Report summary

The 2015-2026 picture for University of California, Los Angeles Department of Materials Science and Engineering is a 67-PI network with 159 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Engineering as the leading field (36% of slots across 47 PIs; 47 labels), Materials Chemistry as the leading subfield (16% of slots across 25 PIs; 25 labels), and Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications as the leading topic (3% of slots across 6 PIs; 6 labels). That is a nice sign for applicants and collaborators, because the network has both density and separable local groups. The leading PI names are Xiangfeng Duan (113.1 weighted works; 2D Materials and Applications, Graphene research and applications). The clearest collaboration lines are Xiangfeng Duan and Yu Huang (161 shared works, weight 84.5). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 9 PIs, 9 internal connections, weight 159, around Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, led by Xiangfeng Duan, Yang Yang, Yu Huang.