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"Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper."

"This research was funded by 10.13039/501100004587ISCIII Projects ref. PI19/00349, PI22/00030, PI23/00261 co‐funded by 10.13039/501100008530ERDF/10.13039/501100000782ESF, “Investing in your future”, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación ref. TED2021-129248B-100, the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) through the LabEx project Chemistry of Complex Systems (ANR-10-LABX-0026_CSC). We acknowledge funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Program (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Doctoral Networks) under the grant agreement 101073025 (Melomanes). LGH thanks the Ministry of Innovation and Science of Spain for her Juan de la Cierva Incorporación grant (IJC2020-043746-I). We gratefully acknowledge Ms. D. Muñoz and Ms. B. Ubilla for their technical help and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the International Center for Frontier Research in Chemistry (icFRC). We wish to thank Céline Corcelle, Cathy Royer, and Valérie Demais for help with the carbon nanotube characterization and TEM analyses at the “Plateforme Imagerie in vitro” at the Center of Neurochemistry (INCI, Strasbourg, France), and Shi Guo for XPS analyses. Diagrams were created with BioRender.com. Lorena García-Hevia: Writing – original draft, Methodology, Investigation. Rym Soltani: Methodology, Investigation. Jesús González: Methodology, Investigation. Olivier Chaloin: Methodology, Investigation. Cécilia Ménard-Moyon: Writing – review & editing, Supervision, Investigation, Funding acquisition. Alberto Bianco: Writing – review & editing, Supervision, Methodology, Funding acquisition. Mónica L. Fanarraga: Writing – review & editing, Writing – original draft, Supervision, Methodology, Funding acquisition."