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I am not in material science, but how does sharing a sample of the material not part of the paper review? Anyone can write a paper about things they did to make a material X, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. If I am a top tier material science journal, I would not want to publish a phony SC because I waited to verify their sample.

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That's exactly what they say they're doing. They submitted the final paper and the sample(s) to APL for review.

I don't think they have other samples to hand out.

They haven't actually published yet officially... the only papers everyone has their hands on (and which all the replications are based on) were leaked.

So, they're following the process... they've submitted the paper and sample for examination and they're waiting for those results before publishing.

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