Top 10 Materials News from October 2014

4 November 2014 | Zara Preston

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1.	Stacks of nanoscopic coins pay the way for solar power
2.	Versatile bioink prints tissue scaffolds in 3D
3.	High precision 3D printing of metals warms up
4.	Building 3D graphene structures layer by layer
5.	Self-storage solar panel
6.	Narrowing down a good light absorber
7.	Boron-doped diamond sends a clear signal to the brain
8.	Mighty morphological porous polymers
9.	Detecting acoustically “invisible” cracks
10.	Radical polymers promising for energy applications

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