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Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies

Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 15k research works in it since 1957. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the development and application of emerging transparent electrodes for flexible electronics. It covers topics such as inkjet printing, nanowire networks, conductive inks, evaporating drops, graphene, metal nanowires, and stretchable conductors.

  • Transparent Electrodes
  • Inkjet Printing
  • Nanowire Networks
  • Flexible Electronics
  • Conductive Inks
  • Evaporating Drops
  • Graphene
  • Metal Nanowires
  • Printed Electronics
  • Stretchable Conductors
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1957
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
45% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies

Which countries lead Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.7k and 548 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.7k works
  2. 2 United States 548 works
  3. 3 South Korea 348 works
  4. 4 India 312 works
  5. 5 Japan 198 works
  6. 6 Germany 166 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 126 works
  8. 8 France 119 works
  9. 9 Russia 96 works
  10. 10 Italy 79 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: 45.3%United States: 15.0%South Korea: 9.5%India: 8.6%6 others listed: 21.5%45%largest
China1,652 · 45.3%United States548 · 15.0%South Korea348 · 9.5%India312 · 8.6%6 others listed785 · 21.5%

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

Which institutions lead Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Harbin Institute of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 113 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 55 works
  3. 3 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 38 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 34 works
  5. 5 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 29 works
  6. 6 Tsinghua UniversityChina 29 works
  7. 7 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 27 works
  8. 8 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 27 works
  9. 9 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 25 works
  10. 10 Dalian University of TechnologyChina 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies include Zhong Lin Wang, Kostya S. Novoselov and Róbert Langer.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  3. 3 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  4. 4 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  5. 5 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  6. 6 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  7. 7 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k citations
  8. 8 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  9. 9 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  10. 10 Younan Xia United States 207k 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 Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies?

The most cited paper in Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies is "Organic electroluminescent diodes" (Chak Wah Tang, S. A. VanSlyke, 1987), with 14,388 citations. Next come "Capillary flow as the cause of ring stains from dried liquid drops" (6,437) and "Wetting and spreading" (2,884).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Organic electroluminescent diodes Chak Wah Tang, S. A. VanSlyke · Applied Physics Letters 21 Sep 1987 14,388
2 Capillary flow as the cause of ring stains from dried liquid drops Robert D. Deegan, Olgica Bakajin, Todd F. Dupont et al. · Nature 23 Oct 1997 6,437
3 Wetting and spreading Daniel Bonn, Jens Eggers, Joseph O. Indekeu et al. · Reviews of Modern Physics 27 May 2009 2,884
4 Inkjet Printing—Process and Its Applications Madhusudan Singh, Hanna M. Haverinen, Parul Dhagat et al. · Advanced Materials 25 Aug 2009 2,377
5 Self-cleaning surfaces — virtual realities Ralf Blossey · Nature Materials May 2003 2,317
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Shanghai (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Daejeon.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 281 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 154 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 110 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 100 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 77 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 73 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 70 works
  8. 8 HangzhouChina 63 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 62 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 60 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DaejeonKR · 45.4 works5.7×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, City University of Hong Kong, Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Qingdao 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 20.01%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Qingdao UniversityCity University of H…Huazhong University …Harbin Institute of …
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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
1City University of Hong KongChina 67.228.1%5.7×13 +133.2%
2Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 60.818.4%4.2×29 +8.7%
3Qingdao UniversityChina 59.133.0%4.3×11 +46.3%
4Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 58.412.8%6.0×38 +6.0%
5Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina 58.221.1%6.8×14 +97.2%
6Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologySouth Korea 56.527.1%9.1×17 -13.0%
7Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 56.112.7%5.6×25 +115.8%
8University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 54.913.7%3.3×21 +22.5%
9Tsinghua UniversityChina 54.816.0%3.2×29 -5.5%
10Donghua UniversityChina 53.817.2%10.7×15 +19.3%

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 Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies, country by country

Is Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies.

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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 Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies 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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