Publication Date:
2006-05-13
Description:
Mathematics and art converge in the fractal forms that also abound in nature. We used molecular self-assembly to create a synthetic, nanometer-scale, Sierpinski hexagonal gasket. This nondendritic, perfectly self-similar fractal macromolecule is composed of bis-terpyridine building blocks that are bound together by coordination to 36 Ru and 6 Fe ions to form a nearly planar array of increasingly larger hexagons around a hollow center.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Newkome, George R -- Wang, Pingshan -- Moorefield, Charles N -- Cho, Tae Joon -- Mohapatra, Prabhu P -- Li, Sinan -- Hwang, Seok-Ho -- Lukoyanova, Olena -- Echegoyen, Luis -- Palagallo, Judith A -- Iancu, Violeta -- Hla, Saw-Wai -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Jun 23;312(5781):1782-5. Epub 2006 May 11.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-4717, USA. newkome@uakron.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16690820" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics