Top 10 Materials News from May 2015

5 June 2015

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1.	There's silver in them thar’ corn husks
2.	Puffed up magnets
3.	Graphene-based micromotors for moving cargo
4.	Antibacterial materials go green
5.	World's first carbon nanotube photovoltaic module frame
6.	New method for synthesizing a biocompatible hydrogel
7.	Microcombing shown to improve carbon nanotube films
8.	New chip architecture progresses quantum computing
9.	Spinning order from chaos in metal alloys
10.	New atomic structures of gold nanoparticle

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