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Collection  12 March 2023

Top 100 in Materials Science - 2022

This collection highlights our most downloaded* materials science papers published in 2022. Featuring authors from around the world, these papers showcase valuable research from an international community.

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Water activated disposable paper battery

• Alexandre Poulin
• Xavier Aeby
• Gustav Nyström

Fabrication of near-invisible solar cell with monolayer WS 2

• Yuta Iwamoto
• Toshiaki Kato

On the feasibility of all-solid-state batteries with LLZO as a single electrolyte

• Kostiantyn V. Kravchyk
• Dogan Tarik Karabay
• Maksym V. Kovalenko

A high‐efficiency and stable perovskite solar cell fabricated in ambient air using a polyaniline passivation layer

• Dong In Kim
• Jin-Hyo Boo

Impacts of plasmonic nanoparticles incorporation and interface energy alignment for highly efficient carbon-based perovskite solar cells

• MirKazem Omrani
• Reza Keshavarzi

Study on the effect of size on InGaN red micro-LEDs

• Ray-Hua Horng
• Chun-Xin Ye
• Dong-Sing Wuu

Ti 2 N nitride MXene evokes the Mars-van Krevelen mechanism to achieve high selectivity for nitrogen reduction reaction

• Denis Johnson
• Brock Hunter
• Abdoulaye Djire

Ruddlesden–Popper 2D perovskites of type (C 6 H 9 C 2 H 4 NH 3 ) 2 (CH 3 NH 3 ) n−1 Pb n I 3n+1 (n = 1–4) for optoelectronic applications

• Mohammad Rahil
• Rashid Malik Ansari
• Shahab Ahmad

High-resolution deposition of conductive and insulating materials at micrometer scale on complex substrates

• Mateusz Łysień
• Łukasz Witczak
• Piotr Kowalczewski

One-step electrodeposition of a polypyrrole/NiO nanocomposite as a supercapacitor electrode

• Jehan El Nady
• Azza Shokry

Boosting microfluidic microbial fuel cells performance via investigating electron transfer mechanisms, metal-based electrodes, and magnetic field effect

• Mohammad Shirkosh
• Yousef Hojjat
• Mohammad Mahdi Mardanpour

Insights from density functional theory calculations on heteroatom P-doped ZnIn 2 S 4 bilayer nanosheets with atomic-level charge steering for photocatalytic water splitting

• Wei-Kean Chong
• Boon-Junn Ng
• Siang-Piao Chai

Tuning of composition and morphology of LiFePO 4 cathode for applications in all solid-state lithium metal batteries

• Harimohan Erabhoina
• Mukundan Thelakkat

Electrochemical performance of composite electrodes based on rGO, Mn/Cu metal–organic frameworks, and PANI

• Quoc Bao Le
• Thanh-Huong Nguyen

Time-dependent power laws in the oxidation and corrosion of metals and alloys

• Makoto Itoh

Composite 3D printing of biomimetic human teeth

• A. J. Cresswell-Boyes
• G. R. Davis
• A. H. Barber

Sustainable conversion of biomass to rationally designed lithium-ion battery graphite

• Nathan A. Banek
• Kevin R. McKenzie Jr.
• Michael J. Wagner

Plasma-assisted three-dimensional lightscribe graphene as high-performance supercapacitors

• Naser Namdar
• Foad Ghasemi
• Zeinab Sanaee

Emulation of synaptic functions with low voltage organic memtransistor for hardware oriented neuromorphic computing

• Srikrishna Sagar
• Kannan Udaya Mohanan
• Bikas C. Das

ITO film stack engineering for low-loss silicon optical modulators

• Evgeniy S. Lotkov
• Aleksandr S. Baburin
• Ilya A. Rodionov

One-pot synthesis of Au-M@SiO 2 (M = Rh, Pd, Ir, Pt) core–shell nanoparticles as highly efficient catalysts for the reduction of 4-nitrophenol

• Junfang Hao
• Jianhui Yang

A route towards the fabrication of large-scale and high-quality perovskite films for optoelectronic devices

• Ehsan Rezaee
• Dimitar Kutsarov
• S. Ravi P. Silva

3D-printed NiFe-layered double hydroxide pyramid electrodes for enhanced electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction

• Jinhyuck Ahn
• Yoo Sei Park
• Seung Kwon Seol

Effect of thickness and reaction media on properties of ZnO thin films by SILAR

• Gani Yergaliuly
• Baktiyar Soltabayev
• Almagul Mentbayeva

Droplet evaporation on porous fabric materials

• Marta Gonçalves
• Jin Young Kim
• Byung Mook Weon

Dome-arrayed chitosan/PVA hydrogel-based solar evaporator for steam generation

• Xiaojie Liu

Vertical oxide thin-film transistor with interfacial oxidation

• Yeong Jo Baek
• In Hye Kang
• Byung Seong Bae

Using ZnCo 2 O 4 nanoparticles as the hole transport layer to improve long term stability of perovskite solar cells

• Bo-Rong Jheng
• Pei-Ting Chiu
• Yung-Liang Tong

High-performance freestanding supercapacitor electrode based on polypyrrole coated nickel cobalt sulfide nanostructures

• Mohammad Barazandeh
• Sayed Habib Kazemi

High performance visible-SWIR flexible photodetector based on large-area InGaAs/InP PIN structure

• Xuanzhang Li
• Junyang Zhang

Stretchable nanofibers of polyvinylidenefluoride (PVDF)/thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) nanocomposite to support piezoelectric response via mechanical elasticity

• Nader Shehata
• Ahmed H. Hassanin

Next-generation 2D optical strain mapping with strain-sensing smart skin compared to digital image correlation

• Satish Nagarajaiah

The electro-oxidation of primary alcohols via a coral-shaped cobalt metal–organic framework modified graphite electrode in neutral media

• Vahid Khakyzadeh
• Salbin Sediqi

Advancing battery design based on environmental impacts using an aqueous Al-ion cell as a case study

High current density electroreduction of CO 2 into formate with tin oxide nanospheres

• Thuy-Duong Nguyen-Phan
• Douglas R. Kauffman

Improved device efficiency and lifetime of perovskite light-emitting diodes by size-controlled polyvinylpyrrolidone-capped gold nanoparticles with dipole formation

• Chang Min Lee
• Dong Hyun Choi
• Seung Yoon Ryu

Designing of two dimensional lanthanum cobalt hydroxide engineered high performance supercapacitor for longer stability under redox active electrolyte

• Deepa B. Bailmare
• Prashant Tripathi
• Bipin Kumar Gupta

The N-terminal tail of the hydrophobin SC16 is not required for rodlet formation

• Kathleen L. Vergunst
• David N. Langelaan

Synthesis and evaluation of composite TiO 2 @ZnO quantum dots on hybrid nanostructure perovskite solar cell

• Negin Pezhooli
• Jamal Rahimi

Air processed Cs 2 AgBiBr 6 lead-free double perovskite high-mobility thin-film field-effect transistors

• Gnanasampanthan Abiram
• Fatemeh Heidari Gourji
• Dhayalan Velauthapillai

Investigation of optical and electrical properties of novel 4T all perovskite tandem solar cell

• Mahsa Moradbeigi
• Mohammad Razaghi

Nanostructured Ge and GeSn films by high-pressure He plasma sputtering for high-capacity Li ion battery anodes

• Giichiro Uchida
• Kenta Nagai
• Yuichi Setsuhara

A suspended polymeric microfluidic sensor for liquid flow rate measurement in microchannels

• Fatemeh Mohammadamini
• Javad Rahbar Shahrouzi
• Mitra Samadi

Influence of sintering temperatures on microstructure and electrochemical performances of LiNi 0.93 Co 0.04 Al 0.03 O 2 cathode for high energy lithium ion batteries

• Hye-Jin Park
• Seong-Ju Sim
• Hyun-Soo Kim

Nanoscale copper and silver thin film systems display differences in antiviral and antibacterial properties

• Toni Luise Meister
• Jill Fortmann
• Alfred Ludwig

A study on Ti-doped Fe 3 O 4 anode for Li ion battery using machine learning, electrochemical and distribution function of relaxation times (DFRTs) analyses

• Tanmoy Paul
• Maw-Kuen Wu

Polypyrrole/reduced graphene oxide composites coated zinc anode with dendrite suppression feature for boosting performances of zinc ion battery

• Sonti Khamsanga
• Hiroshi Uyama
• Prasit Pattananuwat

Triazine-based porous organic polymers for reversible capture of iodine and utilization in antibacterial application

• Anandhu Mohan
• Mohammad H. Al-Sayah
• Oussama M. El-Kadri

A three-terminal non-volatile ferroelectric switch with an insulator–metal transition channel

• Jaykumar Vaidya
• R. S. Surya Kanthi
• Nikhil Shukla

Selection of oxygen reduction catalysts for secondary tri-electrode zinc–air batteries

• Adeline Loh
• David P. Trudgeon
• Frank C. Walsh

Development of Cu 3 N electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction in alkaline medium

• Aparna Sajeev
• Aleena Mary Paul
• Andrews Nirmala Grace

Suppression of stacking fault expansion in a 4H-SiC epitaxial layer by proton irradiation

• Shunta Harada
• Toshiki Mii
• Masashi Kato

Two-dimensional biphenylene: a promising anchoring material for lithium-sulfur batteries

• Hiba Khaled Al-Jayyousi
• Muhammad Sajjad
• Nirpendra Singh

Nanostrucutured MnO 2 -TiN nanotube arrays for advanced supercapacitor electrode material

• Xiuchun Yang

Directional emission of white light via selective amplification of photon recycling and Bayesian optimization of multi-layer thin films

• Heribert Wankerl
• Christopher Wiesmann
• Elmar Wolfgang Lang

Selective electrochemical reduction of CO 2 on compositionally variant bimetallic Cu–Zn electrocatalysts derived from scrap brass alloys

• Ibrahim M. Badawy
• Ahmed Mohsen Ismail
• Nageh K. Allam

Deep learning approach for chemistry and processing history prediction from materials microstructure

• Amir Abbas Kazemzadeh Farizhandi
• Omar Betancourt
• Mahmood Mamivand

Highly stretchable electroluminescent device based on copper nanowires electrode

• Phuong Tran
• Nguyen-Hung Tran
• Ji-Hoon Lee

Facile fabrication of flexible metal grid transparent electrode using inkjet-printed dot array as sacrificial layer

• Chaewon Kim
• Kyung-Tae Kang

Noble metal alloy thin films by atomic layer deposition and rapid Joule heating

• Yuanyuan Guo
• Alfred Iing Yoong Tok

Structure of alumina glass

• Hideki Hashimoto
• Yohei Onodera

A flexible piezoresistive strain sensor based on laser scribed graphene oxide on polydimethylsiloxane

• Furqan Anwar
• Mohammad Ali Mohammad

Modeling and characterization of the electrical conductivity on metal nanoparticles/carbon nanotube/polymer composites

• Zhenghong Zhu

Modelling of the dynamic polarizability of macromolecules for single-molecule optical biosensing

• Larnii S. Booth
• Eloise V. Browne
• Warwick P. Bowen

Thermal transport analysis of six circular microchannel heat sink using nanofluid

• Hassan Waqas
• Shan Ali Khan
• Sumeira Yasmin

Building block 3D printing based on molecular self-assembly monolayer with self-healing properties

• Hicham Hamoudi
• Golibjon R. Berdiyorov
• Kamal Youcef-Toumi

Series module of quinone-based organic supercapacitor (> 6 V) with practical cell structure

• Yuto Katsuyama
• Takayuki Takehi
• Yuta Nakayasu

The optoelectronic properties improvement of double perovskites Cs 2 SnI 6 by anionic doping (F − )

• Junsheng Wu
• Yanwen Zhou

Modeling and simulation of high energy density lithium-ion battery for multiple fault detection

• Chandrani Sadhukhan
• Swarup Kumar Mitra
• Mrinal Kanti Naskar

Thin flexible lab-on-a-film for impedimetric sensing in biomedical applications

• Amina Farooq
• Fezan Hayat
• Nauman Zafar Butt

Trap-state mapping to model GaN transistors dynamic performance

• Nicola Modolo
• Carlo De Santi
• Matteo Meneghini

Inorganic cesium lead mixed halide based perovskite solar materials modified with functional silver iodide

• Vincent Obiozo Eze
• Lucas Braga Carani
• Okenwa I. Okoli

Expanding structural diversity in a library of disulfide macrocycles through in-situ imide hydrolysis

• Marcin Konopka
• Artur R. Stefankiewicz

Ionic liquid-assisted synthesis of chitin–ethylene glycol hydrogels as electrolyte membranes for sustainable electrochemical capacitors

• Marcin Wysokowski
• Krzysztof Nowacki
• Teofil Jesionowski

Role of SiO x in rice-husk-derived anodes for Li-ion batteries

• Masahiro Tomioka
• Seiji Kumagai

Hydrogel-based microfluidic device with multiplexed 3D in vitro cell culture

• Allison Clancy
• Silviya P. Zustiak

Amorphous carbon nitride dual-function anti-reflection coating for crystalline silicon solar cells

• Ali J. Addie
• Raid A. Ismail
• Mudhafar A. Mohammed

Atomistic and machine learning studies of solute segregation in metastable grain boundaries

• Yasir Mahmood
• Maher Alghalayini
• Fadi Abdeljawad

A camphene-camphor-polymer composite material for the production of superhydrophobic absorbent microporous foams

• Richard J. G. Löffler
• Martin M. Hanczyc
• Jerzy Gorecki

Mercury goes Solid at room temperature at nanoscale and a potential Hg waste storage

Methods for numerical simulation of knit based morphable structures: knitmorphs

• Sangram K. Rout
• Marisa Ravena Bisram

Bioepoxy based hybrid composites from nano-fillers of chicken feather and lignocellulose Ceiba Pentandra

• Sanjay Mavinkere Rangappa
• Jyotishkumar Parameswaranpillai
• Togay Ozbakkaloglu

High energy storage capabilities of CaCu 3 Ti 4 O 12 for paper-based zinc–air battery

• Upasana Bhardwaj
• Aditi Sharma
• H. S. Kushwaha

MISPR: an open-source package for high-throughput multiscale molecular simulations

• Matthew Bliss
• Nav Nidhi Rajput

Influence of growth temperature on dielectric strength of Al 2 O 3 thin films prepared via atomic layer deposition at low temperature

• Seung-Hun Lee
• Jeong Hwan Kim

High performance silicon electrode enabled by titanicone coating

• Zahilia Cabán Huertas
• Daniel Settipani
• Jordi Jacas Biendicho

Flexible battery-less wireless glucose monitoring system

• Saikat Banerjee
• Gymama Slaughter

Electrochemical determination of L-tryptophan in food samples on graphite electrode prepared from waste batteries

• Žaklina Z. Tasić
• Marija B. Petrović Mihajlović
• Milan M. Antonijević

Automated shape-transformable self-solar-tracking tessellated crystalline Si solar cells using in-situ shape-memory-alloy actuation

• Yeon Hyang Sim
• Seung I. Cha

Bioinspired antifouling Fe-based amorphous coating via killing-resisting dual surface modifications

• Ling-Yu Zhang

Repulsive segregation of fluoroalkyl side chains turns a cohesive polymer into a mechanically tough, ultrafast self-healable, nonsticky elastomer

• Taro Udagawa
• Shoichi Kutsumizu

Architecture engineering of nanostructured catalyst via layer-by-layer adornment of multiple nanocatalysts on silica nanorod arrays for hydrogenation of nitroarenes

• Kootak Hong
• Jun Min Suh
• Mohammadreza Shokouhimehr

Cu and Ni Co-sputtered heteroatomic thin film for enhanced nonenzymatic glucose detection

• Brianna Barbee
• Baleeswaraiah Muchharla
• Bijandra Kumar

Gel permeation chromatography process for highly oriented Cs 3 Cu 2 I 5 nanocrystal film

• Yu-Hong Cheng
• Rikuo Suzuki

PE and PET oligomers’ interplay with membrane bilayers

• Joni Järvenpää
• Milla Perkkiö
• Maija Lahtela-Kakkonen

Electromagnetic field controlled domain wall displacement for induced strain tailoring in BaTiO 3 -epoxy nanocomposite

• James Barrington
• Hamed Yazdani Nezhad

On the mechanism of marine fouling-prevention performance of oil-containing silicone elastomers

• Stefan Kolle
• Onyemaechi Ahanotu
• Joanna Aizenberg

Efficient prediction of temperature-dependent elastic and mechanical properties of 2D materials

• S. M. Kastuar
• C. E. Ekuma

Hydrothermal synthesis of CuO@MnO 2 on nitrogen-doped multiwalled carbon nanotube composite electrodes for supercapacitor applications

• Vijay Kakani
• Sivalingam Ramesh

A turning point in the bacterial nanocellulose production employing low doses of gamma radiation

• Ola E. A. Al-Hagar
• Deyaa Abol-Fotouh

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