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Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis

Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 39k 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 synthesis, characterization, and applications of mesoporous materials, including nanocomposite materials, ordered nanoporous arrays, and silica-based hybrid organic-inorganic materials. The research covers topics such as drug delivery, catalysis, and pore structure characterization, highlighting the advancements in the field of mesoporous materials.

  • Mesoporous Materials
  • Nanocomposite Materials
  • Ordered Nanoporous Arrays
  • Drug Delivery
  • Catalysis
  • Silica-Based Materials
  • Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials
  • Pore Structure Characterization
  • Template Synthesis
  • Functionalization
Research works
39k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
52% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis

Which countries lead Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.6k and 250 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.6k works
  2. 2 India 250 works
  3. 3 United States 243 works
  4. 4 Japan 198 works
  5. 5 Russia 179 works
  6. 6 France 167 works
  7. 7 Germany 120 works
  8. 8 Iran 112 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 95 works
  10. 10 Spain 93 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: 51.6%India: 8.3%United States: 8.1%Japan: 6.6%6 others listed: 25.4%52%largest
China1,555 · 51.6%India250 · 8.3%United States243 · 8.1%Japan198 · 6.6%6 others listed767 · 25.4%

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

Which institutions lead Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 123 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 91 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 85 works
  4. 4 East China University of Science and TechnologyChina 32 works
  5. 5 Tianjin UniversityChina 30 works
  6. 6 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 26 works
  7. 7 Nanjing Tech UniversityChina 25 works
  8. 8 Sinopec (China)China 23 works
  9. 9 Taiyuan University of TechnologyChina 23 works
  10. 10 China University of Petroleum, BeijingChina 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis include Zhong Lin Wang, Michaël Grätzel and Yury G. Gogotsi.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  3. 3 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  4. 4 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  5. 5 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  6. 6 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  7. 7 Omar M. Yaghi United States 254k citations
  8. 8 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k citations
  9. 9 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  10. 10 George M. Sheldrick Germany 220k 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 Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis?

The most cited paper in Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis is "Ordered mesoporous molecular sieves synthesized by a liquid-crystal template mechanism" (Charles T. Kresge, Michael E. Leonowicz, Wiesław J. Roth et al., 1992), with 16,257 citations. Next come "Controlled growth of monodisperse silica spheres in the micron size range" (14,524) and "Triblock Copolymer Syntheses of Mesoporous Silica with Periodic 50 to 300 Angstrom Pores" (11,736).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Ordered mesoporous molecular sieves synthesized by a liquid-crystal template mechanism Charles T. Kresge, Michael E. Leonowicz, Wiesław J. Roth et al. · Nature Oct 1992 16,257
2 Controlled growth of monodisperse silica spheres in the micron size range Werner Stöber, Arthur G. Fink, Ernst Bohn · Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 1968 14,524
3 Triblock Copolymer Syntheses of Mesoporous Silica with Periodic 50 to 300 Angstrom Pores Dongyuan Zhao, Jianglin Feng, Qisheng Huo et al. · Science 23 Jan 1998 11,736
4 Reticular synthesis and the design of new materials Omar M. Yaghi, Michael O'Keeffe, Nathan W. Ockwig et al. · Nature Jun 2003 9,123
5 Porous, Crystalline, Covalent Organic Frameworks Adrien P. Côté, Annabelle I. Benin, Nathan W. Ockwig et al. · Science 18 Nov 2005 8,365
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Where is Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis research done?

The largest centres of Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Tianjin (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Taiyuan and Dalian.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 258 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 129 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 78 works
  4. 4 TianjinChina 70 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 64 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 59 works
  7. 7 DalianChina 58 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 53 works
  9. 9 Xi'anChina 49 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 48 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TaiyuanCN · 43.5 works6.1×
  2. DalianCN · 58.0 works5.4×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Fudan University, Nanjing Forestry University and Jilin 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%20%40%mean 16.21%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Nanjing Forestry Uni…Fudan UniversityJilin UniversityUniversity of Chines…
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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
1Fudan UniversityChina 74.528.1%3.0×17 +39.7%
2Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 67.229.4%7.2×12 +55.8%
3Jilin UniversityChina 61.119.6%5.3×22 +7.7%
4University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 58.812.3%4.4×26 -3.0%
5Tsinghua UniversityChina 57.615.9%2.4×20 +26.0%
6China University of Petroleum, BeijingChina 57.412.5%15.7×22 +10.1%
7East China University of Science and TechnologyChina 56.18.1%18.0×32 +5.0%
8Zhejiang UniversityChina 54.718.7%2.1×21 -7.8%
9Tianjin UniversityChina 53.011.5%6.8×30 -32.2%
10Nanjing Tech UniversityChina 52.66.0%14.2×25 +25.4%

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 Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis, country by country

Is Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011.

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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 Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis0.017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis 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%Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis10.1% 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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