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Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties

Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 75k 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 explores the diverse applications of quantum dots and nanocrystals in various fields such as bioimaging, photovoltaics, fluorescence imaging, biological detection, and nanoparticle synthesis. The research covers topics ranging from quantum dot solar cells to in vivo molecular and cellular imaging using quantum dots.

  • Quantum Dots
  • Nanocrystals
  • Bioimaging
  • Photovoltaics
  • Semiconductor Nanocrystals
  • Fluorescence Imaging
  • Colloidal Nanocrystals
  • Biological Detection
  • Solar Cells
  • Nanoparticle Synthesis
Research works
75k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
7.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
49% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties

Which countries lead Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (5.3k and 1.8k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 5.3k works
  2. 2 India 1.8k works
  3. 3 United States 1.1k works
  4. 4 South Korea 725 works
  5. 5 Japan 377 works
  6. 6 Germany 372 works
  7. 7 Russia 288 works
  8. 8 France 268 works
  9. 9 Saudi Arabia 254 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 237 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: 49.2%India: 16.7%United States: 10.5%South Korea: 6.8%6 others listed: 16.8%49%largest
China5,263 · 49.2%India1,782 · 16.7%United States1,123 · 10.5%South Korea725 · 6.8%6 others listed1,795 · 16.8%

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

Which institutions lead Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 451 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 139 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 101 works
  4. 4 Jilin UniversityChina 82 works
  5. 5 Soochow UniversityChina 80 works
  6. 6 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 69 works
  7. 7 Henan UniversityChina 67 works
  8. 8 Sungkyunkwan UniversitySouth Korea 61 works
  9. 9 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 59 works
  10. 10 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 59 works

Who are the leading researchers in Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties include Zhong Lin Wang, Michaël Grätzel and Georg Kresse.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  3. 3 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  4. 4 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  5. 5 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  6. 6 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  7. 7 Sudhir Kumar United States 295k citations
  8. 8 Matthias Ernzerhof Canada 276k citations
  9. 9 Heng Li United States 270k citations
  10. 10 George M. Whitesides United States 267k 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 Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties?

The most cited paper in Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties is "A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 films" (Brian C. O’Regan, Michaël Grätzel, 1991), with 28,576 citations. Next come "Organometal Halide Perovskites as Visible-Light Sensitizers for Photovoltaic Cells" (23,141) and "Photoelectrochemical cells" (12,688).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 films Brian C. O’Regan, Michaël Grätzel · Nature Open access Oct 1991 28,576
2 Organometal Halide Perovskites as Visible-Light Sensitizers for Photovoltaic Cells Akihiro Kojima, Kenjiro Teshima, Yasuo Shirai et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society 14 Apr 2009 23,141
3 Photoelectrochemical cells Michaël Grätzel · Nature Open access Nov 2001 12,688
4 Semiconductor Clusters, Nanocrystals, and Quantum Dots A. Paul Alivisatos · Science 16 Feb 1996 11,519
5 Efficient Hybrid Solar Cells Based on Meso-Superstructured Organometal Halide Perovskites Michael M. Lee, Joël Teuscher, Tsutomu Miyasaka et al. · Science 5 Oct 2012 10,671
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Where is Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties research done?

The largest centres of Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Shanghai (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Gorakhpur, Kaifeng and Golden.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 767 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 347 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 296 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 278 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 254 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 212 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 180 works
  8. 8 ShenzhenChina 169 works
  9. 9 TianjinChina 160 works
  10. 10 HefeiChina 159 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GorakhpurIN · 25.6 works14×
  2. KaifengCN · 68.2 works11×
  3. GoldenUS · 31.7 works8.9×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties?

Among universities, judged by research, City University of Hong Kong, Soochow University and Sungkyunkwan 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 22.41%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Begum Rokeya Univers…City University of H…Soochow UniversitySungkyunkwan Univers…
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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 72.227.0%4.8×34 +0.5%
2Soochow UniversityChina 67.619.6%6.6×80 -10.0%
3Sungkyunkwan UniversitySouth Korea 67.316.5%7.0×61 +17.1%
4Begum Rokeya UniversityBangladesh 67.133.0%31.4×9 +366.9%
5Macau University of Science and TechnologyChina 65.825.2%5.7×15 +428.2%
6Fuzhou UniversityChina 64.615.2%7.8×54 +12.8%
7University of MacauChina 64.323.3%4.4×18 +51.1%
8University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 64.118.0%3.4×69 +3.8%
9Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina 63.517.7%8.6×57 -2.4%
10King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologySaudi Arabia 62.728.6%5.8×20 -21.5%

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 Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties, country by country

Is Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022.

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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 Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.065% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties 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%Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties9.7% 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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Who leads quantum dot research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Russian Academy of Sciences. By volume, China and India publish the most (5.3k and 1.8k works in 2022-now).

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