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Hydrogen Storage and Materials

Hydrogen Storage and Materials is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 27k 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 focuses on the materials, methods, and technologies for hydrogen storage, including metal hydrides, chemical storage solutions like ammonia borane, nanostructured carbon materials, and various catalysts for enhancing hydrogen generation and storage. It covers a wide range of research on improving the capacity, kinetics, and stability of hydrogen storage systems for mobile and stationary applications.

  • Hydrogen Storage
  • Materials
  • Metal Hydrides
  • Chemical Hydrogen Storage
  • Nanomaterials
  • Catalysts
  • Ammonia Borane
  • Nanostructured Carbon
  • Hydrogen Generation
  • Nanoparticles
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+54%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
55% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Hydrogen Storage and Materials

Which countries lead Hydrogen Storage and Materials research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2.8k and 464 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.8k works
  2. 2 India 464 works
  3. 3 United States 385 works
  4. 4 Japan 273 works
  5. 5 Germany 240 works
  6. 6 South Korea 211 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 205 works
  8. 8 Russia 160 works
  9. 9 France 148 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 142 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: 55.3%India: 9.3%United States: 7.7%Japan: 5.5%6 others listed: 22.2%55%largest
China2,759 · 55.3%India464 · 9.3%United States385 · 7.7%Japan273 · 5.5%6 others listed1,105 · 22.2%

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

Which institutions lead Hydrogen Storage and Materials research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 173 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 73 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 70 works
  4. 4 Chongqing UniversityChina 66 works
  5. 5 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 56 works
  6. 6 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 50 works
  7. 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 44 works
  8. 8 Zhejiang UniversityChina 41 works
  9. 9 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 39 works
  10. 10 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 37 works

Who are the leading researchers in Hydrogen Storage and Materials?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Hydrogen Storage and Materials include Zhong Lin Wang, Georg Kresse and Andre K. Geim.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  3. 3 Andre K. Geim United Kingdom 315k citations
  4. 4 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  5. 5 Jens K. Nørskov Denmark 260k citations
  6. 6 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  7. 7 Omar M. Yaghi United States 254k citations
  8. 8 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k citations
  9. 9 Donald G. Truhlar United States 230k citations
  10. 10 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k 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 Hydrogen Storage and Materials?

The most cited paper in Hydrogen Storage and Materials is "Opportunities and challenges for a sustainable energy future" (Steven Chu, Arun K. Majumdar, 2012), with 12,573 citations. Next come "Hydrogen-storage materials for mobile applications" (8,827) and "Advanced Materials for Energy Storage" (4,769).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Opportunities and challenges for a sustainable energy future Steven Chu, Arun K. Majumdar · Nature Aug 2012 12,573
2 Hydrogen-storage materials for mobile applications L. Schlapbach, Andreas Züttel · Nature Open access Nov 2001 8,827
3 Advanced Materials for Energy Storage Chang Liu, Feng Li, Lai‐Peng Ma et al. · Advanced Materials 14 Jan 2010 4,769
4 The role of hydrogen and fuel cells in the global energy system Iain Staffell, Daniel Scamman, Anthony Velazquez Abad et al. · Energy & Environmental Science Open access 10 Dec 2018 4,102
5 Biomimetic Hydrogen Evolution: MoS 2 Nanoparticles as Catalyst for Hydrogen Evolution Berit Hinnemann, Poul Georg Moses, Jacob Bonde et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society 25 Mar 2005 4,049
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Where is Hydrogen Storage and Materials research done?

The largest centres of Hydrogen Storage and Materials research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Xi'an (China) and Chongqing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Baotou.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 461 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 144 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 131 works
  4. 4 ChongqingChina 101 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 99 works
  6. 6 ChengduChina 92 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 86 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 81 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 79 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 76 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BaotouCN · 40.6 works31×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Hydrogen Storage and Materials than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Hydrogen Storage and Materials?

Among universities, judged by research, Southwest Petroleum University, Chongqing University and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals 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%mean 19.2%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Southwest Petroleum …King Fahd University…Shanghai Jiao Tong U…Chongqing 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
1Southwest Petroleum UniversityChina 66.543.6%7.2×13 +418.4%
2Chongqing UniversityChina 63.415.1%10.6×66 +140.1%
3King Fahd University of Petroleum and MineralsSaudi Arabia 60.025.1%9.2×18 +360.8%
4Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 54.516.9%2.6×44 +39.8%
5North China Electric Power UniversityChina 53.513.6%9.6×37 +510.3%
6Technical University of DenmarkDenmark 52.422.7%5.1×15 +133.4%
7Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 51.67.9%5.0×50 +144.9%
8Mohammed V UniversityMorocco 51.024.8%6.9×15 +366.7%
9Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 48.710.3%4.1×39 +67.4%
10Jiangsu University of Science and TechnologyChina 48.412.0%14.1×25 +144.5%

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 Hydrogen Storage and Materials, country by country

Is Hydrogen Storage and Materials research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 54% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Hydrogen Storage and 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 Hydrogen Storage and Materials as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.032% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Hydrogen Storage and Materials0.032% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Hydrogen Storage and 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%Hydrogen Storage and Materials9.8% 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.

Questions people ask

Which countries lead hydrogen storage research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2.8k and 464 works in 2022-now).

Which countries lead Hydrogen Storage and Materials research?
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