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Environmental remediation with nanomaterials

Environmental remediation with nanomaterials is a research topic within Biomedical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 19k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the applications and remediation potential of nanoscale zero-valent iron (nZVI) in groundwater remediation, wastewater treatment, and environmental cleanup. The papers cover topics such as heavy metal removal, contaminant sequestration, reductive dechlorination, and the use of permeable reactive barriers. They also explore surface modifications, spectroscopic investigation, and the long-term performance of nZVI in various environmental conditions.

  • Groundwater Remediation
  • Wastewater Treatment
  • Heavy Metal Removal
  • Environmental Cleanup
  • Nano Zero-Valent Iron
  • Contaminant Sequestration
  • Permeable Reactive Barriers
  • Reductive Dechlorination
  • Surface Modification
  • Spectroscopic Investigation
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+34%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
72% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Environmental remediation with nanomaterials

Which countries lead Environmental remediation with nanomaterials research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (3.8k and 579 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.8k works
  2. 2 India 579 works
  3. 3 United States 283 works
  4. 4 Iran 124 works
  5. 5 South Korea 90 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 88 works
  7. 7 Spain 85 works
  8. 8 Brazil 85 works
  9. 9 Saudi Arabia 82 works
  10. 10 Egypt 78 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: 71.5%India: 11.0%United States: 5.4%Iran: 2.4%6 others listed: 9.7%72%largest
China3,754 · 71.5%India579 · 11.0%United States283 · 5.4%Iran124 · 2.4%6 others listed508 · 9.7%

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

Which institutions lead Environmental remediation with nanomaterials research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Environmental remediation with nanomaterials research, followed by Tongji University and Harbin Institute of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 168 works
  2. 2 Tongji UniversityChina 116 works
  3. 3 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 72 works
  4. 4 Zhejiang UniversityChina 54 works
  5. 5 Hunan UniversityChina 47 works
  6. 6 Sichuan UniversityChina 47 works
  7. 7 Central South UniversityChina 45 works
  8. 8 South China University of TechnologyChina 44 works
  9. 9 Nankai UniversityChina 44 works
  10. 10 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 40 works

Who are the leading researchers in Environmental remediation with nanomaterials?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Environmental remediation with nanomaterials include Wei Huang, Ben Zhong Tang and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  5. 5 Krzysztof Matyjaszewski United States 165k citations
  6. 6 Lin Gu China 159k citations
  7. 7 Shi‐Zhang Qiao Australia 159k 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 Environmental remediation with nanomaterials?

The most cited paper in Environmental remediation with nanomaterials is "Advanced Oxidation Processes for Organic Contaminant Destruction Based on the Fenton Reaction and Related Chemistry" (Joseph J. Pignatello, Esther Oliveros, Allison A. MacKay, 2006), with 4,104 citations. Next come "New trends in removing heavy metals from industrial wastewater" (3,105) and "Electrochemical technologies in wastewater treatment" (3,008).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Advanced Oxidation Processes for Organic Contaminant Destruction Based on the Fenton Reaction and Related Chemistry Joseph J. Pignatello, Esther Oliveros, Allison A. MacKay · Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology 2006 4,104
2 New trends in removing heavy metals from industrial wastewater M.A. Barakat · Arabian Journal of Chemistry Open access 22 Jul 2010 3,105
3 Electrochemical technologies in wastewater treatment Guohua Chen · Separation and Purification Technology 22 Dec 2003 3,008
4 Phosphorus flame retardants: Properties, production, environmental occurrence, toxicity and analysis Ike van der Veen, J. de Boer · Chemosphere 24 Apr 2012 2,887
5 ‘Green’ synthesis of metals and their oxide nanoparticles: applications for environmental remediation Jagpreet Singh, Tanushree Dutta, Ki‐Hyun Kim et al. · Journal of Nanobiotechnology Open access 29 Oct 2018 2,699
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Where is Environmental remediation with nanomaterials research done?

The largest centres of Environmental remediation with nanomaterials research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Shanghai (China) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Shanghai and Xuzhou.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 538 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 275 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 230 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 177 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 166 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 158 works
  7. 7 TianjinChina 138 works
  8. 8 ChangshaChina 134 works
  9. 9 Xi'anChina 121 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 117 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Shanghai26.6 works29×
  2. XuzhouCN · 34.0 works5.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Environmental remediation with nanomaterials than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Environmental remediation with nanomaterials?

Among universities, judged by research, Hunan University, Tongji University and Harbin Institute 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%10%20%30%mean 19.52%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northeast Agricultur…Hunan UniversityHarbin Institute of …Tongji University
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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
1Hunan UniversityChina 72.922.7%11.4×47 +3.4%
2Tongji UniversityChina 71.616.6%13.2×116 +46.6%
3Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 67.317.2%7.6×72 +50.9%
4Northeast Agricultural UniversityChina 64.727.7%8.3×12 +234.8%
5East China Normal UniversityChina 62.027.7%5.2×14 +114.9%
6Sichuan UniversityChina 60.318.1%3.6×46 +32.4%
7Nankai UniversityChina 58.314.1%11.2×44 +69.1%
8Guangdong University of TechnologyChina 55.715.8%8.7×28 +37.4%
9East China University of Science and TechnologyChina 55.113.6%12.8×36 +68.0%
10Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 54.521.7%1.7×29 +50.4%

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 Environmental remediation with nanomaterials, country by country

Is Environmental remediation with nanomaterials research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 34% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Environmental remediation with nanomaterials.

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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 Environmental remediation with nanomaterials as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Environmental remediation with nanomaterials0.026% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Environmental remediation with nanomaterials 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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