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Some 90% of the digital information that exists today was created in the past two years! Data is generated at an increasingly fast rate and finding new materials able to capture this expanding digital world while using less energy has become a priority for many research laboratories around the world. The Jean Lamour Institute, in eastern France, has a state of the art nanotechnology equipment to take on this challenge...
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