Resources Chemicals and Materials 2025 Top Cited Article Award announced

In recognition of authors' significant contributions to the journal, the Editors-in-Chief and the Editorial office are pleased to present this award to the ten articles published in 2024-2025 that received the most citations:

1.     Green synthesis of zinc oxide nanoparticles: Eco-friendly advancements for biomedical marvels

Nandhini J, Karthikeyan E*, Rajeshkumar S

2.     A review of cathode and electrolyte recovery from spent lithium-ion batteries: Recent technologies, processes and policies

Songming Zheng, Tao Chen, Yujie Fang, Chang He, Huamei Duan*, Shan Ren*, Chunbao Charles Xu*

3.     Research progress of MOF electrochromic materials

Xueying Fan, Mengyao Pan, Xin Li, Linghao Kong, Aleksandr Kuchmizha*, Hongbo Xu*

4.     Recent advancements in the synthesis, functionalization, and utilization of cellulose nanocrystals

Xiao Zhang, Hui Ni, Xiangming Xu, Long Li, Hailan Kang*, Donghan Li*

5.     Functionalized lignin nanoparticles prepared by high shear homogenization for all green and barrier-enhanced paper packaging

Xiaoqian Gai, Chao Liu*, Zhaochuan Yu, Yu Li, Yuting Wang, Chao Deng, Haiying Wei, Yuqian Liu, Huining Xiao

6.     Biomass carbon materials for high-performance secondary battery electrodes: A review

Qiankun Zhou, Wenjie Yang, Lili Wang, Hongdian Lu, Shibin Nie, Liangji Xu, Wei Yang*, Chunxiang Wei*

7.     Rational design of photofunctional dyes BODIPYs/aza-BODIPYs and applications for photocatalysis, photoelectric conversion and thermochromic materials

Dongxiang Zhang, Linxuan Liu, Xin Zhang, Jie Lu, Xin-Dong Jiang*

8.     Major challenges and recent advances in characterizing biomass thermochemical reactions

Zhennan Han, Junrong Yue, Xi Zeng, Jian Yu, Fang Wang, Yu Guan, Xuejing Liu, Fu Ding, Liangliang Fu, Xin Jia, Xingfei Song, Chao Wang, Yanbin Cui, Lei Shi, Kangjun Wang, Vladimir Zivkovic, Dingrong Bai*, Guangwen Xu*

9.     Recent advances of sustainable and recyclable polymer materials from renewable resources

Ting Luo, Yun Hu, Meng Zhang, Puyou Jia*, Yonghong Zhou*

10.   Biochemical, functional and antioxidant potential of higher fungi cultivated on agro-industrial residues. Part II: Cultures on mixtures of spent mushroom substrates and mushroom cropping by-products

Marianna Dedousi, Eirini Maria Melanouri, Ilias Diamantis, Seraphim Papanikolaou, Panagiota Diamantopoulou*

Congratulations to the authors! All award recipients will receive an electronic certificate.