| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | High-power all-solid-state batteries using sulfide superionic conductors | Nature Energy | 2016 | 2,421 |
| 2 | A solid future for battery development | Nature Energy | 2016 | 2,319 |
| 3 | Reversible aqueous zinc/manganese oxide energy storage from conversion reactions | Nature Energy | 2016 | 2,186 |
| 4 | A high-capacity and long-life aqueous rechargeable zinc battery using a metal oxide intercalation cathode | Nature Energy | 2016 | 2,167 |
| 5 | Silicon heterojunction solar cell with interdigitated back contacts for a photoconversion efficiency over 26% | Nature Energy | 2017 | 2,137 |
| 6 | Efficient organic solar cells processed from hydrocarbon solvents | Nature Energy | 2016 | 2,129 |
| 7 | Pathways for practical high-energy long-cycling lithium metal batteries | Nature Energy | 2019 | 2,101 |
| 8 | Performance and cost of materials for lithium-based rechargeable automotive batteries | Nature Energy | 2018 | 2,069 |
| 9 | Ultrathin metal–organic framework nanosheets for electrocatalytic oxygen evolution | Nature Energy | 2016 | 1,979 |
| 10 | A metal–organic framework-derived bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst | Nature Energy | 2016 | 1,974 |
| 11 | Batteries and fuel cells for emerging electric vehicle markets | Nature Energy | 2018 | 1,944 |
| 12 | A fluorene-terminated hole-transporting material for highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells | Nature Energy | 2018 | 1,856 |
| 13 | Polymer-templated nucleation and crystal growth of perovskite films for solar cells with efficiency greater than 21% | Nature Energy | 2016 | 1,719 |
| 14 | Advances in lithium–sulfur batteries based on multifunctional cathodes and electrolytes | Nature Energy | 2016 | 1,710 |
| 15 | Defect passivation in hybrid perovskite solar cells using quaternary ammonium halide anions and cations | Nature Energy | 2017 | 1,694 |
| 16 | Efficient storage mechanisms for building better supercapacitors | Nature Energy | 2016 | 1,655 |
| 17 | Enhanced electron extraction using SnO2 for high-efficiency planar-structure HC(NH2)2PbI3-based perovskite solar cells | Nature Energy | 2017 | 1,633 |
| 18 | Ultra-high-rate pseudocapacitive energy storage in two-dimensional transition metal carbides | Nature Energy | 2017 | 1,626 |
| 19 | Atomically dispersed Ni(i) as the active site for electrochemical CO2 reduction | Nature Energy | 2018 | 1,594 |
| 20 | Selective deposition and stable encapsulation of lithium through heterogeneous seeded growth | Nature Energy | 2016 | 1,516 |
| 21 | Advances and challenges in understanding the electrocatalytic conversion of carbon dioxide to fuels | Nature Energy | 2019 | 1,506 |
| 22 | Promises and challenges of nanomaterials for lithium-based rechargeable batteries | Nature Energy | 2016 | 1,388 |
| 23 | Solar-driven interfacial evaporation | Nature Energy | 2018 | 1,347 |
| 24 | Design principles for electrolytes and interfaces for stable lithium-metal batteries | Nature Energy | 2016 | 1,339 |
| 25 | Non-fullerene acceptors with branched side chains and improved molecular packing to exceed 18% efficiency in organic solar cells | Nature Energy | 2021 | 1,307 |
| 26 | Status and challenges in enabling the lithium metal electrode for high-energy and low-cost rechargeable batteries | Nature Energy | 2018 | 1,289 |
| 27 | Data-driven prediction of battery cycle life before capacity degradation | Nature Energy | 2019 | 1,237 |
| 28 | 23.6%-efficient monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with improved stability | Nature Energy | 2017 | 1,204 |
| 29 | Efficient ambient-air-stable solar cells with 2D–3D heterostructured butylammonium-caesium-formamidinium lead halide perovskites | Nature Energy | 2017 | 1,169 |
| 30 | Fast charge separation in a non-fullerene organic solar cell with a small driving force | Nature Energy | 2016 | 1,167 |
| 31 | High electronic conductivity as the origin of lithium dendrite formation within solid electrolytes | Nature Energy | 2019 | 1,099 |
| 32 | Metal–organic framework-based separator for lithium–sulfur batteries | Nature Energy | 2016 | 1,059 |
| 33 | Challenges and opportunities towards fast-charging battery materials | Nature Energy | 2019 | 1,053 |
| 34 | Advances in understanding mechanisms underpinning lithium–air batteries | Nature Energy | 2016 | 1,050 |
| 35 | Electrolyte additive enabled fast charging and stable cycling lithium metal batteries | Nature Energy | 2017 | 1,048 |
| 36 | Advances and issues in developing salt-concentrated battery electrolytes | Nature Energy | 2019 | 1,026 |
| 37 | Chemical and structural origin of lattice oxygen oxidation in Co–Zn oxyhydroxide oxygen evolution electrocatalysts | Nature Energy | 2019 | 977 |
| 38 | Fundamental understanding and practical challenges of anionic redox activity in Li-ion batteries | Nature Energy | 2018 | 962 |
| 39 | Selective visible-light-driven photocatalytic CO2 reduction to CH4 mediated by atomically thin CuIn5S8 layers | Nature Energy | 2019 | 948 |
| 40 | Towards stable and commercially available perovskite solar cells | Nature Energy | 2016 | 941 |
| 41 | High-nickel layered oxide cathodes for lithium-based automotive batteries | Nature Energy | 2020 | 940 |
| 42 | High-energy long-cycling all-solid-state lithium metal batteries enabled by silver–carbon composite anodes | Nature Energy | 2020 | 932 |
| 43 | Activity origin and catalyst design principles for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution on heteroatom-doped graphene | Nature Energy | 2016 | 927 |
| 44 | Self-formed grain boundary healing layer for highly efficient CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite solar cells | Nature Energy | 2016 | 902 |
| 45 | Managing grains and interfaces via ligand anchoring enables 22.3%-efficiency inverted perovskite solar cells | Nature Energy | 2020 | 894 |
| 46 | Defects in perovskite-halides and their effects in solar cells | Nature Energy | 2016 | 886 |
| 47 | Micro-cable structured textile for simultaneously harvesting solar and mechanical energy | Nature Energy | 2016 | 879 |
| 48 | Steam generation under one sun enabled by a floating structure with thermal concentration | Nature Energy | 2016 | 870 |
| 49 | A facile surface chemistry route to a stabilized lithium metal anode | Nature Energy | 2017 | 864 |
| 50 | Cation and anion immobilization through chemical bonding enhancement with fluorides for stable halide perovskite solar cells | Nature Energy | 2019 | 831 |
