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Material Dynamics and Properties

Material Dynamics and Properties is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 48k 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 explores the dynamics and transitions in glassy materials, including supercooled liquids, colloidal suspensions, polymer films, and the phenomena of structural relaxation, jamming transition, dynamic heterogeneities, and liquid-liquid phase transition. It delves into the rheology and behavior of soft materials, as well as the properties of amorphous solids.

  • Glass Transition
  • Supercooled Liquids
  • Colloidal Suspensions
  • Structural Relaxation
  • Jamming Transition
  • Polymer Films
  • Dynamic Heterogeneities
  • Liquid-liquid Phase Transition
  • Rheology of Soft Materials
  • Amorphous Solids
Research works
48k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-20%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
23% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Material Dynamics and Properties

Which countries lead Material Dynamics and Properties research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (656 and 551 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 656 works
  2. 2 China 551 works
  3. 3 Japan 282 works
  4. 4 France 272 works
  5. 5 Germany 256 works
  6. 6 India 233 works
  7. 7 Russia 182 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 145 works
  9. 9 Italy 124 works
  10. 10 Spain 95 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.

United States: 23.5%China: 19.7%Japan: 10.1%France: 9.7%6 others listed: 37.0%23%largest
United States656 · 23.5%China551 · 19.7%Japan282 · 10.1%France272 · 9.7%6 others listed1,036 · 37.0%

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

Which institutions lead Material Dynamics and Properties research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 129 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 93 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 79 works
  4. 4 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 29 works
  5. 5 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 27 works
  6. 6 The University of TokyoJapan 23 works
  7. 7 Kyoto UniversityJapan 18 works
  8. 8 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 17 works
  9. 9 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 17 works
  10. 10 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Material Dynamics and Properties?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Material Dynamics and Properties include John P. Perdew, Georg Kresse and Dan J. Stein.

  1. 1 John P. Perdew United States 436k citations
  2. 2 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  3. 3 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  4. 4 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  5. 5 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  6. 6 Donald G. Truhlar United States 230k citations
  7. 7 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  8. 8 Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási United States 223k citations
  9. 9 John Anthony Pople United States 202k citations
  10. 10 Harry Eugene Stanley United States 198k 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 Material Dynamics and Properties?

The most cited paper in Material Dynamics and Properties is "A molecular dynamics method for simulations in the canonical ensemble" (Shūichi Nosé, 1984), with 10,260 citations. Next come "Wetting: statics and dynamics" (7,212) and "A new integral equation formalism for the polarizable continuum model: Theoretical background and applications to isotropic and anisotropic dielectrics" (6,965).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A molecular dynamics method for simulations in the canonical ensemble Shūichi Nosé · Molecular Physics 10 Jun 1984 10,260
2 Wetting: statics and dynamics Pierre Gilles de Gennes · Reviews of Modern Physics Jul 1985 7,212
3 A new integral equation formalism for the polarizable continuum model: Theoretical background and applications to isotropic and anisotropic dielectrics Éric Cancès, Benedetta Mennucci, J. Tomasi · The Journal of Chemical Physics 22 Aug 1997 6,965
4 Constant pressure molecular dynamics algorithms Glenn J. Martyna, Douglas J. Tobias, Michael Lawrence Klein · The Journal of Chemical Physics Sep 1994 6,015
5 COMPASS: An ab Initio Force-Field Optimized for Condensed-Phase ApplicationsOverview with Details on Alkane and Benzene Compounds Huai Sun · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 29 Aug 1998 6,007
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Where is Material Dynamics and Properties research done?

The largest centres of Material Dynamics and Properties research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), Tokyo (Japan) and Moscow (Russia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 130 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 111 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 73 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 63 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 48 works
  6. 6 BengaluruIndia 32 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 30 works
  8. 8 Xi'anChina 29 works
  9. 9 LondonUnited Kingdom 29 works
  10. 10 RomeItaly 28 works
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Where is the best place to study Material Dynamics and Properties?

Among universities, judged by research, Princeton University, University of Cambridge and The University of Tokyo 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.

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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
1Princeton UniversityUnited States 70.429.4%10.7×14 -29.8%
2University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 66.727.8%4.5×17 -45.7%
3The University of TokyoJapan 63.518.7%6.1×23 -14.4%
4Université Paris Sciences et LettresFrance 61.017.7%12.0×14 -3.9%
5University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 58.925.1%5.5×14 -39.3%
6University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 58.020.7%3.0×15 +16.3%
7University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 58.015.0%4.1×11 +21.4%
8University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States 53.014.5%10.6×10 +11.9%
9Technische Universität DarmstadtGermany 51.120.9%12.4×12 -55.5%
10Roskilde UniversityDenmark 50.210.3%33.6×12 -0.6%

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 Material Dynamics and Properties, country by country

Is Material Dynamics and Properties research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2007.

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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 Material Dynamics and Properties as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Material Dynamics and Properties0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Material Dynamics and Properties 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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