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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

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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,

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