| Literature DB >> 16690820 |
George R Newkome1, Pingshan Wang, Charles N Moorefield, Tae Joon Cho, Prabhu P Mohapatra, Sinan Li, Seok-Ho Hwang, Olena Lukoyanova, Luis Echegoyen, Judith A Palagallo, Violeta Iancu, Saw-Wai Hla.
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.Entities:
Year: 2006 PMID: 16690820 DOI: 10.1126/science.1125894
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728