable Hydrogels for Tissue Regeneration	305
Contact Electrification at the Liquid–Solid Interface	303
2D Heterostructures for Ubiquitous Electronics and Optoelectronics: Principles, Opportunities, and Challenges	302
Lipids and Lipid Derivatives for RNA Delivery	302
Toolbox for Distal C–H Bond Functionalizations in Organic Molecules	302
Physics-Inspired Structural Representations for Molecules and Materials	298
Versatile Types of Inorganic/Organic NIR-IIa/IIb Fluorophores: From Strategic Design toward Molecular Imaging and Theranostics	297
The Use of Alternative Strategies for Enhanced Nanoparticle Delivery to Solid Tumors	296
Understanding the Electric Double-Layer Structure, Capacitance, and Charging Dynamics	294
Emerging Electrochromic Materials and Devices for Future Displays	291
Applications of Halogen-Atom Transfer (XAT) for the Generation of Carbon Radicals in Synthetic Photochemistry and Photocatalysis	289
Chemically Modified Biopolymers for the Formation of Biomedical Hydrogels	284
Photons or Electrons? A Critical Comparison of Electrochemistry and Photoredox Catalysis for Organic Synthesis	282
Photochemical and Electrochemical Applications of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Organic Synthesis	281
Electrocatalysis in Alkaline Media and Alkaline Membrane-Based Energy Technologies	281
Recent Developments for the Deuterium and Tritium Labeling of Organic Molecules	276
Cu(I)-Catalyzed Click Chemistry in Glycoscience and Their Diverse Applications	269
Chiral Metal–Organic Frameworks	266

Strategic Use of Visible-Light Photoredox Catalysis in Natural Product Synthesis	264
Structures and General Transport Mechanisms by the Major Facilitator Superfamily (MFS)	257
Chemical Aspects of Human and Environmental Overload with Fluorine	257
Computational Methods in Heterogeneous Catalysis	254
Understanding the Effect of Water on CO₂ Adsorption	251
Enantioselective Photochemical Reactions Enabled by Triplet Energy Transfer	250
Synergistic Dual Transition Metal Catalysis	250
Light in Gold Catalysis	250
Crystal Engineering of Pharmaceutical Cocrystals in the Discovery and Development of Improved Drugs	249
o-Silylaryl Triflates: A Journey of Kobayashi Aryne Precursors	248
Smart Materials for Microrobots	248
Zeolites in Adsorption Processes: State of the Art and Future Prospects	248
Evolutionary Generation of Phosphor Materials and Their Progress in Future Applications for Light-Emitting Diodes	246
Photon Upconversion for Photovoltaics and Photocatalysis: A Critical Review	244
Colloidal Self-Assembly Approaches to Smart Nanostructured Materials	244
Advances in theE → ZIsomerization of Alkenes Using Small Molecule Photocatalysts	244
Natural Biopolymer-Based Biocompatible Conductors for Stretchable Bioelectronics	241
Microkinetic Modeling: A Tool for Rational Catalyst Design	241
Alkoxy Radicals See the Light: New Paradigms of Photochemical Synthesis	241
Zwitterionic Biomaterials	241
Gold-Catalyzed Reactions of Specially Activated Alkynes, Allenes, and Alkenes	240
Machine Learning for Electronically Excited States of Molecules	239
Unconventional Thermoelectric Materials for Energy Harvesting and Sensing Applications	235
CO₂ Capture at Medium to High Temperature Using Solid Oxide-Based Sorbents: Fundamental Aspects, Mechanistic Insights, and Recent Advances	232
Chiral Photocatalyst Structures in Asymmetric Photochemical Synthesis	231
Impedance Analysis of Electrochemical Systems	230
Photocatalysis in the Life Science Industry	230
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Click-Chemistry with Nucleic Acids	229
Advances on the Merger of Electrochemistry and Transition Metal Catalysis for Organic Synthesis	228
Molecular Probes, Chemosensors, and Nanosensors for Optical Detection of Biorelevant Molecules and Ions in Aqueous Media and Biofluids	228
Anticatalytic Strategies to Suppress Water Electrolysis in Aqueous Batteries	228
Recent Advances in the Enantioselective Synthesis of Chiral Amines via Transition Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation	227
Green Chemistry in the Synthesis of Pharmaceuticals	226
Biological Utility of Fluorinated Compounds: from Materials Design to Molecular Imaging, Therapeutics and Environmental Remediation	226
High-Resolution Native Mass Spectrometry	226
HFIP in Organic Synthesis	224
Enantioselective Formation of Quaternary Centers by Allylic Alkylation with First-Row Transition-Metal Catalysts	223
Oxide–Zeolite-Based Composite Catalyst Concept That Enables Syngas Chemistry beyond Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis	223
Photocatalytic Late-Stage C–H Functionalization	222
Strategies to Generate Nitrogen-centered Radicals That May Rely on Photoredox Catalysis: Development in Reaction Methodology and Applications in Organic Synthesis	219
Semiconducting Polymers for Oxygen Evolution Reaction under Light Illumination	217
Photoinduced Borylation for the Synthesis of Organoboron Compounds	217
Unsupervised Learning Methods for Molecular Simulation Data	216
Divergent Gold Catalysis: Unlocking Molecular Diversity through Catalyst Control	216
Doping Approaches for Organic Semiconductors	215
Peptide-Based Supramolecular Systems Chemistry	214
Machine Learning for Chemical Reactions	214
The Past and the Future of Langmuir and Langmuir–Blodgett Films	213
Oxygen Evolution/Reduction Reaction Catalysts: From In Situ Monitoring and Reaction Mechanisms to Rational Design	212
Polymorph Evolution Mechanisms and Regulation Strategies of Lithium Metal Anode under Multiphysical Fields	209
Applying Classical, Ab Initio, and Machine-Learning Molecular Dynamics Simulations to the Liquid Electrolyte for Rechargeable Batteries	208
Structurally Dynamic Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications: Pursuing a Fine Balance between Macroscopic Stability and Microscopic Dynamics	207
Hydrogen-Bonded Supramolecular Liquid Crystal Polymers: Smart Materials with Stimuli-Responsive, Self-Healing, and Recyclable Properties	207
Free Energies of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reagents and Their Applications	206
Electrochemical Methods for Water Purification, Ion Separations, and Energy Conversion	205
Molecular Probes for Autofluorescence-Free Optical Imaging	204
Molecular Recognition in Water Using Macrocyclic Synthetic Receptors	204
Artificial Intelligence Applied to Battery Research: Hype or Reality?	204
Recent Development of Aryl Diazonium Chemistry for the Derivatization of Aromatic Compounds	202
Homogeneous Gold-Catalyzed Oxidation Reactions	202
Skin-Interfaced Wearable Sweat Sensors for Precision Medicine	202
Assembly and Applications of Macrocyclic-Confinement-Derived Supramolecular Organic Luminescent Emissions from Cucurbiturils	201
Fluorinated Pyrazoles: From Synthesis to Applications	201
Cellulose: A Review of Water Interactions, Applications in Composites, and Water Treatment	200
Metal-Catalyzed Intermolecular Hydrofunctionalization of Allenes: Easy Access to Allylic Structures via the Selective Formation of C–N, C–C, and C–O Bonds	200
First-Row d-Block Element-Catalyzed Carbon–Boron Bond Formation and Related Processes	199
Photoluminescent Nanoparticles for Chemical and Biological Analysis and Imaging	199
Ethnobotany and the Role of Plant Natural Products in Antibiotic Drug Discovery	197
Polymeric Delivery of Therapeutic Nucleic Acids	195
Machine Learning for Electrocatalyst and Photocatalyst Design and Discovery	192
Single-Atom (Iron-Based) Catalysts: Synthesis and Applications	191
Enantioselective Radical Reactions Using Chiral Catalysts	189
Interfacial Assembly and Applications of Functional Mesoporous Materials	189
Nonaqueous Rechargeable Aluminum Batteries: Progresses, Challenges, and Perspectives	188
Recent Advances in 3D Printing of Structured Materials for Adsorption and Catalysis Applications	185
Freestanding Metal–Organic Frameworks and Their Derivatives: An Emerging Platform for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion	184
Molecular Main Group Metal Hydrides	182
Recent Progress and Prospects in Catalytic Water Treatment	182
Metal Sites in Zeolites: Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalysis	182
Aliphatic Polycarbonates from Cyclic Carbonate Monomers and Their Application as Biomaterials	182

Nitrogen-Centered Radicals in Functionalization of sp² Systems: Generation, Reactivity, and Applications in Synthesis	181
Molecular Characterization of Polymer Networks	178
Noble-Metal-Free Multicomponent Nanointegration for Sustainable Energy Conversion	177
Metal Ion-Directed Functional Metal–Phenolic Materials	177
Photoinduced Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (O-ATRP): Precision Polymer Synthesis Using Organic Photoredox Catalysis	176
Two-Dimensional Polymers and Polymerizations	175
Colloidal Quantum Dots as Platforms for Quantum Information Science	174
Metal–Organic Frameworks as Photocatalysts for Solar-Driven Overall Water Splitting	174
Introduction: Click Chemistry	173
Self-Assembling Peptide EAK16 and RADA16 Nanofiber Scaffold Hydrogel	173
Review of Multifunctional Separators: Stabilizing the Cathode and the Anode for Alkali (Li, Na, and K) Metal–Sulfur and Selenium Batteries	173
Designing Sites in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Are We Reaching Selectivities Competitive With Those of Homogeneous Catalysts?	172
Materials for Smart Soft Actuator Systems	168
Intrinsically Self-Healing Polymers: From Mechanistic Insight to Current Challenges	168
Molecular Cavity for Catalysis and Formation of Metal Nanoparticles for Use in Catalysis	165
Fabrication of Biomedical Scaffolds Using Biodegradable Polymers	164
Nanochitin: Chemistry, Structure, Assembly, and Applications	162
Printable Smart Materials and Devices: Strategies and Applications	162
Impedance Spectroscopy of Metal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells from the Perspective of Equivalent Circuits	161
Carbohydrate-Based Macromolecular Biomaterials	161
Phase Change Thermal Storage Materials for Interdisciplinary Applications	160
Toward a New Era of SERS and TERS at the Nanometer Scale: From Fundamentals to Innovative Applications	160
Chiral Tridentate Ligands in Transition Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation	159
Optimization of Catalysts and Conditions in Gold(I) Catalysis—Counterion and Additive Effects	158
Coordination-Directed Self-Assembly of Functional Polynuclear Lanthanide Supramolecular Architectures	158
Metal–Organic Network-Forming Glasses	158
Immunomodulatory Biomaterials for Tissue Repair	156
Silylium Ions: From Elusive Reactive Intermediates to Potent Catalysts	156
Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Gold Catalysis for Materials Science	155
Borophene: Two-dimensional Boron Monolayer: Synthesis, Properties, and Potential Applications	155
Gold-Catalyzed Synthesis of Small Rings	155
Structural Analysis of Molecular Materials Using the Pair Distribution Function	154
Decarboxylative Halogenation of Organic Compounds	154
Metasurface-Driven Optically Variable Devices	154
Advances in Materials and Applications of Inorganic Electrides	150
Desulfonylation via Radical Process: Recent Developments in Organic Synthesis	150
Performance-Based Screening of Porous Materials for Carbon Capture	150
Beyond Platonic: How to Build Metal–Organic Polyhedra Capable of Binding Low-Symmetry, Information-Rich Molecular Cargoes	149
Vanadium Oxide: Phase Diagrams, Structures, Synthesis, and Applications	149
Oxygen Loss in Layered Oxide Cathodes for Li-Ion Batteries: Mechanisms, Effects, and Mitigation	149
Enzymes’ Power for Plastics Degradation	148
Rational Design of Photocatalysts for Controlled Polymerization: Effect of Structures on Photocatalytic Activities	148
Photoclick Chemistry: A Bright Idea	148
Confinement of Luminescent Guests in Metal–Organic Frameworks: Understanding Pathways from Synthesis and Multimodal Characterization to Potential Applications of LG@MOF Systems	147
Chemical and Biomolecular Strategies for STING Pathway Activation in Cancer Immunotherapy	147
Protein Assembly by Design	147
Transition-Metal-Catalyzed C–S, C–Se, and C–Te Bond Formations via Cross-Coupling and Atom-Economic Addition Reactions. Achievements and Challenges	146
Peptide Design and Self-assembly into Targeted Nanostructure and Functional Materials	146
Nonspecific Binding—Fundamental Concepts and Consequences for Biosensing Applications	146
Singlet Oxygen Quantum Yields in Environmental Waters	146
Cross-Linking Mass Spectrometry for Investigating Protein Conformations and Protein–Protein Interactions─A Method for All Seasons	145
Nitrogen Fixation via Splitting into Nitrido Complexes	144
Bimetallic Sites for Catalysis: From Binuclear Metal Sites to Bimetallic Nanoclusters and Nanoparticles	144
Proteostasis of Islet Amyloid Polypeptide: A Molecular Perspective of Risk Factors and Protective Strategies for Type II Diabetes	144
Advances in Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry and the Pursuit of Challenging Biological Systems	143
Nucleic Acid Tests for Clinical Translation	143
Computational Discovery of Transition-metal Complexes: From High-throughput Screening to Machine Learning	141
Porous Organic Cages	141
Phase Transitions of Associative Biomacromolecules	140
Antiperovskite Electrolytes for Solid-State Batteries	138
Pulsed Laser in Liquids Made Nanomaterials for Catalysis	138
Chemistry, Functionalization, and Applications of Recent Monoelemental Two-Dimensional Materials and Their Heterostructures	137
Shortening Synthetic Routes to Small Molecule Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Employing Biocatalytic Methods	137
Single-Atom Engineering to Ignite 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Based Catalysis: Fundamentals, Progress, and Beyond	137
Enzymes, In Vivo Biocatalysis, and Metabolic Engineering for Enabling a Circular Economy and Sustainability	136
Defining the Macromolecules of Tomorrow through Synergistic Sustainable Polymer Research	136
Polymer Semiconductors: Synthesis, Processing, and Applications	136
Photoactive Copper Complexes: Properties and Applications	135
The Biologically Relevant Coordination Chemistry of Iron and Nitric Oxide: Electronic Structure and Reactivity	134
Molecular Design Strategies toward Improvement of Charge Injection and Ionic Conduction in Organic Mixed Ionic–Electronic Conductors for Organic Electrochemical Transistors	134
Deciphering the Chameleonic Chemistry of Allenols: Breaking the Taboo of a Onetime Esoteric Functionality	133
Aryl Transfer Strategies Mediated by Photoinduced Electron Transfer	133
Differences in the Electrochemical Performance of Pt-Based Catalysts Used for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells in Liquid Half- and Full-Cells	133
Noble-Metal Nanoframes and Their Catalytic Applications	132
Deconstruction and Reassembly of Renewable Polymers and Biocolloids into Next Generation Structured Materials	132
Atomic Force Microscopy-Based Force Spectroscopy and Multiparametric Imaging of Biomolecular and Cellular Systems	131
Design of the Synergistic Rectifying Interfaces in Mott–Schottky Catalysts	131
Magnetic Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Anisotropy, and Applications	131
Orbital Effects in Solids: Basics, Recent Progress, and Opportunities	130
Toward Next Generation Lateral Flow Assays: Integration of Nanomaterials	129
How to Enter a Bacterium: Bacterial Porins and the Permeation of Antibiotics	129
Amyloid-type Protein Aggregation and Prion-like Properties of Amyloids	129
Graphene-Based Metal–Organic Framework Hybrids for Applications in Catalysis, Environmental, and Energy Technologies	128
Metallo-β-lactamases in the Age of Multidrug Resistance: From Structure and Mechanism to Evolution, Dissemination, and Inhibitor Design	128
Review: Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diodes	128
Structure, Assembly, and Function of Tripartite Efflux and Type 1 Secretion Systems in Gram-Negative Bacteria	128
The Antibiotic Resistome: A Guide for the Discovery of Natural Products as Antimicrobial Agents	127
Chemical Design of Activatable Photoacoustic Probes for Precise Biomedical Applications	127
Electron and Ion Transport in Lithium and Lithium-Ion Battery Negative and Positive Composite Electrodes	127
Click Nucleophilic Conjugate Additions to Activated Alkynes: Exploring Thiol-yne, Amino-yne, and Hydroxyl-yne Reactions from (Bio)Organic to Polymer Chemistry	126
Acyclic Twisted Amides	126
Transition-Metal-Catalyzed C–H Bond Activation for the Formation of C–C Bonds in Complex Molecules	125
Purely Covalent Molecular Cages and Containers for Guest Encapsulation	125
Introduction: Heterogeneous Single-Atom Catalysis	124
Critical Review on the Mechanisms of Fe²⁺ Regeneration in the Electro-Fenton Process: Fundamentals and Boosting Strategies	124