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From an idea to a technology

Nature Nanotechnology has asked Jong-Hyun Ahn, Yi Cui and Hagan Bayley, corresponding authors of the three papers published in the journal that have received the highest number of citations in the patent literature, to share their insights about doing applied research in academia and whatit takes to transform an idea into a viable technology.

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Moscatelli, A. From an idea to a technology. Nature Nanotech 13, 528–530 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-018-0206-z

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