Nature Reviews Materials

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Reviews Materials is 66. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Lipid nanoparticles for mRNA delivery1581
Bioplastics for a circular economy820
Fundamentals, status and promise of sodium-based batteries661
Engineering organoids614
Tailoring inorganic–polymer composites for the mass production of solid-state batteries543
Targeted drug delivery strategies for precision medicines510
End-to-end design of wearable sensors485
Risk assessment of microplastic particles459
Polymer photocatalysts for solar-to-chemical energy conversion454
Soft actuators for real-world applications407
Bio-based polymers with performance-advantaged properties366
Nanofluidics for osmotic energy conversion362
Transforming heat transfer with thermal metamaterials and devices348
Gas diffusion electrodes and membranes for CO2 reduction electrolysers338
Polarons in materials333
The marvels of moiré materials328
Deep neural networks for the evaluation and design of photonic devices316
Non-metallic charge carriers for aqueous batteries308
Artificial channels for confined mass transport at the sub-nanometre scale304
Designing modern aqueous batteries301
Machine learning for alloys294
Production routes to tailor the performance of cellulose nanocrystals290
Synthesis and alignment of liquid crystalline elastomers277
Emerging applications of zeolites in catalysis, separation and host–guest assembly274
Multifunctional biomolecule nanostructures for cancer therapy269
Metallurgy, mechanistic models and machine learning in metal printing268
Phase transitions in 2D materials267
Biomaterial-based antimicrobial therapies for the treatment of bacterial infections261
Confining isolated atoms and clusters in crystalline porous materials for catalysis260
Low-dimensional wide-bandgap semiconductors for UV photodetectors256
Hydrogel interfaces for merging humans and machines250
Molecular imaging and disease theranostics with renal-clearable optical agents249
Engineered living biomaterials249
The fundamentals and applications of ferroelectric HfO2247
Molecular engineering of contact interfaces for high-performance perovskite solar cells245
Quantum guidelines for solid-state spin defects244
Nanoparticle synthesis assisted by machine learning244
A materials-science perspective on tackling COVID-19242
Design of therapeutic biomaterials to control inflammation241
Flexible self-charging power sources237
The passivity of lithium electrodes in liquid electrolytes for secondary batteries236
Dynamical memristors for higher-complexity neuromorphic computing235
Advances in coherent magnonics235
Colloidal quantum dot lasers234
Analogue computing with metamaterials230
Materials design by synthetic biology228
Reducing environmental plastic pollution by designing polymer materials for managed end-of-life224
Electrical doping in halide perovskites221
The germanium quantum information route219
Functional nanoparticles through π-conjugated polymer self-assembly216
A reticular chemistry guide for the design of periodic solids210
The kinetics of metal oxide photoanodes from charge generation to catalysis209
Status and perspectives of crystalline silicon photovoltaics in research and industry209
Extracellular vesicles versus synthetic nanoparticles for drug delivery203
Electronic defects in metal oxide photocatalysts199
From molecular to supramolecular electronics197
Transition-metal coordinate bonds for bioinspired macromolecules with tunable mechanical properties197
Material properties and applications of mechanically interlocked polymers182
3D-printed multifunctional materials enabled by artificial-intelligence-assisted fabrication technologies179
Organic batteries for a greener rechargeable world179
The role of polymer mechanochemistry in responsive materials and additive manufacturing176
Passive, active and endogenous organ-targeted lipid and polymer nanoparticles for delivery of genetic drugs173
Emerging materials intelligence ecosystems propelled by machine learning172
Methane transformation by photocatalysis170
A roadmap for the commercialization of perovskite light emitters170
Clinical translation of silica nanoparticles169
Designing spatial and temporal control of vaccine responses162
Fibre-based composites from the integration of metal–organic frameworks and polymers161
Long-term operating stability in perovskite photovoltaics161
Defect activity in metal halide perovskites with wide and narrow bandgap160
Topological acoustics157
Engineered disorder in photonics154
The protein corona from nanomedicine to environmental science152
Dynamic and reconfigurable materials from reversible network interactions151
Processing and application of high-temperature superconducting coated conductors150
Stability challenges for the commercialization of perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells149
Engineered platforms for topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes146
Soft wearable devices for deep-tissue sensing144
Excitonic devices with van der Waals heterostructures: valleytronics meets twistronics143
Nanostructuring versus microstructuring in battery electrodes134
Materials, physics and systems for multicaloric cooling133
Anomalous Hall antiferromagnets132
Pushing the limit of 3d transition metal-based layered oxides that use both cation and anion redox for energy storage132
Machine learning for a sustainable energy future129
Drug delivery to the central nervous system129
Ferroelectric domain walls for nanotechnology123
Engineering high-coherence superconducting qubits122
Emerging exciton physics in transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers119
Two-dimensional material inks115
Responsive materials architected in space and time114
Electrochemical ion insertion from the atomic to the device scale108
Exploiting the paddle-wheel mechanism for the design of fast ion conductors108
Weyl, Dirac and high-fold chiral fermions in topological quantum matter106
Machine learning in combinatorial polymer chemistry102
Highly efficient perovskite LEDs102
Ferroelectric order in van der Waals layered materials101
Engineering the multiscale complexity of vascular networks98
Semitransparent organic photovoltaics for building-integrated photovoltaic applications97
The electrical conductivity of solution-processed nanosheet networks95
Lithium-film ceramics for solid-state lithionic devices94
Oxide spin-orbitronics: spin–charge interconversion and topological spin textures92
Organelle-level precision with next-generation targeting technologies91
Electrostatic gating and intercalation in 2D materials90
Mining our green future88
Total synthesis of colloidal matter88
Understanding ligand-protected noble metal nanoclusters at work87
Atomically precise control in the design of low-nuclearity supported metal catalysts86
Topological materials discovery from crystal symmetry85
Recycling of sodium-ion batteries85
Innovations to decarbonize materials industries85
Increasing the size and complexity of discrete 2D metallosupramolecules85
Electrified water treatment: fundamentals and roles of electrode materials80
Clinical translation of long-acting drug delivery formulations79
Integrating plant molecular farming and materials research for next-generation vaccines79
Hydration-induced reversible deformation of biological materials78
Plasma pyrolysis for a sustainable hydrogen economy76
Let’s talk about lipid nanoparticles76
Photonic van der Waals integration from 2D materials to 3D nanomembranes73
Autonomous materials systems from active liquid crystals70
3D-printed PEDOT:PSS for soft robotics70
Materials for extreme environments69
Functionalizing DNA origami to investigate and interact with biological systems66
In situ self-assembly for cancer therapy and imaging66
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