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Electromagnetic wave absorption materials

Electromagnetic wave absorption materials is a research topic within Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1952. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the development and characterization of advanced materials, such as graphene, carbon nanotubes, and MXenes, for electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding applications. The research covers topics including microwave absorption enhancement, complex permittivity and permeability, lightweight and flexible composites, dielectric properties, and the use of magnetic nanoparticles to achieve high EMI shielding effectiveness.

  • Graphene
  • Microwave Absorption
  • Carbon Nanotubes
  • MXenes
  • Electrical Conductivity
  • Polymer Composites
  • Dielectric Properties
  • Magnetic Nanoparticles
  • Flexible Materials
  • EMI Shielding Effectiveness
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+53%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
71% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Electromagnetic wave absorption materials

Which countries lead Electromagnetic wave absorption materials research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (4.4k and 791 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 4.4k works
  2. 2 India 791 works
  3. 3 South Korea 188 works
  4. 4 United States 181 works
  5. 5 Pakistan 119 works
  6. 6 Saudi Arabia 118 works
  7. 7 Iran 116 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 113 works
  9. 9 Russia 107 works
  10. 10 Japan 77 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: 70.9%India: 12.7%South Korea: 3.0%United States: 2.9%6 others listed: 10.5%71%largest
China4,402 · 70.9%India791 · 12.7%South Korea188 · 3.0%United States181 · 2.9%6 others listed649 · 10.5%

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

Which institutions lead Electromagnetic wave absorption materials research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Electromagnetic wave absorption materials research, followed by Northwestern Polytechnical University and Harbin Institute of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 187 works
  2. 2 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 182 works
  3. 3 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 94 works
  4. 4 Sichuan UniversityChina 90 works
  5. 5 Shandong UniversityChina 74 works
  6. 6 Donghua UniversityChina 66 works
  7. 7 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 60 works
  8. 8 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 59 works
  9. 9 Central South UniversityChina 52 works
  10. 10 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 52 works

Who are the leading researchers in Electromagnetic wave absorption materials?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Electromagnetic wave absorption materials include Zhong Lin Wang, Kostya S. Novoselov and Yury G. Gogotsi.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  3. 3 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  4. 4 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  5. 5 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k citations
  6. 6 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  7. 7 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  8. 8 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  9. 9 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  10. 10 Hui–Ming Cheng China 183k 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 Electromagnetic wave absorption materials?

The most cited paper in Electromagnetic wave absorption materials is "Electromagnetic interference shielding with 2D transition metal carbides (MXenes)" (Faisal Shahzad, Mohamed Alhabeb, Christine B. Hatter et al., 2016), with 5,229 citations. Next come "Microwave Absorption Enhancement and Complex Permittivity and Permeability of Fe Encapsulated within Carbon Nanotubes" (2,223) and "Lightweight and Flexible Graphene Foam Composites for High‐Performance Electromagnetic Interference Shielding" (1,998).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Electromagnetic interference shielding with 2D transition metal carbides (MXenes) Faisal Shahzad, Mohamed Alhabeb, Christine B. Hatter et al. · Science 8 Sep 2016 5,229
2 Microwave Absorption Enhancement and Complex Permittivity and Permeability of Fe Encapsulated within Carbon Nanotubes R. C. Che, Lian‐Mao Peng, X. F. Duan et al. · Advanced Materials 5 Mar 2004 2,223
3 Lightweight and Flexible Graphene Foam Composites for High‐Performance Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Zongping Chen, Chuan Xu, Chaoqun Ma et al. · Advanced Materials 8 Jan 2013 1,998
4 Broadband and Tunable High‐Performance Microwave Absorption of an Ultralight and Highly Compressible Graphene Foam Yi Zhang, Yi Huang, Tengfei Zhang et al. · Advanced Materials 16 Feb 2015 1,973
5 CoNi@SiO 2 @TiO 2 and CoNi@Air@TiO 2 Microspheres with Strong Wideband Microwave Absorption Qinghe Liu, Qi Cao, Han Bi et al. · Advanced Materials 20 Nov 2015 1,962
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Where is Electromagnetic wave absorption materials research done?

The largest centres of Electromagnetic wave absorption materials research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Chengdu (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Huainan.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 550 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 492 works
  3. 3 ChengduChina 263 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 261 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 247 works
  6. 6 HarbinChina 166 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 151 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 149 works
  9. 9 QingdaoChina 121 works
  10. 10 JinanChina 111 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HuainanCN · 44.4 works21×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Electromagnetic wave absorption materials than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Electromagnetic wave absorption materials?

Among universities, judged by research, Hubei University of Automotive Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical 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%25%50%75%mean 26.9%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hubei University of …Qingdao UniversityNorthwestern Polytec…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.

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
1Hubei University of Automotive TechnologyChina 64.270.0%57.1×18 -
2Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 63.723.7%25.5×182 +17.9%
3Qingdao UniversityChina 60.944.2%9.2×39 +36.5%
4Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 52.512.0%9.2×94 +55.9%
5Shandong UniversityChina 52.319.8%9.0×74 +81.9%
6Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 52.119.7%8.1×60 +88.4%
7Sichuan UniversityChina 51.914.1%6.4×90 +29.3%
8Beijing University of Chemical TechnologyChina 49.618.6%17.5×47 +81.9%
9Zhengzhou UniversityChina 49.221.0%6.5×49 +79.0%
10Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 48.625.9%9.4×52 +3.2%

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 Electromagnetic wave absorption materials, country by country

Is Electromagnetic wave absorption materials research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 53% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Electromagnetic wave absorption 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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Electromagnetic wave absorption materials as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.029% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Electromagnetic wave absorption materials0.030% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Electromagnetic wave absorption materials 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%Electromagnetic wave absorption materials9.7% 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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