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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. 16.3% 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%
6.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
16.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
-20%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.3k and 220 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 1.3k works
  2. 2 India 220 works
  3. 3 United States 204 works
  4. 4 Japan 169 works
  5. 5 Russia 160 works
  6. 6 France 146 works
  7. 7 Germany 103 works
  8. 8 Iran 98 works
  9. 9 Spain 85 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 82 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: 50.7%India: 8.6%United States: 7.9%Japan: 6.6%6 others listed: 26.2%51%largest
China1,303 · 50.7%India220 · 8.6%United States204 · 7.9%Japan169 · 6.6%6 others listed675 · 26.2%

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

Which institutions lead Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis research, followed by East China University of Science and Technology and Tianjin University.

Who are the leading researchers in Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis include Avelino Corma and Jiaguo Yu.

  1. 1 Avelino Corma Spain 4.4k citations
  2. 2 Jiaguo Yu China 4.2k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis research done?

The largest centres of Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 218 works
  2. 2 Shanghai China 108 works
  3. 3 Nanjing China 66 works
  4. 4 Tianjin China 60 works
  5. 5 Moscow Russia 57 works
  6. 6 Hangzhou China 51 works
  7. 7 Dalian China 50 works
  8. 8 Tokyo Japan 46 works
  9. 9 Guangzhou China 42 works
  10. 10 Qingdao China 40 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TaiyuanCN · 35.4 works6.0×
  2. DalianCN · 49.5 works5.5×
← less than its size predictsmore →

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, Nanjing Forestry University, East China University of Science and Technology and China University of Petroleum, Beijing 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 12.92%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Nanjing Forestry University: 11, 31.5%East China University of Science and Technology: 27, 6.4%China University of Petroleum, Beijing: 18, 10.1%Beijing University of Chemical Technology: 16, 12.1%Dalian University: 12, 12.5%Nanjing Tech University: 19, 5.8%Taiyuan University of Technology: 19, 2.3%Fudan University: 15, 27.0%Changzhou University: 10, 12.0%Tianjin University: 25, 9.5%Nanjing Forestry Uni…Beijing University o…China University of …East China Universit…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 67.531.5%7.0×11 +167.6%
2 East China University of Science and TechnologyChina 50.26.4%15.7×27 -18.8%
3 China University of Petroleum, BeijingChina 47.910.1%13.3×18 -28.9%
4 Beijing University of Chemical TechnologyChina 46.712.1%10.2×16 -42.3%
5 Dalian UniversityChina 44.612.5%14.6×12 -32.4%
6 Nanjing Tech UniversityChina 43.95.8%11.0×19 -38.7%
7 Taiyuan University of TechnologyChina 43.72.3%13.3×19 +13.5%
8 Fudan UniversityChina 43.127.0%3.8×15 -66.9%
9 Changzhou UniversityChina 42.812.0%11.2×10 -9.0%
10 Tianjin UniversityChina 41.79.5%5.9×25 -7.8%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 20% lower than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.