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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. 36.0% 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%
27k
per year above
Top-10% rate
36.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+91%
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Which countries lead Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (15k and 2.3k works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 15k works
  2. 2 United States 2.3k works
  3. 3 South Korea 1.5k works
  4. 4 India 1.1k works
  5. 5 Germany 920 works
  6. 6 Japan 743 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 486 works
  8. 8 France 383 works
  9. 9 Australia 360 works
  10. 10 Taiwan 305 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: 64.5%United States: 10.0%South Korea: 6.7%India: 4.8%6 others listed: 14.0%65%largest
China15k · 64.5%United States2,285 · 10.0%South Korea1,544 · 6.7%India1,091 · 4.8%6 others listed3,197 · 14.0%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Central South University publishes the most Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tsinghua University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Central South UniversityChina 353 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 328 works
  3. 3 Tsinghua UniversityChina 250 works
  4. 4 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 225 works
  5. 5 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 215 works
  6. 6 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 207 works
  7. 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 193 works
  8. 8 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 192 works
  9. 9 Nankai UniversityChina 178 works
  10. 10 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 173 works

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

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies include Michaël Grätzel, John B. Goodenough and İbrahim Dinçer.

  1. 1 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 13k citations
  2. 2 John B. Goodenough United States 6.2k citations
  3. 3 İbrahim Dinçer Canada 5.9k citations
  4. 4 Wei Huang China 5.5k citations
  5. 5 Yury Gogotsi United States 5.1k citations
  6. 6 Yi Cui United States 5k citations
  7. 7 Huan Liu Australia 4.9k citations
  8. 8 Jean‐Marie Tarascon France 4.9k citations
  9. 9 Martin Winter Germany 4.9k citations

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

Where is Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 2.1k works
  2. 2 Shanghai China 1k works
  3. 3 Wuhan China 738 works
  4. 4 Guangzhou China 648 works
  5. 5 Seoul South Korea 631 works
  6. 6 Nanjing China 609 works
  7. 7 Changsha China 587 works
  8. 8 Tianjin China 583 works
  9. 9 Xi'an China 568 works
  10. 10 Chengdu China 441 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DidcotGB · 46.2 works22×
  2. LemontUS · 106.0 works22×
  3. Vitoria-GasteizES · 34.4 works17×
  4. SipingCN · 23.0 works16×
  5. Changchun32.5 works14×
  6. JülichDE · 74.8 works12×
  7. UlmDE · 84.4 works12×
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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, Nankai University and Guangdong University of Technology score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%25%50%75%mean 47.68%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →City University of Hong Kong: 96, 61.0%Nankai University: 178, 49.1%Guangdong University of Technology: 164, 41.6%Beijing University of Chemical Technology: 166, 43.1%Beijing Institute of Technology: 215, 50.1%Northeast Normal University: 80, 45.6%Zhengzhou University: 160, 47.1%Central South University: 353, 41.8%University of Science and Technology of China: 207, 50.0%Huazhong University of Science and Technology: 225, 47.4%City University of H…Nankai UniversityBeijing University o…Guangdong University…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 City University of Hong KongHong Kong 77.361.0%6.6×96 +417.6%
2 Nankai UniversityChina 75.649.1%10.6×178 +143.3%
3 Guangdong University of TechnologyChina 75.241.6%11.8×164 +733.7%
4 Beijing University of Chemical TechnologyChina 74.143.1%15.1×166 +177.9%
5 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 72.750.1%7.1×215 +243.9%
6 Northeast Normal UniversityChina 72.545.6%14.7×80 +581.0%
7 Zhengzhou UniversityChina 70.547.1%7.5×160 +457.1%
8 Central South UniversityChina 70.141.8%8.5×353 +101.7%
9 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 70.150.0%6.9×207 +165.2%
10 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 68.047.4%5.7×225 +246.6%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 91% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.