Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials papers
Pofolia’s corpus holds 108 papers from Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (2012–2026), each with a short summary. Below, the 20 most-cited, then the most recently added.
At a glance
- Most cited: Pseudocapacitive oxide materials for high-rate electrochemical energy storage (2014, 5,409 citations).
- The 20 papers listed have 65,749 citations between them.
- 19 of the 19 with a known journal quartile appeared in a Q1 journal.
- 5 have a free full text (open access).
- Most frequent journals: Science, Energy & Environmental Science, Chemical Reviews.
- Published between 2012 and 2019.
Most cited
Ranked by citation count. Because citations accumulate over time, this list naturally leans towards work published a few years ago; for where the field is now, see “recently added”. How to read the signals
Pseudocapacitive oxide materials for high-rate electrochemical energy storage
Energy & Environmental Science · 2014 · Q1 · SJR 9.00 · FWCI 70.61 · 5,409 citations · Open access
Pseudocapacitance in transition metal oxides offers a pathway to achieve both high energy and high power density in electrochemical energy storage devices, addressing a critical need for advanced applications.
Electromagnetic interference shielding with 2D transition metal carbides (MXenes)
Science · 2016 · Q1 · SJR 10.00 · FWCI 97.73 · 5,123 citations
A 45-micrometer-thick Ti3C2Tx MXene film achieved an unprecedented 92 decibels of electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding, significantly outperforming existing synthetic materials of comparable thickness.
Laser Scribing of High-Performance and Flexible Graphene-Based Electrochemical Capacitors
Science · 2012 · Q1 · SJR 10.00 · FWCI 104.49 · 3,985 citations
A standard DVD laser can directly scribe graphite oxide films into graphene electrodes, creating mechanically robust, highly conductive (1738 S/m) materials for supercapacitors.
Present and Future of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering
ACS Nano · 2019 · Q1 · SJR 4.00 · FWCI 96.00 · 3,780 citations
Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS), a technique leveraging nanostructured metal surfaces to amplify Raman signals, has matured significantly over 45 years but requires further development for routine analytical and commercial use.
Electrochemical capacitors: mechanism, materials, systems, characterization and applications
Chemical Society Reviews · 2016 · Q1 · SJR 11.00 · FWCI 121.70 · 3,751 citations
This review clarifies the charge storage mechanisms, materials, and applications of electrochemical capacitors (supercapacitors), highlighting a newly developed intercalative pseudocapacitive behavior that bridges conventional pseudocapacitance and battery-like storage.
Coding metamaterials, digital metamaterials and programmable metamaterials
Light Science & Applications · 2014 · Q1 · SJR 4.00 · FWCI 18.34 · 3,686 citations · Open access
Researchers introduce 'digital metamaterials' composed of unit cells with binary (0 or π) phase responses, enabling programmable control of electromagnetic waves through digital coding sequences.
A review of electrolyte materials and compositions for electrochemical supercapacitors
Chemical Society Reviews · 2015 · Q1 · SJR 11.00 · FWCI 64.16 · 3,630 citations
Electrolytes are critical for electrochemical supercapacitor (ES) performance, and this review categorizes recent advancements in aqueous, organic, ionic liquid, solid-state, and redox-active electrolytes.
Design and Mechanisms of Asymmetric Supercapacitors
Chemical Reviews · 2018 · Q1 · SJR 16.00 · FWCI 84.91 · 3,596 citations
Asymmetric supercapacitors, using two different electrode materials, can overcome the voltage limitations of symmetric designs and improve energy storage capabilities.
Metalenses at visible wavelengths: Diffraction-limited focusing and subwavelength resolution imaging
Science · 2016 · Q1 · SJR 10.00 · FWCI 118.04 · 3,348 citations
Researchers have fabricated metalenses using titanium dioxide metasurfaces that achieve diffraction-limited focusing at visible wavelengths (405, 532, and 660 nm) with high efficiencies (up to 86%) and enable subwavelength resolution imaging with magnifications up to 170x.
Planar Photonics with Metasurfaces
Science · 2013 · Q1 · SJR 10.00 · FWCI 59.02 · 3,045 citations
Optical metasurfaces, a 2D form of metamaterials, offer exceptional control over light, enabling functionalities like superresolution imaging and anomalous photonic density of states, distinct from their 3D counterparts.
A review of Ga2O3 materials, processing, and devices
Applied Physics Reviews · 2018 · Q1 · SJR 2.00 · FWCI 72.33 · 3,012 citations
Gallium oxide (Ga2O3) shows promise for power electronics and UV detectors due to its large bandgap, offering advantages over SiC and GaN in critical electric field.
Optically resonant dielectric nanostructures
Science · 2016 · Q1 · SJR 10.00 · FWCI 100.34 · 2,849 citations · Open access
Dielectric nanostructures with high refractive indices offer a new avenue in nanophotonics, enabling manipulation of electric and magnetic Mie resonances to reduce losses and enhance fields, unlike traditional plasmonic structures.
Lanthanide Single-Molecule Magnets
Chemical Reviews · 2013 · Q1 · SJR 16.00 · FWCI 78.01 · 2,762 citations
Lanthanide single-molecule magnets (SMMs) show potential for new technological applications, offering molecular analogues to bulk ferromagnets for high-density information storage and high-speed processing.
KOH activation of carbon-based materials for energy storage
Journal of Materials Chemistry · 2012 · FWCI 29.64 · 2,681 citations
KOH activation is a highly effective method for producing porous carbons with ultrahigh specific surface areas (up to 3000 m2 g−1) and well-defined micropore structures, making them ideal for hydrogen and electrical energy storage applications.
Carbons and Electrolytes for Advanced Supercapacitors
Advanced Materials · 2014 · Q1 · SJR 8.00 · FWCI 71.20 · 2,641 citations
This review details the science behind carbon/carbon supercapacitors, focusing on the relationship between ion behavior and electrode pore size to improve energy storage.
Supercapacitor electrode materials: nanostructures from 0 to 3 dimensions
Energy & Environmental Science · 2014 · Q1 · SJR 9.00 · FWCI 61.87 · 2,549 citations · Open access
This review categorizes supercapacitor electrode materials based on their nanostructure dimensionality (0D, 1D, 2D, and 3D). It highlights how these different nanostructures influence material properties and performance in supercapacitors.
Review of electrical energy storage technologies, materials and systems: challenges and prospects for large-scale grid storage
Energy & Environmental Science · 2018 · Q1 · SJR 9.00 · FWCI 56.42 · 2,515 citations
Large-scale electrical energy storage is crucial for integrating more renewable electricity into the global energy supply.
A review of metasurfaces: physics and applications
Reports on Progress in Physics · 2016 · Q1 · SJR 3.00 · FWCI 57.27 · 2,483 citations
Metasurfaces, ultrathin planar metamaterials, offer a path to overcome the limitations of traditional metamaterials by enabling readily fabricated structures with suppressed losses and tunable optical responses.
To Be or Not To Be Pseudocapacitive?
Journal of The Electrochemical Society · 2015 · Q1 · FWCI 76.19 · 2,457 citations · Open access
This paper questions the common classification of certain electrode materials as pseudocapacitive, arguing that many observed behaviors are instead due to intercalation or diffusion-limited processes.
SERS: Materials, applications, and the future
Materials Today · 2012 · Q1 · SJR 4.00 · FWCI 31.94 · 2,447 citations
Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) offers highly sensitive structural detection of analytes by amplifying electromagnetic fields, advancing from model systems to single-molecule studies.
Recently added
Synergistic dual-potential pseudocapacitance of in situ grown NixSy-CuS nanospheres on laser-induced graphene for next-generation wearable electronics
Journal of Power Sources · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00
A novel NiₓSy-CuS nanosphere structure grown directly on laser-induced graphene (LIG) achieves high specific capacitances of 75.4 mF cm⁻² (positive potential) and 163.2 mF cm⁻² (negative potential), enabling stable flexible supercapacitors for wearable electronics.
A long-life fast charging lithium-ion energy storage device
Journal of Energy Storage · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00
A prototype Li-ion device using LFP-LTO chemistry achieves over 27,000 cycles with <10% resistance increase and >85% capacity retention after 3-minute (20C) charging.
Modeling and analysis of the properties of supercapacitors and working electrode systems containing polymer electrode materials
Journal of Energy Storage · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00
A novel ladder model for supercapacitor impedance spectra, using fractional-order elements and optimized with PSO, achieved fitting errors below 0.1, outperforming existing models for polypyrrole-based electrodes.
Wafer-scale conformal metasurface optics
Nature Communications · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 4.00
A scalable thermoforming strategy enables wafer-scale production of highly curved metasurface optics with millimeter-scale radii of curvature and micron-level alignment precision.
Extrinsic Limitations of Stealthy Hyperuniform Devices
Advanced Optical Materials · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00
Stealthy hyperuniform metasurfaces show reduced elastic scattering but less than predicted, with fabrication defects identified as the primary cause.
Field-Programmable Topological Torons in Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00
Individual topological torons in chiral nematic liquid crystals can be created, translated, and parked on demand using waveform-engineered electric fields, enabling programmable motion along eight in-plane directions.
Inverse design of realizable metasurface based absorbers using improved conditioning and diversity enhanced progressively growing GANs
Scientific Reports · 2026 · Q1
A new framework using progressively growing GANs with feature-wise linear modulation and determinantal point processes generates diverse, physically realizable metasurface absorbers (2-18 GHz) with 89.57% valid EM design generation rate.
Nickel-cobalt based nanostructures for supercapacitor electrodes: From hydroxides, oxides to sulfides and phosphides
Coordination Chemistry Reviews · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 4.00
This review highlights nickel-cobalt nanostructures (hydroxides, oxides, sulfides, phosphides) as promising supercapacitor electrode materials, detailing their synergistic effects, redox mechanisms, and synthesis strategies.
Journals in this field
The journals that publish most of this field’s papers. Quartile (Q1–Q4), SJR and h-index are from SCImago Journal Rank; “in this field” is how many of the journal’s pooled papers belong here. What is a Q1 journal? · What is the h-index?
| Journal | Quartile | SJR | h-index | In this field | Summaries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Science | Q1 | 10.00 | 1433 | 12 | 268 |
| Advanced Materials | Q1 | 8.00 | 709 | 9 | 49 |
| Chemical Reviews | Q1 | 16.00 | 905 | 6 | 124 |
| Chemical Society Reviews | Q1 | 11.00 | 709 | 6 | 90 |
| Energy and Environmental Science | Q1 | 9.00 | 491 | 4 | 24 |
| Small | Q1 | 2.00 | 333 | 4 | 12 |
| Advanced Functional Materials | Q1 | 5.00 | 459 | 3 | 21 |
| ACS Nano | Q1 | 4.00 | 531 | 3 | 23 |
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