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| 1 | Crystalline Ropes of Metallic Carbon Nanotubes | Science | 1996 | 5,226 |
| 2 | Polymer Nanocomposites Containing Carbon Nanotubes | Macromolecules | 2006 | 3,134 |
| 3 | Conducting MoS2 Nanosheets as Catalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction | Nano Letters | 2013 | 1,948 |
| 4 | Nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbon of extraordinary capacitance for electrochemical energy storage | Science | 2015 | 1,821 |
| 5 | Encapsulated C60 in carbon nanotubes | Nature | 1998 | 1,438 |
| 6 | In Situ Observation of the Electrochemical Lithiation of a Single SnO 2 Nanowire Electrode | Science | 2010 | 1,430 |
| 7 | Sintering dense nanocrystalline ceramics without final-stage grain growth | Nature | 2000 | 1,300 |
| 8 | Large-scale purification of single-wall carbon nanotubes: process, product, and characterization | Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing | 1998 | 1,228 |
| 9 | Ti3C2 MXene as a High Capacity Electrode Material for Metal (Li, Na, K, Ca) Ion Batteries | ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces | 2014 | 1,165 |
| 10 | Control of Metal Nanocrystal Size Reveals Metal-Support Interface Role for Ceria Catalysts | Science | 2013 | 1,142 |
| 11 | Perovskite oxides for visible-light-absorbing ferroelectric and photovoltaic materials | Nature | 2013 | 1,110 |
| 12 | Janus Monolayer Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides | ACS Nano | 2017 | 1,001 |
| 13 | Building devices from colloidal quantum dots | Science | 2016 | 996 |
| 14 | Thickness-independent capacitance of vertically aligned liquid-crystalline MXenes | Nature | 2018 | 965 |
| 15 | Non-Hermitian photonics based on parity–time symmetry | Nature Photonics | 2017 | 917 |
| 16 | Synthesis of two-dimensional titanium nitride Ti4N3(MXene) | Nanoscale | 2016 | 878 |
| 17 | Macroscopic, Neat, Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Fibers | Science | 2004 | 785 |
| 18 | Electrical and thermal transport properties of magnetically aligned single wall carbon nanotube films | Applied Physics Letters | 2000 | 775 |
| 19 | Binary nanocrystal superlattice membranes self-assembled at the liquid–air interface | Nature | 2010 | 758 |
| 20 | Ultra-strength materials | Progress in Materials Science | 2010 | 696 |
| 21 | Conductivity enhancement in single-walled carbon nanotube bundles doped with K and Br | Nature | 1997 | 695 |
| 22 | Anisotropic Swelling and Fracture of Silicon Nanowires during Lithiation | Nano Letters | 2011 | 691 |
| 23 | The role of electronic coupling between substrate and 2D MoS2 nanosheets in electrocatalytic production of hydrogen | Nature Materials | 2016 | 687 |
| 24 | Nanoporous carbide-derived carbon with tunable pore size | Nature Materials | 2003 | 653 |
| 25 | Large In-Plane and Vertical Piezoelectricity in Janus Transition Metal Dichalchogenides | ACS Nano | 2017 | 599 |
| 26 | Temperature and Strain-Rate Dependence of Surface Dislocation Nucleation | Physical Review Letters | 2008 | 587 |
| 27 | SimpleN-body potentials for the noble metals and nickel | Philosophical Magazine A: Physics of Condensed Matter, Structure, Defects and Mechanical Properties | 1987 | 558 |
| 28 | Strong crystal size effect on deformation twinning | Nature | 2010 | 553 |
| 29 | Quasicrystalline order in self-assembled binary nanoparticle superlattices | Nature | 2009 | 551 |
| 30 | Harnessing Surface Wrinkle Patterns in Soft Matter | Advanced Functional Materials | 2010 | 533 |
| 31 | Effect of nanotube alignment on percolation conductivity in carbon nanotube/polymer composites | Physical Review B | 2005 | 530 |
| 32 | Crystallographic Etching of Few-Layer Graphene | Nano Letters | 2008 | 520 |
| 33 | 50th Anniversary Perspective: Are Polymer Nanocomposites Practical for Applications? | Macromolecules | 2017 | 491 |
| 34 | Liquid Nuclear Condensates Mechanically Sense and Restructure the Genome | Cell | 2018 | 490 |
| 35 | On the structure of tilt grain boundaries in cubic metals I. Symmetrical tilt boundaries | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A | 1983 | 480 |
| 36 | Tunable Metasurface and Flat Optical Zoom Lens on a Stretchable Substrate | Nano Letters | 2016 | 475 |
| 37 | Charge transport in strongly coupled quantum dot solids | Nature Nanotechnology | 2015 | 473 |
| 38 | Quantized Phonon Spectrum of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes | Science | 2000 | 471 |
| 39 | Cell-mediated fibre recruitment drives extracellular matrix mechanosensing in engineered fibrillar microenvironments | Nature Materials | 2015 | 464 |
| 40 | Plastic anisotropy in b.c.c. transition metals | Acta Materialia | 1998 | 456 |
| 41 | Temperature-Controlled Assembly and Release from Polymer Vesicles of Poly(ethylene oxide)-block- poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) | Advanced Materials | 2006 | 456 |
| 42 | Transparent and flexible low noise graphene electrodes for simultaneous electrophysiology and neuroimaging | Nature Communications | 2014 | 448 |
| 43 | Thermal properties of carbon nanotubes and nanotube-based materials | Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing | 2002 | 445 |
| 44 | Coagulation method for preparing single-walled carbon nanotube/poly(methyl methacrylate) composites and their modulus, electrical conductivity, and thermal stability | Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics | 2003 | 433 |
| 45 | Electron irradiation effects in single wall carbon nanotubes | Journal of Applied Physics | 2001 | 431 |
| 46 | Atomistic modeling of interfaces and their impact on microstructure and properties | Acta Materialia | 2010 | 430 |
| 47 | Synthesis of Mo4VAlC4 MAX Phase and Two-Dimensional Mo4VC4 MXene with Five Atomic Layers of Transition Metals | ACS Nano | 2020 | 429 |
| 48 | Modified MAX Phase Synthesis for Environmentally Stable and Highly Conductive Ti3C2 MXene | ACS Nano | 2021 | 417 |
| 49 | Morphologically controlled synthesis of colloidal upconversion nanophosphors and their shape-directed self-assembly | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 416 |
| 50 | Mechanisms of antiwear tribofilm growth revealed in situ by single-asperity sliding contacts | Science | 2015 | 411 |
