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Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials

Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials is a research topic within Biomedical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 92k research works in it since 1950. 24.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the development of wearable nanogenerator technology, including flexible and stretchable sensors, triboelectric technology, energy harvesting, self-powered systems, electronic skin, and health monitoring. The research covers a wide range of materials and devices for integrating electronics into wearable and flexible formats for various applications.

  • Wearable
  • Nanogenerators
  • Flexible Electronics
  • Stretchable Sensors
  • Triboelectric Technology
  • Energy Harvesting
  • Self-Powered Systems
  • Electronic Skin
  • Health Monitoring
  • Conductive Materials
Research works
92k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
22k
per year above
Top-10% rate
24.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+77%
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Which countries lead Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (13k and 2.5k works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 13k works
  2. 2 United States 2.5k works
  3. 3 India 1.9k works
  4. 4 South Korea 1.8k works
  5. 5 Japan 854 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 671 works
  7. 7 Germany 555 works
  8. 8 Italy 544 works
  9. 9 Canada 434 works
  10. 10 France 389 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: 58.1%United States: 10.8%India: 8.3%South Korea: 7.8%6 others listed: 15.0%58%largest
China13k · 58.1%United States2,483 · 10.8%India1,901 · 8.3%South Korea1,794 · 7.8%6 others listed3,447 · 15.0%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials research, followed by Donghua University and Sichuan University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 363 works
  2. 2 Donghua UniversityChina 269 works
  3. 3 Sichuan UniversityChina 243 works
  4. 4 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 225 works
  5. 5 Tsinghua UniversityChina 222 works
  6. 6 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 192 works
  7. 7 South China University of TechnologyChina 187 works
  8. 8 Zhejiang UniversityChina 183 works
  9. 9 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 177 works
  10. 10 Tianjin UniversityChina 171 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials include Xiaogang Wang, Zhong Lin Wang and Ben Zhong Tang.

  1. 1 Xiaogang Wang Russia 13k citations
  2. 2 Zhong Lin Wang United States 11k citations
  3. 3 Ben Zhong Tang Hong Kong 7k citations
  4. 4 Hua Zhang Singapore 5.9k citations
  5. 5 Wei Huang China 5.5k citations
  6. 6 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 5.1k citations
  7. 7 Yury Gogotsi United States 5.1k citations
  8. 8 Yi Cui United States 5k citations
  9. 9 Huan Liu Australia 4.9k citations
  10. 10 Luca Benini Italy 4.6k citations

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

Where is Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Seoul (South Korea) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cheonan.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 2.2k works
  2. 2 Shanghai China 1k works
  3. 3 Seoul South Korea 798 works
  4. 4 Xi'an China 792 works
  5. 5 Nanjing China 631 works
  6. 6 Hangzhou China 560 works
  7. 7 Chengdu China 548 works
  8. 8 Wuhan China 544 works
  9. 9 Tianjin China 511 works
  10. 10 Guangzhou China 504 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CheonanKR · 60.9 works13×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials?

Among universities, judged by research, Guangxi University, Kwangwoon University and Qingdao University 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%20%40%60%mean 38.93%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Guangxi University: 141, 50.0%Kwangwoon University: 42, 40.6%Qingdao University: 126, 37.5%Donghua University: 269, 35.3%Nanjing Forestry University: 82, 48.8%Shaanxi University of Science and Technology: 105, 39.5%Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology: 43, 30.0%City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Research Institute: 18, 46.5%Wuhan Textile University: 84, 29.0%South China University of Technology: 188, 32.1%Guangxi UniversityKwangwoon UniversityQingdao UniversityDonghua 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 Guangxi UniversityChina 78.750.0%8.6×141 +796.2%
2 Kwangwoon UniversitySouth Korea 70.440.6%21.6×42 +200.2%
3 Qingdao UniversityChina 70.237.5%8.3×126 +219.4%
4 Donghua UniversityChina 69.935.3%26.6×269 +61.6%
5 Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 69.848.8%6.5×82 +1015.5%
6 Shaanxi University of Science and TechnologyChina 65.339.5%15.4×105 +44.7%
7 Ulsan National Institute of Science and TechnologySouth Korea 64.930.0%10.5×43 +350.1%
8 City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Research InstituteChina 64.146.5%9.5×18 —
9 Wuhan Textile UniversityChina 63.929.0%20.1×84 +145.6%
10 South China University of TechnologyChina 63.732.1%6.3×188 +186.9%

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 Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 77% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials.

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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.