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| 2 | Functional Supramolecular Polymers | Science | 2012 | 3,065 |
| 3 | Cloning of adiponectin receptors that mediate antidiabetic metabolic effects | Nature | 2003 | 2,804 |
| 4 | Cell-free translation reconstituted with purified components | Nature Biotechnology | 2001 | 1,647 |
| 5 | Stretchable active-matrix organic light-emitting diode display using printable elastic conductors | Nature Materials | 2009 | 1,620 |
| 6 | Functional Liquid-Crystalline Assemblies: Self-Organized Soft Materials | Angewandte Chemie - International Edition | 2006 | 1,451 |
| 7 | High-water-content mouldable hydrogels by mixing clay and a dendritic molecular binder | Nature | 2010 | 1,446 |
| 8 | Medical application of functionalized magnetic nanoparticles | Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering | 2005 | 1,328 |
| 9 | A Rubberlike Stretchable Active Matrix Using Elastic Conductors | Science | 2008 | 1,265 |
| 10 | Mechanically induced luminescence changes in molecular assemblies | Nature Chemistry | 2009 | 1,105 |
| 11 | Catalytic Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide Using Ir(III)−Pincer Complexes | Journal of the American Chemical Society | 2009 | 816 |
| 12 | Toward Intelligent Molecular Machines: Directed Motions of Biological and Artificial Molecules and Assemblies | Chemical Reviews | 2005 | 808 |
| 13 | Coordination−Insertion Copolymerization of Fundamental Polar Monomers | Chemical Reviews | 2009 | 780 |
| 14 | Mechanoresponsive Luminescent Molecular Assemblies: An Emerging Class of Materials | Advanced Materials | 2016 | 740 |
| 15 | Mechanically robust, readily repairable polymers via tailored noncovalent cross-linking | Science | 2018 | 716 |
| 16 | U6 promoter–driven siRNAs with four uridine 3′ overhangs efficiently suppress targeted gene expression in mammalian cells | Nature Biotechnology | 2002 | 712 |
| 17 | Photophysics, photochemistry, and optical properties of polyimides | Progress in Polymer Science | 2001 | 711 |
| 18 | Photoconductive Coaxial Nanotubes of Molecularly Connected Electron Donor and Acceptor Layers | Science | 2006 | 642 |
| 19 | Pinched Flow Fractionation: Continuous Size Separation of Particles Utilizing a Laminar Flow Profile in a Pinched Microchannel | Analytical Chemistry | 2004 | 634 |
| 20 | Mechanical twisting of a guest by a photoresponsive host | Nature | 2006 | 634 |
| 21 | An Acidic Matrix Protein, Pif, Is a Key Macromolecule for Nacre Formation | Science | 2009 | 625 |
| 22 | Rewritable phosphorescent paper by the control of competing kinetic and thermodynamic self-assembling events | Nature Materials | 2005 | 560 |
| 23 | Design of the linkers which effectively separate domains of a bifunctional fusion protein | Protein Engineering, Design and Selection | 2001 | 535 |
| 24 | Thermoresponsive actuation enabled by permittivity switching in an electrostatically anisotropic hydrogel | Nature Materials | 2015 | 530 |
| 25 | Photoisomerization in dendrimers by harvesting of low-energy photons | Nature | 1997 | 521 |
| 26 | A rational strategy for the realization of chain-growth supramolecular polymerization | Science | 2015 | 518 |
| 27 | Fully Plastic Actuator through Layer-by-Layer Casting with Ionic-Liquid-Based Bucky Gel | Angewandte Chemie - International Edition | 2005 | 509 |
| 28 | Boryllithium: Isolation, Characterization, and Reactivity as a Boryl Anion | Science | 2006 | 501 |
| 29 | Extrusion Polymerization: Catalyzed Synthesis of Crystalline Linear Polyethylene Nanofibers Within a Mesoporous Silica | Science | 1999 | 470 |
| 30 | Human Mitochondrial tRNAs: Biogenesis, Function, Structural Aspects, and Diseases | Annual Review of Genetics | 2011 | 464 |
| 31 | One-Dimensional Ion Transport in Self-Organized Columnar Ionic Liquids | Journal of the American Chemical Society | 2004 | 448 |
| 32 | Hydrodynamic filtration for on-chip particle concentration and classification utilizing microfluidics | Lab on A Chip | 2005 | 448 |
| 33 | An anisotropic hydrogel with electrostatic repulsion between cofacially aligned nanosheets | Nature | 2015 | 440 |
| 34 | Phosphorescent Organogels via “Metallophilic” Interactions for Reversible RGB−Color Switching | Journal of the American Chemical Society | 2005 | 426 |
| 35 | Hsc70/Hsp90 Chaperone Machinery Mediates ATP-Dependent RISC Loading of Small RNA Duplexes | Molecular Cell | 2010 | 404 |
| 36 | Stacking of conical molecules with a fullerene apex into polar columns in crystals and liquid crystals | Nature | 2002 | 398 |
| 37 | Supramolecular Linear Heterojunction Composed of Graphite-Like Semiconducting Nanotubular Segments | Science | 2011 | 397 |
| 38 | One-Dimensional Ion-Conductive Polymer Films: Alignment and Fixation of Ionic Channels Formed by Self-Organization of Polymerizable Columnar Liquid Crystals | Journal of the American Chemical Society | 2006 | 395 |
| 39 | Supramolecular ferroelectrics | Nature Chemistry | 2015 | 379 |
| 40 | Selective stabilization of mammalian microRNAs by 3′ adenylation mediated by the cytoplasmic poly(A) polymerase GLD-2 | Genes and Development | 2009 | 378 |
| 41 | Stimuli‐Responsive Luminescent Liquid Crystals: Change of Photoluminescent Colors Triggered by a Shear‐Induced Phase Transition | Angewandte Chemie - International Edition | 2008 | 377 |
| 42 | Functional Liquid Crystals towards the Next Generation of Materials | Angewandte Chemie - International Edition | 2018 | 363 |
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| 44 | Induction of DNA methylation and gene silencing by short interfering RNAs in human cells | Nature | 2004 | 344 |
| 45 | Selective Formation of Polycarbonate over Cyclic Carbonate: Copolymerization of Epoxides with Carbon Dioxide Catalyzed by a Cobalt(III) Complex with a Piperidinium End-Capping Arm | Angewandte Chemie - International Edition | 2006 | 340 |
| 46 | Selective assemblies of giant tetrahedra via precisely controlled positional interactions | Science | 2015 | 338 |
| 47 | Metalloporphyrin hosts for supramolecular chemistry of fullerenes | Chemical Society Reviews | 2007 | 337 |
| 48 | Transport of ions and electrons in nanostructured liquid crystals | Nature Reviews Materials | 2017 | 333 |
| 49 | Taurine as a constituent of mitochondrial tRNAs: new insights into the functions of taurine and human mitochondrial diseases | EMBO Journal | 2002 | 332 |
| 50 | An autonomous actuator driven by fluctuations in ambient humidity | Nature Materials | 2016 | 331 |
