Nanoassembly of a Fractal Polymer: A Molecular "Sierpinski Hexagonal Gasket"
- 23 June 2006
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 312 (5781), 1782-1785
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1125894
Abstract
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.Keywords
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