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Carbon Nanotubes in Composites

Carbon Nanotubes in Composites is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 48k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the science, properties, synthesis, and diverse applications of carbon nanotubes. It covers topics such as nanotube composites, functionalization, electronics, mechanical properties, and chemistry.

  • Nanotubes
  • Carbon
  • Composites
  • Properties
  • Functionalization
  • Electronics
  • Mechanical
  • Synthesis
  • Applications
  • Chemistry
Research works
48k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Carbon Nanotubes in Composites

Which countries lead Carbon Nanotubes in Composites research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.4k and 587 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.4k works
  2. 2 India 587 works
  3. 3 United States 554 works
  4. 4 Russia 485 works
  5. 5 Japan 314 works
  6. 6 South Korea 209 works
  7. 7 Iran 189 works
  8. 8 Germany 130 works
  9. 9 France 124 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 114 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: 34.0%India: 14.3%United States: 13.5%Russia: 11.8%6 others listed: 26.4%34%largest
China1,394 · 34.0%India587 · 14.3%United States554 · 13.5%Russia485 · 11.8%6 others listed1,081 · 26.4%

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

Which institutions lead Carbon Nanotubes in Composites research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Carbon Nanotubes in Composites research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 184 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 108 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 62 works
  4. 4 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 41 works
  5. 5 Peking UniversityChina 33 works
  6. 6 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 33 works
  7. 7 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 27 works
  8. 8 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyJapan 23 works
  9. 9 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 23 works
  10. 10 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 23 works

Who are the leading researchers in Carbon Nanotubes in Composites?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Carbon Nanotubes in Composites include Zhong Lin Wang, Georg Kresse and Kostya S. Novoselov.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  3. 3 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  4. 4 Andre K. Geim United Kingdom 315k citations
  5. 5 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  6. 6 Matthias Ernzerhof Canada 276k citations
  7. 7 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  8. 8 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  9. 9 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  10. 10 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k 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 Carbon Nanotubes in Composites?

The most cited paper in Carbon Nanotubes in Composites is "Electric Field Effect in Atomically Thin Carbon Films" (Kostya S. Novoselov, Andre K. Geim, С. В. Морозов et al., 2004), with 66,991 citations. Next come "Helical microtubules of graphitic carbon" (43,125) and "The rise of graphene" (39,928).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Electric Field Effect in Atomically Thin Carbon Films Kostya S. Novoselov, Andre K. Geim, С. В. Морозов et al. · Science Open access 21 Oct 2004 66,991
2 Helical microtubules of graphitic carbon Sumio Iijima · Nature Nov 1991 43,125
3 The rise of graphene Andre K. Geim, Kostya S. Novoselov · Nature Materials Mar 2007 39,928
4 Measurement of the Elastic Properties and Intrinsic Strength of Monolayer Graphene Changgu Lee, Xiaoding Wei, Jeffrey W. Kysar et al. · Science 17 Jul 2008 20,935
5 Interpretation of Raman spectra of disordered and amorphous carbon Andrea Carlo Ferrari, John D. Robertson · Physical review. B, Condensed matter 15 May 2000 15,691
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Where is Carbon Nanotubes in Composites research done?

The largest centres of Carbon Nanotubes in Composites research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Shanghai (China) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ufa.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 255 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 156 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 96 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 91 works
  5. 5 TehranIran 85 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 75 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 68 works
  8. 8 NanjingChina 68 works
  9. 9 Saint PetersburgRussia 55 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 52 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. UfaRU · 22.0 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Carbon Nanotubes in Composites than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Carbon Nanotubes in Composites?

Among universities, judged by research, Rice University, Peking University and Harbin Institute of Technology 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 20.52%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Peking UniversityRice UniversityBeijing University o…Harbin Institute of …
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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
1Rice UniversityUnited States 73.721.8%19.4×20 -18.6%
2Peking UniversityChina 73.023.9%3.4×33 -22.8%
3Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 65.414.7%3.5×27 +15.7%
4Beijing University of Chemical TechnologyChina 61.021.6%8.2×17 -9.2%
5Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States 60.913.4%5.6×19 -21.9%
6University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 57.427.0%2.0×9 +29.2%
7Skolkovo Institute of Science and TechnologyRussia 57.313.9%30.1×11 +21.7%
8University of GuilanIran 57.330.6%16.4×10 -53.4%
9Zhejiang UniversityChina 56.615.4%1.5×20 +70.0%
10Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 56.522.9%3.4×19 -9.2%

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 Carbon Nanotubes in Composites, country by country

Is Carbon Nanotubes in Composites research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% 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 Carbon Nanotubes in Composites as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.023% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Carbon Nanotubes in Composites 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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