Top 10 Materials News from February 2014

3 March 2014 | Zara Preston

Click on each title to read the best news items:

1.	The unusual movement of water through nanotubes
2.	Gum-like material could improve lithium ion battery safety
3.	Making graphene superconducting
4.	Graphene’s love affair with water
5.	Graphene ‘sandwich’ improves imaging of biomolecules
6.	Off-the-shelf materials lead to self-healing polymers
7.	A new way to create porous materials
8.	Nanodiamond-embedded contact lenses
9.	New catalyst to convert CO2 to CO
10.	Controlling nanomotors inside living cells

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