OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Materials is 113. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Materials with agency	1846
Squeezing out power	518
Renaissance revisited	510
Stable microbial–material combinations for therapeutic applications	489
Tracking the irreversible light-induced creation of extended polar order from disorder	478
Do surfaces hold the key to COVID clots?	442
Composites from photo-stereochemical patterning	439
Bending the rules	436
Double-sided van der Waals epitaxy of topological insulators across an atomically thin membrane	433
All-perovskite tandem solar cells achieving >29% efficiency with improved (100) orientation in wide-bandgap perovskites	374
Double-sided van der Waals epitaxy across an atomic layer	324
Electroreduction-driven distorted nanotwins activate pure Cu for efficient hydrogen evolution	323
A mixed legacy	317
Stacks on stacks on stacks	316
Prodding the quantum spin liquid	311
Smart materials make smarter circuits	302
Painting the town	294
Moiré beyond van der Waals	281
Near-ideal in-memory sensing and computing devices using ferroelectrics	274
Orthogonal electric fields turn on and turn off symmetry in BiFeO3 superlattices	274
A strategy for obtaining AlN heteroepitaxial films with high crystalline quality	271
Deforming brittle materials	263
Setting stable catalysts	262
Cubic boron arsenide under pressure	261
Keeping ice at bay	255

Uncovering the flow of metallic glass	254
Still going strong	248
Experimental organs	224
Bending the rules, naturally	222
New horizons in spintronics	216
When the roof falls in	209
A cryogenic memristor	200
Magnetically confined surface and bulk excitons in a layered antiferromagnet	198
Controlling Coulomb correlations and fine structure of quasi-one-dimensional excitons by magnetic order	197
Layers split and zip for phase transition	195
Drift-free iontronic sensing enabled by a creep-free polyelectrolyte elastomer	191
Graphene rolls with tunable chirality	191
Into the attosecond era	191
Improving both performance and stability of n-type organic semiconductors by vitamin C	187
Caution on trace impurities	187
Trust but verify	187
Trace removal of benzene vapour using double-walled metal–dipyrazolate frameworks	185
Tuning colour centres at a twisted hexagonal boron nitride interface	184
Cationic polymer-in-salt electrolytes for fast metal ion conduction and solid-state battery applications	183
Soft materials evolution and revolution	179
Fast water transport and molecular sieving through ultrathin ordered conjugated-polymer-framework membranes	175
Mechanical checkpoint regulates monocyte differentiation in fibrotic niches	175
Picturing charge carrier diffusion	171
Active tissue adhesive activates mechanosensors and prevents muscle atrophy	171
Manipulating the insulator–metal transition through tip-induced hydrogenation	169
Non-iridium-based electrocatalyst for durable acidic oxygen evolution reaction in proton exchange membrane water electrolysis	168
Hierarchically engineered nanostructures from compositionally anisotropic molecular building blocks	168
Neighbours in charge	168
Molecular electronics go synaptic	166
Giant magnon spin conductivity in ultrathin yttrium iron garnet films	166
Making smarter materials	164
A data-science approach to predict the heat capacity of nanoporous materials	162
Dual-density waves with neutral and charged dipolar excitons of GaAs bilayers	161
Unperceivable motion mimicking hygroscopic geometric reshaping of pine cones	160
Asymmetry in the magnetic neighbourhood	159
Inhibiting collective cation migration in Li-rich cathode materials as a strategy to mitigate voltage hysteresis	159
The Wulff construction goes low-symmetry	159
Ultrafast plasmonics shapes electron beams	157
Mechanics of the cellular microenvironment as probed by cells in vivo during zebrafish presomitic mesoderm differentiation	154
A multiscale ion diffusion framework sheds light on the diffusion–stability–hysteresis nexus in metal halide perovskites	153
Tunnelling electrons locally ignite excitons	153
Hydrogels for RNA delivery	152
The role of the electrolyte in non-conjugated radical polymers for metal-free aqueous energy storage electrodes	151
Unlocked sieving potential	151
Artificial neuron transmits chemical signals	151
Eliminating lattice defects in metal–organic framework molecular-sieving membranes	149
Tip-induced excitonic luminescence nanoscopy of an atomically resolved van der Waals heterostructure	149
Imaging the strain evolution of a platinum nanoparticle under electrochemical control	147
Electrons lighter than ever	145
A magnetic field for each electron	143

Low-oxidation-state Ru sites stabilized in carbon-doped RuO2 with low-temperature CO2 activation to yield methane	142
Spin-valley Rashba monolayer laser	140
Extra electron reflections in concentrated alloys do not necessitate short-range order	140
Photo-expansion microscopy enables super-resolution imaging of cells embedded in 3D hydrogels	139
Electric-field-induced colour switching in colloidal quantum dot molecules at room temperature	139
Single-molecule photoelectron tunnelling spectroscopy	139
Metamaterial adhesives for programmable adhesion through reverse crack propagation	137
3D printable high-performance conducting polymer hydrogel for all-hydrogel bioelectronic interfaces	136
Revisiting point defects in ionic solids and semiconductors	135
Sustainable electronic textiles towards scalable commercialization	134
Sequencing polymers to enable solid-state lithium batteries	134
Electro-thermal actuation in percolative ferroelectric polymer nanocomposites	134
Genetically encoded protein crystals by hierarchical design	128
Magneto-acoustic protein nanostructures for non-invasive imaging of tissue mechanics in vivo	128
Hybrid dielectrics for two-dimensional electronics	128
Precise control over gas-transporting channels in zeolitic imidazolate framework glasses	127
Optimizing hierarchical membrane/catalyst systems for oxidative coupling of methane using additive manufacturing	127
Electrostatic moiré potential from twisted hexagonal boron nitride layers	125
Stop scamming PhD graduates	124
Large-scale optical characterization of solid-state quantum emitters	124
Nanoconfined polymerization limits crack propagation in hysteresis-free gels	124
Quadrupolar excitons take the stage	121
Multislip-enabled morphing of all-inorganic perovskites	120
Taming CAR T cell therapy toxicity	120
Observation of quadrupolar and dipolar excitons in a semiconductor heterotrilayer	120
Percolation-induced gel–gel phase separation in a dilute polymer network	119
Thermal multiferroics in all-inorganic quasi-two-dimensional halide perovskites	119
Terahertz parametric amplification as a reporter of exciton condensate dynamics	119
Localized high-concentration electrolytes get more localized through micelle-like structures	118
Thermoelectric measurements	118
High-temperature Josephson diode	117
Resistance to fatigue	117
Potential and challenges of computing with molecular materials	117
A noticeable absence	116
Electric-field-induced multiferroic topological solitons	114
Uncovering the predictive pathways of lithium and sodium interchange in layered oxides	113
Publisher Correction: General room-temperature Suzuki–Miyaura polymerization for organic electronics	113
Angle-resolved transport non-reciprocity and spontaneous symmetry breaking in twisted trilayer graphene	113
Suppression of Dexter transfer by covalent encapsulation for efficient matrix-free narrowband deep blue hyperfluorescent OLEDs	113