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[22] Z. Wang, L. Yan, A. Negi, Q. Wang, Z. A. Razin Bhuiyan, X. Zhong, A. H. Comstock, S. Mukherjee, Y. Yu, C. Yang, A. Jouneghaninaseri, S. Khan, T. Wang, S. Raza, J. Hu, Y. Nabei, X. Gu, H. Shao, M. Liu, Q. Tu, H. Ade, J. Zhou*, D. Sun*, W. You*, J. Liu*, Extremely low thermal conductivity in rigid layered hybrid perovskites. Science Advances 12, eaee5269 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aee5269

[21] M. A. Haque, P. M. Theiler, I. A. Leahy, S. P. Harvey, J. Tan, M. P. Hautzinger, M. Taddei, A. McConnell, A. Grieder, A. H. Comstock, Y. Dong, K. Alberi, Y. Ping, P. C. Sercel, J. M. Luther, D. Sun, M. C. Beard*, Chirality-induced magnetoresistance in hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite semiconductors. Science Advances 12, aed7176 (2026). https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aed7176

[20] X.-B. Han, C. Yang, R. Sun, X. Zhang, T. Mai, Z. Xu, A. Jouneghaninaseri, X. Jiang, R. Rao, Y. Xia*, D. Sun*, J. Liu*, X. Li*, Coupled ferroelectricity and phonon chirality. Nature Communications 17, 7836 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-73317-4

[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. Nature Reviews Materials 11, 213–225 (2026). 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.