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Human imagination and dreams often give rise to novel science and technology. As a frontier of twenty-first century, nanotechnology was born out of such dreams.

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    Xiaoyu Cao & Limin Zhu

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Pang, H., Cao, X., Zhu, L., Zheng, M. (2020). Introduction. In: Synthesis of Functional Nanomaterials for Electrochemical Energy Storage. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7372-5_1

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