2020–2025 — Industrialization and Flagship hangover
Evidence: Well-supported at overview level
Flagship-era tallies of patents and products need primary-source checks. Energy storage, composites, sensors, EMI/thermal remain the sales deck. Occupational guidance tightens (banding, workplace studies) — see [[topics/policy/2026-09-16-niosh-graphene-exposure]].
2021 is also when the GO-in-vaccine / 5G cluster takes the form still logged on [[logs/conspiracies]] and [[recurrence/log]]. Real nanosafety papers and fringe overlays travel in the same news cycle. Keep them split.
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