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Silicone and Siloxane Chemistry

Silicone and Siloxane Chemistry is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 28k 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 focuses on the advancements in the research and applications of Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes (POSS). The topics covered include nanocomposites, hybrid materials, thermal properties, organic-inorganic interactions, nanoparticles, catalysis, epoxy networks, morphology, and the effects of space environment on POSS-based materials.

  • Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes
  • Nanocomposites
  • Hybrid Materials
  • Thermal Properties
  • Organic-Inorganic
  • Nanoparticles
  • Catalysis
  • Epoxy Networks
  • Morphology
  • Space Environment Effects
Research works
28k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
56% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Silicone and Siloxane Chemistry

Which countries lead Silicone and Siloxane Chemistry research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.5k and 268 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.5k works
  2. 2 United States 268 works
  3. 3 Japan 185 works
  4. 4 India 176 works
  5. 5 Russia 164 works
  6. 6 South Korea 100 works
  7. 7 Germany 92 works
  8. 8 France 89 works
  9. 9 Poland 83 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 60 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: 55.6%United States: 9.8%Japan: 6.7%India: 6.4%6 others listed: 21.4%56%largest
China1,523 · 55.6%United States268 · 9.8%Japan185 · 6.7%India176 · 6.4%6 others listed587 · 21.4%

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

Which institutions lead Silicone and Siloxane Chemistry research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Silicone and Siloxane Chemistry research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 102 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 70 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 48 works
  4. 4 South China University of TechnologyChina 39 works
  5. 5 Sichuan UniversityChina 39 works
  6. 6 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 33 works
  7. 7 Beijing University of Chemical TechnologyChina 30 works
  8. 8 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 27 works
  9. 9 Qingdao University of Science and TechnologyChina 26 works
  10. 10 East China University of Science and TechnologyChina 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Silicone and Siloxane Chemistry?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Silicone and Siloxane Chemistry include Zhong Lin Wang, Michaël Grätzel and George M. Whitesides.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  3. 3 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  4. 4 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  5. 5 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  6. 6 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  7. 7 George M. Sheldrick Germany 220k citations
  8. 8 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  9. 9 Zhenan Bao United States 187k 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 Silicone and Siloxane Chemistry?

The most cited paper in Silicone and Siloxane Chemistry is "Polymer-layered silicate nanocomposites: preparation, properties and uses of a new class of materials" (Michaël Alexandre, Philippe Dúbois, 2000), with 6,359 citations. Next come "Silica-Like Malleable Materials from Permanent Organic Networks" (3,617) and "Polymer Layered Silicate Nanocomposites" (3,476).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Polymer-layered silicate nanocomposites: preparation, properties and uses of a new class of materials Michaël Alexandre, Philippe Dúbois · Materials Science and Engineering R Reports Jun 2000 6,359
2 Silica-Like Malleable Materials from Permanent Organic Networks Damien Montarnal, Mathieu Capelot, François Tournilhac et al. · Science 17 Nov 2011 3,617
3 Polymer Layered Silicate Nanocomposites Emmanuel P. Giannelis · Advanced Materials 1996 3,476
4 Light-induced amphiphilic surfaces Rong Wang, Kazuhito Hashimoto, Akira Fujishima et al. · Nature 31 Jul 1997 3,391
5 A review on polymer–layered silicate nanocomposites Silvia Pavlidou, Constantine D. Papaspyrides · Progress in Polymer Science Open access 26 Sep 2008 2,519
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Where is Silicone and Siloxane Chemistry research done?

The largest centres of Silicone and Siloxane Chemistry research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Xi'an (China) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Mianyang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 275 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 120 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 77 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 76 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 76 works
  6. 6 ChengduChina 68 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 64 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 59 works
  9. 9 NanjingChina 55 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 54 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MianyangCN · 21.8 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Silicone and Siloxane Chemistry than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Silicone and Siloxane Chemistry?

Among universities, judged by research, Harbin Institute of Technology, Sichuan University and South China University of Technology 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.

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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
1Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 77.827.3%7.0×33 +28.8%
2Sichuan UniversityChina 75.522.8%5.8×39 +19.8%
3South China University of TechnologyChina 72.217.5%12.3×39 +29.1%
4University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 66.727.7%3.8×13 +86.7%
5Beijing University of Chemical TechnologyChina 66.119.2%24.0×30 +14.6%
6Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 63.213.2%7.7×27 +50.2%
7University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 59.818.9%4.0×19 +35.0%
8Qingdao University of Science and TechnologyChina 57.414.8%24.5×26 +131.5%
9Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 56.920.4%5.9×20 +20.0%
10Shandong UniversityChina 55.917.9%5.3×20 +80.1%

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 Silicone and Siloxane Chemistry, country by country

Is Silicone and Siloxane Chemistry research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Silicone and Siloxane Chemistry.

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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 Silicone and Siloxane Chemistry as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Silicone and Siloxane Chemistry 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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