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A big step for Ecuador

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As the First International Nanotechnology Congress hosted in Quito clearly corroborated, Ecuador is betting on nanotechnology as one of its proposed key investment areas. It is now up to decision-makers to make it happen.

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Figure 1: High-resolution transmission electron microscopy image of a covalent junction established between a cobalt nanowire and a carbon nanotube.

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  1. Mauricio Terrones is in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering & Chemical Engineering, Carlos III University of Madrid, Avenida Universidad 30, 28911 Leganés, Madrid, Spain, and at the Exotic Nanocarbon Research Center, Shinshu University, Wakasato 4-17-1, Nagano 380-8553, Japan. mtterrones@gmail.com,

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