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Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies

Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 74k research works in it since 1950. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on advances in lithium battery technologies, including topics such as lithium-sulfur batteries, solid-state electrolytes, nanostructured cathodes, high-energy storage, dendrite-free deposition of lithium metal, polymer electrolytes, sulfur hosts for cathodes, ionic conductivity, cathode materials, and electrochemical stability.

  • Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
  • Solid-State Electrolytes
  • Nanostructured Cathodes
  • High-Energy Storage
  • Dendrite-Free Deposition
  • Polymer Electrolytes
  • Sulfur Hosts
  • Ionic Conductivity
  • Cathode Materials
  • Electrochemical Stability
Research works
74k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
7.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+48%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
65% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies

Which countries lead Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (17k and 2.6k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 17k works
  2. 2 United States 2.6k works
  3. 3 South Korea 1.7k works
  4. 4 India 1.2k works
  5. 5 Germany 1k works
  6. 6 Japan 815 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 556 works
  8. 8 France 430 works
  9. 9 Australia 405 works
  10. 10 Taiwan 342 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 65.0%United States: 9.9%South Korea: 6.7%India: 4.7%6 others listed: 13.7%65%largest
China17k · 65.0%United States2,572 · 9.9%South Korea1,741 · 6.7%India1,228 · 4.7%6 others listed3,579 · 13.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies research, followed by Central South University and Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 1.1k works
  2. 2 Central South UniversityChina 402 works
  3. 3 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 321 works
  4. 4 Tsinghua UniversityChina 297 works
  5. 5 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 244 works
  6. 6 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 238 works
  7. 7 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 229 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 218 works
  9. 9 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 216 works
  10. 10 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 210 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies include Zhong Lin Wang, Michaël Grätzel and Kostya S. Novoselov.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  3. 3 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  4. 4 Xiangyu Zhang 327k citations
  5. 5 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  6. 6 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  7. 7 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  8. 8 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  9. 9 Jens K. Nørskov Denmark 260k citations
  10. 10 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies?

The most cited paper in Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies is "Issues and challenges facing rechargeable lithium batteries" (J. M. Tarascon, Michel B. Armand, 2001), with 21,115 citations. Next come "Electrical Energy Storage for the Grid: A Battery of Choices" (15,086) and "Challenges for Rechargeable Li Batteries" (10,968).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Issues and challenges facing rechargeable lithium batteries J. M. Tarascon, Michel B. Armand · Nature Nov 2001 21,115
2 Electrical Energy Storage for the Grid: A Battery of Choices Bruce Dunn, Haresh Kamath, Jean‐Marie Tarascon · Science 17 Nov 2011 15,086
3 Challenges for Rechargeable Li Batteries John Bannister Goodenough, Youngsik Kim · Chemistry of Materials 28 Aug 2009 10,968
4 Li–O2 and Li–S batteries with high energy storage Peter G. Bruce, Stefan A. Freunberger, Laurence J. Hardwick et al. · Nature Materials 15 Dec 2011 9,498
5 Hydrogen-storage materials for mobile applications L. Schlapbach, Andreas Züttel · Nature Open access Nov 2001 8,827
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Where is Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Wuhan (China) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Didcot, Lemont and Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 2.4k works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 1.1k works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 814 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 721 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 708 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 684 works
  7. 7 TianjinChina 654 works
  8. 8 ChangshaChina 647 works
  9. 9 Xi'anChina 647 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 488 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DidcotGB · 51.8 works22×
  2. LemontUS · 113.8 works21×
  3. Vitoria-GasteizES · 37.8 works16×
  4. SipingCN · 25.1 works15×
  5. Changchun34.4 works14×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, City University of Hong Kong, The University of Adelaide and Tsinghua University score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 19.77%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →The University of Ad…City University of H…Tsinghua UniversityNankai University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1City University of Hong KongChina 73.224.9%7.4×108 +95.3%
2The University of AdelaideAustralia 71.136.6%3.7×39 +172.3%
3Tsinghua UniversityChina 70.621.2%5.1×297 +30.3%
4Nankai UniversityChina 67.619.0%11.2×194 +32.1%
5Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 64.316.6%8.0×238 +36.5%
6University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 64.216.2%7.7×229 +56.1%
7Central South UniversityChina 64.012.8%8.2×402 +37.4%
8Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 61.114.7%5.3×244 +67.1%
9Hunan UniversityChina 60.719.0%7.3×131 +30.1%
10Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 60.216.7%3.8×83 +120.1%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies, country by country

Is Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 48% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.12% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies0.13% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies9.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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