OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Materials Chemistry A is 108. 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
A review on the recent advances in hybrid supercapacitors	599
Recent advances in transition-metal-sulfide-based bifunctional electrocatalysts for overall water splitting	400
High-performance lead-free bulk ceramics for electrical energy storage applications: design strategies and challenges	376
C-, N-Vacancy defect engineered polymeric carbon nitride towards photocatalysis: viewpoints and challenges	351
Recent progress of high-entropy materials for energy storage and conversion	336
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) beyond crystallinity: amorphous MOFs, MOF liquids and MOF glasses	313
High-entropy alloys: emerging materials for advanced functional applications	272
Recent advances in highly active nanostructured NiFe LDH catalyst for electrochemical water splitting	270
A vast exploration of improvising synthetic strategies for enhancing the OER kinetics of LDH structures: a review	253
Advanced research trends in dye-sensitized solar cells	239
Recent progress in ammonia fuel cells and their potential applications	228
Mo₂B₂ MBene-supported single-atom catalysts as bifunctional HER/OER and OER/ORR electrocatalysts	225
Ti₃C₂T_x MXene for electrode materials of supercapacitors	225
Advances in noble metal (Ru, Rh, and Ir) doping for boosting water splitting electrocatalysis	212
Advances in electromagnetic shielding properties of composite foams	212
Chemical supercapacitors: a review focusing on metallic compounds and conducting polymers	210
Cyclic stability of supercapacitors: materials, energy storage mechanism, test methods, and device	207
Inverse desert beetle-like ZIF-8/PAN composite nanofibrous membrane for highly efficient separation of oil-in-water emulsions	207
Deeply reconstructed hierarchical and defective NiOOH/FeOOH nanoboxes with accelerated kinetics for the oxygen evolution reaction	202
Recent advances in cellulose-based piezoelectric and triboelectric nanogenerators for energy harvesting: a review	202
Recent progress in the development of biomass-derived nitrogen-doped porous carbon	202
Electrostatically self-assembled two-dimensional magnetized MXene/hollow Fe₃O₄ nanoparticle hybrids with high electromagnetic absorption performance and improved impendence match	197
Tin oxide for optoelectronic, photovoltaic and energy storage devices: a review	193
Recent progress in self-healing polymers and hydrogels based on reversible dynamic B–O bonds: boronic/boronate esters, borax, and benzoxaborole	191
High-performance gas sensor array for indoor air quality monitoring: the role of Au nanoparticles on WO₃, SnO₂, and NiO-based gas sensors	186

Strategies of modifying spiro-OMeTAD materials for perovskite solar cells: a review	186
A-site perovskite oxides: an emerging functional material for electrocatalysis and photocatalysis	179
Advances in pseudocapacitive and battery-like electrode materials for high performance supercapacitors	177
Multifunctional organic ammonium salt-modified SnO₂nanoparticles toward efficient and stable planar perovskite solar cells	175
Integrated transition metal and compounds with carbon nanomaterials for electrochemical water splitting	175
High-efficiency overall alkaline seawater splitting: using a nickel–iron sulfide nanosheet array as a bifunctional electrocatalyst	171
Recent advances in layered Ln₂NiO_4+δnickelates: fundamentals and prospects of their applications in protonic ceramic fuel and electrolysis cells	169
Oxygen vacancies in a catalyst for VOCs oxidation: synthesis, characterization, and catalytic effects	169
Synthesis of core–shell Co@S-doped carbon@ mesoporous N-doped carbon nanosheets with a hierarchically porous structure for strong electromagnetic wave absorption	165
Performance of metal–organic frameworks in the electrochemical sensing of environmental pollutants	162
A time and resource efficient machine learning assisted design of non-fullerene small molecule acceptors for P3HT-based organic solar cells and green solvent selection	160
Coordination tunes the activity and selectivity of the nitrogen reduction reaction on single-atom iron catalysts: a computational study	159
All-solid-state direct Z-scheme NiTiO₃/Cd_0.5Zn_0.5S heterostructures for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution with visible light	158
Interface engineering of transitional metal sulfide–MoS₂ heterostructure composites as effective electrocatalysts for water-splitting	155
Gd-induced electronic structure engineering of a NiFe-layered double hydroxide for efficient oxygen evolution	154
Recent progress of MXenes and MXene-based nanomaterials for the electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction	151
Recent advances in photocatalytic degradation of plastics and plastic-derived chemicals	151
Defective/graphitic synergy in a heteroatom-interlinked-triggered metal-free electrocatalyst for high-performance rechargeable zinc–air batteries	150
Uniform and dendrite-free zinc deposition enabled by in situ formed AgZn₃ for the zinc metal anode	149
Recent advances in engineered metal oxide nanostructures for supercapacitor applications: experimental and theoretical aspects	149
Electrochemical integration of amorphous NiFe (oxy)hydroxides on surface-activated carbon fibers for high-efficiency oxygen evolution in alkaline anion exchange membrane water electrolysis	146
Current research situation and future prospect of superwetting smart oil/water separation materials	146
Electrospinning nanofibers and nanomembranes for oil/water separation	146
Commercialisation of high energy density sodium-ion batteries: Faradion's journey and outlook	146
Liquid metal-created macroporous composite hydrogels with self-healing ability and multiple sensations as artificial flexible sensors	145
Seawater electrocatalysis: activity and selectivity	141
Machine learning and molecular dynamics simulation-assisted evolutionary design and discovery pipeline to screen efficient small molecule acceptors for PTB7-Th-based organic solar cells with over 15%	141
Rationally designed hierarchical N-doped carbon nanotubes wrapping waxberry-like Ni@C microspheres for efficient microwave absorption	139
Tuning the intrinsic catalytic activities of oxygen-evolution catalysts by doping: a comprehensive review	139
A scalable and thin film approach for solar hydrogen generation: a review on enhanced photocatalytic water splitting	139
Artemisinin-passivated mixed-cation perovskite films for durable flexible perovskite solar cells with over 21% efficiency	138
Recent advances of hydrogel electrolytes in flexible energy storage devices	137
Revisiting the MIL-101 metal–organic framework: design, synthesis, modifications, advances, and recent applications	137
Engineering defects in 2D g-C₃N₄ for wideband, efficient electromagnetic absorption at elevated temperature	136
Recent advancement of biomass-derived porous carbon based materials for energy and environmental remediation applications	136
Self-aggregating cationic-chains enable alkaline stable ion-conducting channels for anion-exchange membrane fuel cells	135
Photoelectrochemical reduction of N₂ to NH₃ under ambient conditions through hierarchical MoSe₂@g-C₃N₄ heterojunctions	135
A novel Bi₂S₃/KTa_0.75Nb_0.25O₃nanocomposite with high efficiency for photocatalytic and piezocatalytic N₂fixation	135
Design of hollow carbon-based materials derived from metal–organic frameworks for electrocatalysis and electrochemical energy storage	134
Recent progress in organic solar cells based on non-fullerene acceptors: materials to devices	134
In situ nanoarchitecturing of conjugated polyamide network-derived carbon cathodes toward high energy-power Zn-ion capacitors	129
High-entropy effect of a metal phosphide on enhanced overall water splitting performance	126
Recent progress on the synthesis and oxygen reduction applications of Fe-based single-atom and double-atom catalysts	124
The role of electrode wettability in electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide	124
Constructing a hollow microflower-like ZnS/CuS@C heterojunction as an effective ion-transport booster for an ultrastable and high-rate sodium storage anode	124
Chemical etching induced microporous nickel backbones decorated with metallic Fe@hydroxide nanocatalysts: an efficient and sustainable OER anode toward industrial alkaline water-splitting	123
Recent progress in aqueous zinc-ion batteries: a deep insight into zinc metal anodes	121
Vanadium-based cathodes for aqueous zinc-ion batteries: from crystal structures, diffusion channels to storage mechanisms	120
Well-defined Cu₂O photocatalysts for solar fuels and chemicals	120
Ti₃C₂MXene–polymer nanocomposites and their applications	119

Innovative salt-blocking technologies of photothermal materials in solar-driven interfacial desalination	119
Progress and perspective of metal phosphide/carbon heterostructure anodes for rechargeable ion batteries	118
Fluoride ion batteries – past, present, and future	118
Pt-on-Pd bimetallic nanodendrites stereoassembled on MXene nanosheets for use as high-efficiency electrocatalysts toward the methanol oxidation reaction	118
Steering the behavior of photogenerated carriers in semiconductor photocatalysts: a new insight and perspective	118
Cu clusters/TiO_2−x with abundant oxygen vacancies for enhanced electrocatalytic nitrate reduction to ammonia	117
Efficient single-atom Ni for catalytic transfer hydrogenation of furfural to furfuryl alcohol	117
The electronic structure of transition metal oxides for oxygen evolution reaction	116
Electrocatalytic hydrogen peroxide production in acidic media enabled by NiS₂ nanosheets	116
Review on carbonaceous materials as persulfate activators: structure–performance relationship, mechanism and future perspectives on water treatment	116
Unravelling the origin of bifunctional OER/ORR activity for single-atom catalysts supported on C₂N by DFT and machine learning	115
Catalysts for CO₂reforming of CH₄: a review	115
Highly tough, freezing-tolerant, healable and thermoplastic starch/poly(vinyl alcohol) organohydrogels for flexible electronic devices	114
An ultralow-temperature aqueous zinc-ion battery	114
A cation selective separator induced cathode protective layer and regulated zinc deposition for zinc ion batteries	113
Janus biocomposite aerogels constituted of cellulose nanofibrils and MXenes for application as single-module solar-driven interfacial evaporators	113
Two-dimensional transition metal phosphorous trichalcogenides (MPX₃): a review on emerging trends, current state and future perspectives	113
Hybrid layered double hydroxides as multifunctional nanomaterials for overall water splitting and supercapacitor applications	113
Semitransparent organic solar cells exhibiting 13.02% efficiency and 20.2% average visible transmittance	112
Boosting oxygen evolution activity of NiFe-LDH using oxygen vacancies and morphological engineering	112
3D self-supported porous vanadium-doped nickel nitride nanosheet arrays as efficient bifunctional electrocatalysts for urea electrolysis	111
Electrode materials and device architecture strategies for flexible supercapacitors in wearable energy storage	111
A branch-like Mo-doped Ni₃S₂ nanoforest as a high-efficiency and durable catalyst for overall urea electrolysis	111
Amorphization engineered VSe_2−x nanosheets with abundant Se-vacancies for enhanced N₂ electroreduction	111
H₂-production and electron-transfer mechanism of a noble-metal-free WO₃@ZnIn₂S₄ S-scheme heterojunction photocatalyst	111
Nanoboxes endow non-noble-metal-based electrocatalysts with high efficiency for overall water splitting	111
Co₃O₄@PEI/Ti₃C₂T_x MXene nanocomposites for a highly sensitive NO_x gas sensor with a low detection limit	110
Superaerophobic/superhydrophilic surfaces as advanced electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction: a comprehensive review	110
Self-healing polyurethane with high strength and toughness based on a dynamic chemical strategy	109
Atomic defects in pothole-rich two-dimensional copper nanoplates triggering enhanced electrocatalytic selective nitrate-to-ammonia transformation	109
A highly stretchable strain sensor with both an ultralow detection limit and an ultrawide sensing range	109
Advances in self-powered triboelectric pressure sensors	108
The facile oil-phase synthesis of a multi-site synergistic high-entropy alloy to promote the alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction	108
Orienting Z scheme charge transfer in graphitic carbon nitride-based systems for photocatalytic energy and environmental applications	108
Recent advances in 2D MXenes: preparation, intercalation and applications in flexible devices	108