Top 10 Materials News from February 2013

1 March 2013 | Zara Preston

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1.	New world record efficiency for thin film silicon solar cells
2.	Understanding wear at the atomic scale
3.	New materials science academy launches in UK
4.	Routes towards defect-free graphene
5.	Potential nano cancer treatment
6.	New classes of magnetoelectric materials
7.	3D printing on the micrometer scale
8.	Potential nano cancer treatment
9.	Single layers of tungstenite
10.	Straining to improve electrical properties

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