OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Reviews Materials is 69. 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Lipid nanoparticles for mRNA delivery	1536
Bioplastics for a circular economy	796
Fundamentals, status and promise of sodium-based batteries	642
Engineering organoids	606
Tailoring inorganic–polymer composites for the mass production of solid-state batteries	521
Targeted drug delivery strategies for precision medicines	495
End-to-end design of wearable sensors	467
Polymer photocatalysts for solar-to-chemical energy conversion	444
Risk assessment of microplastic particles	440
Soft actuators for real-world applications	396
Solid-state nanopore sensors	395
Bio-based polymers with performance-advantaged properties	356
Nanofluidics for osmotic energy conversion	354
Transforming heat transfer with thermal metamaterials and devices	340
Gas diffusion electrodes and membranes for CO2 reduction electrolysers	333
Polarons in materials	326
The marvels of moiré materials	316
Deep neural networks for the evaluation and design of photonic devices	307
Non-metallic charge carriers for aqueous batteries	304
Artificial channels for confined mass transport at the sub-nanometre scale	299
Machine learning for alloys	283
Production routes to tailor the performance of cellulose nanocrystals	283
Designing modern aqueous batteries	282
Synthesis and alignment of liquid crystalline elastomers	275
Multifunctional biomolecule nanostructures for cancer therapy	265

Emerging applications of zeolites in catalysis, separation and host–guest assembly	264
Phase transitions in 2D materials	263
Metallurgy, mechanistic models and machine learning in metal printing	259
Confining isolated atoms and clusters in crystalline porous materials for catalysis	252
Biomaterial-based antimicrobial therapies for the treatment of bacterial infections	247
Molecular imaging and disease theranostics with renal-clearable optical agents	246
Hydrogel interfaces for merging humans and machines	243
Synthetic amorphous silica nanoparticles: toxicity, biomedical and environmental implications	242
Low-dimensional wide-bandgap semiconductors for UV photodetectors	240
The fundamentals and applications of ferroelectric HfO2	239
Engineered living biomaterials	239
A materials-science perspective on tackling COVID-19	239
Quantum guidelines for solid-state spin defects	239
Nanoparticle synthesis assisted by machine learning	238
Design of therapeutic biomaterials to control inflammation	236
The passivity of lithium electrodes in liquid electrolytes for secondary batteries	232
Dynamical memristors for higher-complexity neuromorphic computing	230
Molecular engineering of contact interfaces for high-performance perovskite solar cells	230
Colloidal quantum dot lasers	229
Analogue computing with metamaterials	228
Advances in coherent magnonics	227
Flexible self-charging power sources	226
Materials design by synthetic biology	224
Reducing environmental plastic pollution by designing polymer materials for managed end-of-life	220
The germanium quantum information route	218
Electrical doping in halide perovskites	217
Functional nanoparticles through π-conjugated polymer self-assembly	212
The kinetics of metal oxide photoanodes from charge generation to catalysis	205
A reticular chemistry guide for the design of periodic solids	203
Status and perspectives of crystalline silicon photovoltaics in research and industry	201
Extracellular vesicles versus synthetic nanoparticles for drug delivery	199
From molecular to supramolecular electronics	197
Electronic defects in metal oxide photocatalysts	195
Transition-metal coordinate bonds for bioinspired macromolecules with tunable mechanical properties	189
3D-printed multifunctional materials enabled by artificial-intelligence-assisted fabrication technologies	175
The role of polymer mechanochemistry in responsive materials and additive manufacturing	175
Organic batteries for a greener rechargeable world	173
Material properties and applications of mechanically interlocked polymers	170
Emerging materials intelligence ecosystems propelled by machine learning	167
Clinical translation of silica nanoparticles	166
Passive, active and endogenous organ-targeted lipid and polymer nanoparticles for delivery of genetic drugs	164
Methane transformation by photocatalysis	162
Designing spatial and temporal control of vaccine responses	159
Defect activity in metal halide perovskites with wide and narrow bandgap	158
A roadmap for the commercialization of perovskite light emitters	157
Fibre-based composites from the integration of metal–organic frameworks and polymers	156
Topological acoustics	151
Engineered disorder in photonics	150
Processing and application of high-temperature superconducting coated conductors	148
Stability challenges for the commercialization of perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells	143

Dynamic and reconfigurable materials from reversible network interactions	143
Engineered platforms for topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes	142
Long-term operating stability in perovskite photovoltaics	142
Excitonic devices with van der Waals heterostructures: valleytronics meets twistronics	140
Soft wearable devices for deep-tissue sensing	140
The protein corona from nanomedicine to environmental science	140
Nanostructuring versus microstructuring in battery electrodes	132
Materials, physics and systems for multicaloric cooling	130
Anomalous Hall antiferromagnets	128
Pushing the limit of 3d transition metal-based layered oxides that use both cation and anion redox for energy storage	126
Drug delivery to the central nervous system	124
Machine learning for a sustainable energy future	123
Engineering high-coherence superconducting qubits	119
Ferroelectric domain walls for nanotechnology	118
Emerging exciton physics in transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers	114
Two-dimensional material inks	113
Responsive materials architected in space and time	110
Weyl, Dirac and high-fold chiral fermions in topological quantum matter	105
Exploiting the paddle-wheel mechanism for the design of fast ion conductors	105
Electrochemical ion insertion from the atomic to the device scale	104
Highly efficient perovskite LEDs	100
Ferroelectric order in van der Waals layered materials	99
Machine learning in combinatorial polymer chemistry	99
The electrical conductivity of solution-processed nanosheet networks	95
Lithium-film ceramics for solid-state lithionic devices	94
Engineering the multiscale complexity of vascular networks	93
Semitransparent organic photovoltaics for building-integrated photovoltaic applications	92
Oxide spin-orbitronics: spin–charge interconversion and topological spin textures	91
Organelle-level precision with next-generation targeting technologies	89
Electrostatic gating and intercalation in 2D materials	89
Mining our green future	88
Total synthesis of colloidal matter	87
Atomically precise control in the design of low-nuclearity supported metal catalysts	86
Increasing the size and complexity of discrete 2D metallosupramolecules	84
Topological materials discovery from crystal symmetry	82
Innovations to decarbonize materials industries	81
Understanding ligand-protected noble metal nanoclusters at work	80
Integrating plant molecular farming and materials research for next-generation vaccines	78
Recycling of sodium-ion batteries	77
Clinical translation of long-acting drug delivery formulations	77
Hydration-induced reversible deformation of biological materials	76
Plasma pyrolysis for a sustainable hydrogen economy	76
Let’s talk about lipid nanoparticles	75
Insight into the structures and dynamics of organic semiconductors through solid-state NMR spectroscopy	71
Photonic van der Waals integration from 2D materials to 3D nanomembranes	69