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Layered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications

Layered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 16k research works in it since 1951. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the synthesis, applications, and properties of layered double hydroxide (LDH) nanomaterials, including nanosheets, anion exchange, catalytic applications, intercalation chemistry, drug delivery systems, photocatalysts, delamination techniques, layer-by-layer assembly, and nanostructured biohybrid materials.

  • Nanosheets
  • Anion Exchange
  • Catalytic Applications
  • Intercalation Chemistry
  • Hydrotalcite-like Compounds
  • Drug Delivery
  • Photocatalysts
  • Delamination
  • Layer-by-Layer Assembly
  • Nanostructured Biohybrid Materials
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
65% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Layered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications

Which countries lead Layered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2k and 283 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2k works
  2. 2 India 283 works
  3. 3 United States 140 works
  4. 4 Japan 127 works
  5. 5 Iran 122 works
  6. 6 South Korea 115 works
  7. 7 France 80 works
  8. 8 Russia 76 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 75 works
  10. 10 Saudi Arabia 75 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: 65.0%India: 9.1%United States: 4.5%Japan: 4.1%6 others listed: 17.4%65%largest
China2,025 · 65.0%India283 · 9.1%United States140 · 4.5%Japan127 · 4.1%6 others listed542 · 17.4%

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

Which institutions lead Layered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Layered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications research, followed by Beijing University of Chemical Technology and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 99 works
  2. 2 Beijing University of Chemical TechnologyChina 56 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 40 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 34 works
  5. 5 Chongqing UniversityChina 27 works
  6. 6 Central South UniversityChina 25 works
  7. 7 Sriwijaya UniversityIndonesia 22 works
  8. 8 Zhengzhou UniversityChina 19 works
  9. 9 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 19 works
  10. 10 Tongji UniversityChina 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Layered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Layered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications include Zhong Lin Wang, Wei Huang and Yi Ping Cui.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  3. 3 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  4. 4 Omar M. Yaghi United States 254k citations
  5. 5 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  6. 6 Jiaguo Yu China 207k citations
  7. 7 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  8. 8 Mercouri G. Kanatzidis United States 196k citations
  9. 9 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  10. 10 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k 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 Layered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications?

The most cited paper in Layered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications is "Pseudocapacitive oxide materials for high-rate electrochemical energy storage" (Veronica Augustyn, Patrice Simon, Bruce Dunn, 2014), with 5,566 citations. Next come "Recent Advances in the Synthesis and Application of Layered Double Hydroxide (LDH) Nanosheets" (3,513) and "A review on polymer–layered silicate nanocomposites" (2,519).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Pseudocapacitive oxide materials for high-rate electrochemical energy storage Veronica Augustyn, Patrice Simon, Bruce Dunn · Energy & Environmental Science Open access 2014 5,566
2 Recent Advances in the Synthesis and Application of Layered Double Hydroxide (LDH) Nanosheets Qiang Wang, Dermot O’Hare · Chemical Reviews Review 27 Mar 2012 3,513
3 A review on polymer–layered silicate nanocomposites Silvia Pavlidou, Constantine D. Papaspyrides · Progress in Polymer Science Open access 26 Sep 2008 2,519
4 Generalized syntheses of large-pore mesoporous metal oxides with semicrystalline frameworks Peidong Yang, Dongyuan Zhao, David I. Margolese et al. · Nature Nov 1998 2,497
5 High Dielectric Constant in ACu3Ti4O12 and ACu3Ti3FeO12 Phases Mas A. Subramanian, Dong Li, Ning Duan et al. · Journal of Solid State Chemistry May 2000 2,099
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Where is Layered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Layered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Shanghai (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Guilin.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 310 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 110 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 97 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 85 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 73 works
  6. 6 TianjinChina 62 works
  7. 7 ChongqingChina 58 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 54 works
  9. 9 ChangshaChina 54 works
  10. 10 QingdaoChina 54 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GuilinCN · 25.0 works7.3×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Layered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Layered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Chongqing University, Hunan 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 19.66%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Chongqing UniversityHunan UniversityKing Fahd University…Beijing University o…
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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
1Chongqing UniversityChina 69.523.9%6.9×27 +50.2%
2Hunan UniversityChina 64.323.3%4.7×12 +16.4%
3King Fahd University of Petroleum and MineralsSaudi Arabia 62.921.4%8.8×11 +53.4%
4Beijing University of Chemical TechnologyChina 62.07.2%36.0×56 +29.1%
5Qingdao UniversityChina 60.529.4%4.3×10 +122.1%
6Yeungnam UniversitySouth Korea 55.420.2%11.3×9 +112.3%
7Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 52.621.3%4.3×13 +108.1%
8Tongji UniversityChina 52.416.7%3.3×18 +38.8%
9Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 51.119.4%1.7×18 +38.9%
10Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 49.013.8%6.4×19 +24.2%

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 Layered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications, country by country

Is Layered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Layered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications.

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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 Layered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Layered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications 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%Layered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications9.9% 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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