So it's come to that time of year where we reflect and look on what to improve on for next year.

Here at Materials Today, it's been a great year for us: bringing out new titles such as Materials Today: Proceedings and Materials Today Communications, plus we have a lot more exciting surprises coming so keep your eyes peeled!

We would like to say thank you for everyone who has made everything successful and here's to more next year!

Without further ado, I would like to announce the top 5 news items of the year, and along with this I would like to thank our amazing writers for their non-stop commitment on writing top quality materials science pieces for us. We appreciate all the hard work so thank you!

Top 5 news items of 2014 are:

1.  A new way to create porous materials
2. New catalyst to convert CO2 to CO
3. Silk fibers come on strong in composites
4. Stacks of nanoscopic coins pay the way for solar power
5. Simple way to increase polymer's solar cell efficiency by 30 percent


So there we have it. Another year in the world of Materials Science. Congratulations to Cordelia Sealy and David Bradley for making the top 5.

Happy holidays everybody!
The Materials Today Editorial Team