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A natural source of nanowires

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  1. Fang Qian is at the Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California 94550, USA,

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  2. Yat Li is in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA,

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