| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The rise of graphene | Nature Materials | 2007 | 35,008 |
| 2 | Materials for electrochemical capacitors | Nature Materials | 2008 | 14,090 |
| 3 | A metal-free polymeric photocatalyst for hydrogen production from water under visible light | Nature Materials | 2009 | 10,442 |
| 4 | Complex thermoelectric materials | Nature Materials | 2008 | 9,012 |
| 5 | Li–O2 and Li–S batteries with high energy storage | Nature Materials | 2012 | 8,166 |
| 6 | Nanostructured materials for advanced energy conversion and storage devices | Nature Materials | 2005 | 8,114 |
| 7 | Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices | Nature Materials | 2010 | 7,449 |
| 8 | Detection of individual gas molecules adsorbed on graphene | Nature Materials | 2007 | 7,114 |
| 9 | Biosensing with plasmonic nanosensors | Nature Materials | 2008 | 6,152 |
| 10 | Understanding biophysicochemical interactions at the nano–bio interface | Nature Materials | 2009 | 6,046 |
| 11 | Solvent engineering for high-performance inorganic–organic hybrid perovskite solar cells | Nature Materials | 2014 | 5,796 |
| 12 | Quantum dot bioconjugates for imaging, labelling and sensing | Nature Materials | 2005 | 5,774 |
| 13 | High-efficiency solution processable polymer photovoltaic cells by self-organization of polymer blends | Nature Materials | 2005 | 5,281 |
| 14 | A highly ordered nanostructured carbon–sulphur cathode for lithium–sulphur batteries | Nature Materials | 2009 | 5,250 |
| 15 | Nanowire dye-sensitized solar cells | Nature Materials | 2005 | 5,232 |
| 16 | Co3O4 nanocrystals on graphene as a synergistic catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction | Nature Materials | 2011 | 5,120 |
| 17 | Stimuli-responsive nanocarriers for drug delivery | Nature Materials | 2013 | 5,084 |
| 18 | Thermal properties of graphene and nanostructured carbon materials | Nature Materials | 2011 | 5,065 |
| 19 | Emerging applications of stimuli-responsive polymer materials | Nature Materials | 2010 | 5,007 |
| 20 | Nanoionics-based resistive switching memories | Nature Materials | 2007 | 4,518 |
| 21 | Flat optics with designer metasurfaces | Nature Materials | 2014 | 4,358 |
| 22 | Plasmonic-metal nanostructures for efficient conversion of solar to chemical energy | Nature Materials | 2011 | 4,163 |
| 23 | Ionic-liquid materials for the electrochemical challenges of the future | Nature Materials | 2009 | 4,067 |
| 24 | Multiferroics: a magnetic twist for ferroelectricity | Nature Materials | 2007 | 4,054 |
| 25 | High-rate electrochemical energy storage through Li+ intercalation pseudocapacitance | Nature Materials | 2013 | 4,021 |
| 26 | Plasmonics for extreme light concentration and manipulation | Nature Materials | 2010 | 3,773 |
| 27 | Ultra-large-scale syntheses of monodisperse nanocrystals | Nature Materials | 2004 | 3,713 |
| 28 | A lithium superionic conductor | Nature Materials | 2011 | 3,659 |
| 29 | Porous metal–organic-framework nanoscale carriers as a potential platform for drug delivery and imaging | Nature Materials | 2010 | 3,629 |
| 30 | Multiferroics: progress and prospects in thin films | Nature Materials | 2007 | 3,543 |
| 31 | Three-dimensional flexible and conductive interconnected graphene networks grown by chemical vapour deposition | Nature Materials | 2011 | 3,493 |
| 32 | Porous scaffold design for tissue engineering | Nature Materials | 2005 | 3,370 |
| 33 | The Fano resonance in plasmonic nanostructures and metamaterials | Nature Materials | 2010 | 3,352 |
| 34 | Computational high-throughput screening of electrocatalytic materials for hydrogen evolution | Nature Materials | 2006 | 3,305 |
| 35 | The path towards sustainable energy | Nature Materials | 2017 | 3,288 |
| 36 | Bioinspired structural materials | Nature Materials | 2015 | 3,284 |
| 37 | Efficiency enhancement in low-bandgap polymer solar cells by processing with alkane dithiols | Nature Materials | 2007 | 3,088 |
| 38 | Phase-change materials for rewriteable data storage | Nature Materials | 2007 | 3,054 |
| 39 | A perpendicular-anisotropy CoFeB–MgO magnetic tunnel junction | Nature Materials | 2010 | 3,020 |
| 40 | Superhydrophobic states | Nature Materials | 2003 | 2,913 |
| 41 | Giant room-temperature magnetoresistance in single-crystal Fe/MgO/Fe magnetic tunnel junctions | Nature Materials | 2004 | 2,907 |
| 42 | Trends in electrocatalysis on extended and nanoscale Pt-bimetallic alloy surfaces | Nature Materials | 2007 | 2,902 |
| 43 | Engineering the surface structure of MoS2 to preferentially expose active edge sites for electrocatalysis | Nature Materials | 2012 | 2,896 |
| 44 | Giant tunnelling magnetoresistance at room temperature with MgO (100) tunnel barriers | Nature Materials | 2004 | 2,820 |
| 45 | Donor impurity band exchange in dilute ferromagnetic oxides | Nature Materials | 2005 | 2,802 |
| 46 | Ordered mesoporous α-MoO3 with iso-oriented nanocrystalline walls for thin-film pseudocapacitors | Nature Materials | 2010 | 2,801 |
| 47 | Molecular spintronics using single-molecule magnets | Nature Materials | 2008 | 2,794 |
| 48 | Materials for terahertz science and technology | Nature Materials | 2002 | 2,759 |
| 49 | Highly sensitive flexible pressure sensors with microstructured rubber dielectric layers | Nature Materials | 2010 | 2,749 |
| 50 | Low-temperature solution-processed wavelength-tunable perovskites for lasing | Nature Materials | 2014 | 2,725 |
