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Heller, D.A., Jena, P.V., Pasquali, M. et al. Banning carbon nanotubes would be scientifically unjustified and damaging to innovation. Nat. Nanotechnol. 15, 164–166 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-020-0656-y
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