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Quasicrystal Structures and Properties

Quasicrystal Structures and Properties is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the structure, properties, and applications of quasicrystals, including their formation, stability, atomic structure, and potential uses in photonics and plasmonics. It also explores the role of aperiodic order in science and technology, as well as the mathematical and theoretical aspects of quasicrystal structures.

  • Quasicrystals
  • Nanoparticle Superlattices
  • Aperiodic Order
  • Mesoscopic Tiling
  • Dynamical Systems
  • Photonics Applications
  • Crystal Structures
  • Elasticity Theory
  • Thermodynamic Modeling
  • Metallic Alloys
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Quasicrystal Structures and Properties

Which countries lead Quasicrystal Structures and Properties research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (332 and 201 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 332 works
  2. 2 United States 201 works
  3. 3 Japan 113 works
  4. 4 Russia 78 works
  5. 5 Germany 75 works
  6. 6 France 69 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 60 works
  8. 8 India 55 works
  9. 9 Italy 39 works
  10. 10 Poland 38 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: 31.4%United States: 18.9%Japan: 10.6%Russia: 7.4%6 others listed: 31.7%31%largest
China332 · 31.4%United States201 · 18.9%Japan113 · 10.6%Russia78 · 7.4%6 others listed337 · 31.7%

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

Which institutions lead Quasicrystal Structures and Properties research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Quasicrystal Structures and Properties research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Tohoku University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 36 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 36 works
  3. 3 Tohoku UniversityJapan 16 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 15 works
  5. 5 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 14 works
  6. 6 The University of TokyoJapan 11 works
  7. 7 China Agricultural UniversityChina 10 works
  8. 8 Central South UniversityChina 10 works
  9. 9 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 10 works
  10. 10 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Quasicrystal Structures and Properties?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Quasicrystal Structures and Properties include Omar M. Yaghi, Kenji Watanabe and Takashi Taniguchi.

  1. 1 Omar M. Yaghi United States 254k citations
  2. 2 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  3. 3 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  4. 4 Mercouri G. Kanatzidis United States 196k citations
  5. 5 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  6. 6 Pulickel Madhavapanicker Ajayan United States 173k citations
  7. 7 Han Zhang China 161k 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 Quasicrystal Structures and Properties?

The most cited paper in Quasicrystal Structures and Properties is "Metallic Phase with Long-Range Orientational Order and No Translational Symmetry" (Daniel Shechtman, I. A. Blech, D. Gratias et al., 1984), with 7,101 citations. Next come "Special quasirandom structures" (3,968) and "Deformation twinning" (3,596).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Metallic Phase with Long-Range Orientational Order and No Translational Symmetry Daniel Shechtman, I. A. Blech, D. Gratias et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access 12 Nov 1984 7,101
2 Special quasirandom structures Alex Zunger, Su‐Huai Wei, L. G. Ferreira et al. · Physical Review Letters 16 Jul 1990 3,968
3 Deformation twinning J. W. Christian, Subhash K Mahajan · Progress in Materials Science 1995 3,596
4 Periodic boundary conditions in ab initio calculations Guy Makov, Mike C. Payne · Physical review. B, Condensed matter 15 Feb 1995 2,998
5 The iterative calculation of a few of the lowest eigenvalues and corresponding eigenvectors of large real-symmetric matrices Ernest R. Davidson · Journal of Computational Physics 1975 2,566
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Where is Quasicrystal Structures and Properties research done?

The largest centres of Quasicrystal Structures and Properties research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Moscow (Russia) and Hohhot (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Hohhot.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 59 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 39 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 34 works
  4. 4 HohhotChina 20 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 18 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 18 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 18 works
  8. 8 SendaiJapan 17 works
  9. 9 KrakowPoland 15 works
  10. 10 ChangshaChina 15 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HohhotCN · 20.3 works17×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Quasicrystal Structures and Properties than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Quasicrystal Structures and Properties?

Among universities, judged by research, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Tohoku University and The University of Tokyo 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 13.4%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northwestern Polytec…The University of To…China Agricultural U…Tohoku University
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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
1Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 61.338.0%6.4×9 +75.4%
2Tohoku UniversityJapan 61.27.1%19.6×16 -62.0%
3The University of TokyoJapan 56.815.5%7.0×11 +24.1%
4China Agricultural UniversityChina 53.08.1%14.7×10 +132.1%
5Central South UniversityChina 49.414.4%4.0×10 +115.2%
6Zhengzhou UniversityChina 38.410.7%5.4×8 +67.8%
7AGH University of KrakowPoland 31.10.0%18.6×9 +8.0%

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 Quasicrystal Structures and Properties, country by country

Is Quasicrystal Structures and Properties research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2006. The fastest-growing topics are Quasicrystal Structures and Properties.

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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 Quasicrystal Structures and Properties as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0047% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Quasicrystal Structures and Properties0.0063% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Quasicrystal Structures 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%Quasicrystal Structures and Properties11.0% 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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