Report summary

University of California, Berkeley Department of Materials Science and Engineering in 2015-2026 reads as a 68-PI network with 201 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Materials Science as the leading field (37% of slots across 47 PIs; 47 labels), Materials Chemistry as the leading subfield (26% of slots across 42 PIs; 42 labels), and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies as the leading topic (5% of slots across 9 PIs; 9 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 25 PIs across distinct clusters. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Gerbrand Ceder (134.7 weighted works; Advancements in Battery Materials, Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies). The strongest pairings are Lane W. Martin and R. Ramesh (58 shared works, weight 23.4). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 9 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 83.3, around Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, led by Nitash P. Balsara, Robert O. Ritchie, Peter Hosemann.