Clever though it is, this novel material is unlikely, in and of itself, to take on a starring role in high-tech products, admits Dr Claus.

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Earlier this year it launched the first of what it promises will be a range of electric cars that will undercut those made by American and European producers, in part by using a novel material in the batteries' electrodes.

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When I'd booked my ticket to Cairo a few months earlier, I had envisioned a pleasant week and a half spent wandering around the city, meeting up with old friends and gathering material for a novel that was inspired in part by my time as a student at the American University of Cairo.

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Nanoparticulate versions of a material can act in novel ways indeed, as with silver, that is what makes them so useful.

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The graphic-novel creators Alan Moore and David Lloyd conceived the material in the nineteen-eighties during the reign of Margaret Thatcher.

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