Top 5 Materials Science news of 2012

21 December 2012

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1.	Graphyne Better Than Graphene?
2.	Plastics as strong as steel
3.	The first all-carbon solar cell
4.	Graphene-metal composites, made simple
5.	New record for photovoltaic solar cells

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Highly adaptable SEI/CEI interfacial layers enabling remarkable performance of high-nickel solid-state batteries

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Efficient non-viral CAR-T cell generation via silicon-nanotube-mediated transfection

Volume 63, Pages 8–17Melanie Mach, Ali-Reza Shokouhi, Hao Zhe Yoh, David C. Bishop, Takahide Murayama, Koukou Suu, Yasuhiro Morikawa, Simon C. Barry, Kenneth Micklethwaite, Roey Elnathan, Nicolas H. Voelcker

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Versatility of infrared properties of MXenes

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