Banning carbon nanotubes would be scientifically unjustified and damaging to innovation

Daniel A. Heller; Prakrit V. Jena; Matteo Pasquali; Kostas Kostarelos; Lucia G. Delogu; Rachel E. Meidl; Slava V. Rotkin; David A. Scheinberg; Robert E. Schwartz; Mauricio Terrones; Yu Huang Wang; Alberto Bianco; Ardemis A. Boghossian; Sofie Cambré; Laurent Cognet; Simon R. Corrie; Philip Demokritou; Silvia Giordani; Tobias Hertel; Tetyana Ignatova; Mohammad F. Islam; Nicole M. Iverson; Anand Jagota; Dawid Janas; Junichiro Kono; Sebastian Kruss; Markita P. Landry; Yan Li; Richard Martel; Shigeo Maruyama; Anton V. Naumov; Maurizio Prato; Susan J. Quinn; Daniel Roxbury; Michael S. Strano; James M. Tour; R. Bruce Weisman; Wim Wenseleers; Masako Yudasaka

doi:10.1038/s41565-020-0656-y

Banning carbon nanotubes would be scientifically unjustified and damaging to innovation

Daniel A. Heller, Prakrit V. Jena, Matteo Pasquali, Kostas Kostarelos, Lucia G. Delogu, Rachel E. Meidl, Slava V. Rotkin, David A. Scheinberg, Robert E. Schwartz, Mauricio Terrones, Yu Huang Wang, Alberto Bianco, Ardemis A. Boghossian, Sofie Cambré, Laurent Cognet, Simon R. Corrie, Philip Demokritou, Silvia Giordani, Tobias Hertel, Tetyana IgnatovaMohammad F. Islam, Nicole M. Iverson, Anand Jagota, Dawid Janas, Junichiro Kono, Sebastian Kruss, Markita P. Landry, Yan Li, Richard Martel, Shigeo Maruyama, Anton V. Naumov, Maurizio Prato, Susan J. Quinn, Daniel Roxbury, Michael S. Strano, James M. Tour, R. Bruce Weisman, Wim Wenseleers, Masako Yudasaka

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Abstract

In a recent correspondence,the Swedish non-profit organization ChemSec announced the addition of carbon nanotubes to the SIN (‘Substitute It Now’) list. Carbon nanotubes were added as an entire material class that “should be restricted or banned in the EU.” We believe that this recommendation confuses researchers and the public as it is based on evidence from a very narrow subset of data. Such a designation will likely hinder innovations that could lead to safe and effective applications of carbon nanotubes. Furthermore, this line of reasoning could damage other fields of science and technology, if applied similarly.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	164-166
Number of pages	3
Journal	Nature Nanotechnology
Volume	15
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-020-0656-y
Publication status	Published - 10 Mar 2020

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Heller, D. A., Jena, P. V., Pasquali, M., Kostarelos, K., Delogu, L. G., Meidl, R. E., Rotkin, S. V., Scheinberg, D. A., Schwartz, R. E., Terrones, M., Wang, Y. H., Bianco, A., Boghossian, A. A., Cambré, S., Cognet, L., Corrie, S. R., Demokritou, P., Giordani, S., Hertel, T., ... Yudasaka, M. (2020). Banning carbon nanotubes would be scientifically unjustified and damaging to innovation. Nature Nanotechnology, 15(3), 164-166. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-020-0656-y

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