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Smart Materials for Construction

Smart Materials for Construction is a research topic within Pollution. Science Explorer counts 26k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the impact of road salt and deicing chemicals on freshwater salinization, particularly in the northeastern United States. It explores the use of concrete sensors with carbon nanotubes for environmental monitoring and damage detection in structures, as well as the implications for water quality and the environment.

  • Road Salt
  • Freshwater Salinization
  • Environmental Impact
  • Concrete Sensors
  • Carbon Nanotubes
  • Damage Detection
  • Electrical Resistance Measurement
  • Smart Structures
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • Water Quality
Research works
26k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+31%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
54% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Smart Materials for Construction

Which countries lead Smart Materials for Construction research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.6k and 693 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.6k works
  2. 2 United States 693 works
  3. 3 India 396 works
  4. 4 South Korea 192 works
  5. 5 Canada 177 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 159 works
  7. 7 Japan 152 works
  8. 8 Italy 146 works
  9. 9 Germany 146 works
  10. 10 France 129 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: 53.9%United States: 14.6%India: 8.3%South Korea: 4.0%6 others listed: 19.1%54%largest
China2,566 · 53.9%United States693 · 14.6%India396 · 8.3%South Korea192 · 4.0%6 others listed910 · 19.1%

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

Which institutions lead Smart Materials for Construction research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Smart Materials for Construction research, followed by Chang'an University and Harbin Institute of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 65 works
  2. 2 Chang'an UniversityChina 65 works
  3. 3 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 54 works
  4. 4 Tongji UniversityChina 53 works
  5. 5 Southeast UniversityChina 48 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 43 works
  7. 7 Central South UniversityChina 39 works
  8. 8 Chongqing UniversityChina 34 works
  9. 9 Zhejiang UniversityChina 34 works
  10. 10 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 32 works

Who are the leading researchers in Smart Materials for Construction?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Smart Materials for Construction include Zhong Lin Wang, Wei Huang and Ben Zhong Tang.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  3. 3 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  4. 4 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k citations
  5. 5 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  6. 6 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  7. 7 Michael D Brauer Canada 187k citations
  8. 8 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations
  9. 9 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  10. 10 Hui–Ming Cheng China 183k 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 Smart Materials for Construction?

The most cited paper in Smart Materials for Construction is "Determination of effective capacitance and film thickness from constant-phase-element parameters" (Bryan Hirschorn, Mark Edward Orazem, Bernard Tribollet et al., 2009), with 2,562 citations. Next come "Load transfer and deformation mechanisms in carbon nanotube-polystyrene composites" (2,457) and "Electromagnetic interference shielding mechanisms of CNT/polymer composites" (1,562).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Determination of effective capacitance and film thickness from constant-phase-element parameters Bryan Hirschorn, Mark Edward Orazem, Bernard Tribollet et al. · Electrochimica Acta 14 Nov 2009 2,562
2 Load transfer and deformation mechanisms in carbon nanotube-polystyrene composites Dong Qian, Elizabeth C. Dickey, Rodney J. Andrews et al. · Applied Physics Letters 15 May 2000 2,457
3 Electromagnetic interference shielding mechanisms of CNT/polymer composites Mohammed H. Al‐Saleh, Uttandaraman Sundararaj · Carbon 7 Mar 2009 1,562
4 Carbon nanotube-reinforced epoxy-composites: enhanced stiffness and fracture toughness at low nanotube content Florian H. Gojny, Malte H.G. Wichmann, Ulf Köpke et al. · Composites Science and Technology 15 May 2004 1,545
5 Anti-Icing Superhydrophobic Coatings Liangliang Cao, Andrew K. Jones, Vinod K. Sikka et al. · Langmuir 5 Oct 2009 1,499
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Where is Smart Materials for Construction research done?

The largest centres of Smart Materials for Construction research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Nanjing (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ames.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 389 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 174 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 164 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 151 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 117 works
  6. 6 HarbinChina 107 works
  7. 7 ChangshaChina 87 works
  8. 8 ChongqingChina 84 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 83 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 78 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AmesUS · 24.7 works9.9×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Smart Materials for Construction than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Smart Materials for Construction?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Southeast University and Chang'an 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 21.87%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hong Kong Polytechni…Southeast UniversityHarbin Institute of …Chang'an University
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 78.934.1%5.3×25 +102.6%
2Southeast UniversityChina 66.420.3%5.8×48 +69.8%
3Chang'an UniversityChina 66.317.2%31.4×65 +10.5%
4Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 65.318.3%6.0×54 +63.5%
5Tongji UniversityChina 63.215.9%6.2×53 +38.2%
6UNSW SydneyAustralia 63.240.0%2.0×10 +176.6%
7The University of Western AustraliaAustralia 61.825.9%4.3×10 +96.2%
8Zhejiang UniversityChina 55.517.2%2.3×34 +95.9%
9Dalian University of TechnologyChina 55.416.5%6.0×31 +24.3%
10Central South UniversityChina 55.113.3%3.7×39 +93.6%

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 Smart Materials for Construction, country by country

Is Smart Materials for Construction research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 31% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Smart Materials for Construction.

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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 Smart Materials for Construction as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Smart Materials for Construction0.027% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Smart Materials for Construction 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%Smart Materials for Construction10.1% 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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