| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Efficiency of ab-initio total energy calculations for metals and semiconductors using a plane-wave basis set | Computational Materials Science | 1996 | 54,900 |
| 2 | The rise of graphene | Nature Materials | 2007 | 35,008 |
| 3 | Materials for electrochemical capacitors | Nature Materials | 2008 | 14,090 |
| 4 | Fast unfolding of communities in large networks | Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment | 2008 | 12,786 |
| 5 | A metal-free polymeric photocatalyst for hydrogen production from water under visible light | Nature Materials | 2009 | 10,442 |
| 6 | The numerical computation of turbulent flows | Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | 1974 | 10,323 |
| 7 | Complex thermoelectric materials | Nature Materials | 2008 | 9,012 |
| 8 | Graphene and Graphene Oxide: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications | Advanced Materials | 2010 | 8,959 |
| 9 | Visualization and analysis of atomistic simulation data with OVITO–the Open Visualization Tool | Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering | 2010 | 8,805 |
| 10 | A Statistical Distribution Function of Wide Applicability | Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions ASME | 1951 | 8,578 |
| 11 | One-Dimensional Nanostructures: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications | Advanced Materials | 2003 | 8,229 |
| 12 | Li–O2 and Li–S batteries with high energy storage | Nature Materials | 2012 | 8,166 |
| 13 | Nanostructured materials for advanced energy conversion and storage devices | Nature Materials | 2005 | 8,114 |
| 14 | Two‐Dimensional Nanocrystals Produced by Exfoliation of Ti3AlC2 | Advanced Materials | 2011 | 7,931 |
| 15 | A fast and robust algorithm for Bader decomposition of charge density | Computational Materials Science | 2006 | 7,727 |
| 16 | How useful is SBF in predicting in vivo bone bioactivity? | Biomaterials | 2006 | 7,510 |
| 17 | Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices | Nature Materials | 2010 | 7,449 |
| 18 | First principles phonon calculations in materials science | Scripta Materialia | 2015 | 7,324 |
| 19 | Detection of individual gas molecules adsorbed on graphene | Nature Materials | 2007 | 7,114 |
| 20 | A Path Independent Integral and the Approximate Analysis of Strain Concentration by Notches and Cracks | Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions ASME | 1968 | 6,792 |
| 21 | Yielding of steel sheets containing slits | Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids | 1960 | 6,462 |
| 22 | LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD FOR FLUID FLOWS | Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics | 1998 | 6,195 |
| 23 | Biosensing with plasmonic nanosensors | Nature Materials | 2008 | 6,152 |
| 24 | Understanding biophysicochemical interactions at the nano–bio interface | Nature Materials | 2009 | 6,046 |
| 25 | Synthesis and surface engineering of iron oxide nanoparticles for biomedical applications | Biomaterials | 2005 | 5,951 |
| 26 | Microstructural development in equiatomic multicomponent alloys | Materials Science & Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing | 2004 | 5,917 |
| 27 | Solvent engineering for high-performance inorganic–organic hybrid perovskite solar cells | Nature Materials | 2014 | 5,796 |
| 28 | Quantum dot bioconjugates for imaging, labelling and sensing | Nature Materials | 2005 | 5,774 |
| 29 | Theoretical Stress‐Strain Model for Confined Concrete | Journal of Structural Engineering | 1988 | 5,659 |
| 30 | The bactericidal effect of silver nanoparticles | Nanotechnology | 2005 | 5,457 |
| 31 | Generating optimal topologies in structural design using a homogenization method | Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | 1988 | 5,438 |
| 32 | Continuum Theory of Ductile Rupture by Void Nucleation and Growth: Part I—Yield Criteria and Flow Rules for Porous Ductile Media | Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, Transactions of the ASME | 1977 | 5,353 |
| 33 | Li-ion battery materials: present and future | Materials Today | 2015 | 5,353 |
| 34 | Porosity of 3D biomaterial scaffolds and osteogenesis | Biomaterials | 2005 | 5,351 |
| 35 | Convective Transport in Nanofluids | Journal of Heat Transfer | 2006 | 5,283 |
| 36 | High-efficiency solution processable polymer photovoltaic cells by self-organization of polymer blends | Nature Materials | 2005 | 5,281 |
| 37 | A highly ordered nanostructured carbon–sulphur cathode for lithium–sulphur batteries | Nature Materials | 2009 | 5,250 |
| 38 | On the identification of a vortex | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | 1995 | 5,242 |
| 39 | Nanowire dye-sensitized solar cells | Nature Materials | 2005 | 5,232 |
| 40 | Co3O4 nanocrystals on graphene as a synergistic catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction | Nature Materials | 2011 | 5,120 |
| 41 | Stimuli-responsive nanocarriers for drug delivery | Nature Materials | 2013 | 5,084 |
| 42 | Thermal properties of graphene and nanostructured carbon materials | Nature Materials | 2011 | 5,065 |
| 43 | Emerging applications of stimuli-responsive polymer materials | Nature Materials | 2010 | 5,007 |
| 44 | A variational approach to the theory of the elastic behaviour of multiphase materials | Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids | 1963 | 4,992 |
| 45 | Electrospinning of Nanofibers: Reinventing the Wheel? | Advanced Materials | 2004 | 4,905 |
| 46 | Berechnung der Fließgrenze von Mischkristallen auf Grund der Plastizitätsbedingung für Einkristalle . | ZAMM Zeitschrift Fur Angewandte Mathematik Und Mechanik | 1929 | 4,760 |
| 47 | Additive manufacturing (3D printing): A review of materials, methods, applications and challenges | Composites Part B: Engineering | 2018 | 4,756 |
| 48 | Organic Thin Film Transistors for Large Area Electronics | Advanced Materials | 2002 | 4,693 |
| 49 | Fracture characteristics of three metals subjected to various strains, strain rates, temperatures and pressures | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1985 | 4,645 |
| 50 | Isogeometric analysis: CAD, finite elements, NURBS, exact geometry and mesh refinement | Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | 2005 | 4,614 |
| 51 | 25th Anniversary Article: MXenes: A New Family of Two‐Dimensional Materials | Advanced Materials | 2014 | 4,547 |
| 52 | Design Rules for Donors in Bulk-Heterojunction Solar Cells—Towards 10 % Energy-Conversion Efficiency | Advanced Materials | 2006 | 4,534 |
| 53 | Nanoionics-based resistive switching memories | Nature Materials | 2007 | 4,518 |
| 54 | Redox‐Based Resistive Switching Memories – Nanoionic Mechanisms, Prospects, and Challenges | Advanced Materials | 2009 | 4,447 |
| 55 | Hydrogels for tissue engineering: scaffold design variables and applications | Biomaterials | 2003 | 4,376 |
| 56 | Flat optics with designer metasurfaces | Nature Materials | 2014 | 4,358 |
| 57 | Scaffolds in tissue engineering bone and cartilage | Biomaterials | 2000 | 4,353 |
| 58 | Streamline upwind/Petrov-Galerkin formulations for convection dominated flows with particular emphasis on the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations | Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | 1982 | 4,288 |
| 59 | Cumulative Damage in Fatigue | Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions ASME | 1945 | 4,257 |
| 60 | Advanced Materials for Energy Storage | Advanced Materials | 2010 | 4,168 |
| 61 | Plasmonic-metal nanostructures for efficient conversion of solar to chemical energy | Nature Materials | 2011 | 4,163 |
| 62 | Metal Additive Manufacturing: A Review | Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance | 2014 | 4,141 |
| 63 | Turbulence statistics in fully developed channel flow at low Reynolds number | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | 1987 | 4,099 |
| 64 | Influence of Rotatory Inertia and Shear on Flexural Motions of Isotropic, Elastic Plates | Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions ASME | 1951 | 4,079 |
| 65 | Ionic-liquid materials for the electrochemical challenges of the future | Nature Materials | 2009 | 4,067 |
| 66 | Multiferroics: a magnetic twist for ferroelectricity | Nature Materials | 2007 | 4,054 |
| 67 | On the ductile enlargement of voids in triaxial stress fields∗ | Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids | 1969 | 4,023 |
| 68 | High-rate electrochemical energy storage through Li+ intercalation pseudocapacitance | Nature Materials | 2013 | 4,021 |
| 69 | Elastic properties of reinforced solids: Some theoretical principles | Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids | 1963 | 3,982 |
| 70 | Super-Hydrophobic Surfaces: From Natural to Artificial | Advanced Materials | 2002 | 3,894 |
| 71 | The Mathematical Theory of Equilibrium Cracks in Brittle Fracture | Advances in Applied Mechanics | 1962 | 3,831 |
| 72 | Analysis of Stresses and Strains Near the End of a Crack Traversing a Plate | Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions ASME | 1957 | 3,799 |
| 73 | Magnesium and its alloys as orthopedic biomaterials: A review | Biomaterials | 2006 | 3,782 |
| 74 | Plasmonics for extreme light concentration and manipulation | Nature Materials | 2010 | 3,773 |
| 75 | Ultra-large-scale syntheses of monodisperse nanocrystals | Nature Materials | 2004 | 3,713 |
| 76 | Physics and Applications of Bismuth Ferrite | Advanced Materials | 2009 | 3,668 |
| 77 | A lithium superionic conductor | Nature Materials | 2011 | 3,659 |
| 78 | The relation between load and penetration in the axisymmetric boussinesq problem for a punch of arbitrary profile | International Journal of Engineering Science | 1965 | 3,652 |
| 79 | A stable and accurate convective modelling procedure based on quadratic upstream interpolation | Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | 1979 | 3,640 |
| 80 | Porous metal–organic-framework nanoscale carriers as a potential platform for drug delivery and imaging | Nature Materials | 2010 | 3,629 |
| 81 | Indentation size effects in crystalline materials: A law for strain gradient plasticity | Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids | 1998 | 3,595 |
| 82 | Dynamic mode decomposition of numerical and experimental data | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | 2010 | 3,565 |
| 83 | Multiferroics: progress and prospects in thin films | Nature Materials | 2007 | 3,543 |
| 84 | Double-Network Hydrogels with Extremely High Mechanical Strength | Advanced Materials | 2003 | 3,537 |
| 85 | For the Bright Future—Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells with Power Conversion Efficiency of 7.4% | Advanced Materials | 2010 | 3,509 |
| 86 | A Method of Computation for Structural Dynamics | Journal of the Engineering Mechanics Division | 1959 | 3,494 |
| 87 | Three-dimensional flexible and conductive interconnected graphene networks grown by chemical vapour deposition | Nature Materials | 2011 | 3,493 |
| 88 | Hydrogels in Biology and Medicine: From Molecular Principles to Bionanotechnology | Advanced Materials | 2006 | 3,481 |
| 89 | New Directions for Low-Dimensional Thermoelectric Materials | Advanced Materials | 2007 | 3,468 |
| 90 | Progress in the development of a Reynolds-stress turbulence closure | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | 1975 | 3,450 |
| 91 | A bonded-particle model for rock | International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Minings Sciences | 2004 | 3,446 |
| 92 | A Simple Higher-Order Theory for Laminated Composite Plates | Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions ASME | 1984 | 3,378 |
| 93 | Nano‐photocatalytic Materials: Possibilities and Challenges | Advanced Materials | 2012 | 3,375 |
| 94 | Porous scaffold design for tissue engineering | Nature Materials | 2005 | 3,370 |
| 95 | An Electron Acceptor Challenging Fullerenes for Efficient Polymer Solar Cells | Advanced Materials | 2015 | 3,365 |
| 96 | The Fano resonance in plasmonic nanostructures and metamaterials | Nature Materials | 2010 | 3,352 |
| 97 | A Cyber-Physical Systems architecture for Industry 4.0-based manufacturing systems | Manufacturing Letters | 2015 | 3,341 |
| 98 | Biodegradable and bioactive porous polymer/inorganic composite scaffolds for bone tissue engineering | Biomaterials | 2006 | 3,317 |
| 99 | Computational high-throughput screening of electrocatalytic materials for hydrogen evolution | Nature Materials | 2006 | 3,305 |
| 100 | Failure Criteria for Unidirectional Fiber Composites | Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions ASME | 1980 | 3,303 |
