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Are science and technology friends or foes?

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Does the pursuit of scientific research based on a well-defined technological outcome hamper our ability to be creative? And does it limit opportunities to explore and develop fundamental areas of science that may ultimately lead to applications we hadn’t even thought of yet?

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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Ksenija D. Glusac

  2. Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA

    Ksenija D. Glusac

  3. Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Radomir N. Saicic

  4. Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

    Radomir N. Saicic

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Glusac, K.D., Saicic, R.N. Are science and technology friends or foes?. Nat. Chem. 15, 439–442 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-023-01171-8

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