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Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies

Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies is a research topic within Biomedical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 24k 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 explores the field of nanofluidics and nanopore technology, focusing on topics such as water transport through carbon nanotubes, DNA sequencing using nanopores, ion transport in nanofluidic channels, graphene membranes for desalination, and osmotic power generation. The research covers a wide range of applications and fundamental studies related to nanoscale fluid dynamics and molecular transport.

  • Nanopores
  • Nanofluidics
  • Carbon Nanotubes
  • Water Transport
  • DNA Sequencing
  • Ion Transport
  • Graphene Membranes
  • Molecular Dynamics
  • Osmotic Power Generation
  • Single-Molecule Sensing
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
44% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies

Which countries lead Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.8k and 838 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.8k works
  2. 2 United States 838 works
  3. 3 India 318 works
  4. 4 Japan 253 works
  5. 5 Germany 223 works
  6. 6 France 165 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 150 works
  8. 8 South Korea 136 works
  9. 9 Iran 110 works
  10. 10 Italy 89 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: 43.9%United States: 20.6%India: 7.8%Japan: 6.2%6 others listed: 21.4%44%largest
China1,787 · 43.9%United States838 · 20.6%India318 · 7.8%Japan253 · 6.2%6 others listed871 · 21.4%

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

Which institutions lead Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Nanjing University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 143 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 82 works
  3. 3 Nanjing UniversityChina 53 works
  4. 4 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 39 works
  5. 5 Southeast UniversityChina 37 works
  6. 6 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 34 works
  7. 7 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 31 works
  8. 8 Tsinghua UniversityChina 30 works
  9. 9 Zhejiang UniversityChina 29 works
  10. 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 28 works

Who are the leading researchers in Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies include Zhong Lin Wang, Kostya S. Novoselov and Andre K. Geim.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  3. 3 Andre K. Geim United Kingdom 315k citations
  4. 4 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  5. 5 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  6. 6 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  7. 7 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  8. 8 Omar M. Yaghi United States 254k citations
  9. 9 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k 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 Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies?

The most cited paper in Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies is "Tricine-sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis for the separation of proteins in the range from 1 to 100 kDa" (Hermann Schägger, Gebhard von Jagow, 1987), with 11,542 citations. Next come "Electrophoretic Analysis and Purification of Fluorescent Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Fragments" (5,326) and "Constant pressure molecular dynamics simulation: The Langevin piston method" (4,599).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Tricine-sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis for the separation of proteins in the range from 1 to 100 kDa Hermann Schägger, Gebhard von Jagow · Analytical Biochemistry Nov 1987 11,542
2 Electrophoretic Analysis and Purification of Fluorescent Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Fragments Xiaoyou Xu, Robert Ray, Yunlong Gu et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society 18 Sep 2004 5,326
3 Constant pressure molecular dynamics simulation: The Langevin piston method Scott E. Feller, Yuhong Zhang, Richard W. Pastor et al. · The Journal of Chemical Physics 15 Sep 1995 4,599
4 DISC ELECTROPHORESIS‐I BACKGROUND AND THEORY* L. S. Ornstein · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Dec 1964 4,580
5 Nanomaterials: A Membrane-Based Synthetic Approach Charles R. Martin · Science 23 Dec 1994 4,059
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Where is Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies research done?

The largest centres of Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Shanghai (China) and Wuhan (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 315 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 184 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 131 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 95 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 89 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 80 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 78 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 64 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 62 works
  10. 10 TehranIran 59 works
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Where is the best place to study Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Iran University of Science and Technology, Nanjing University and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences score highest, combining citation 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%60%mean 22.58%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Iran University of S…Zhejiang Sci-Tech Un…Nanjing 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.

Citation 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
1Iran University of Science and TechnologyIran 69.355.9%11.6×14 +14.7%
2Nanjing UniversityChina 69.023.5%13.0×53 +28.1%
3University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 61.119.2%5.4×39 +20.0%
4Zhejiang Sci-Tech UniversityChina 57.141.2%7.7×10 +279.4%
5Tongji UniversityChina 53.825.1%3.2×22 +84.3%
6King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologySaudi Arabia 50.621.6%7.1×9 +23.3%
7Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 48.610.1%4.4×34 +49.3%
8Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 47.415.2%2.2×28 +32.2%
9Southeast UniversityChina 46.43.4%5.6×37 +27.9%
10China University of GeosciencesChina 44.810.6%9.2×18 +113.1%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies, country by country

Is Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies.

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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 Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies 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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