OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Materials Horizons is 60. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Biomimetic anti-freezing polymeric hydrogels: keeping soft-wet materials active in cold environments	255
Polydopamine antibacterial materials	248
Artificial intelligence and machine learning in design of mechanical materials	242
Bioinspired double network hydrogels: from covalent double network hydrogelsviahybrid double network hydrogels to physical double network hydrogels	236
Polyphenol scaffolds in tissue engineering	207
Catalytic methods for chemical recycling or upcycling of commercial polymers	188
Balancing the mechanical, electronic, and self-healing properties in conductive self-healing hydrogel for wearable sensor applications	180
A self-reinforcing and self-healing elastomer with high strength, unprecedented toughness and room-temperature reparability	163
Synergy between dynamic covalent boronic ester and boron–nitrogen coordination: strategy for self-healing polyurethane elastomers at room temperature with unprecedented mechanical properties	150
Metal–organic frameworks for chemical sensing devices	145
A fully hydrophobic ionogel enables highly efficient wearable underwater sensors and communicators	144
Stimulus-driven liquid metal and liquid crystal network actuators for programmable soft robotics	144
Light-driven bimorph soft actuators: design, fabrication, and properties	138
Dual emission in purely organic materials for optoelectronic applications	129
Metal–semiconductor heterostructures for surface-enhanced Raman scattering: synergistic contribution of plasmons and charge transfer	127
Recent progress and challenges in solution blow spinning	125
Mussel foot protein inspired tough tissue-selective underwater adhesive hydrogel	124
Understanding, quantifying, and controlling the molecular ordering of semiconducting polymers: from novices to experts and amorphous to perfect crystals	118
Molecular engineering of a colorless, extremely tough, superiorly self-recoverable, and healable poly(urethane–urea) elastomer for impact-resistant applications	106
Functional separators towards the suppression of lithium dendrites for rechargeable high-energy batteries	102
Breaking through the “3.0 eV wall” of energy band gap in mid-infrared nonlinear optical rare earth chalcogenides by charge-transfer engineering	98
Polymer dielectric films exhibiting superior high-temperature capacitive performance by utilizing an inorganic insulation interlayer	95
Engineered two-dimensional nanomaterials: an emerging paradigm for water purification and monitoring	93
Material innovation and mechanics design for substrates and encapsulation of flexible electronics: a review	90
Heterointerface optimization in a covalent organic framework-on-MXene for high-performance capacitive deionization of oxygenated saline water	84

Review on organosulfur materials for rechargeable lithium batteries	83
Thermally activated delayed fluorescence exciplex emitters for high-performance organic light-emitting diodes	81
Narrowband organic photodetectors – towards miniaturized, spectroscopic sensing	78
Integration of efficient microwave absorption and shielding in a multistage composite foam with progressive conductivity modular design	78
Environment tolerant, adaptable and stretchable organohydrogels: preparation, optimization, and applications	78
Design of ultra-stretchable, highly adhesive and self-healable hydrogels via tannic acid-enabled dynamic interactions	77
Nanozyme's catching up: activity, specificity, reaction conditions and reaction types	76
Synthesis and application of core–shell liquid metal particles: a perspective of surface engineering	76
Solution-processed electronics for artificial synapses	76
In situ identification of the electrocatalytic water oxidation behavior of a nickel-based metal–organic framework nanoarray	76
Flexible boron nitride-based memristor forin situdigital and analogue neuromorphic computing applications	75
An autonomously ultrafast self-healing, highly colourless, tear-resistant and compliant elastomer tailored for transparent electromagnetic interference shielding films integrated in flexible and optic	75
Integrating molecular rigidity and chirality into thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters for highly efficient sky-blue and orange circularly polarized electroluminescence	75
Approaching “stainless magnesium” by Ca micro-alloying	75
A flexible quasi-solid-state thermoelectrochemical cell with high stretchability as an energy-autonomous strain sensor	75
Magnetic skyrmions for unconventional computing	74
Sensing–transducing coupled piezoelectric textiles for self-powered humidity detection and wearable biomonitoring	74
A highly transparent ionogel with strength enhancement ability for robust bonding in an aquatic environment	74
Advanced technologies for the fabrication of MOF thin films	73
Porous bioactive glass micro- and nanospheres with controlled morphology: developments, properties and emerging biomedical applications	71
An unparalleled H-bonding and ion-bonding crosslinked waterborne polyurethane with super toughness and unprecedented fracture energy	71
Nitroxide radical polymers for emerging plastic energy storage and organic electronics: fundamentals, materials, and applications	69
An ultrastretchable, high-performance, and crosstalk-free proximity and pressure bimodal sensor based on ionic hydrogel fibers for human-machine interfaces	68
Flexible temperature sensors made of aligned electrospun carbon nanofiber films with outstanding sensitivity and selectivity towards temperature	65
Printing fabrication of large-area non-fullerene organic solar cells	65
Microscopic local stiffening in a supramolecular hydrogel network expedites stem cell mechanosensing in 3D and bone regeneration	63
Recent advances in printed flexible heaters for portable and wearable thermal management	63
Advances in ultrasensitive piezoresistive sensors: from conventional to flexible and stretchable applications	62
Toward autonomous design and synthesis of novel inorganic materials	62
Hollow-porous fibers for intrinsically thermally insulating textiles and wearable electronics with ultrahigh working sensitivity	61
Super-stretchable and extreme temperature-tolerant supramolecular-polymer double-network eutectogels with ultrafast in situ adhesion and flexible electrochromic behaviour	61
High performance polarization-sensitive self-powered imaging photodetectors based on a p-Te/n-MoSe₂van der Waals heterojunction with strong interlayer transition	61
Metal- and halide-free, solid-state polymeric water vapor sorbents for efficient water-sorption-driven cooling and atmospheric water harvesting	60
A thermally conductive interface material with tremendous and reversible surface adhesion promises durable cross-interface heat conduction	60
Nanofiber fabric based ion-gradient-enhanced moist-electric generator with a sustained voltage output of 1.1 volts	60