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    Home » Polymers and soft materials » News » Top 10 Materials News from December 2013

    Top 10 Materials News from December 2013

    2 January 2014 | Zara Preston

    Click on each title to read the best news items:

    1. Polymers can be semimetals
    2. New ceramic material for cheaper solar panels
    3. Cobalt oxide for water splitting
    4. From cellulose to textile fiber
    5. Biomaterials to mend a broken heart
    6. Nanoscale Shape-Memory Oxide
    7. Less is more when adding graphene to nanofibers
    8. Engineers make strides toward artificial cartilage
    9. Conductive metal-organic frameworks
    10. Dissolving stone, molecule by molecule


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