Nanoassembly of a Fractal Polymer: A Molecular "Sierpinski Hexagonal Gasket"

by: George R Newkome, Pingshan Wang, Charles N Moorefield, Tae J Cho, Prabhu P Mohapatra, Sinan Li, Seok-Ho Hwang, Olena Lukoyanova, Luis Echegoyen, Judith A Palagallo, Violeta Iancu, Saw-Wai Hla

Science, Vol. 312, No. 5781. (23 June 2006), pp. 1782-1785.

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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. 10.1126/science.1125894

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TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:708160 L3 - citeulike-article-id:708160 TI - Nanoassembly of a Fractal Polymer: A Molecular "Sierpinski Hexagonal Gasket" JF - Science VL - 312 IS - 5781 SP - 1782 EP - 1785 N2 - 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. 10.1126/science.1125894 KW - incommensurate AU - Newkome, George AU - Wang, Pingshan AU - Moorefield, Charles AU - Cho, Tae AU - Mohapatra, Prabhu AU - Li, Sinan AU - Hwang, Seok-Ho AU - Lukoyanova, Olena AU - Echegoyen, Luis AU - Palagallo, Judith AU - Iancu, Violeta AU - Hla, Saw-Wai PY - 2006/06/23/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1125894 ER -

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