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What If We Could Shrink Technology?

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Carbon Dana Tubes - A Good Example of Safe by Design

Engineers and designers should keep thinking about how to design these materials to be safe. From the geco example, like carbon ana tubes. One of the early concerns was that they would behave like aspestos and callse lung disease, mensethelioma. And because we've been aware of that issue, what manufactures have done with carbon dana tubes is that they're flexible and they fold. They're not stiff, so when our immune celf ses ees them, the immune es can mot them up - helping us avoid making dangerous materials. I found richard's work because earlier this month he published a paper on using worms to test for the bio accumulation of

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