| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The conflicts between strength and toughness | Nature Materials | 2011 | 2,543 |
| 2 | Direct mechanical measurement of the tensile strength and elastic modulus of multiwalled carbon nanotubes | Materials Science & Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing | 2002 | 951 |
| 3 | Macroscopic 10-Terabit–per–Square-Inch Arrays from Block Copolymers with Lateral Order | Science | 2009 | 713 |
| 4 | Holey Silicon as an Efficient Thermoelectric Material | Nano Letters | 2010 | 674 |
| 5 | Mechanistic fracture criteria for the failure of human cortical bone | Nature Materials | 2003 | 642 |
| 6 | Heterostructured materials: superior properties from hetero-zone interaction | Materials Research Letters | 2021 | 505 |
| 7 | Iron and its complexes in silicon | Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing | 1999 | 476 |
| 8 | Small-molecule-directed nanoparticle assembly towards stimuli-responsive nanocomposites | Nature Materials | 2009 | 431 |
| 9 | The dentin–enamel junction and the fracture of human teeth | Nature Materials | 2005 | 381 |
| 10 | Mechanical fatigue and fracture of Nitinol | International Materials Reviews | 2012 | 306 |
| 11 | Mechanistic aspects of fracture and R-curve behavior in human cortical bone | Biomaterials | 2005 | 288 |
| 12 | Structure and properties of spinodally decomposed Cu-Ni-Fe alloys | Acta Metallurgica | 1970 | 262 |
| 13 | Effect of orientation on the in vitro fracture toughness of dentin: the role of toughening mechanisms | Biomaterials | 2003 | 226 |
| 14 | Fracture in human cortical bone: local fracture criteria and toughening mechanisms | Journal of Biomechanics | 2005 | 224 |
| 15 | Gated proton transport in aligned mesoporous silica films | Nature Materials | 2008 | 223 |
| 16 | Point Defects and Sintering of Lead Zirconate-Titanate | Journal of the American Ceramic Society | 1971 | 211 |
| 17 | Fatigue and life prediction for cobalt-chromium stents: A fracture mechanics analysis | Biomaterials | 2006 | 197 |
| 18 | Self-Assembly and Transport Limitations in Confined Nafion Films | Macromolecules | 2013 | 192 |
| 19 | A reaction-layer mechanism for the delayed failure of micron-scale polycrystalline silicon structural films subjected to high-cycle fatigue loading | Acta Materialia | 2002 | 189 |
| 20 | Multiferroic and magnetoelectric heterostructures | Acta Materialia | 2012 | 183 |
| 21 | Optimization of Mo-Si-B intermetallic alloys | Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science | 2005 | 174 |
| 22 | Sequential catalysis controls selectivity in electrochemical CO2 reduction on Cu | Energy and Environmental Science | 2018 | 165 |
| 23 | High-cycle fatigue and durability of polycrystalline silicon thin films in ambient air | Sensors and Actuators A: Physical | 2001 | 157 |
| 24 | Additional Sodium Insertion into Polyanionic Cathodes for Higher‐Energy Na‐Ion Batteries | Advanced Energy Materials | 2017 | 157 |
| 25 | Chemical storage of renewable energy | Science | 2018 | 150 |
| 26 | Elucidating the structure of the magnesium aluminum chloride complex electrolyte for magnesium-ion batteries | Energy and Environmental Science | 2015 | 131 |
| 27 | Multiband GaNAsP quaternary alloys | Applied Physics Letters | 2006 | 128 |
| 28 | Role of microstructure in the aging-related deterioration of the toughness of human cortical bone | Materials Science and Engineering C | 2006 | 128 |
| 29 | Improved Cycling Performance of Li‐Excess Cation‐Disordered Cathode Materials upon Fluorine Substitution | Advanced Energy Materials | 2019 | 127 |
| 30 | The residual stress state due to a spherical hard-body impact | Mechanics of Materials | 2001 | 125 |
| 31 | Design principles for high transition metal capacity in disordered rocksalt Li-ion cathodes | Energy and Environmental Science | 2018 | 123 |
| 32 | A fracture mechanics and mechanistic approach to the failure of cortical bone | Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures | 2005 | 116 |
| 33 | Crystal Structures of and Displacive Transitions in OsN2, IrN2, RuN2, and RhN2 | Angewandte Chemie - International Edition | 2007 | 116 |
| 34 | Role of the grain-boundary phase on the elevated-temperature strength, toughness, fatigue and creep resistance of silicon carbide sintered with Al, B and C | Acta Materialia | 2000 | 108 |
| 35 | Ultrastructural examination of dentin using focused ion-beam cross-sectioning and transmission electron microscopy | Micron | 2005 | 97 |
| 36 | Mechanism of fatigue in micron-scale films of polycrystalline silicon for microelectromechanical systems | Applied Physics Letters | 2002 | 96 |
| 37 | Si photocathode with Ag-supported dendritic Cu catalyst for CO2reduction | Energy and Environmental Science | 2019 | 93 |
| 38 | In vitro fatigue behavior of human dentin with implications for life prediction | Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B | 2003 | 90 |
| 39 | Scanning tunneling microscopy study of graphene on Au(111): Growth mechanisms and substrate interactions | Physical Review B | 2012 | 89 |
| 40 | Effects of polar solvents on the fracture resistance of dentin: role of water hydration | Acta Biomaterialia | 2005 | 87 |
| 41 | Growth, structural, and magnetic properties of high coercivity Co/Pt multilayers | Journal of Applied Physics | 2001 | 80 |
| 42 | On the fracture of human dentin: Is it stress- or strain-controlled? | Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B | 2003 | 79 |
| 43 | Germanium: From its discovery to SiGe devices | Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing | 2006 | 79 |
| 44 | In vitro fracture toughness of human dentin | Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B | 2003 | 78 |
| 45 | In situTEM nanomechanics | MRS Bulletin | 2015 | 78 |
| 46 | Effect of oxygen on the electronic band structure in ZnOxSe1−x alloys | Applied Physics Letters | 2003 | 76 |
| 47 | Analysis of the carbon-related “blue” luminescence in GaN | Journal of Applied Physics | 2005 | 76 |
| 48 | Canine Cranial Reconstruction Using Autologous Bone Marrow Stromal Cells | American Journal of Pathology | 2006 | 76 |
| 49 | Diffusion of Iron and Nickel in Magnesium Oxide Single Crystals | Journal of the American Ceramic Society | 1969 | 74 |
| 50 | Determining the Toughness of Ceramics from Vickers Indentations Using the Crack‐Opening Displacements: An Experimental Study | Journal of the American Ceramic Society | 2003 | 73 |
