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A fluoride-assisted strategy improves perovskite nanocrystals embedded in glass, enabling stable, high-efficiency ...

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A clone is meant to be a genetically identical copy, but an extraordinary 20-year study has shown that this isn’t, in fact, the case. It reveals that clones have lots of extra mutations and, if you ...