At a meeting with John Marburger, director of the U.S. Office of Science and Technology policy, the carbon nanotube manufacturers in the room all had the same gripe: export controls. Under the current Wassenaar dual-use export control regime, carbon nanotubes cannot be exported to a list of “sensiti...
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