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[19] Y. Nabei, C. Yang, H. Sun, H. Jones, T. Mai, T. Wang, R. Bodin, B. Pandey, Z. Wang, Y. Xiong, A. H. Comstock, B. Ewing, J. Bingen, R. Sun, D. Smirnov, W. Zhang, A. Hoffmann, R. Rao, M. Hu, Z. V. Vardeny, B. Yan, X. Li, J. Zhou*, J. Liu*, D. Sun*, Orbital Seebeck effect induced by chiral phonons. Nature Physics 22, 245–251 (2026). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-03134-x

[18] B. P. Bloom, M. Lingenfelder, R. Naaman, D. Sun, D. H. Waldeck*, Using chiral-induced spin selectivity as a tool to improve materials and processes for energy science. Nat. Rev. Mater. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-025-00864-5

[17] Y. Dong, A. McConnell, M. P. Hautzinger, M. A. Haque, A. H. Comstock, P. M. Theiler, J. M. Luther, P. C. Sercel, D. Sun*, M. C. Beard*, Ultrafast inverse chirality-induced spin selectivity observed by THz emission. Science. 390, 595–600 (2025). https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4885

[16] Z. Xu†, S. Saiev†, P. Qian†, Y. Nabei†, Z. Wang, J. M. Rinehart, A. M. Österholm, A. L. Jones, J.-H. Lee, C. Hwang, S. Wang, R. Sun, D. Shin, S. Jeon, K. E. Elangovan, J. Vura-Weis, V. Coropceanu, J. Rodríguez-López*, J. R. Reynolds*, D. Sun*, J.-L. Brédas*, Y. Diao*, Supramolecular chirality largely modulates chemical doping of conjugated polymers. Nature Communications  16, 8381 (2025). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62915-3

[15] R. Sun†, Z. Wang†, B. P. Bloom†, A. H. Comstock, C. Yang, A. McConnell, C. Clever, M. Molitoris, D. Lamont, Z.-H. Cheng, Z. Yuan, W. Zhang, A. Hoffmann, J. Liu*, D. H. Waldeck*, D. Sun*, Colossal anisotropic absorption of spin currents induced by chirality. Science Advances 10, adn3240 (2024). doi:10.1126/sciadv.adn3240

[14] R. Sun†, K. S. Park†, A. H. Comstock, A. McConnell, Y.-C. Chen, P. Zhang, D. Beratan, W. You, A. Hoffmann, Z.-G. Yu, Y. Diao*, D. Sun*, Inverse chirality-induced spin selectivity effect in chiral assemblies of π-conjugated polymers. Nature Materials 23, 782–789 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-024-01838-8

[13] Andrew H. Comstock†, Chung-Tao Chou†, Zhiyu Wang, Tonghui Wang, Ruyi Song, Joseph Sklenar, Aram Amassian, Wei Zhang, Haipeng Lu*, Luqiao Li*, Matthew C. Beard*, Dali Sun*. “Hybrid Magnonics in Hybrid Perovskite Antiferromagnets”. Nature Communications 14, 1834 (2023).https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-37505-w

[12] K. Kim†, E. Vetter†, L. Yan†, C. Yang†, Z. Wang, R. Sun, Y. Yang, A. H. Comstock, X. Li, J. Zhou, L. Zhang*, W. You*, D. Sun*, and J. Liu*, “Chiral-Phonon-Activated Spin Seebeck Effect”, Nature Materials 22, 322–328 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01473-9

[11] K. Cong*, E. Vetter*, L. Yan*, Y. Li, Q. Zhang, Y. Xiong, H. Qu, R.D. Schaller, A. Hoffmann, A.F. Kemper, Y. Yao, J. Wang, W. You*, H. Wen*, W. Zhang*, and D. Sun*, “Coherent Control of Asymmetric Spintronic Terahertz Emission from Two-Dimensional Hybrid Metal Halides”. Nature Communications 12, 5744 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26011-6

[10] M. Fang, Y. Wang, H. Wang, Y. Hou, E. Vetter, Y. Kou, W. Yang, L. Yin, Z. Xiao, Z. Li, L. Jiang, H.N. Lee, S. Zhang, R. Wu, X. Xu, D. Sun, and J. Shen, “Tuning the Interfacial Spin-Orbit Coupling with Ferroelectricity”. Nature Communications 11, 2627 (2020). Available at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16401-7

[9] Haoliang Liu*, Dali Sun*, Chuang Zhang, Matthew Groesbeck, Ryan Mclaughlin and Z. Valy Vardeny “Observation of Exceptional Points in Magnonic Parity-Time Symmetry Devices” Science Advances 5, no. 11 (2019): eaax9144. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aax9144, Available at http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/11/eaax9144.abstract

[8] Wenting Yang, Qian Shi, Tian Miao, Qiang Li, Peng Cai, Hao Liu, Hanxuan Lin, Yu Bai, Yinyan Zhu, Yang Yu, Lina Deng, Wenbin Wang, Lifeng Yin, Dali Sun*, X.-G. Zhang & Jian Shen* “Achieving large and nonvolatile tunable magnetoresistance in organic spin valves using electronic phase separated manganites” Nature Communications 10 3877 (2019) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11827-0

[7] Jingying Wang, Chuang Zhang, Haoliang Liu, Ryan McLaughlin, Yaxin Zhai, Shai R. Vardeny, Xiaojie Liu, Stephen McGill, Dmitry Semenov, Hangwen Guo, Ryuichi Tsuchikawa, Vikram V. Deshpande, Dali Sun* & Z. Valy Vardeny*. “Spin-optoelectronic devices based on hybrid organic-inorganic trihalide perovskites”. Nature Communications 10, 129 (2019). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07952-x

[6] Liu, C. Zhang, H. Malissa, M. Groesbeck, M. Kavand, R. McLaughlin, S. Jamali, J. Hao, D. Sun, R. A. Davidson, L. Wojcik, J. S. Miller, C. Boehme and Z. Valy Vardeny. “Organic-based magnon spintronics” Nature Materials 17, 308–312 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41563-018-0035-3

[5] Patrick Odenthal, William Talmadge, Nathan Gundlach, Ruizhi Wang, Chuang Zhang, Dali Sun, Zhi-Gang Yu, Z. Valy Vardeny, Yan S. Li. “Spin-polarized exciton quantum beating in hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites”. Nature Physics 13, 894–899 (2017). https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys4145.

[4] D. Sun*, K. J. van Schooten*, H. Malissa, M. Kavand, C. Zhang, C. Boehme, & Z. V. Vardeny. “Inverse Spin Hall Effect in Organic Semiconductors with Tunable Spin-Orbit Coupling”. Nature Materials 15, 863-869 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmat4618

[3] C. Zhang*, D. Sun*, C-X. Sheng*, Y. X. Zhai, K. Mielczarek, A. Zakhidov, & Z. V. Vardeny. “Magnetic Field Effect in Hybrid Perovskite Devices”. Nature Physics 11, 427-434 (2015) http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphys3277

[2] D. Sun*, M. Fang*, X. Xu, L. Jiang, H. Guo, Y. Wang, W. Yang, L. Yin, P. C. Snijders, T. Z. Ward, Z. Gai,     X.-G. Zhang, H. N. Lee & J. Shen, “Active control of magnetoresistance of organic spin valves using ferroelectricity”. Nature Communications, 5, 4396 (2014); http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5396

[1] D. Sun, L. F. Yin, C. J. Sun, H. W. Guo, Z. Gai, X. G. Zhang, Z. H. Cheng, & J. Shen, “Giant Magnetoresistance in Organic Spin Valves”. Physical Review Letters 104, 236602 (2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.236602.