OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Reviews Materials is 79. 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
Lipid nanoparticles for mRNA delivery	1420
Room-temperature phosphorescence from organic aggregates	892
Bioplastics for a circular economy	711
Fundamentals, status and promise of sodium-based batteries	594
Engineering organoids	554
Tailoring inorganic–polymer composites for the mass production of solid-state batteries	480
Engineered biomaterials for in situ tissue regeneration	476
Targeted drug delivery strategies for precision medicines	450
Polymer photocatalysts for solar-to-chemical energy conversion	417
End-to-end design of wearable sensors	408
Risk assessment of microplastic particles	389
Mechanical properties and deformation mechanisms of gradient nanostructured metals and alloys	388
Solid-state nanopore sensors	375
Soft actuators for real-world applications	359
Nanofluidics for osmotic energy conversion	332
Bio-based polymers with performance-advantaged properties	321
Transforming heat transfer with thermal metamaterials and devices	309
Gas diffusion electrodes and membranes for CO2 reduction electrolysers	308
Polarons in materials	301
The marvels of moiré materials	293
Deep neural networks for the evaluation and design of photonic devices	293
Artificial channels for confined mass transport at the sub-nanometre scale	288
Non-metallic charge carriers for aqueous batteries	285
Nonreciprocity in acoustic and elastic materials	265
Production routes to tailor the performance of cellulose nanocrystals	264

Multifunctional biomolecule nanostructures for cancer therapy	253
Synthesis and alignment of liquid crystalline elastomers	253
Machine learning for alloys	250
Metallurgy, mechanistic models and machine learning in metal printing	249
Emerging applications of zeolites in catalysis, separation and host–guest assembly	246
The surface of halide perovskites from nano to bulk	246
Phase transitions in 2D materials	246
Confining isolated atoms and clusters in crystalline porous materials for catalysis	238
Molecular imaging and disease theranostics with renal-clearable optical agents	234
Designing modern aqueous batteries	232
A materials-science perspective on tackling COVID-19	230
Synthetic amorphous silica nanoparticles: toxicity, biomedical and environmental implications	229
Electrode material–ionic liquid coupling for electrochemical energy storage	228
Biomaterial-based antimicrobial therapies for the treatment of bacterial infections	226
The passivity of lithium electrodes in liquid electrolytes for secondary batteries	222
Quantum guidelines for solid-state spin defects	220
Nanoparticle synthesis assisted by machine learning	219
Colloidal quantum dot lasers	218
Analogue computing with metamaterials	217
Design of therapeutic biomaterials to control inflammation	216
Materials design by synthetic biology	214
Hydrogel interfaces for merging humans and machines	213
Engineered living biomaterials	213
Electrical doping in halide perovskites	211
Dynamical memristors for higher-complexity neuromorphic computing	208
The fundamentals and applications of ferroelectric HfO2	208
The germanium quantum information route	205
Low-dimensional wide-bandgap semiconductors for UV photodetectors	204
Advances in coherent magnonics	204
The global rise of 3D printing during the COVID-19 pandemic	203
Reducing environmental plastic pollution by designing polymer materials for managed end-of-life	203
Flexible self-charging power sources	201
Molecular engineering of contact interfaces for high-performance perovskite solar cells	196
Functional nanoparticles through π-conjugated polymer self-assembly	195
Extracellular vesicles versus synthetic nanoparticles for drug delivery	190
A reticular chemistry guide for the design of periodic solids	189
The kinetics of metal oxide photoanodes from charge generation to catalysis	185
From molecular to supramolecular electronics	184
Status and perspectives of crystalline silicon photovoltaics in research and industry	181
Transition-metal coordinate bonds for bioinspired macromolecules with tunable mechanical properties	172
The role of polymer mechanochemistry in responsive materials and additive manufacturing	167
Electronic defects in metal oxide photocatalysts	166
Anisotropic reticular chemistry	164
3D-printed multifunctional materials enabled by artificial-intelligence-assisted fabrication technologies	160
Electronic-structure methods for twisted moiré layers	160
Material properties and applications of mechanically interlocked polymers	156
Clinical translation of silica nanoparticles	155
Emerging materials intelligence ecosystems propelled by machine learning	154
Bioinspiration in light harvesting and catalysis	153
Organic batteries for a greener rechargeable world	150

Designing spatial and temporal control of vaccine responses	150
Methane transformation by photocatalysis	143
Engineered disorder in photonics	141
Fibre-based composites from the integration of metal–organic frameworks and polymers	141
Passive, active and endogenous organ-targeted lipid and polymer nanoparticles for delivery of genetic drugs	141
Defect activity in metal halide perovskites with wide and narrow bandgap	140
Collagen: quantification, biomechanics and role of minor subtypes in cartilage	139
Topological acoustics	136
Processing and application of high-temperature superconducting coated conductors	132
A roadmap for the commercialization of perovskite light emitters	131
Dynamic and reconfigurable materials from reversible network interactions	129
Soft wearable devices for deep-tissue sensing	128
Engineered platforms for topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes	123
Nanostructuring versus microstructuring in battery electrodes	121
Excitonic devices with van der Waals heterostructures: valleytronics meets twistronics	118
Anomalous Hall antiferromagnets	115
The protein corona from nanomedicine to environmental science	113
Drug delivery to the central nervous system	112
Stability challenges for the commercialization of perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells	112
Materials, physics and systems for multicaloric cooling	109
Ferroelectric domain walls for nanotechnology	108
Engineering high-coherence superconducting qubits	106
Machine learning for a sustainable energy future	105
Pushing the limit of 3d transition metal-based layered oxides that use both cation and anion redox for energy storage	105
Long-term operating stability in perovskite photovoltaics	102
Two-dimensional material inks	100
Responsive materials architected in space and time	99
Weyl, Dirac and high-fold chiral fermions in topological quantum matter	98
Electrochemical ion insertion from the atomic to the device scale	97
Exploiting the paddle-wheel mechanism for the design of fast ion conductors	96
Emerging exciton physics in transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers	95
Machine learning in combinatorial polymer chemistry	93
Highly efficient perovskite LEDs	92
Lithium-film ceramics for solid-state lithionic devices	89
Oxide spin-orbitronics: spin–charge interconversion and topological spin textures	85
The electrical conductivity of solution-processed nanosheet networks	85
Engineering the multiscale complexity of vascular networks	84
Atomically precise control in the design of low-nuclearity supported metal catalysts	83
Electrostatic gating and intercalation in 2D materials	83
Organelle-level precision with next-generation targeting technologies	82
Ferroelectric order in van der Waals layered materials	82
Total synthesis of colloidal matter	81
Mining our green future	80
Semitransparent organic photovoltaics for building-integrated photovoltaic applications	79
Increasing the size and complexity of discrete 2D metallosupramolecules	79