OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Trends in Chemistry is 16. 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
Challenges of Z-scheme photocatalytic mechanisms	189
Mechanochemical Cross-Coupling Reactions	156
Rational design of oxygen evolution reaction catalysts for seawater electrolysis	127
Carbon dots: mysterious past, vibrant present, and expansive future	118
Emerging frontiers of Z-scheme photocatalytic systems	116
Wearable Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Therapeutics	113
Mitigating ion migration in perovskite solar cells	100
Metal complexes for therapeutic applications	92
Ready, Set, Flow! Automated Continuous Synthesis and Optimization	87
Upscaling Mechanochemistry: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Industry	86
All sp2 carbon covalent organic frameworks	84
Molecular Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 beyond Two Electrons	84
Toward Machine Learning-Enhanced High-Throughput Experimentation	82
Facing the capacity fading of vanadium-based zinc-ion batteries	81
Carbon-based catalyst supports for oxygen reduction in proton-exchange membrane fuel cells	80
Tailoring Light with Layered and Moiré Metasurfaces	79
Single-electron carbene catalysis in redox processes	78
Progress in halide-perovskite nanocrystals with near-unity photoluminescence quantum yield	74
The renaissance of polythiophene organic solar cells	71
High-efficiency thermocells driven by thermo-electrochemical processes	68
Quantum Mechanical Tunneling Is Essential to Understanding Chemical Reactivity	67
Defining and Exploring Chemical Spaces	67
Structural design and determination of 3D covalent organic frameworks	66
Carrier Dynamics and Evaluation of Lasing Actions in Halide Perovskites	66
Electrochemical C–N Bond Formation for Sustainable Amine Synthesis	64

Palladium-catalyzed enantioselective C–H functionalization via C–H palladation	63
H/F substitution for advanced molecular ferroelectrics	62
Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Hydroaminocarbonylations of Alkenes and Alkynes	52
Accelerating Redox Kinetics of Lithium-Sulfur Batteries	52
Triboelectric nanogenerators for self-powered drug delivery	51
Design Concepts for N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands	51
Advances in N-centered intermediates by energy transfer photocatalysis	50
Laser-engraved graphene for flexible and wearable electronics	50
Ferroelectricity and Rashba effect in 2D organic–inorganic hybrid perovskites	48
From Macro- to Nanoscale: Finite Size Effects on Metal–Organic Framework Switchability	48
Navigating through the Maze of Homogeneous Catalyst Design with Machine Learning	48
Metal–Organic Frameworks and Water: ‘From Old Enemies to Friends’?	47
Designing Dynamic Materials from Dynamic Bonds to Macromolecular Architecture	47
Electroactive covalent organic frameworks: a new choice for organic electronics	46
Molecular dimensionality and photoluminescence of hybrid metal halides	45
Electrolytes for high-voltage lithium batteries	44
Chemist versus Machine: Traditional Knowledge versus Machine Learning Techniques	44
Single-atom M–N–C catalysts for oxygen reduction electrocatalysis	44
New reaction pathways by integrating chemo- and biocatalysis	43
Development of Second Near-Infrared Photoacoustic Imaging Agents	43
A new carbon allotrope: graphdiyne	43
Solar-driven catalytic plastic upcycling	42
Metrics for Benchmarking and Uncertainty Quantification: Quality, Applicability, and Best Practices for Machine Learning in Chemistry	41
Emerging biomimetic nanotechnology in orthopedic diseases: progress, challenges, and opportunities	41
Anion-conducting polyelectrolytes for energy devices	40
‘Catalyst + X’ strategies for transition metal-catalyzed olefin-polar monomer copolymerization	39
Controlling X-ray-activated persistent luminescence for emerging applications	38
2D Material Bubbles: Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications	38
Implications of Na-ion solvation on Na anode–electrolyte interphase	37
Highly reductive photocatalytic systems in organic synthesis	37
Structurally anisotropic hydrogels for tissue engineering	37
Water–active site interactions in zeolites and their relevance in catalysis	37
Single-atom heterogeneous catalysts for sustainable organic synthesis	37
New trends in nonconventional carbon dot synthesis	36
Recent advances towards organocatalytic enantioselective desymmetrizing reactions	36
Emerging trends in sustainable battery chemistries	36
Developments in Photoredox-Mediated Alkylation for DNA-Encoded Libraries	36
Silver N-heterocyclic carbenes: emerging powerful catalysts	36
Competitive Solid-Electrolyte Interphase Formation on Working Lithium Anodes	35
Towards modeling spatiotemporal processes in metal–organic frameworks	35
Development and applications of selective hydroesterification reactions	35
The catalytic cycle of cytochrome P450: a fascinating choreography	33
Macrocycles and Related Hosts as Supramolecular Antidotes	33
Bioorthogonal catalysis for biomedical applications	33
Photochemical upcycling of polystyrene plastics	31
Electron–orbital–lattice interactions in hollow multishelled structures	31
Designing radical chemistry by visible light-promoted homolysis	30
Synthesis of Large-Area Single-Crystal Graphene	30
Electrically conductive 2D covalent organic frameworks	30
Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 Using Group VII Metal Catalysts	30

Establishing a unified framework for ion solvation and transport in liquid and solid electrolytes	29
Macromolecular Topology Engineering	28
Computational enzyme redesign: large jumps in function	28
Emerging trends in C(sp3)–H borylation	28
Nanoparticle Phototherapy in the Era of Cancer Immunotherapy	27
The temptation from homogeneous linear catechyl lignin	27
Exterior decorating: Lewis acid secondary coordination spheres for cooperative reactivity	26
Oligothiophene-based photovoltaic materials for organic solar cells: rise, plateau, and revival	26
Titania-Based Micro/Nanomotors: Design Principles, Biomimetic Collective Behavior, and Applications	26
Dehydroalanine modification sees the light: a photochemical conjugate addition strategy	26
Electrochemical nitrogen reduction: an intriguing but challenging quest	25
Euclidean Symmetry and Equivariance in Machine Learning	25
Single sites in heterogeneous catalysts: separating myth from reality	25
Cross-dehydrogenative coupling of unactivated alkanes	24
Materials chemistry-enabled platforms in detecting sexually transmitted infections: progress towards point-of-care tests	24
Asymmetric catalysis with chiral cyclopentadienyl complexes to access privileged scaffolds	24
When machine learning meets molecular synthesis	24
Design and structural engineering of single-atomic-site catalysts for acidic oxygen reduction reaction	24
Solvent-driven aqueous separations for hypersaline brine concentration and resource recovery	24
Carbon-based nanostructures for emerging photocatalysis: CO2 reduction, N2 fixation, and organic conversion	23
Autonomous flow reactors for discovery and invention	23
Extraction of mechanical work from stimuli-responsive molecular systems and materials	23
MXenes: promising 2D memristor materials for neuromorphic computing components	23
Reflections on Racemic Natural Products	22
Symmetry breaking for semiconductor photocatalysis	22
Emerging Metallopharmaceuticals for the Treatment of Cancer	22
Investigating carotenoid photophysics in photosynthesis with 2D electronic spectroscopy	21
Kinetic and Thermodynamic Control in Dynamic Covalent Synthesis	21
The halogen chemistry of halide perovskites	21
Insight into conjugated polymers for organic electrochemical transistors	21
Opportunity for eutectic mixtures in metal-ion batteries	21
Catalytic amyloids	20
Hydrophobicity: a key factor en route to applications of metal–organic frameworks	20
Recent advances of ruthenium-based electrocatalysts for hydrogen energy	20
Computational Data-Driven Materials Discovery	20
The chemistry of chemically fueled droplets	19
Early Transition Metal-Catalyzed Hydroaminoalkylation	19
High-throughput directed evolution: a golden era for protein science	19
Direct photocatalytic conversion of methane to value-added chemicals	19
Progress of thiol-amine ‘alkahest’ solutions for thin film deposition	19
Combination of radical functional group migration (FGM) and hydrogen atom transfer (HAT)	18
Technology pull: scale-up of polymeric mechanochemical force sensors	18
Chemical bonds in topological materials	18
Pursuing a Prospective Perspective	17
The hot mitochondrion paradox: reconciling theory and experiment	17
2D conjugated polymers: exploiting topological properties for the rational design of metal-free photocatalysts	17
Ultrafast synthesis of electrocatalysts	17
Environmental theoretical calculation for non-periodic systems	17
Pretreatment of biomass with protic ionic liquids	17
Mechanoresponsive Porosity in Metal-Organic Frameworks	17
Complex multilength-scale morphology in organic photovoltaics	17
Transforming Hydroxide-Containing Metal–Organic Framework Nodes for Transition Metal Catalysis	17
Lignin condensation, an unsolved mystery	16
Magnetic field effects on singlet fission dynamics	16
Cation-coupled chloride cotransporters: chemical insights and disease implications	16
Renewable N-cycle catalysis	16
Photocatalytic Materials: An Apollo’s Arrow to Tumor Cells	16
Paper-based biosensors for cancer diagnostics	16
New catalytic reactions by enzyme engineering	16
Asymmetric radical cyclopropanation of alkenes	16