Nature Materials

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Materials is 42. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Ultrafast plasmonics shapes electron beams2159
Multipole polaron roams the devil’s staircase733
Quadrupolar excitons take the stage622
Genetically encoded protein crystals by hierarchical design595
All-electrical perpendicular switching of chiral antiferromagnetic order443
Modulation of optical loss leads to robust localization of light398
Experimental organs393
Improving both performance and stability of n-type organic semiconductors by vitamin C358
Substantial oxygen loss and chemical expansion in lithium-rich layered oxides at moderate delithiation329
Terahertz parametric amplification as a reporter of exciton condensate dynamics328
Spin-valley Rashba monolayer laser321
A strategy for obtaining AlN heteroepitaxial films with high crystalline quality291
Taming CAR T cell therapy toxicity289
Bimorphic Floquet topological insulators277
The role of the electrolyte in non-conjugated radical polymers for metal-free aqueous energy storage electrodes274
Tuning colour centres at a twisted hexagonal boron nitride interface268
Spin excitations in nanographene-based antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 Heisenberg chains256
Angle-resolved transport non-reciprocity and spontaneous symmetry breaking in twisted trilayer graphene254
Self-generated gradients steer collective migration on viscoelastic collagen networks249
Metamaterial adhesives for programmable adhesion through reverse crack propagation249
When the roof falls in244
Fast water transport and molecular sieving through ultrathin ordered conjugated-polymer-framework membranes239
Synapse-powered vitality239
Trace removal of benzene vapour using double-walled metal–dipyrazolate frameworks238
Signatures of magnetism in zigzag graphene nanoribbons embedded in a hexagonal boron nitride lattice231
Unperceivable motion mimicking hygroscopic geometric reshaping of pine cones229
Obtaining V2(PO4)3 by sodium extraction from single-phase NaxV2(PO4)3 (1 < x < 3) positive electrode materials229
Non-iridium-based electrocatalyst for durable acidic oxygen evolution reaction in proton exchange membrane water electrolysis225
Observation of quadrupolar and dipolar excitons in a semiconductor heterotrilayer225
Single-molecule photoelectron tunnelling spectroscopy223
Sequencing polymers to enable solid-state lithium batteries219
Hierarchically engineered nanostructures from compositionally anisotropic molecular building blocks209
Hydrogels for RNA delivery208
Directed cell migration towards softer environments207
Functionally doped infinite-layer nickelates205
Defeating depolarizing fields with artificial flux closure in ultrathin ferroelectrics200
Sieving in order198
Unveiling the intricate moiré of moiré texture198
Sensitive proton-radiation detectors194
Faster holes by delocalization193
Ionic polarization modulation for wide-bandgap high-κ 2D insulators192
Electron ptychography reveals a ferroelectricity dominated by anion displacements190
Switching a chiral antiferromagnet185
Exciton density waves in Coulomb-coupled dual moiré lattices185
Quantum materials at the crossroads of strong correlation and topology184
Bio-inspired artificial mechanoreceptors with built-in synaptic functions for intelligent tactile skin183
Molecular dampers for high-temperature capacitors181
Extreme phonon anharmonicity underpins superionic diffusion and ultralow thermal conductivity in argyrodite Ag8SnSe6181
Revealing the origin of local atomic disorder in energy materials175
Rescuing magnetic oscillations by microwave shocks175
Turning powders into fibre via cellulose174
Heat-resistant aluminium alloys173
Defect-driven anomalous transport in fast-ion conducting solid electrolytes172
Stacking textured films on lattice-mismatched transparent conducting oxides via matched Voronoi cell of oxygen sublattice172
Stimuli-responsive metal–organic frameworks enabled by intrinsic molecular motion169
Compensating losses in polariton propagation with synthesized complex frequency excitation166
Electro-chemo-mechanics of anode-free solid-state batteries166
Stretchable ionic–electronic bilayer hydrogel electronics enable in situ detection of solid-state epidermal biomarkers166
Highly anisotropic spin transport in ultrathin black phosphorus166
Bridging length scales in organic mixed ionic–electronic conductors through internal strain and mesoscale dynamics165
A quantum dot in germanium proximitized by a superconductor161
High quantum efficiency of hydrogen production from methanol aqueous solution with PtCu–TiO2 photocatalysts161
Phase patterning of liquid crystal elastomers by laser-induced dynamic crosslinking161
Decoupling the roles of Ni and Co in anionic redox activity of Li-rich NMC cathodes157
Superconductivity in a quintuple-layer square-planar nickelate157
Programming precise nanoparticle patterns156
In praise of peer review156
Skyrmion nanodomains in ferroelectric–antiferroelectric solid solutions155
Role of the extracellular matrix in cardiac ageing154
Phonon interference in single-molecule junctions151
Mitigating proton trapping in cubic perovskite oxides via ScO6 octahedral networks151
Optical control of spin-galvanic currents151
Nano-oxides boost aluminium heat resistance151
Connecting silicon carbide technologies148
Synchronized dancing under light148
Tunable fractional Chern insulators147
Delivering Europe’s graphene promise145
Unconventional metal phase stabilizing metastable 2D materials141
Expanding the library of high-quality thin films141
Designer quantum dot molecules and beyond140
Group-III nitride heteroepitaxial films approaching bulk-class quality139
Electronically configurable microscopic metasheet robots139
Formation, chemical evolution and solidification of the dense liquid phase of calcium (bi)carbonate139
The visual appearances of disordered optical metasurfaces137
Accelerating ionizable lipid discovery for mRNA delivery using machine learning and combinatorial chemistry137
Blood–brain-barrier-crossing lipid nanoparticles for mRNA delivery to the central nervous system135
Capturing the dance of nanoparticles in crystals135
Li iontronics in single-crystalline T-Nb2O5 thin films with vertical ionic transport channels133
Giant electron-mediated phononic nonlinearity in semiconductor–piezoelectric heterostructures133
Electrochemically actuated microelectrodes for minimally invasive peripheral nerve interfaces132
Terahertz emission from giant optical rectification in a van der Waals material130
Clamping enables enhanced electromechanical responses in antiferroelectric thin films129
Three-dimensional atomic packing in amorphous solids with liquid-like structure129
Accelerated data-driven materials science with the Materials Project128
Ascendancy of semi-synthetic biomaterials from design towards democratization128
Templated encapsulation of platinum-based catalysts promotes high-temperature stability to 1,100 °C127
Designing spin and orbital sources of Berry curvature at oxide interfaces124
Chromogenic identification of breakdown122
A fridge without a cause120
Simple connections take the prize119
Tensile strain and low coordination activate pure copper for hydrogen evolution118
Design criteria for tough metamaterials117
High-temperature superconductivity survives116
Albumin-coated lipid nanoparticles are effective delivery systems for mRNA vaccines116
Steering from the rear116
Writing a magnetic whirl on multiferroics115
Mapping the transmission of single-molecule junctions using photoelectron tunnelling spectroscopy114
Magnetic proximity boosts chiral quantum emission113
Lifting the fog in ferroelectric thin-film synthesis112
Ultrafast evanescent heat transfer across solid interfaces via hyperbolic phonon–polariton modes in hexagonal boron nitride110
Coherent optical spin Hall transport for polaritonics at room temperature110
A carbon-nanotube-based electron source with a 0.3-eV energy spread and an unconventional time delay110
Engineering bonding sites enables uniform and robust self-assembled monolayer for stable perovskite solar cells110
Photo-enhanced ionic conductivity across grain boundaries in polycrystalline ceramics109
Optically induced ultrafast magnetization switching in ferromagnetic spin valves109
Correlative image learning of chemo-mechanics in phase-transforming solids106
Electrotunable friction with ionic liquid lubricants105
Photo-actuators via epitaxial growth of microcrystal arrays in polymer membranes104
Damage-free dry transfer method using stress engineering for high-performance flexible two- and three-dimensional electronics104
Tough and stretchable ionogels by in situ phase separation103
Direct correlation between void formation and lithium dendrite growth in solid-state electrolytes with interlayers102
Transitioning metal–organic frameworks from the laboratory to market through applied research102
Tiny spectrometers102
Staying in the comfort zone101
Two-dimensional devices and integration towards the silicon lines101
Nuclear spin polarization and control in hexagonal boron nitride101
Regulating genes with stiffness100
Better electronics from immiscibility99
A dynamic view of frozen excitons99
A moiré proximity effect99
Electrical plants99
Illuminating defects in crystal clear colloidal assemblies98
Inhalable mRNA nanoparticles97
Structural editing with chemical scissors96
Self-healing of fractured diamond96
A drug-mediated organic electrochemical transistor for robustly reusable biosensors95
Activating deformation twinning in cubic boron nitride95
Toughness and elasticity from phase separation94
Electronics can be more sustainable94
Stripping ions with liquid94
Topological Wannier cycles induced by sub-unit-cell artificial gauge flux in a sonic crystal94
Author Correction: P-block single-metal-site tin/nitrogen-doped carbon fuel cell cathode catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction93
A non-fullerene acceptor for perovskites93
Bimodal free volumes uplift gas separation92
Polariton probing of attometre displacement and nanoscale strain in ultrashort acoustic pulses91
Exploiting strained epitaxial germanium for scaling low-noise spin qubits at the micrometre scale91
Amorphous chalcogenides in two dimensions90
Detecting interference of lattice vibrations90
Dynamic soft materials as tough as glass88
Revealing emergent magnetic charge in an antiferromagnet with diamond quantum magnetometry87
Asynchronous current-induced switching of rare-earth and transition-metal sublattices in ferrimagnetic alloys87
Tunable fractional Chern insulators in rhombohedral graphene superlattices86
Space charge governs the kinetics of metal exsolution85
From enhanced diffusion to ultrafast ballistic motion of hybrid light–matter excitations85
Flatland wakes based on leaky hyperbolic polaritons85
Bridging the gap between precatalysts and electrocatalysts84
Mechanism of plastic deformation in metal monochalcogenides83
Decoupling sliding polarizations83
A soft crystalline packing with no metallic analogue82
Stretching out transistors82
Physical reservoir computers that can adapt to perform different tasks82
Handy nanoquakes82
Designing flexible mechanical metamaterials with complex functionalities81
DNA photofluids show life-like motion80
Beyond moiré in twisted two-dimensional magnets80
Scalar topological photonic nested meta-crystals and skyrmion surface states in the light cone continuum80
Materials and technology innovations towards sustainable electronics80
Spins in chains79
Unjamming tumour cell invasion through cGAS–STING79
A Hall lot of effects79
The expanding world of topological ferroelectrics78
Improving lithium-ion cells by replacing polyethylene terephthalate jellyroll tape77
Colloidal quasicrystals engineered with DNA76
Printing with a quantum dot matrix76
Long-lived hot carriers in a polymeric semiconductor75
Two-dimensional few-atom noble gas clusters in a graphene sandwich75
Unconventional scaling of the orbital Hall effect74
Twistronics and the small-angle magic74
Tissue-specific mRNA delivery and prime editing with peptide–ionizable lipid nanoparticles74
Computational discovery of fast interstitial oxygen conductors73
Frozen non-equilibrium dynamics of exciton Mott insulators in moiré superlattices73
Topological steering of light by nematic vortices and analogy to cosmic strings73
Beyond lithium for sustainable ammonia synthesis73
Evidence of a room-temperature quantum spin Hall edge state in a higher-order topological insulator73
Creating chirality in the nearly two dimensions72
A magnetic continuum in the cobalt-based honeycomb magnet BaCo2(AsO4)272
High-entropy enhanced capacitive energy storage72
Subsecond multichannel magnetic control of select neural circuits in freely moving flies72
A DNA origami device spatially controls CD95 signalling to induce immune tolerance in rheumatoid arthritis72
Intermediate-phase engineering via dimethylammonium cation additive for stable perovskite solar cells71
Superconductivity feels the heat71
Bending the rules71
Boosting electromechanical response via clamping70
A cryogenic memristor70
Still going strong70
A magnetic field for each electron69
Strain by metal nitrides accelerates oxygen reduction69
Squeezing out power69
A mixed legacy68
Local photocrosslinking of native tissue matrix regulates lung epithelial cell mechanosensing and function68
Bending the rules, naturally68
Artificial neuron transmits chemical signals68
Molecular engineering of two-dimensional polyamide interphase layers for anode-free lithium metal batteries67
In situ tissue stiffening as a model of early lung injury and disease67
Mechanical checkpoint regulates monocyte differentiation in fibrotic niches66
A solid electrolyte with active stability66
Electric-field-induced colour switching in colloidal quantum dot molecules at room temperature66
Evidence for time-reversal symmetry-breaking kagome superconductivity66
Potential and challenges of computing with molecular materials65
Vortices and antivortices in antiferroelectric PbZrO365
Giant magnon spin conductivity in ultrathin yttrium iron garnet films65
Double-sided van der Waals epitaxy of topological insulators across an atomically thin membrane65
Tomographic measurement of dielectric tensors at optical frequency65
Resistance to fatigue65
Zero-field polarity-reversible Josephson supercurrent diodes enabled by a proximity-magnetized Pt barrier64
Optimizing hierarchical membrane/catalyst systems for oxidative coupling of methane using additive manufacturing64
Thermal multiferroics in all-inorganic quasi-two-dimensional halide perovskites63
Multislip-enabled morphing of all-inorganic perovskites62
Prodding the quantum spin liquid62
High-temperature Josephson diode62
Enhanced energy storage in high-entropy ferroelectric polymers62
Active tissue adhesive activates mechanosensors and prevents muscle atrophy62
Soft features for robotics61
Graphene rolls with tunable chirality61
Highly compressible glass-like supramolecular polymer networks61
Unveiling ultrafast disorder dynamics60
Life-saving vaccines awarded60
Ultrafast light-based logic with graphene60
Soft learning60
A large library for tiny catalysts59
Paul McMillan (1956–2022)59
Moiré turns neuromorphic59
A magneto-thermoelectric with a high figure of merit in topological insulator Bi88Sb1258
Fractured diamond can heal itself at room temperature58
Lipid nanodiscs give cancer a STING58
Evidencing ultrafast dislocation motion58
Electronic screening using a virtual Thomas–Fermi fluid for predicting wetting and phase transitions of ionic liquids at metal surfaces57
The power of the body57
Dispersion-tunable low-loss implanted spin-wave waveguides for large magnonic networks57
Non-volatile electric-field control of inversion symmetry57
Nonlinear physics of moiré superlattices57
Engineering correlated insulators in bilayer graphene with a remote Coulomb superlattice56
Special delivery55
Dynamic flow control through active matter programming language55
Ultrafast exciton transport at early times in quantum dot solids55
Unconventional unidirectional magnetoresistance in heterostructures of a topological semimetal and a ferromagnet55
Energy supply from magnetoelastic composites55
Crystallographic guess-and-check55
Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) organic molecules for efficient X-ray scintillation and imaging54
Publisher Correction: High-efficiency stretchable light-emitting polymers from thermally activated delayed fluorescence53
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