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Polymer Surface Interaction Studies

Polymer Surface Interaction Studies is a research topic within Surfaces, Coatings and Films. Science Explorer counts 32k 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 focuses on the development and application of mussel-inspired surface chemistry for multifunctional coatings. It covers topics such as polydopamine and its derivatives, antifouling coatings, biomedical applications, polymer brushes, layer-by-layer assembly, protein adsorption, zwitterionic materials, and self-assembled monolayers.

  • Mussel-Inspired
  • Surface Chemistry
  • Polydopamine
  • Antifouling Coatings
  • Biomedical Applications
  • Polymer Brushes
  • Layer-by-Layer Assembly
  • Protein Adsorption
  • Zwitterionic Materials
  • Self-Assembled Monolayers
Research works
32k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
49% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Polymer Surface Interaction Studies

Which countries lead Polymer Surface Interaction Studies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.8k and 607 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.8k works
  2. 2 United States 607 works
  3. 3 Germany 240 works
  4. 4 India 237 works
  5. 5 Japan 231 works
  6. 6 France 169 works
  7. 7 South Korea 152 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 112 works
  9. 9 Russia 100 works
  10. 10 Canada 99 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: 48.7%United States: 16.0%Germany: 6.3%India: 6.2%6 others listed: 22.7%49%largest
China1,847 · 48.7%United States607 · 16.0%Germany240 · 6.3%India237 · 6.2%6 others listed862 · 22.7%

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

Which institutions lead Polymer Surface Interaction Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Polymer Surface Interaction Studies research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Sichuan University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 130 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 84 works
  3. 3 Sichuan UniversityChina 51 works
  4. 4 Zhejiang UniversityChina 45 works
  5. 5 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 42 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 33 works
  7. 7 South China University of TechnologyChina 30 works
  8. 8 Jilin UniversityChina 28 works
  9. 9 East China University of Science and TechnologyChina 26 works
  10. 10 Tsinghua UniversityChina 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Polymer Surface Interaction Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Polymer Surface Interaction Studies include Zhong Lin Wang, Yury G. Gogotsi and Róbert Langer.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  3. 3 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  4. 4 Marcello A. Tonelli Canada 268k citations
  5. 5 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  6. 6 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  7. 7 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  8. 8 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  9. 9 Ralph B. D’Agostino United States 255k citations
  10. 10 Kai You Wang China 224k 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 Polymer Surface Interaction Studies?

The most cited paper in Polymer Surface Interaction Studies is "Mussel-Inspired Surface Chemistry for Multifunctional Coatings" (Haeshin Lee, Shara M. Dellatore, William M. Miller et al., 2007), with 10,972 citations. Next come "Fuzzy Nanoassemblies: Toward Layered Polymeric Multicomposites" (10,041) and "Chitin and chitosan: Properties and applications" (8,231).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Mussel-Inspired Surface Chemistry for Multifunctional Coatings Haeshin Lee, Shara M. Dellatore, William M. Miller et al. · Science Open access 18 Oct 2007 10,972
2 Fuzzy Nanoassemblies: Toward Layered Polymeric Multicomposites Gero Decher · Science 29 Aug 1997 10,041
3 Chitin and chitosan: Properties and applications Marguerite Rinaudo · Progress in Polymer Science Jul 2006 8,231
4 Understanding biophysicochemical interactions at the nano–bio interface André E. Nel, Lutz Mädler, Darrell Velegol et al. · Nature Materials 14 Jun 2009 7,073
5 Emerging applications of stimuli-responsive polymer materials Martien A. Cohen Stuart, Wilhelm T. S. Huck, Jan Genzer et al. · Nature Materials Open access 22 Jan 2010 5,723
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Where is Polymer Surface Interaction Studies research done?

The largest centres of Polymer Surface Interaction Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Hangzhou (China) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Dresden.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 270 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 154 works
  3. 3 HangzhouChina 100 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 95 works
  5. 5 ChengduChina 86 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 81 works
  7. 7 TianjinChina 74 works
  8. 8 Xi'anChina 74 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 67 works
  10. 10 QingdaoChina 66 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DresdenDE · 22.3 works5.3×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Polymer Surface Interaction Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Polymer Surface Interaction Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Zhejiang University, Sichuan 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%10%20%30%mean 16.41%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Zhejiang UniversityJilin UniversitySichuan UniversityUniversity of Twente
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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
1Zhejiang UniversityChina 61.117.7%3.9×45 +6.3%
2Sichuan UniversityChina 56.614.4%5.3×51 -11.9%
3Jilin UniversityChina 54.116.2%5.7×28 +20.0%
4University of TwenteNetherlands 52.814.1%14.3×18 +20.9%
5South China University of TechnologyChina 51.913.6%6.5×30 +7.2%
6Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 51.013.1%2.7×33 +10.4%
7Harvard UniversityUnited States 50.027.9%0.7×10 -14.6%
8University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 49.814.0%3.5×24 +7.6%
9Tsinghua UniversityChina 48.317.2%2.5×25 -1.3%
10Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States 47.815.9%5.0×15 -18.6%

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 Polymer Surface Interaction Studies, country by country

Is Polymer Surface Interaction Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2012.

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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 Polymer Surface Interaction Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Polymer Surface Interaction Studies0.019% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Polymer Surface Interaction 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.

still counting5%10%15%Polymer Surface Interaction Studies9.7% 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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