Top institutions in the United States for Nanoscience & Nanotechnology

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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Nanoscience & Nanotechnology?

587 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Nanoscience & Nanotechnology are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.8% of all listed authors in the United States, and 2nd of 50 countries in the subfield. 581 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). College of Engineering has the most (37), followed by MIT School of Engineering (15) and Argonne National Laboratory (14). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

587

0.8% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

581

99.0% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 50 countries in Nanoscience & Nanotechnology

Highest-ranked

#25

Gogotsi, Yury G.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	College of Engineering	37	37	#13	Zhu, Hongli #11,897
2	MIT School of Engineering	15	15	#48	Zhao, Xuanhe #428
3	Argonne National Laboratory	14	14	#57	Amine, Khalil #3,230
4	Stanford Engineering	12	12	#69	Cui, Yi #127
5	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	12	12	#72	Zhang, J. G. #2,135
6	Northwestern University	10	10	#86	Sargent, Edward H. #255
7	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	10	10	#88	Paul Alivisatos, A. Paul #846
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	10	10	#94	Jarillo-Herrero, Pablo #9,803
9	School of Engineering and Applied Science	10	9	#97	Murray, Christopher B. #15,633
10	Cockrell School of Engineering	9	9	#103	Yu, Guihua #3,665
11	Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering	9	9	#104	Zhang, LiangFang #6,173
12	Texas Materials Institute	8	8	#112	Manthiram, Arumugam #47
13	University of California, Los Angeles	8	8	#113	Chen, Jun #4,825
14	University of California, Berkeley	7	6	#120	Yang, Peidong #1,874
15	University of Washington	7	7	#121	Liu, Jun #2,404
16	Harvard Medical School	7	7	#122	Zhang, Y. Shrike #4,140
17	Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science	6	6	#138	Snyder, Gerald Jeffrey #655
18	Rice University	6	6	#139	Ajayan, Pulickel Madhava #697
19	Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences	6	6	#141	Lewis, Jennifer A. #870
20	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	6	6	#146	Jain, Prashant K. #7,391
21	University of California, Irvine	6	5	#147	Uskoković, Vuk #9,122
22	UCLA Samueli School of Engineering	6	6	#148	Huang, Yu #10,479
23	University of California, San Diego	6	6	#157	Steinmetz, Nicole F. #47,202
24	NC State College of Engineering	5	4	#161	Dickey, Michael D. #1,026
25	Stanford University	5	5	#162	Bao, Zhenan H. #1,222
26	George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing	5	5	#164	Tour, James M. #2,138
27	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	5	5	#165	Kotov, Nicholas A. #3,603
28	National Laboratory of the Rockies	5	5	#166	Beard, Matthew Craig #6,247
29	Penn State College of Engineering	5	5	#171	Das, Saptarshi #10,945
30	UW College of Engineering	4	4	#196	Xiao, Jie #1,945
31	Purdue University	4	4	#197	Anasori, Babak #2,655
32	California NanoSystems Institute	4	4	#200	Nel, André E. #3,358
33	Pennsylvania State University	4	4	#203	Terrones, Mauricio M. #5,026
34	Michigan Engineering	4	4	#206	Guo, Lingjie Jay #7,565
35	UW-Madison College of Engineering	4	4	#207	Wang, Xudong #7,606
36	College of Engineering and Applied Science	4	4	#208	Marder, Seth R. #10,743
37	Columbia University	4	4	#209	Hone, James C. #11,301
38	Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering	4	4	#211	Tongay, Seth Ariel #16,740
39	Cornell University College of Engineering	4	4	#214	Archer, Lynden A. #18,622
40	Whiting School of Engineering	4	4	#217	Lin, Dingchang #22,092
41	The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science	4	4	#218	Yang, Yuan #23,480
42	A. James Clark School of Engineering	4	4	#219	Li, Teng #24,786
43	Los Alamos National Laboratory	4	4	#228	Wang, Peng #43,984
44	Michigan State University	3	3	#235	Mahmoudi, Morteza #1,323
45	The Grainger College of Engineering	3	3	#243	Nie, Shinning Ming #6,810
46	University of Houston	3	3	#248	Ren, Zhifeng #10,198
47	University at Buffalo, The State University of New York	3	3	#253	Prasad, Paras N. #13,350
48	University of Wisconsin-Madison	3	3	#263	Cai, Weibo #16,829
49	Pratt School of Engineering	3	3	#265	Franklin, Aaron D. #17,789
50	Department of Biomedical Engineering	3	3	#272	Niu, Simiao #20,046
51	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	3	3	#281	Lin, Feng #28,566
52	Cullen College of Engineering	3	3	#283	Liang, Yanliang #29,994
53	University of California, Santa Cruz	3	3	#292	Li, Yat #35,448
54	College of Arts & Sciences	3	3	#307	Ling, Xi #54,650
55	MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	3	3	#308	Tavakoli, Mohammad Mahdi #56,270
56	Sandia National Laboratories, California	3	3	#318	Talin, Albert Alec #67,108
57	University of Pennsylvania	3	3	#325	Cormode, David Peter #85,972

The top 100 in Nanoscience & Nanotechnology in the United States, in order

1
Gogotsi, Yury G.
Drexel University
2
Manthiram, Arumugam
Texas Materials Institute
3
Cui, Yi
Stanford Engineering
4
Sargent, Edward H.
Northwestern University
5
Zhao, Xuanhe
MIT School of Engineering
6
Rogers, John A.
Northwestern University
7
Snyder, Gerald Jeffrey
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
8
Ajayan, Pulickel Madhava
Rice University
9
Paul Alivisatos, A. Paul
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
10
Buehler, Markus J.
MIT School of Engineering
11
Chen, Xiaoyuan Shawn
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
12
Lewis, Jennifer A.
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
13
Dickey, Michael D.
NC State College of Engineering
14
Jin, Rongchao
Carnegie Mellon University
15
Xia, Younan
Georgia Institute of Technology
16
Henkelman, Graeme A.
College of Natural Sciences
17
Bao, Zhenan H.
Stanford University
18
Mahmoudi, Morteza
Michigan State University
19
Ji, Xiulei
Oregon State University
20
Li, Ju
MIT School of Engineering
21
Naguib, Michael
Tulane University School of Science and Engineering
22
Yang, Peidong
University of California, Berkeley
23
Xiao, Jie
UW College of Engineering
24
Wang, Chunsheng
University of Maryland, College Park
25
Klimov, Victor I.
Los Alamos National Laboratory Chemistry Division
26
Jin, Song
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Chemistry
27
Majidi, Carmel S.
The Robotics Institute
28
Zhang, J. G.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
29
Tour, James M.
George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing
30
Meng, Y. Shirley
The University of Chicago
31
Facchetti, Antonio F.
Northwestern University
32
Liu, Jun
University of Washington
33
Huang, Jinsong
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
34
Wu, Gang
McKelvey School of Engineering
35
Anasori, Babak
Purdue University
36
Amine, Khalil
Argonne National Laboratory
37
Xu, Kang
SES AI Corp.
38
Nel, André E.
California NanoSystems Institute
39
Bayer, Ilker S.
I2 Pure Corp
40
Kotov, Nicholas A.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
41
Yu, Guihua
Cockrell School of Engineering
42
Mirkin, Chad A.
International Institute for Nanotechnology
43
Zhang, Y. Shrike
Harvard Medical School
44
Boettcher, Shannon W.
Berkeley College of Chemistry
45
Chen, Xiaobo
University of Missouri-Kansas City
46
Bertoldi, Katia
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
47
Jaramillo, Thomas Francisco
SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis
48
Chen, Jun
University of California, Los Angeles
49
Baughman, Ray H.
The University of Texas at Dallas
50
Halas, Naomi J.
Rice University
51
Terrones, Mauricio M.
Pennsylvania State University
52
Seeman, Nadrian C.
New York University
53
Mitchell, Michael J.
Penn Medicine
54
Li, Quan
Kent State University
55
Zhang, LiangFang
Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering
56
Beard, Matthew Craig
National Laboratory of the Rockies
57
Farokhzad, Omid Cameron
Brigham and Women's Hospital
58
Persson, Kristin A.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
59
Nie, Shinning Ming
The Grainger College of Engineering
60
Hersam, Mark Christopher
Northwestern University
61
Brongersma, Mark Luitzen
Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials
62
Jain, Prashant K.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
63
Xu, Xiaodong
University of Washington
64
Guo, Lingjie Jay
Michigan Engineering
65
Wang, Xudong
UW-Madison College of Engineering
66
Kaushik, Ajeet K.
Florida Polytechnic University
67
Wang, Haotian
Rice University
68
Yakobson, Boris I.
Rice University
69
Wang, Chongmin Min
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
70
Kim, Haegyeom
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
71
Sun, Yugang
College of Science and Technology
72
Aizenberg, Joanna
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
73
Xu, Wu
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
74
Uskoković, Vuk
University of California, Irvine
75
Cao, Guozhong
UW College of Engineering
76
Rotello, Vincent M.
University of Massachusetts Amherst
77
Talapin, Dmitri V.
Argonne National Laboratory
78
de Yoreo, James J.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
79
Jarillo-Herrero, Pablo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
80
Yang, J. Joshua
University of Massachusetts Amherst
81
Kim, Philip
Harvard University
82
Ren, Zhifeng
University of Houston
83
McCloskey, Bryan D.
University of California, Berkeley
84
Sun, Shouheng
Brown University
85
Huang, Yu
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
86
Tao, Wei
Harvard Medical School
87
Wu, Nianqiang Nick
Daniel J. Riccio Jr. College of Engineering
88
Marder, Seth R.
College of Engineering and Applied Science
89
Yin, Yadong
Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering
90
Hong, Guosong
Stanford Engineering
91
Das, Saptarshi
Penn State College of Engineering
92
Dobrovolskaia, Marina A.
Leidos Inc.
93
Nordlander, Peter J.
George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing
94
Ferrari, Mauro
Houston Methodist
95
Hone, James C.
Columbia University
96
Govorov, Alexander O.
Ohio University
97
Javey, Ali
Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute
98
Klajn, Rafał
Northwestern University
99
Zhu, Hongli
College of Engineering
100
McDowell, Matthew T.
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering

587 listed scientists in Nanoscience & Nanotechnology in the United States

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