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Anodic Oxide Films and Nanostructures

Anodic Oxide Films and Nanostructures is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 16k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the fabrication, properties, and diverse applications of porous alumina membranes. It covers topics such as template synthesis, electrodeposition, nanostructures, surface engineering, self-ordering behavior, and the use of porous alumina in biosensors.

  • Porous Alumina
  • Template Synthesis
  • Nanoporous Membranes
  • Electrodeposition
  • Nanostructures
  • Anodic Oxide Films
  • Nanotubes
  • Surface Engineering
  • Self-Ordering Behavior
  • Biosensors
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
45% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Anodic Oxide Films and Nanostructures

Which countries lead Anodic Oxide Films and Nanostructures research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (589 and 159 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 589 works
  2. 2 United States 159 works
  3. 3 Japan 117 works
  4. 4 India 98 works
  5. 5 Russia 78 works
  6. 6 Germany 76 works
  7. 7 South Korea 67 works
  8. 8 France 55 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 37 works
  10. 10 Brazil 36 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: 44.9%United States: 12.1%Japan: 8.9%India: 7.5%6 others listed: 26.6%45%largest
China589 · 44.9%United States159 · 12.1%Japan117 · 8.9%India98 · 7.5%6 others listed349 · 26.6%

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

Which institutions lead Anodic Oxide Films and Nanostructures research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Anodic Oxide Films and Nanostructures research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 30 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 27 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 24 works
  4. 4 Central South UniversityChina 17 works
  5. 5 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 14 works
  6. 6 Tokyo Metropolitan UniversityJapan 13 works
  7. 7 Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 12 works
  8. 8 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 10 works
  9. 9 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 9 works
  10. 10 Hokkaido UniversityJapan 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Anodic Oxide Films and Nanostructures?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Anodic Oxide Films and Nanostructures include Zhong Lin Wang, Michaël Grätzel and Yury G. Gogotsi.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  3. 3 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  4. 4 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  5. 5 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  6. 6 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k citations
  7. 7 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  8. 8 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  9. 9 Younan Xia United States 207k citations
  10. 10 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k 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 Anodic Oxide Films and Nanostructures?

The most cited paper in Anodic Oxide Films and Nanostructures is "Ordered Metal Nanohole Arrays Made by a Two-Step Replication of Honeycomb Structures of Anodic Alumina" (Hideki Masuda, Kenji Fukuda, 1995), with 5,196 citations. Next come "Embedding in Epoxy Resins for Ultrathin Sectioning in Electron Microscopy" (3,318) and "TiO 2 Nanotubes: Synthesis and Applications" (3,136).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Ordered Metal Nanohole Arrays Made by a Two-Step Replication of Honeycomb Structures of Anodic Alumina Hideki Masuda, Kenji Fukuda · Science 9 Jun 1995 5,196
2 Embedding in Epoxy Resins for Ultrathin Sectioning in Electron Microscopy Keith C. Richardson, Leonard Jarett, E. H. Finke · Stain Technology 1960 3,318
3 TiO 2 Nanotubes: Synthesis and Applications Poulomi Roy, Steffen Berger, Patrik Schmuki · Angewandte Chemie International Edition 10 Mar 2011 3,136
4 Hollow Micro‐/Nanostructures: Synthesis and Applications Xiong Wen Lou, Lynden A. Archer, Zichao Yang · Advanced Materials 25 Sep 2008 2,993
5 Determination of effective capacitance and film thickness from constant-phase-element parameters Bryan Hirschorn, Mark Edward Orazem, Bernard Tribollet et al. · Electrochimica Acta 14 Nov 2009 2,562
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Where is Anodic Oxide Films and Nanostructures research done?

The largest centres of Anodic Oxide Films and Nanostructures research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Tokyo (Japan) and Moscow (Russia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 89 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 43 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 40 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 33 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 33 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 27 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 25 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 23 works
  9. 9 WuhanChina 22 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 20 works
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Where is the best place to study Anodic Oxide Films and Nanostructures?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Nanjing University of Science and Technology and Central South 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.

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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.

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
1University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 70.318.1%11.1×14 +23.0%
2Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 66.116.0%9.2×12 -29.7%
3Central South UniversityChina 59.79.5%5.3×17 +89.3%
4Hokkaido UniversityJapan 44.411.2%12.9×10 -61.4%
5Tokyo Metropolitan UniversityJapan 40.91.7%45.4×13 +7.8%
6Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 37.116.6%3.3×9 +20.9%
7Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 35.114.0%1.8×8 -8.1%
8Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 32.311.3%3.3×10 +94.8%

Universities only. The score blends 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 Anodic Oxide Films and Nanostructures, country by country

Is Anodic Oxide Films and Nanostructures research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011.

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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 Anodic Oxide Films and Nanostructures as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0074% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Anodic Oxide Films and Nanostructures 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.

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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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