| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | 2D metal carbides and nitrides (MXenes) for energy storage | Nature Reviews Materials | 2017 | 5,261 |
| 2 | 2D transition metal dichalcogenides | Nature Reviews Materials | 2017 | 3,689 |
| 3 | Promise and reality of post-lithium-ion batteries with high energy densities | Nature Reviews Materials | 2016 | 3,562 |
| 4 | Analysis of nanoparticle delivery to tumours | Nature Reviews Materials | 2016 | 3,393 |
| 5 | Lithium battery chemistries enabled by solid-state electrolytes | Nature Reviews Materials | 2017 | 3,057 |
| 6 | Designing hydrogels for controlled drug delivery | Nature Reviews Materials | 2016 | 2,817 |
| 7 | High-entropy alloys | Nature Reviews Materials | 2019 | 2,188 |
| 8 | Non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cells | Nature Reviews Materials | 2018 | 2,163 |
| 9 | Materials for next-generation desalination and water purification membranes | Nature Reviews Materials | 2016 | 1,977 |
| 10 | Van der Waals heterostructures and devices | Nature Reviews Materials | 2016 | 1,897 |
| 11 | Bound states in the continuum | Nature Reviews Materials | 2016 | 1,774 |
| 12 | Valleytronics in 2D materials | Nature Reviews Materials | 2016 | 1,712 |
| 13 | Chemical, thermal and mechanical stabilities of metal–organic frameworks | Nature Reviews Materials | 2016 | 1,490 |
| 14 | A cost and resource analysis of sodium-ion batteries | Nature Reviews Materials | 2018 | 1,463 |
| 15 | Magnetic skyrmions: advances in physics and potential applications | Nature Reviews Materials | 2017 | 1,456 |
| 16 | Particulate photocatalysts for overall water splitting | Nature Reviews Materials | 2017 | 1,427 |
| 17 | Covalent organic frameworks: a materials platform for structural and functional designs | Nature Reviews Materials | 2016 | 1,383 |
| 18 | Controlling sound with acoustic metamaterials | Nature Reviews Materials | 2016 | 1,328 |
| 19 | DNA nanotechnology | Nature Reviews Materials | 2018 | 1,268 |
| 20 | Lipid nanoparticles for mRNA delivery | Nature Reviews Materials | 2021 | 1,256 |
| 21 | Nanostructure-based plasmon-enhanced Raman spectroscopy for surface analysis of materials | Nature Reviews Materials | 2016 | 1,229 |
| 22 | Semiconducting materials for photoelectrochemical energy conversion | Nature Reviews Materials | 2016 | 1,212 |
| 23 | Nature-inspired superwettability systems | Nature Reviews Materials | 2017 | 1,212 |
| 24 | Hybrid organic—inorganic perovskites: low-cost semiconductors with intriguing charge-transport properties | Nature Reviews Materials | 2016 | 1,173 |
| 25 | Designing solid-state electrolytes for safe, energy-dense batteries | Nature Reviews Materials | 2020 | 1,167 |
| 26 | Organic electrochemical transistors | Nature Reviews Materials | 2018 | 1,143 |
| 27 | Achieving high energy density and high power density with pseudocapacitive materials | Nature Reviews Materials | 2020 | 1,138 |
| 28 | Hydrogel ionotronics | Nature Reviews Materials | 2018 | 1,119 |
| 29 | Bioresponsive materials | Nature Reviews Materials | 2017 | 1,117 |
| 30 | All-organic thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials for organic light-emitting diodes | Nature Reviews Materials | 2018 | 1,097 |
| 31 | The chemistry of metal–organic frameworks for CO2 capture, regeneration and conversion | Nature Reviews Materials | 2017 | 1,075 |
| 32 | Design of anti-icing surfaces: smooth, textured or slippery? | Nature Reviews Materials | 2016 | 1,048 |
| 33 | Carbon-based metal-free catalysts | Nature Reviews Materials | 2016 | 1,042 |
| 34 | Mesoporous materials for energy conversion and storage devices | Nature Reviews Materials | 2016 | 1,031 |
| 35 | Two-dimensional semiconductors for transistors | Nature Reviews Materials | 2016 | 1,020 |
| 36 | Flexible mechanical metamaterials | Nature Reviews Materials | 2017 | 1,006 |
| 37 | Solution-processed semiconductors for next-generation photodetectors | Nature Reviews Materials | 2017 | 992 |
| 38 | Nanomaterials derived from metal–organic frameworks | Nature Reviews Materials | 2018 | 962 |
| 39 | The evolution of multiferroics | Nature Reviews Materials | 2016 | 933 |
| 40 | Organic thermoelectric materials for energy harvesting and temperature control | Nature Reviews Materials | 2016 | 927 |
| 41 | Understanding the physical properties of hybrid perovskites for photovoltaic applications | Nature Reviews Materials | 2017 | 927 |
| 42 | Graphene for batteries, supercapacitors and beyond | Nature Reviews Materials | 2016 | 925 |
| 43 | High-entropy ceramics | Nature Reviews Materials | 2020 | 902 |
| 44 | Chemically diverse and multifunctional hybrid organic–inorganic perovskites | Nature Reviews Materials | 2017 | 867 |
| 45 | Rethinking cancer nanotheranostics | Nature Reviews Materials | 2017 | 860 |
| 46 | Materials design for bone-tissue engineering | Nature Reviews Materials | 2020 | 851 |
| 47 | Biomedical applications of soft robotics | Nature Reviews Materials | 2018 | 826 |
| 48 | Phosphorene: from theory to applications | Nature Reviews Materials | 2016 | 815 |
| 49 | Room-temperature phosphorescence from organic aggregates | Nature Reviews Materials | 2020 | 786 |
| 50 | Materials for solar-powered water evaporation | Nature Reviews Materials | 2020 | 784 |
