Report summary

Pennsylvania State University Department of Materials Science and Engineering in 2018-2020 reads as a 54-PI network with 144 internal PI collaborations. The dominant subject mix is Materials Science as the leading field (43% of slots across 44 PIs; 44 labels), Materials Chemistry as the leading subfield (27% of slots across 35 PIs; 35 labels), and 2D Materials and Applications as the leading topic (6% of slots across 9 PIs; 9 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 23 PIs across distinct clusters. The leading PI names are Adri C. T. van Duin (44.3 weighted works; Graphene research and applications, Polymer crystallization and properties); Shashank Priya (43.4 weighted works; Perovskite Materials and Applications, Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices). The most visible ties are Shashank Priya and Dong Yang (23 shared works, weight 12.2); Shashank Priya and Kai Wang (17 shared works, weight 12.1). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 29.6, around Materials Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, led by Mauricio Terrones, Joshua A. Robinson, Joan M. Redwing; group 2 with 8 PIs, 8 internal connections, weight 22.1, around Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, led by Qing Wang, Long‐Qing Chen, Enrique D. Gomez.