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    Top Ten: News from July 2012

    1 August 2012

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    1. Carbon-based transistors increase speed
    2. Highly conductive and elastic conductors
    3. Calling time on metal theft
    4. Tiny bubbles snap carbon nanotubes like twigs
    5. Nanoscale scaffolds
    6. Silicon sponges as tenacious batteries
    7. Highly transparent solar cells
    8. New type of surface-emitting laser
    9. Natural plant protein for drug delivery
    10. Subatomic details of ferroelectric nanomaterials


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