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| 1 | High-power all-solid-state batteries using sulfide superionic conductors | Nature Energy | 2016 | 2,596 |
| 2 | A solid future for battery development | Nature Energy | 2016 | 2,521 |
| 3 | Reversible aqueous zinc/manganese oxide energy storage from conversion reactions | Nature Energy | 2016 | 2,336 |
| 4 | A high-capacity and long-life aqueous rechargeable zinc battery using a metal oxide intercalation cathode | Nature Energy | 2016 | 2,335 |
| 5 | Pathways for practical high-energy long-cycling lithium metal batteries | Nature Energy | 2019 | 2,331 |
| 6 | Performance and cost of materials for lithium-based rechargeable automotive batteries | Nature Energy | 2018 | 2,270 |
| 7 | Silicon heterojunction solar cell with interdigitated back contacts for a photoconversion efficiency over 26% | Nature Energy | 2017 | 2,219 |
| 8 | Efficient organic solar cells processed from hydrocarbon solvents | Nature Energy | 2016 | 2,173 |
| 9 | Batteries and fuel cells for emerging electric vehicle markets | Nature Energy | 2018 | 2,113 |
| 10 | Ultrathin metal–organic framework nanosheets for electrocatalytic oxygen evolution | Nature Energy | 2016 | 2,088 |
| 11 | A metal–organic framework-derived bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst | Nature Energy | 2016 | 2,019 |
| 12 | A fluorene-terminated hole-transporting material for highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells | Nature Energy | 2018 | 1,906 |
| 13 | Defect passivation in hybrid perovskite solar cells using quaternary ammonium halide anions and cations | Nature Energy | 2017 | 1,797 |
| 14 | Advances in lithium–sulfur batteries based on multifunctional cathodes and electrolytes | Nature Energy | 2016 | 1,784 |
| 15 | Polymer-templated nucleation and crystal growth of perovskite films for solar cells with efficiency greater than 21% | Nature Energy | 2016 | 1,780 |
| 16 | Efficient storage mechanisms for building better supercapacitors | Nature Energy | 2016 | 1,760 |
| 17 | Ultra-high-rate pseudocapacitive energy storage in two-dimensional transition metal carbides | Nature Energy | 2017 | 1,752 |
| 18 | Advances and challenges in understanding the electrocatalytic conversion of carbon dioxide to fuels | Nature Energy | 2019 | 1,748 |
| 19 | Atomically dispersed Ni(i) as the active site for electrochemical CO2 reduction | Nature Energy | 2018 | 1,723 |
| 20 | Enhanced electron extraction using SnO2 for high-efficiency planar-structure HC(NH2)2PbI3-based perovskite solar cells | Nature Energy | 2017 | 1,717 |
| 21 | Selective deposition and stable encapsulation of lithium through heterogeneous seeded growth | Nature Energy | 2016 | 1,627 |
| 22 | Solar-driven interfacial evaporation | Nature Energy | 2018 | 1,500 |
| 23 | Non-fullerene acceptors with branched side chains and improved molecular packing to exceed 18% efficiency in organic solar cells | Nature Energy | 2021 | 1,493 |
| 24 | Promises and challenges of nanomaterials for lithium-based rechargeable batteries | Nature Energy | 2016 | 1,446 |
| 25 | Data-driven prediction of battery cycle life before capacity degradation | Nature Energy | 2019 | 1,423 |
| 26 | Design principles for electrolytes and interfaces for stable lithium-metal batteries | Nature Energy | 2016 | 1,409 |
| 27 | Status and challenges in enabling the lithium metal electrode for high-energy and low-cost rechargeable batteries | Nature Energy | 2018 | 1,396 |
| 28 | 23.6%-efficient monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with improved stability | Nature Energy | 2017 | 1,261 |
| 29 | Efficient ambient-air-stable solar cells with 2D–3D heterostructured butylammonium-caesium-formamidinium lead halide perovskites | Nature Energy | 2017 | 1,218 |
| 30 | Fast charge separation in a non-fullerene organic solar cell with a small driving force | Nature Energy | 2016 | 1,208 |
| 31 | High electronic conductivity as the origin of lithium dendrite formation within solid electrolytes | Nature Energy | 2019 | 1,199 |
| 32 | Challenges and opportunities towards fast-charging battery materials | Nature Energy | 2019 | 1,182 |
| 33 | Advances and issues in developing salt-concentrated battery electrolytes | Nature Energy | 2019 | 1,164 |
| 34 | Electrolyte additive enabled fast charging and stable cycling lithium metal batteries | Nature Energy | 2017 | 1,112 |
| 35 | Chemical and structural origin of lattice oxygen oxidation in Co–Zn oxyhydroxide oxygen evolution electrocatalysts | Nature Energy | 2019 | 1,111 |
| 36 | Metal–organic framework-based separator for lithium–sulfur batteries | Nature Energy | 2016 | 1,106 |
| 37 | Selective visible-light-driven photocatalytic CO2 reduction to CH4 mediated by atomically thin CuIn5S8 layers | Nature Energy | 2019 | 1,093 |
| 38 | Advances in understanding mechanisms underpinning lithium–air batteries | Nature Energy | 2016 | 1,087 |
| 39 | High-nickel layered oxide cathodes for lithium-based automotive batteries | Nature Energy | 2020 | 1,067 |
| 40 | Fundamental understanding and practical challenges of anionic redox activity in Li-ion batteries | Nature Energy | 2018 | 1,065 |
| 41 | High-energy long-cycling all-solid-state lithium metal batteries enabled by silver–carbon composite anodes | Nature Energy | 2020 | 1,065 |
| 42 | Towards stable and commercially available perovskite solar cells | Nature Energy | 2016 | 975 |
| 43 | Activity origin and catalyst design principles for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution on heteroatom-doped graphene | Nature Energy | 2016 | 968 |
| 44 | Managing grains and interfaces via ligand anchoring enables 22.3%-efficiency inverted perovskite solar cells | Nature Energy | 2020 | 963 |
| 45 | Defects in perovskite-halides and their effects in solar cells | Nature Energy | 2016 | 945 |
| 46 | Current status and future directions of multivalent metal-ion batteries | Nature Energy | 2020 | 938 |
| 47 | Consensus statement for stability assessment and reporting for perovskite photovoltaics based on ISOS procedures | Nature Energy | 2020 | 936 |
| 48 | Self-formed grain boundary healing layer for highly efficient CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite solar cells | Nature Energy | 2016 | 931 |
| 49 | Micro-cable structured textile for simultaneously harvesting solar and mechanical energy | Nature Energy | 2016 | 924 |
| 50 | Cation and anion immobilization through chemical bonding enhancement with fluorides for stable halide perovskite solar cells | Nature Energy | 2019 | 919 |
